year more or less, are we going to have a summary of what unexpended funds we have in the goboc budget or can we get that for the next meeting? >> do we normally request that peg? if not this would be -- >> i'm not aware that you have but we have a current report on that all the time. so yep. we can bring it. >> talking about adding audits and so forth using the goboc. >> that probably is appropriate as we approach the end of our fiscal year as you know some, an item to say that to show the data that mr. bush asked for. >> sure, yep. >> thank you. >> so there being no other business we'll consider the meeting adjourned. >> so moved.

lics cc1 test message test text1 underline test text1 italics cc1 test message test text1 underline test text1 italics >> all right. good morning. good morning test text1 underline test text1 italicseveryone. my test text1 underline test text1 italics name's -- [ inaudible ] >> i firmly believe that test t nonprofits do their best work when they're focused on programs and services for residents and their mission not when they're worried about real estate and rent and leases te and how to protect their office space and risks test t of displacement. that's why test text1 underline test t in 2015, oewd under

the direction of mayor leigh and then under mayor farrell, test text1 under created the nonprofit initiative. this was created specifically to help nonprofited strengthen and test t grow in san francisco. our nonprofit sector manager thank you for all the hard work test text1 underline test text1 italics that you do. [applause]. >> this initiative also test t includes test text1 u $3 million in oewd's budget to support test text1 underline test t nonprofits and make strategic and smart investments and help nonprofits stay and grow in san francisco. today we are here at creativity and explore in te district eight test text1 underline to announce ten grants totaling $500000 to ten amazing test tex organizations in san francisco. ranges across all -- all across the city, in a range of service area and program test areas and missions. i want test text1 underline test tto begin first by thanking linda johnson for -- the executive director for test text1 underline test t

creativity explore for hosting us here in your amazing space. you're going to hear a lot more about linda here in a moment but first i want to invite mayor farrell up here to say a few words. mayor farrell was the test longest serving member of the board of supervisors test t and the committee chair. every year my organization went to test t the committee and ask for funding like this, mayor test t farrell was always there to support us and was a strong advocate for the work that we do in the test text1 underline test text1 italics nonprofit arena. >> test text1 underline test text1 italics thanks, todd, and test text1 underline test tex thanks for having us. thanks test text1 und linda for having us here today. it's amazing to are test text1 underline test text1 i here at creativity explore. our nonprofit is what we count on as a city government to deliver services throughout the city of san francisco, services as a government that we don't provide test text1 underline test

text1 italicsdirectly but we can partner with amazing nonprofits in every single district in our city which is what we're doing right now. proud to be here in district eight, and supervisor sheehy has been a leader in this district, as well, to recognize those nonprofits that are making a difference in our neighborhoods. as todd mentioned we're here today to announce that we're making test text1 underline test t a $500,000 grants to a number of different organizations, test t 75,000 of which is going to creativity explore, which is incredible, so please give them a round of plauz for test t that. test text1 underline test text1 italics [applause]. >> and you know, it's inspiring to be here. creativity explore test text1 underline test text1 italics helps thousands of individuals working every year and being exposed to the arts. i was able to speak to gerald every year and you showed me that some of your masks that you've created and you're going to have your own art show. isn't that test t incredible? [applause]. >> the individual artists test that

are back there, you know to me you can't help but tour an organization like this and be inspired and be more -- more and more, i would say, test t motivated every single day to support organizations like this to do the work that they're doing. this is the heart and soul again, of san francisco. we are going to support every single community in our city and these individuals that need our help as a city to see them engaged to see them test t succeeding to see them take pride in everything that they do it is just incredible and i'm proud to be proud test t of it. again, thank you for being here today. congratulations to creativity explore on the grant, but also let's make sure that we take this as test really test text1 italics inexpiration for the future, that we continue to fund nonprofits for the city, that test text1 underline test t we continue to inspire san francisco, that we continue to redouble our efforts to make sure that every neighborhood has outlets like this to make sure that we service every

single san francisco resident. thank you for coming here today. >> thank you mayor. i next want to invite up supervisor jeff sheehy, supervisor the district eight. he also sits on the budget today. he's been a tireless test text1 advocate test t for the nonprofit community, and supports nonprofits and small businesses in the city. i want to welcome up supervisor jeff sheehy. [applause]. test t >> supervisor sheehy: thank you, todd and i want to thank you, linda. what an amazing program what beautiful work that's taking place here today. i am so proud and test tex honored to have your organization and test text1 underline test text1 italics creativity explored in my district. i also want to thank mayor leigh and now mayor farrell for continuing the program. as we know, it's gotten harder and te harder for nonprofits to survive in the test text1 underline test text1 itacity, and test text1 underline test text1 italics this in inno vatetive program out of

oewd is really going to help nonprofits stay in san francisco. anybody who worked in the field know how much stress this sector of our connect is under, and the work that they do, as mayor farrell has test t mentioned is some of the most extraordinary and important work test t that they do in the city. i walked through there, the happy faces and beautiful art, it is really something that is "au" inspiring. thank you mayor test text1 underline test text1 italics test tex leigh --e and thank you mayor i don't remember farrell and test text1 u thank you linda. >> thank you, test text1 underli supervisor. i want to invite linda johnson up and i got an opportunity to talk to her on friday, and hear the test text1 underline amazing artists and the amazing test text1 underli leadership she brings to the organization. and the one thing that came through loud and clear is that by us being able to help her with this grant it frees up her time to create not just a

better space for her artists and her organization but allows her to spend more of her focus on the mission of the organization rather than on real estate rather than on risks displacement and worrying about those effects, and so i want to invite test text1 underline up miss johnson to you can at that atalk a little bit about te creativity explored and what that means a little bit to her organization. linda? >> good morning everyone. so first of all, i'm hear to thank the city from the bottom of my heart. for over 30 years we've occupied this space which test text1 underline test text1 itali is the former dance hall, so please tour around and check it out. our artists, our staff and this space are the source of the magic that make so many test text1 underline test t people fall in love when they walk-through these doors, and this is our 35th anniversary year for that whole time, we've been helping artists with test t developmental disabilities develop their test text1 underline test text1 craft and gain respect as iffull flejed test t members

of the arts community. the test text1 underline test t 130 artists that we test text1 underline test text1 italics serve every year develop test skills and te earn money and become a part of a close test text1 under knit community. their work decorates test t many real estate developments around the city and test text1 outside the city and their work is licensed onto products by businesses like test text1 underline test text1 rakudi chocolates and cb test tex 2. over 10,000 people from all over the world visit this gallery and our test t studios every year and our staff are an test t unusually devoted group of people. many of them have worked here for 20 years or more and they do what they do out of test text1 underline test text1 italics test text1 underline test text1 italics real love for the community and the people that they serve. we are extremely grateful because we have an test t incredible

landlord, and his test text1 underline family. we pay below market rate at this site but none theless, we're still struggling. our test t facilities haven't kept up with our growing staff test text1 underline test t and the needs of our artists. as you tour around the test text1 facility you'll see the kitchen facilities that we offer are just a few cabinets and a countertop, and test text1 underline test tex there's no sink. we have no provide meeting space in the office except test text1 underline test text1 italics in my office. where only about five people can sit, test t and there's most important no respite space so that if our artists get overwhelmed and they need a break from the day-to-day, a kweeet place to go there's no place for them to do that: and we've had also no way to accommodate our growing staff as we continue to grow as an organization so the grant is solving so many problems for us. soon our staff is going to feel appreciated when they can sit

down for a break at a wonderful kitchen, and our artists will have a place to go to take a breather when they're having a hard day and they need to be alone. and we'll have a real conference room so we'll be able to repurpose other space in this facility for more work stations to add more staff to work harder to expand our mission and meet more test text1 under needs. and that's going to help us serve more artists and bring more of this beautiful art to the world. so i just want to say thank you to mayor farrell and all the hard working staff at the city and at test t northern california community loan fund who made this investment a reality. it means so much to us. and i also want to give a short shout out to our testgala which is coming up on april 20th. test text1 underline it's called art changes lives, and please check out our website for test text1 undtickets. test text1 italics [applause]. >> you know in order for initiatives like this test t work,

it takes a partnership test text1 underline with the test t nonprofit community, and we designed this initiative to be that partnership, and we couldn't have asked for a better test tex partner than northern california community loan fund. joanne is here today, and she's been a key driver and test text1 underline test text1 italics organizer of this program. i want to invite joanne test text1 underline te leigh up to talk. >> thank you todd. in this rapidly increasing real estate market no other city has provided this kind of leadership to create programs and devote test text1 underline resources to help keep nonprofits in their test text1 u communities. so san francisco has really addressed this crisis head on first led by mayor lee by launching the nonprofit displacement mitigation program, and now, the prop test text1 underline test t nothing further sustainability initiative test t supported by mayor farrell. we are proud to partner with the mayor's office of economic and workforce development, the office of housing and community development, and the te arts commission to make sure our community based organizations

remain in san francisco. so our social service in child care and arts organizations are great at delivering the vital services and creative programming, much like you heard from test tlinda, but they're really unfamiliar with space planning with lease and purchase negotiations and test t tenant improvement budgets. so this test text1 underline test t knowledge gap is compounded with san francisco's volatile real estate market and has put our nonprofit test organizations at great risk. our technical assistance services offered by ncclf through this program helps organizations navigate the hot real estate market and find test t spaces that meets their needs. these grant awards are test text1 underli critical in supporting our community-based organizations to stay in their test t neighborhoods where they are needed, providing security for their clients and staff, and alleviating real estate costs and oftentimes test text1 u incentivizing landlords to enter test text1 into test text1 i

languager termlonger term leases. these awards will support ten organizations test text1 underline test across our city, from test text1 underline chinatown to tender line. i congratulate te creativity explored and all of the entities today and thank the city for developing a model program and especially a shout out to todd and lex te at oewd for their continued guidance. this test text1 und ensures that our social services child care and arts programs continue serving the residents of san francisco. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you, joanne. you know joanne brought up a really important point that other cities in test t other regions across the country have looked to the city of san francisco as a model for how we're supporting nonprofit organizations, and that's taking a page out of the play book that we're doing here but we're also sharing with our colleagues and partners across the country. this is a partnership of city

departments, and i want to thank mayor's office of housing and test t workforcevectionment tom test text1 underline test text1 italics decaney, and talk about the test text1 underline test t arts commission and their help in creating great spaces like creativity explored. >> thank you tom and lex and nccf and all of our partners and all of our elected officials, supervisor sheehy and mayor farrell for championing this initiative. i just recently was sharing some of these promising practices both of our colleagues in seattle and portland and they are really impressed by the investment that we're making here in san francisco in local nonprofits not just in real estate but in the technical assistance and in building the capacity to respond in a very challenging real estate market so i'm particularly thrilled to see in this round of grantees a large number of arts and culture organizations, including test text1 under creativity explored. my long time colleague linda johnson, it's really a great honor to be in your space today and feel this te incredible art

making. we've done some incredible work at helping stablize organizations. there's more work test text1 underline test t test text1 underline test text1 to be done so i'll ill i'm thrilled that these organizations are going to continue so congratulations to all the artists here at test t creativity explored and all the great work that you're test text1 underline doing. thank you. >> thank you. finally, i want to invite up the artists. you know the reason that we do this the reason that everybody is up here today is because of the mission of creativity explored, and what that boils down to is the test t artists here doing amazing work. if you have time, i encourage you to go around and look at the amazing work that these talented amazing artists are actually producing. i want to invite up test t two artists along with paul, who will facilitate a conversation with these test t artists please. >> hello. i'm test t paul and this is gerald

test text1 underline test text1 italics wiggins right next to me. gerald i think the mayor has met him. has some work in this show but also in the studio and evan of course has a test t lot of test text1 underline test text1 italics artwork in the studio. so after this, if you want, me can give you -- i can give you a tour in the test text1 und studio more in depth if you're interested. so i have a question for kevin. so what do you think about getting this money from the city and having money -- you have to come closer to the microphone. >> i want to thank the mayor and i want to thank everybody for this. this is going to be a door opening for our school and it's going test t to help the whole school and it's going to make the building better and i'm really honored that we're getting this grant. and i'm -- i'm very grateful to you for all the grants you're giving and it's really an test text1 underline test t honor. [applause]. >> and what do you have in your hands there? >> oh, i wanted to show test text1

u the mayor some of my test text1 underline test texwork. >> okay. >> if you could pass that test t test text1 underline test text1 italics on. [ inaudible ] >> and test text1 underline gerald do you want to say anything? >> thanks, you all for coming, and thanks you all for giving us the money to help us out. we need it. thank you. [applause]. >> and thank test text1 underlineyou. test text1 italics [applause]. >> all right. that's it for the program. i'm going to close it down. i do want to thank everybody that was here today and everybody from the city creativity explored thank you for opening up your home. i hope everybody checks them out on the test tex website, test text1 italics creativityexplored.org, and check out the amazing work we've got going on right here in san francisco. thank you, everyone. [applause]. essage cc1 test message test text1 underline test text1 italics cc1 test message test text1 underline test text1 italics

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you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate that. >> so nonprofit monday is a program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might

not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. >> people are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give back to the program as well answer. >> inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. >> i love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community that's so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. >> it is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism

and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of 10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. >> we we say thank you to the

customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know you've made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. >> it is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. >> it is really nice to have a restaurant that is very community focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do.

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find a spot. and it wasn't really that way when i got back to work. that's what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. ♪ >> when it comes to innovative ideas and policies san francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many times over. and this year, it leads the nation again but for a new reason. being the most supportive city of nursing mothers in the work place. >> i was inspired to work on legislation to help moms return to work one of my legislative aids had a baby while working in the office and when she returned we had luckily just converted a bathroom at city hall into a lactation room. she was pumping a couple times a

day and had it not been for the room around the hallway i don't know if she could have continued to provide breast milk for her baby. not all returning mothers have the same access even though there's existing state laws on the issues. >> these moms usually work in low paying jobs and returning to work sooner and they don't feel well-supported at work. >> we started out by having legislation to mandate that all city offices and departments have accommodations for mothers to return to work and lactate. but this year we passed legislation for private companies to have lactation policies for all new moms returning to work. >> with the newcome -- accommodations moms should have those to return back to work. >> what are legislation? >> we wanted to make it

applicable to all, we created a set of standards that can be achievable by everyone. >> do you have a few minutes today to give us a quick tour. >> i would love to. let's go. >> this is such an inviting space. what makes this a lactation room? >> as legislation requires it has the minimum standards a seat a surface to place your breast on a clean space that doesn't have toxic chemicals or storage or anything like that. and we have electricity, we have plenty of outlets for pumps, for fridge. the things that make it a little extra, the fridge is in the room. and the sink is in the room. our legislation does require a fridge and sink nearby but it's all right in here. you can wash your pump and put your milk away and you don't have to put it in a fridge that you share with co-workers.

>> the new standards will be applied to all businesses and places of employment in san francisco. but are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city? >> i think small businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account for small businesses that may have small footprints. for example we don't mandate that you have a lactation room but rather lactation space. in city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. ♪ ♪ >> so the more we can change especially in government offices, the more we can support women. >> i think for the work place to really offer support and encouragement for pumping and breast feeding mothers is

necessary. >> what is most important about the legislation is that number one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a new hire as well as an employee who requests parental leave. otherwise a lot of times moms don't feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. really it's hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom you're leaving your heart outside of your body. when you can provide your child food from your body and know you're connecting with them in that way i know it means a lot to a mommy motionlely and physically to be able to do that. and businesses and employers can just provide a space. if they don't have a room they can provide a small space that is private and free from intrusion to help moms pump and that will attract moms to working in san francisco.

>> if you want more information visit sfdph.org/breastfeedingatwork. ♪ ♪

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