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office i responded through e-mail through the city servers he never responded to me. we found bennett to be in complains as far as sound regulations. the police had the opportunity to write citations out there. they didn't do that. when the hearing happened. had information. i was getting ready to leave the commission. a lot of that investigation was put together without my input. i was the point man for at least a year and-a-half up to that point. i don't know where the information come from to say they were out of compliance. they haven't been out of compliance as far as the sound. i feel like it is a red herring to hit the sound issue. you can do improvements. when you are not out of
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compliance. in the interest of time i will give you an example. washington square is quiet. i dealt with a venue. what i found in the residence sound level 30-decibels. that was quiet. venue was raising that seven or eight. interior noise code sets the maximum exposure a venue can cause on the resdidn'ts to be 45. it net got up to 47. this is an issue in that area. i was saying i think there are some things he could do to satisfy the commission. he should be given the opportunity. in the least, you know, maybe you guys should consider laxing the conditions pending whatever work that you want. then go from there. thanks. >> thank you.
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any other public comment? public comment is closed. this item. commissioners so we have a request to lift the midnight limitation, there are a number offing requests the they are in complining with the -- compliance with the sound study. the neighbor notification hasn't reached all of the neighbors at least. we can lift this now, we can table this until the january meeting and ask for additional information in writing.
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what is your pleasure, commissioners? where would you like to go with this? >> i would like to table it until january. i agree with the comments of the commissioner that there is not enough documentation. it is disturbing to hear the neighbors have not been notified properly. i don't think there is a decision i would be comfortable making. there is a lot of he said and they said in the room tonight. >> i would like to have the other commissioners to hear and see the documents. in general, again, i would like to have the documentation, i would like to hear from the independent third-party on the issues or maybe not. having them in complains until midnight, when they are in full operation it could be a different story. i am afraid the building is not
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solid enough. i really need to see the data and i would like them to show the data to the neighbors to let them know they are doing everything they can to mitigate the sound noise. that protects them. that protects bennett as well because obviously the conversation in the last five or six years has been, yes, i will do this and yes, i have and we are waiting for items to be approved. in the hearing in july he was still waiting for things to be approved. with more data i can change my mind. i would like to table it as well >> could you be more specific. are you looking for the sound mitigation or notification to the neighbors in writing? what would you like? >> number one, a letter of recommendations from an
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independent sound person. that addresses maybe the room in the back, where the thumping noise or whatever is bothering or maybe there is no problem. maybe they are in complains. at least for the record i would like to see that. if they are making any recommendations to fix it, to mitigate it, i would like to see a contractor like we did, a contractor addressing what it takes to do this. this is similar to hal c.e.o. n's case. i don't want hue to be different. they are having issues after they fixed the sound. there is only so much we can do. i am looking for data from an
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independent sound engineer. if there are recommendations for fixing, i would like to see a contractor or whoever they went to hire to do the sheetrocking and when it is going to be finished. the plan to do the work and whatever needs to be approved, get it approve. go to the land lord and say i need these things approved and show me the response or don't show me. it is up to you to provide us with the data to support your change. >> another issue is the plan for increased security. the plan for increased security. >> i didn't hear that. >> the plan for increased security. >> all of those other conditions were met before. >> i don't think there is a problem with that part. once we get over this part then
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we will redo the conditions. >> he is coming back in january with documentation around the plans. i thinked needs to be clear that we want you accountable to when we are asking you to communicate to the neighbors and to the police department and have that in writing. thank you. did you have a comment >> beyond the sound level the other issue is the management or mismanagement of the venue. i am very concerned about the photo from the newspaper that he showed of people drinking out of the bottle when they are to manage that. the management of the bar i think is the other issue that needs addressed >> just to be clear that is not part of the conditions that we had placed. >> i think that could be part of the -- well the security.
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something with the security and the bar service. wasn't that part of the condition? >> all right. so there is a proposal to table this item until the next meeting in january, the january commission meeting. i am trying to make sure we have clarity for the permit holder on what the expectations are at that point. it sounds like the expectations are to have in writing for us the sound assessment, the specific plans in place including any contract or plans for modifications and copies of the notification to neighbors, documentation to neighbors. is that accurate, commissioners? to be clear they have been found
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to be in compliance in the sound at this point by the inspector. they are not out of compliance on the sound issue >> if they can address the bottle service issue >> is that accurate, commissioners? >> i have no problems changing it. when they are in full operation, it is a different story. >> all right. so that was a motion to table this. >> i want to kind every it rate so it is clear. you are continuing this item to january 16th hearing and asking that the permittee provide a letter of recommendation from an independent sound expert other company including data and sound mitigation plan and providing copies of the sound mitigation plan to neighbors and providing
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that documentation to us. one documentation in writing of how they have met the condition regarding security. >> may i ask a question? >> not at this point. sorry. >> i mean i am fine with it. >> i think he does on the security part. >> i second the motion. >> we have a motion to continue this made and seconded. (roll call) >> i want to say thank you to the venue where i mean we are hearing you are in compliance on the sound and it wasn't encouraging to hear from the police department and we look forward to resolving this at the january meeting. thank you. thank you to members of the
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community that came out on this item. thank you. there is a request for >> we would like to reconteen the entertainment commission meeting. thank you for the recess. next item up is item number 9 which i will read. item number 10. consideration and possible adoption of proposed findings and determination in conjunction with the previously announced decision in the matter of a complaint against jose escolaro dba lao if i seenna's place of entertainment permit ec1216 that included imposition of a 30-day suspension. we voted on that at the last commission meeting and at this meeting we need to adopt the
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findings and set the date for the begin of the suspension. assuming that we adopt the findings. how we are going to have this each both the commission director and the oficina representative each have three minutes to present their position regarding the findings. we have the draft findings from the city attorney's office, and then we will hear public comment. then we will hopefully adopt or not adopt one of the findings. one of the draft findings. with that director wyland.
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>> thehello, commissioners, i dt have anything formal. i am looking at my proposed findings. if you have any questions please let me know. basically, it is kind every it rating what we heard at our suspension hearing. let's go through. the entertainment commission found the permittee or an agent or employee failed to comply with the revised security plan as required by section 1060.32 of the police code specifically pursuant to inspector burke's inspection on october 6 o sixth. the four conditions listed more thoroughly in the proposed
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findings i gave to you. secondly the commission found that permittee or employer agent of permittee engaged in conduct or in connection with the operation that would constitute a violation of police code section 1060.20.1a3a. specifically, jose sanchez who was the security guard for laoficina engaged in conduct on the premise and in the operation that would constitute a violation of the following laws, assault and battery and discharging firearm and unlawful weapons. they found the permittee or agent or employee failed to comply with the condition placed on the permit. specifically pursuant to inspector burke's friday
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september 1st inspection. they failed to come play with the following -- comply with the conditions. there are six you will see in the findings. based on those findings the commission determines that the appropriate penalty for the violations would be a 30-day suspension. let me know if there is anything else you need from me. >> no, that is good. >> good evening, commissioners, i went through the initial proposed findings and decision and made objections to them. i have received a new one. it appears to be fine. i can't change what the commission decided. i certainly there is no time to argue about that. however, i want to include that we actually continued the hearing on this document just so
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that we can be within the next hearing or the history of what happened here. other than that, i don't have any more objections. however, i do want to let the commission know that lao if i lt an e-mail stating regarding the calendar they were not going to do any calendaring of anything until this issue was resolved. in essence, they have not done anything since the initial letter of the complaint was sent. i am requesting on behalf of laoficina that the 30-day suspension be retroactive and therefore it could give them time now to start with their
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entertainment license again and kind of starting new at this point and take it from there. that is my suggestion and that is what i am requesting on their behalf. >> thank you. any public comment on this item? everyone is welcome to make comment and two minutes per person, please. >> i am eva. i live in san francisco. i live in district 11 and i am concerned about the said safety of this neighborhood. i have been here for the last courts and her how irresponsible the owner of a bar can be that has led to someone being shot on
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the premises. i believe that i just want to say that i stand with the 30-day suspension and we really look at this matter. it wasn't only somebody's life but it could be somebody else's life. i hear stand for my community to say that i just disagree with the irresponsibility of, you know, of owning a license and not taking care of that. there is a lot of bars that abide by the laws. i believe that just for that matter that a 30-day suspension will be perfect because he hasn't abided by the laws or rules of owning and having a license for this bar.
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>> thank you. next. >> good evening. i am sandra. i am from district 11. i would say the same thing eva said. the only difference is that we did what miss -- you know a couple people going to the bar. they were beyond drunk and like she said, they were super-irresponsible. they would still let the people inside the bar. you guys showed a newspaper earlier about somebody drowning i don't know what it was. the day somebody got killed that same day somebody tried to go into there but he was i want to say intoxicated.
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i think that is just something horrible that should not be. it is irresponsibility from the owner. i am here to say i would want it to be closed or i am here to support the 30-day suspension. >> thank you. any further comment? >> hello. good evening commissioners. legislative aid to supervisor in the district 11. i am here he is in a board meeting to express his gratitude to each and every one of you for taking this on and state his support for the maximum allowed penalty which is a 30-day suspension. if it were up to us we would have revoked the permit. i hope it makes it clear that
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business as usual will no longer be tolerated. we are serious about cracking down on business operators who are not good neighbors and don't follow the law. prospects of suspension of 30-days. thank you for your support. we appreciate it. >> thanks to the supervisor. any other public comment? with that public comment is closed. so we have in front of us the red line version with the edit from the city attorney. we have heard that both parties accept the set of findings and determinations here. but i need a motion to adopt the
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findings as drafted by the city attorney. and a decision on when the 30-day suspension will start. is there a motion to adopt the findings. >> i make the motion. i would like to make the motion to adopt the findings of the city attorney as drafted as well as imposing the 30-day suspension starting tonight. is there any reason to delay it? >> retroactive? >> no starting tonight. my motion is to adopt the finding as drafted by the city attorney and to start the suspension starting today. >> i have a question from staff. did you speak with city attorney on protocol for sending out the
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suspension notice. whether that had to be starting tonight or if it needed to start tomorrow? curious. let's see. the motion should state the date the suspension will start and should also state the date the findings are being issued which can be the day today. the date of the issuance is important in terms of the business and any appeals and so on. i think we should -- we state the date the findings are issued today and we can also state the date when the suspension starts. >> today, right? >> so my motion says we accept the findings starting today and
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that the 30-day suspension will begin today. >> i second. >> staff do we think that is consistent with what is required? >> i need to do homework to send the paperwork that is why i was curious. >> you are here and la foficina is here >> may i address that. in the regular court of law notices need to be mailed. once nes are mailed that is when they become effective. that is just i am throwing that out. >> right. >> i am sure that is probably it. >> we are not a court of law but we want to make sure we are doing everything above board and
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in accordance within. should we have the findings start today and the -- my point being that it sounds like this needs to come from the commission secretary, not me since i am a party to the case. she is likely going to reach out to the city attorney for guidance on sending the decision you guys make tonight to the permittee. it sounds like the suspension could start tonight based on your decision but the proposed findings regarding the suspension need to be sent tomorrow, for example. >> do we need to amend the motion? >> is that acceptable as an amendment? >> yes, that is acceptable. >> we have a motion and second.
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commissioner perez. (roll call) all right. thank you. that is decided and thank you to the oficina and thank you for sitting through this long meeting. we appreciate your participation and process. we have another agenda item. i have a feeling that there may be a desire to continue it. item 11 is the good neighbor policy. i know there is some interest in turning it until the next until the january meeting. am i correct in that? >> yes, would you like a motion?
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>> yes. >> i would make a motion. what i have handed to you this evening is meant to be a conversation starter. i have included notes that are hard to desigh feras to suggested additions how the existing conditions could be modified and i am happy to answer questions as to where i might be headed with some of this stuff over e-mail. i am not sure if that is something i can do. to start the conversation with you guys. i think it is high time we take a good look at this and see where we will be able to take it. >> i think there was some interest on the part of a couple of commissioners in forming an ad hoc work group to look at this and develop with inspector
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burke some language. inspector lee -- sorry. i am so sorry. i have that inspector language stuck in my head. i apologize. i have done it to, i think, all of you. you are the only commissioner. i apologize. commissioner lee, i know you have strong opinions and feelings about these issues. would you be willing to work with inspector burke on the developing some draft language? is there another inspector? >> now, i have done it. i apologize. i will get it through my head one of these days. commissioner, to the two of you to work with inspector not
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commissioner burke to develop draft language that we can look at at the next meeting building on what inspector bucker that done -- burke has done which is helpful and we can update and modify the language on the good neighbor policy. thank you to both of you for volunteering or being volunteered, commissioners, to work on this. that is item 11. the time item then is commissioner comments and questions. any comments and questions? >> come to the party. >> please come to the party those of you still watching and listening. if you haven't switched over to the board of supervisors per visors meeting come to our holiday party. would you like to announce when
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and where it is. >> for everyone of the public can come. december 19th, it is a tuesday. 5:45 p.m. at the chapel. we are going to have live music by local bands. we might have a raffle. what are we winning? >> you will see. i don't know. vip experience >> yes commissioner. >> since this is our last meeting in public, i believe. i want to take this opportunity to thank the staff. you have reduced size and working very hard. we appreciate all of the hard work you have been doing. thank you to director wyland for holding the fort down. thank you to inspector bucker --
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inspector burke. dill lopyou are a great addition to our family. i am glad we have someone for outdoor events. the project you are working on is a big monster. i know that it is going to make outdoor event producers thankful and happy that this is one document that will explain this really weird process of this different permits people have to nag gate through. of course, to crystal thank you for your work for the commission. >> all right. with that the meeting is adjourned. adjourned. thank you.
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welcome home, man. >> good morning everyone my name is jose sisnaros i wanted toen thatk everyone for joining us i promise it won't be 100 degrees you are here today. today we are announcing the launch of saver life a design to set san fransciscans on the path to financial stability. how many of in this room remember ten years ago i know there was a lot of you here when we created bank on san francisco. let's see those hands come on. why did we do that? why were we the first
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city to launch a program to bank the unbanked what we learned about that time one out of ef five san fransciscans were living a life without a bank account we knew that was harmful for them and need to do something to change that and launched a program to raise the city's voice to make their money safe wok for the safe financial institution and ahead for them and their family eloo now the fdic reports the unbanked in san francisco is now 2% down 15% machine than ten yearsing a congratulations to all of oyou for making a huge difference for folks here in san francisco. but our job is not done we know there is still mreny of families and households in san francisco
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that face financial instability. in fact the gap in income is growing wider today i don't know if it's news to any of you our city is more and more expensive to live in it's causing struggle and instability that's when we were excited to have the analytically to work with wour friends here at earn in san francisco if we would support to boost the savings read for everyone in san francisco that's why we're excited to be promoting and launch the saver life effort all of the work we do in our office for financial empowerment we have a lot of folks as i said left behind we have been shocked to learn nearly half of everybody in our city couldn't put their hands on $400 to cover an unexpected expense if they had to. imagine that. if a car broke down, if something happened medically or
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otherwise, they wouldn't have as much as 4 or $500 to address that. what are they supposeded to do? the reality is that's the struggle a lot of our families in this city deal with every day. and the pain that causes the instability, the consequences of them going to a payday lender, getting ripped off other the way and losing all sorts of stability in their lives and maybe income maybe their jobs or home it's costing all of of the rest of us it turns us not to be for the household and family but costly tuolumne river the rest of us that is why we want to make sure people have the safest situation they can and their money is safe. we want to make sure people are as well-off as they can be i know we can do better we have great programs that made a difference for people in san francisco. you are familiar
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with bank on san francisco as i mentioned you are also familiar with our kindergarten to college program. i'm convinced that saver life is going to be just as big a win for everybody in san francisco to help them be better sit epunctuated we want them to come together, and leverage all of the capabilities we have here in city hall we want to leverage all of you and our great community partners and institutional partners out there and we want to make sure everybody is in a safe a place as possible with their money and with their savings, so they can handle whatever comes into their household we're promoting a campaign on the city's transit system exin time you ride a muni bus look forked ad campaign i seen one myself when i was on the bus the other day they look great we will engage organizations and community partners to get the word out
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about this program last week i was at the san francisco chamber of commerce, talking with some of our leading employers talking about them how they can engage in this effort and i saw strong support in this program. we will be working through our kindergarten to college families, through the unified skul district and all sorts of other organizations and we want to build a community around families having savings and a degree of financial safety they have never had before this is what we want to do with this program, this is why i'm excited you are all here today, that, i would like to introduce my good friend and partner the ceo of earn, lee phillips take it away. [applaus [applause]. >> thank you treasurer sisneros for your leadership on this and
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in general. i'm lee phillips the ceo of earn to help families in the last tiff teen years we know having a financial cushion makes a big difference to the financial security of our families through saver life the community will come together to address the crisis head on we believe this is a crisis when half of oour families are considered volcanoable unable to cover a $400 expense going into debt ten times like toe be evicted and the stress our families face if anything goes wrong, they will not be able to make it you may be wondering what difference does it make to have a few hundred dollars in a town where the rents are going up and the cost of living is sky high the truth is it makes a big difference researchers from the institute found savings 250 to
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750 helps low income family prevents evegetations and falling behind on utility bills and income if they're interrupted that is 250 to 500 bucks a few hundred dollars is what prevents financial crisis from becoming an injury it prevends a flat tire a job lot a flat tire being a loss of drivers license and eviction we know the act of savings every month gives us confidence and control over our lives in only are they better able to handle an emergency but investing opportunity for retirement or a child's education or putting the money towards a simple but important dream the money to visit a loved one, maybe a parent you haven't seen in my years because you couldn't
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afford the cost of the flight or covering a cost of celebration like prom or your kids high school graduation i keep talking about it before i tell you what it is essentially it's a xhount campaign that will have collective strength and efforts in san francisco what we're doing is leveraging earns platform to provide small monthly cash innocent is to booth if the income of san fransciscans and bay area residents is going to receive financial tips and advice how to become a lifelong saver from founder coach davis now the official saver life coach. you sign up save a minimum of 20 bucks a month and they give you ten. if you have a phone you
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can sign up right now you can try it thank you eric. for demonstrating this. [laughter]. he's on it. he's joining he's in. so you fill out your phone you go to saver life.org you enter your e-mail and zip and must be over 18 to join. that is all of us. and it's straightforward you have a savings ago we see you make $20 deposit it and we match ten. pretty cool. imexcited to be joined by our partners here today the united way the service balance, goodwill the hotel council the satisfy chamber of commerce levi straws general hospital sf and of course the city and count eother they'rek looking for many more partners to join too we will tell you about how you can get involved
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and yahtful to sponsors for this fabulous advertising company putting out citywide and small cash rewards thanks to the charles schwab bank - and asked asked i want to be clear about one thing we know what we're asking people to do is tough in a city like san francisco it's hard you think about making ends meet finding $five aweek can seem like an insurmountable task we recognize that, what we learned over 15 plus years savers show us what seems ims poable can be achieved last year through online saving program savers said aside $500 a month.
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an average making $25,000 a year they can save to weather financial emergency but take advantage of the financial opportunity just this week we reached a milestone for us and reached 50,000 people across america just last month. [applause]. so i'm proud to introduce a successful saver not only how she became a saver but how she was able to do so well soen thank you. [applause]. >> hello everyone. how are you? my name is azeri i live in patrol hill in public housing i'm proud to say that. i started working for bridge housing about almost seven years ago. i was not saving, so i had no bank account i was not saving at that time, i have time, i
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have time. i'm 51. i will be 52 next month_and i realized, oh, my goodness, i don't have savings even though with my job, we have 401k i wasn't putting into my 401k when balance life save came aening lo i said let me buy into this and see how this is going to work i started with the earned account it worked out well for me i can see after six months i actually safed a nice amount of money. and that they matched that which med mae feel really good. that is the hook where you tell the person if you put in 10 or 20 we will match you with ten that is the hook to start savings people are building on their money. i now am putting into my 401k every year, i up the ante so i add a little bit more than my job is going to take out i look
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at it as a way of bringing people in to understand that we do not have a lifetime and we go from 20 years old to 50 years old really fast and the time goes by we're like, where did it go? exactly. so now i'm saving not just for retirement i want to buy a motor home so i can travel around the country and go where i want to go so i can leave my apartment that is what my account is for it's also when i know i'm going on a trip, i know, don't touch that i don't touch that i know it's sitting there i know at this time i have this amount my daughter is stepped up and esh's saving for her daughter we have 13 grandchildren the oldest graduated from college with her
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master's and got married because her mom taught her about saving and her mom saves and it trickled down to the rest of the grandkids when you have grandkids and they need to go to college you have to have to put money to the side. lifing in public housing you have a lot of seniors we are all going to become 65 and 75 as you know you don't get a lot of omoney with social security so it's having a bank account people can rely on so people don't lose their houses or their apartment the city is a city where it's expensive to live here if you don't have a foundation or something to fall back on you can find yourself in a lot of trouble i'm grateful i think of osaver life as saving for life. you are saving for your life when you get older no matter if your car breaks down or whether all of a sudden you have child
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care expense or you want to see your parents you haven't seen for a while or grandparents you need to get there really quick there are different reasons for you having to save. saver life is actually a really good name because you are saving for your life. with us saving now we're starting to teach our children how to save. my grandkids, they have money. that dollar and $0.50 they took it away and they'rek looking at where did you get that from? because i have been saving . >> they learned at a young age this is important i want to thank you all for buying in and putting into saver life. if you haven't, then you should, if you are trying to figure out if you should go out to the streets and talk to people not just me, but other people so they can let you know it is making a big difference. thank you.
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[applause]. >> good morning everyone e-vik mcdonald. we're thrilled to be partners here we were there for k and c and for the next initiative as well one of the things that is exciting for us for united way is for spark point centers building financial stability and life plan for family eloos across the bay area 16 locations one is in meta at the mission serving 5,000 tamuralies a year what we experience with all of our family eloos whether it's metaskyline college or the contra costa department of human services the consistent theme is what happens with a life
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disruption? we talked about we're a paycheck away for many family it's one small disruption away from cat of stroic circumstances so a program like saver life will make the difference in the world it will have immediate impacts on family as well as long term they will create a habit that becomes sustaining habit for them and our families the treasurer and lee referenced the car troubles my wife and i were heading down on friday for our daughters graduation from uc santa cruz on the 280. pow! we get a toe truck ghettoed get to costco that car is blown and four tires later, $600 later, we're good but $600 later. a different
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family with different sishgszs misses the graduation doesn't get there, this really is about saving for life. so we're thrilled to be a part of because we're united way bay area when we get a good idea from the treasurer in san francisco we think how do we hope open that rngs and help the mayor lacardo do this and excited about the ground work laid here and look forward to expansion. thank you very much. [applause]. >> good morning i'm jenny floez i'm a proud member of the community, o and bank of the west. i'm proud to stand here to launch this initiative i'm signing up with the treasurer lee they're visionary they
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embody customer century to understand the needs of community and be responsive to those on behalf of obank of the west we're going down that path in understanding more clearly what the needs are, we're looking for those programs, those campaigns that are going to activate positive change in people's lives i will say from personal experience not having savings when you need them is very shameful experience. you start to wonder what did i do wrong? you have to borrow and beg and steal if you need to to meet your need i feel this campaign ism coing at a perfect time when vegetarian individuals ark looking for hope and a path way to self efficiency and it's a delight to say on behalf of obank of the west we can be part of this to launch that next innovative model. to serve on the national level because you always do that thank you on behalf of the bank and we look
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forward to being part of this as it developed [applause]. >> thank you for your chents i wanted to let you know how can get involved all of you can join our facebook page and social media we know eric has a phone you can see the campaign up there. if you are employer we hope you will consider proet monthing campaign to employees to clients and to your employees as well. financial institutions consider letting your customers know and employee about the saver life. we're hosting webinar tomorrow to let you know how they can get involved and how they can support outreach efforts you can see charl in the back how to join with the campaign. you can visit saver
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life.org where you can find everything you need from written media tweets and draft e-mails we made everything easy to promote seaer life. our goal is to get at least 1,000 families to be saving over the next few months we would like to support more. and from this company, in the bay area, so the organization can consider a financial support to match the saving of folks who are working hard on their lives we would appreciate that. i would like to take a moment to thank my team at earn to putting together this fabulous event andm pra all of our hard work and honorary team member christie burner did hard work to get it off the ground. the whole ofa team crista and jacob and amanda
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thank you for your help and support and fabulous marketing for your team thanks for everything. now i'm going to get out of the way i'm thrilled to introduce the moderator to introduce the moderator teresa margos from - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. after all, we're at the meeting of land and sea. - our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and world-class style. it's the birthplace of blue jeans, and where "the rock" holds court over the largest natural harbor
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on the west coast. - our 28,000 city and county employees play an important role in making san francisco what it is today. - we provide residents and visitors with a wide array of services, such as improving city streets and parks, keeping communities safe, and driving buses and cable cars. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco. >> today, i wanted to kickoff
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and welcome you to the first every family well forum (clapping.) >> compromising is carmen chu currently which this of the family forum we put this event dough went to a lot of community meetings and we're he and she about families worries and troubles aaron planning for the future and ahsha safai for buying a home and college and retirement and for many of the seniors how to passing on their prompts to their kids. >> the family forum benefits throughout san francisco i'm supervisor norman yee representing district 7 people are homeowners fritter buyers and they don't thinks the planning. >> what you'll notice if you walk around today's activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the
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seminars and 101 counseling and the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have one-on-one free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much money. >> we did if grassroots on the radio and worked with all nonprofit and partners to get the word out we personally went to community meeting to tell people about this event we'll have a whole line of people that will wait to ask skews i'm thinking about passing on my property or so glad i can speak
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but i cannot speak english well we created in first every family forum and hope that will bring a lot of people good information to plan for their future three hundred people signed up for 101 counterand we so hope that is a model for success for the future and hope to do more if we learn from this one to be better
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