traffic enforcement. >> i will speak to the one-time grant that we received to put together communication in our enforcement campaign and i would ask perhaps dylan -- i don't know if we can speak to the overall traffic division. i was not prepared to answer that one. >> supervisor fewer: that's okay. >> specifically, cases like sunset or 19th avenue, leavenworth, we wanted to not just send a message through billboards and the bus, but also wanted to follow up with the enforcement side of things, so the grant funded additional safe hours from the traffic division. so it was on overtime. we have an evaluation forthcoming about the effectiveness of that work. so just to be clear, we did fund the overtime through the grant

source. >> supervisor fewer: how much is that grant for? >> i believe it was $2 million total, or that neighborhood, and it was from active transportation program. not all of that went to the p.d. it was a breakup between communications and the police officer hours. i will have to give you the exact breakdown. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. it's a high-injury corridor and we see little enforcement on that stretch. are lights, especially across the boulevards that are six lanes or four lanes, like geary -- >> i'm glad you asked that question. we have a public announcement coming on may 9. i don't want to take the wind out of anyone's sails, so if you can hold that question a few more days. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. are we doing any analysis around

violations around stop signs and -- in my neighborhood, a lot of people run stop signs and run red lights, which is so dangerous because people depend on that if they are crossing at a green light they're safe. have we looked at that violation as well as running red lights? >> absolutely. our department of public health has every single police data we have and we have five violations and two of them are running red lights or not stopping at a stop sign. so we do have a goal for each police district for 50% of them to be on the top five citations. so those two you alluded to are included. the idea being we're trying to direct our traffic division to the most at-risk movements.

and they understood that goal for a long time. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> supervisor cohen: a couple of questions more. vision zero, as you said, was adopted in 2014. since then, there's been modest reduction in traffic deaths. i want it highlight that in 2017, it was the least deadly year ever on record. so congratulations. i think that's quite an accomplishment. >> we hold our congratulations and we'll wait until we get to zero. >> supervisor cohen: i appreciate that greatly. there are three major programs, street safe, safe people, safe vehicle, particularly safe people and safe vehicles, funded by only one-time grants. is that correct? >> correct. >> supervisor cohen: 80% of the funding goes to outreach, particularly, i think it was page 19 of your slide deck. >> yeah. i can get there. >> supervisor cohen: i just wanted to give you an

opportunity. i wonder if you could speak to the 80% of the outreach program. how it's working and how -- >> the goal of the one-time grants, to be competitive to win the grants, you have to show community support for these programs. so you have to fund the placement of these opportunities so people see them and that's in media buys, tv, radio, bus shelters, buses. i hope that's where you have seen them all. but additionally, it's an opportunity for us to work with our community-based organizations, so we currently have vision zero hero program. it's going out to every street fair we can imagine to talk about the broader goal of vision zero. in addition, we try to partner individual projects. this is going back to our safer streets a little bit, but taylor street, for example, had c.b.o.s in the tenderloin supporting our effort because those are the

people that can best reach the people we want to engage, so they understand the project and can inform the choices we're making. >> supervisor cohen: what evidence do we have that the educational campaigns are effective? >> i knew you would get there. we just created a fairly robust evaluation program. when we finish a project, we have before and after data and are evaluating on any proven metrics. that's a program we want to -- >> supervisor cohen: when you say you just created the evaluation tool, does that mean 2018, 2017? >> the evaluation tool, we started to build a handbook, so consistency across projects in the last two years and we just deployed it and we have some of our first project findings that are coming out right now. so for instance, we do have a completed project evaluation on 9th and division, 7th and 8th

quick build. so we'll have a robust association with it. we want to duplicate that on the other side of the house. vision zero is pretty new. and i think it's a goal for us, it's a stretch goal. >> supervisor cohen: i appreciate that. seeing there are no other questions, we'll keep moving on. thank you very much. our next presentation will be made by the street repair and repaving. that's bruce robertson from the department of public works. are you here, bruce? great. we're going to get the handouts circulated. are you presenting on street landscaping as well? all right. maybe we can get both of those out to us.

thank you. so bruce will be talking about streetscaping, landscaping and resurfacing. whenever you're ready, the floor's yours. >> good afternoon, bruce robertson, finance manager, san francisco public works. i will first start with a little background on the program. public works maintains 900 miles of streets in the city and county of san francisco, which equates to almost 13,000 segments or blocks. the goal of the program is to keep streets safe and in good condition for all users and modes of transportation, whether it's pedestrians, bicyclists, vehicles, muni buses and other

forms of transportation. we want to maximize every dollar received. i want to talk later in the presentation about how we do that. we have a robust model that goes through a determination process of what streets we decide to pave. the next one is, we make sure we apply the treatment to the road at the right time. so we're looking into what are the multimodal transportation. what are the utility projects or m.t.a. projects so we can collaborate together. we look at project readiness and coordination and make sure we have equitable distribution across the city. here's some of the outputs we look at. the paving program, 1 hundr0100

correlation. you can see the blocks we've treated annual licly. but the numbers have gone down in fiscal year '15 and '16 and there's a simple reason for that. what you want to do, you don't always want to do the worst roads first. if you do the worst roads first, they're more expensive. you have to do the paving, sub structure and get far less bang for your buck. is if you can do a simple grind and pave, you can stretch your dollars further and you can improve your pavement conditions higher and you can stretch your dollar. the reason you see a downward trend, we had seen the improvement on the low-hanging fruit and started to do the more

challenging, complex projects with the p.u.c. and m.t.a. so here, as i mentioned earlier, there's a correlation between budget and improvement of the road. so the p.c.i. target is 75 and that's a region-wide protocol. it was 70 but increased to 75 based on protocol change. the great thing is, we're on track to meet that target. >> supervisor yee: what is p.c.i.? >> pavement condition index. it's a metric that determines the basic -- it's a score that determined the quality of the road. so it's an overall evaluation for the city. on the next slide, supervisor, we'll put it in numerical grades. we were getting a d minus. we're at a c plus. and i will show you how we get to an improvement score. you can see what goes on here. the pink bars indicate the budget and you can see the improvement in the p.c.i. score.

so this is a little bit more of a detail in terms of what's going on with our pavement condition score and the budget. and you can see starting in fiscal year 5 and 6, increase in the budget that came from a addition additional, there was certificates of participation, road bond passed in 2011. what i want to highlight and is important for this meeting, if you look at the far right, it's for '17/'18, '18/'19, '19/'20, and that's the senate bill. we have $8.6 million. we're looking at $23 million in the budget year and roughly the same for fiscal year '20. that's an astro nommically

important number for us. we've continued to improve our work to try to hit our goal, our target, of 75, while not using the general fund. so we've been able to have a new source from the state and the source of that revenue -- primarily it's a 12 cent tax on a gallon of gasoline. there are other small revenues and sources associated with that. >> supervisor cohen: you are at the 5-minute mark. >> stretch goals, score of 81. we're at a b, which is a great goal. anything less -- if we lose senate bill 1 revenues, which there is the likelihood that that will be on the statewide ballot, that would represent $23 million hit to the paving program that would have to be

either not back filled by the general fund or another funding source that would diminish the great results. my apologies for going long. i wanted that gold star. that's the risk we're facing. >> supervisor cohen: that will be on the november, 2018, ballot, correct? >> correct. and it looks like they will get the signatures to put it on the ballot. >> supervisor cohen: do you have any questions about the resurfacing program? >> supervisor fewer: one question. when you say a p.c.i. of 75, how is it different when i hear moratorium grade? >> sorry. could you repeat the question? >> supervisor fewer: in my district, they will say, we're going to resurface this street and it will be moratorium grade. and there i hear p.c.i.75. explain those two things to me,

because people use those terms to me frequently. >> the p.c.i. score is the target. that's what we work to. the moratorium is, i will provide you some information after, but i want to focus on the p.c.i. score. that's the citywide goal we're trying to meet. that's the metric we measure to. it's a pavement condition index. the airport uses it for their runways. it's the standard for all roads and concrete surfaces are measured against i think the takeaway is how critical the pavement condition index score is. it helps determine funding and it really drives where we're doing the work. and we do a five-year plan. block level. so detailed and specific. >> supervisor fewer: i understand that if you do it to

that level, then we don't need to redo it for so many years. can you give me that year amount? if someone says, i'm doing 25th avenue. we're going to do it moratorium grade, does that mean we'll not have to visit that street to be repaved in how many years? >> i want to give you the year, but i'm not quite sure and i have two years in my head. can i provide it to you after the meeting? >> supervisor fewer: absolutely. >> supervisor cohen: i understand we're on track for p.c.i.75 by 2021. >> correct. >> supervisor cohen: there are multiple funding sources. there are multiple sources for street paving that are diverse. you have the street level, prop k, prop aa and the gas tax. and so how would the repeal of senate bill 1 jeopardize our

ability to be on target to reach a p.c.i. of 75? >> great question. it would depend on what happens with the repeal of senate bill 1 and what the backfill would be. if there is no backfill, that score would start going down precipitously. if general fund would fill it, we would meet our goal. it depends on the backfill. if it's 100%, i think we would be fine to meet our target. if it's a percentage, it depends on what that amount is. we can run some scenarios if you would like. >> supervisor cohen: are any of the resurfacing programs connected to the capital improvement plan? >> they all are.

the pavement program goes through the capital planning committee and budget. >> supervisor cohen: any other questions? let's go on with the rest of your presentation on median and landscaping. >> pivoting to street and median landscaping. wanted it talk about a strategic goal. this is core to what we do at public works. we care and build the city's assets for the people of san francisco and improvement in public spaces, build and strengthen partnerships, reimagine and activate public spaces. this program addresses all of those goals. here's a quick snapshot. i'm going to focus on funding. here's a snapshot of what is going on in terms of our landscape maintenance funding. this is gas tax and general funding.

it's been increasing quite well with a decrease of fiscal year '17 and' sun -- '18. we identified what was available for prop e and there was overlap. so we reduce some maintenance and moved that over to tree maintenance fund. one of the challenges that we have at public works is as part of our paving program and working with our partners at m.t.a. and p.u.c., we've identified far more needs. 15th avenue, cesar chavez, balboa, needs in addition to the ones in existence, such as the embarcadero. you can see the overall square footage. in many cases, it's in excess of 100,000 square feet.

as often happens and this conovversation happens at capit committee, construction happens, but where does maintenance come from? we've partnered with nonprofit organizations where we've had some work force development opportunities. so we put out a grant and we've done some grants for these areas. so that's how we're currently meeting the needs. the problem can only continue to get worse. if you look at this, the tree establishment funding is going up. these are all great things. it's what it sounds like -- planting great trees. in the budget year, just under $2 million. and it will be over $2 million in fiscal year 2019. not all of the trees are in the

medians, but a lot of them are. as i move on to the number of trees, you can see that number continues to increase and why this number is a problem, for the tree maintenance fund, it takes three years for a tree to be established before it is moving over to the eligibility of the tree maintenance fund. so you have a three-year gap from when you plant the tree until it's eligible to be worked on. that will help to alleviate landscape maintenance concerns. we have a shortfall in landscape maintenance that even though we're thankful for the voters for passage of prop e, we have $19 million in the current year. $19.8 in the budget year, thought all of the work in the landscape medians is eligible for tree maintenance. what is troubling is many of the

landscape maintenance projects are on busy thoroughfares, geary, masonic, cesar chavez. so -- we were hearing about pedestrian safety, worker safety is important to us, too. we have to be sure we do that work at night or have proper traffic controls in place. we have some gaps. it's a gap of approximately $1 million. that's why we have community partners on board to help. it's creative for the life of the capital project and see if we can use any capital funds before we revert to the operating fund. i will keep this short to be under 5 minutes and am available to answer if i questions. >> supervisor cohen: very good. that was 4 minutes. you had 1 minute to spare. question about landscaping. how does the tree maintenance fund work? >> so the tree maintenance fund,

when we established the tree maintenance fund, we had 105,000 trees. we did a census, turned out we have 125,000 trees in san francisco. the tree maintenance fund allows for maintenance of trees as well as the cement and concrete sidewalks where the roots have impacted the sidewalk. so it allows funding for the maintenance, trimming, repairing of trees as well as to the sidewalks, but it's after the tree has been established, so it does not fund new tree planting. it's only the maintenance of existing trees. >> supervisor cohen: i would imagine over three years, six years, or over nine years, the number of trees drawing on the tree fund will grow in aggregate. granted it's staggered in three-year intervals, but is

someone monitoring the trees that we're planting? a lot more trees were planted this year. we have approximately 839 versus 559 planted last year. so is it prudent to plant these trees when we know that the fund will be drawn down with a compounded number of trees in the future, say, in the next 12 years? >> it's a great question, supervisor. we take that into our work. public works is a data-driven department. so we're being very aware of that and trying to make sure that the types of trees we plant can be established and do not require as much maintenance for the first few years. we've also partnered with another nonprofit and community organizations to help with that tree establishment. we've partnered with them to help fill in the gaps that we've identified.

so through that effort, think we'll be okay. >> supervisor cohen: specifically to that granting effort, you say friends of the urban forest. the city grants out that relationship or partnership or how can you describe it to me? how does it monetarily work? >> in this case, it would be like dcyf and their nonprofits. so we provide nonprofits the funding source to maintain and perform some of this work. and we have funding in both our operating budget and capital budget. >> supervisor cohen: why is so much more spend on trees as opposed to landscaping? >> mainly, the tree maintenance fund was approved by voters. and cement work is pretty

expensive. tree establishment $2,000 pear tree from procurement, installation and maintenance of the tree. what drives up the cost around trees, cement work is quite expensive. >> supervisor cohen: you do the cement work, right? >> yes. >> supervisor cohen: so it's at cost? >> yes. we've added a cement crew. >> supervisor cohen: how much is granted out to your partners? >> can i get back to you on that amount? i should know this and apology for not knowing. we'll get you that number this afternoon. >> supervisor cohen: not a problem. colleagues, do you have any questions for bruce? all right, bruce. i think you're off the hook. thank you for your presentations. sorry. one thing back to the p.c.i.

breakdown. is there a p.c.i. breakdown by district? how do you prioritize street repair project? >> first we look at a little bit of what the low-hanging fruit where we can get the biggest bang for our buck to stretch our dollars further. and we look at other projects in the pipeline. we want to koorpd -- coordinate with p.g.e. because we don't want to do a street and then have a utility company tear it up again. >> supervisor cohen: are these streets in a database? do you check a database or how do you coordinate with them. they're a huge entity. >> we hold regularly scheduled

meetings. we do better with p.u.c. than p.g.e. we coordinate the paving -- it's coordinated and planned five years in advance. so we are very much looking ahead and trying to plan as far as possible and so we get a sense of what p.g.e., m.t.a. and p.u.c. has in the pipeline. we're not perfect. we inevitably miss some, but we do pretty good. and we look at equity, in terms of what we're doing city-wide. >> supervisor cohen: on the slide breaking down the funding sources over the last few years and this is in your previous presentation, what percenting a of that funding is from local sources, again, we talked about senate bill 1. out of the fund that's

available, how much is it coming from the local, general fund? >> it represents probably based on the current year, it would represent -- i will ballpark 60%. i can give you the exact breakdown. that includes $8.6 million of senate bill one revenues. we're getting $23 million in the budget year. that drops it below 50%. i can provide you the specific numbers. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. folks, thank you, bruce. it was brought to my attention that i overlooked a presentation that we have to go back to. it's pedestrian safety. this is with the vision zero coalition, community aspect of the presentation. my apologies for that, ms. layman, but wanted to bring you back up to give you that opportunity to make your presentation. >> thank you very much. we're getting it set up right now.

>> supervisor cohen: no problem. after this presentation, we'll hear from our friends in work force. they will be discussing with us work force development in the pipeline to city jobs. and then after that, we'll hear from the budget justice coalition, who didn't send their presentation in advance, i might add. and then we'll hear from clean and safe parks. all right. are you ladies ready? >> we're having a problem getting it set up, but we printed it out and we can put it on the overhead. >> supervisor cohen: perfect. we'll do it old school style. sfgov tv, if you can look to the overhead for me. we have a slide on the overhead. excellent. all right.

take it away. >> jessica layman, zero coalition. >> and cathy deluca, group of 40 community-based organizations that work together to advocate for vision zero and we have a senior and visibility work group. we have our presentation coming up for you. >> we want to act knowledge and appreciate the board of supervisors that are making vision zero a priority. as we pointed out, chair cohen, we've seen progress that fewer people are getting hit and killed. we have momentum and it's

important to keep that going. we are working toward zero deaths. a reminder of the problem that 800 to 1,000 pedestrians are injured every year in san francisco. and most of the people killed in traffic crashes are pedestrians. seniors make up 50% of the pedestrians killed. and we know that's as far as seniors being out and using walking around as a mode of transportation and likely to be injured severely and unable to recover. 69% of people with disabilities injured in crashes were hit while walking. we're going to keep moving. our biggest recommendation ask is for funding for a program called safe streets for people

with disabilities. it's identified in the last vision zero action strategy as a program that the city wants to pursue. >> they have survived crashes or they have lost loved ones in crashes.

this group is instrumental to the city reaching vision zero. it was the reason the state legislature sponsored a bill for automated speed enforcement because of the family stories. because of their willing necessary to share the pain they have gone through. two more i have for you. i want to get under five. the sfmpa mentioned on taylor street one of the amazing things for outreach. it is so difficult for the city to pull-off. it is a tough thing to do. they did the live street demonstration on taylor. they did a mockup what the project would look like. every day people got to see what a street change might look like.

we would like to see more money for more projects. we only have six years. we have to do it right from the start. finally, i want to raise up ed's neighborhood. a great program to teach kids street safety. we need money to get it to the schools. those are our main asks. vision zero you are dedicated. we are excited you are calling out the spotlight. pedestrians were 70% of those killed last year. thank you. >> you get a platinum star. you had two minutes to spare. supervisor yee, do you have anything to raise with this presentter? >> everything is good. i support everything.

>> i don't have any questions. thank you. i don't see any as well. i appreciate the presentations. the pipeline and city jobs. hello to the oewd team. >> director of economic development. thank you for the hearing. i want to thank supervisor fewer for suggests work force development for today. there is nothing more important in the city. we have an unemployment rate at 2.4% in san francisco and more jobs than at any time in the city history. there are real challenges facing residents. a key focus area for us is not in finding the job. it is being ready and keeping the job. for those with jobs, are they earning the money to make ends

meet? on a career ladder and ensuring they have progressive employment and career pathways to allow them not just to stay in san francisco but to succeed. that is why that is something at the core of oewd's mission if we can get the slides. thank you. to address this, the city has 17 different departments throughout the city family that do work force development. based on the conversation with supervisor fewer. we want a presentation to share our key projects and programs, and our priorities. also some opportunity areas going to the future. i do want to hand it over to our director daniel who will do this portion of the presentation. ly employee available for questions. >> thank you. it is good to be here.

as the mission statement says, our work force's mission is to create economic prosperity for all residents to put them in career pipelines and pathways. the tree of economic vitality is how we concept on youize our system. reaching to the targeting communities having trouble with connecting to employment. barrier removal, focus programming, career exploration, soft skills development and connection to entree level employment to get that foot in the door. ultimately connecting them to sector academies and moving them along, developing occupational skills training, technical competent tennessees to earn a wage premium and start to career.

we partner with 16 other departments in the city to do this work. also far as oewd work force programming, this slowed shows all of the program areas, amount of funding to those different program areas, and the 16-17 numbers in terms of participants enrolled, what percentage were placed the median and average wages overall. a couple of things to note here. our placements are only counted in they are verified. that mean there is is probably some underreporting in terms of placement percentages. our young adult portfolio and tech assist both have educational programming where an education outcome is the outcome as opposed to unemployment

outcome. that also reduces those placement percentages. there is an education pathway connected with both program areas. i think the only other thing i would point out about the slide, this is where we see with in our sector academies that placement rates have held stable at around 70% whereas other placement rates have gone down between 15-16 and 16-17 as the economy tightened up. you will see an uptick in wages and confirms or verifies we are moving people to career trajectories. a little bit of outcomes in terms of participants. we included the racial demographics of enrollments within work force programming. it is 30% asian, 12% white.

the next slide goes into the neighborhoods. that work force programming draws from and concentration of participants enrolled. i think these two slides go to the fact the work force services are reaching vulnerable communities in san francisco. we draw from neighborhoods and zip codes as this map shows that have a preponderance of unemployment and of poverties. >> as far as the stretch goals for the coming year, we are very focused on making sure this system works as a system and that barrier removal services are removing barriers and moving them into soft skill development career exposure and entry level jobs and along into sector

academies and really working together as opposed to disconnected points of excellence but that don't reach full potential of what the work force system could achieve. we want to build out the sectors and in particular the middle skill, middle wage occupations within those different sectors to operationalize the theory we are moving people along the continuum into sustainable employment and economic vitality, and to the topic of this presentation, the pipeline into city jobs. >> you are at five minutes. >> moving into that i think the real opportunity with city jobs there is a significant amount every tirements that are

expected. dhr are here for questions. there is a significant number evernumber ofthe retirements inw years. they are good jobs, they come with stability and benefits. i think dhr and hsr are involved in conversations how to outreach to under serve communities to make sure people are prepared and connected to city jobs employment. oewd is entering into that conversation. we are doing an analysis of the positions we expect to be created making sure our provid providers know the civil service process so they can guide their participants to connect to those opportunities. we are coordinating with our

fellow departments around how to make sure people are enrolling in the programs they have. if there are any other services oewd can laser -- layer into to make sure people are supported in accessing the opportunities. to the extent there are gaps, we can work together to close those. >> thank you very much. a couple questions. our specialized access team to have high enrollment but low placement. can you tell us why that might be how we can better support those? >> specialized access points are serving targeted communities that have specific and known barriers to employment. formerly incarcerated, veterans, immigrants that received credentials somewhere else that don't map to the american work force and people with limited english.

those barriers are difficult to overcome, and none of our providers turn anybody away. they work with them. in the case of specialized access points. there is a longer timeframe with which the providers work with the participants to overcome things like the need for vocational english or overcoming getting right to work documentation and those types of activities. >> how do we work to support them? >> that ask a great question. >> it is okay if you don't have the answer. it is a question for all of us, not just your department. as supervisors we are your partners. i am thinking about ways to support. a couple things to point out. first, oekd works with the hsa

health and human service agency to build a comprehensive work force development. oewd contracts $15 million for work force development. the way that breaks down such that $8.1 million for sector academies for high skilled work force population, $1.5 million for specialized access points like we were specifically speaking to. another example is veterans. then there is $1.9 million for youth services. those are facts i want to get out there. question for you. do organizations that are initially funded through the r.f.p. process, do they get cycled out for poor performance? >> that is one of the factors that we look at. every time we procure services

it is a new procurement. we invite proposals from existing as well as new agencies as part of the scoring of those proposals. we look for every individual proposal. we look at the things like responsiveness to the strategy, the clarity of the plan, the goals associated with that, the cultural competent staff that are implementing the plan. we look at existing providers, what their track record has been, if they have been successful for us in meeting the goals that we set out for them and they negotiated and agreed to. >> is there a place to find a scorecard to reflect the evidence-based outcomes that is public? is it on the website does it

exist? >> we don't publish the scores for all of the proposers. we can share that with you. >> i don't necessarily mean the proposers. the nonprofit organizations you are contracting with. i am sure you have an evaluation process. i suggest that should be made public like what dcyf has available. >> we don't have that on our website. we can take that and move forward. >> i would appreciate that. how do employers look at work force training programs overall? what is the attitude? >> nationally or here? >> i only care about here. >> i think that employers -- we have built a pretty good reputation for ourselves in san francisco. the sector academies are successful in working with employers.

anytime work force is introduced to an employer, there is maybe a gut reaction or they tend to be a little hesitant and think it is a charity activity or it is going to be really requiring that they extend a lot and lower what their bar for a qualified employee. >> that stigma is something i have heard also, and the flip side is that i have also heard positive outstanding feedback for people who had preconserved -- preconserved notions how they found a rich talent pool. how do we break down the stigma of the work force that they are

not as desirable and really promote that we have an outstanding training program, outstanding young people, not just young people but people in general work force. how do we begin to change that stigma? >> i think it is a multi-pronged approach. seeing believing. we need to work with employers who have already gotten there and have them be champion to the cause. employers trust other employers. on you sector academy has generated that kind of reputation. more and more are reaching out to them pro actively. i think event that the city hosts like the mayor's youth job challenge goes a long way to promote the fact we are doing innovative things in san francisco. it creates a really qualified homegrown work force that employers do not need to import

from outside of the bay area in order to get the real work force needs met. >> thank you. supervisor fewer. >> thank you very much. a couple questions. one is that i know that supervisor cohen talked about the sector academies. i want to look at what starts at medium wage and placement of enrollment is only 52%. what do you think that is about and how can we encourage a higher percentage number? >> the tech portfolio including programming only focused on education outcome. we have included all of the enrollment. if you factor out programming only pointing towards education, it is 73% placement rate which brings it more in line with the rest of the sectors.

i think that really we want -- within tech assess we want to deepen that program and outreach that it is doing into our targeted communities and vulnerable communities, but if we continue the work and can scale it, then i think it is proven itself to be successful. >> it would help diversify the employment base. then the other question. on the work overall enrollment and placement and i see the percentage is 61% enrollment. i wonder how we can also up those numbers. then the second question to this. are you doing anything around employment for seniors? >> yes, to your first question the 61% enrollment. we have actually seen between 15-16 and 16-17 our placement

outside of sector dropped around 10%. that really speaks to the tightening labor market and the fact many of the people who are still struggling to connect to employment have acute and intensive barriers. towards upping that number for the population who we really see starkly needs to be served, i think it is developing more case management, more intensive interventions within the access points. again i moving them along that continuum and working as a system in order to move them towards sustainable employment in san francisco. to the question around specific programming for seniors, we don't target seniors specifically. we approach work force services

as any vulnerable population within san francisco should have access to high-quality work force services that meet their needs. we have a diverse portfoliosio of providers that offer that. when we look at our demographics, individuals over 60 make up 7% of our total enrollees. they are accessing the work force system to get the work force services. there is nothing specific that is targeting that group. >> if you had resource would say you ever consider expanding it? we heard a lot of testimony about need for seniors and the need for senior employment to supplement income. would you ever take that on as an area? >> we would be open to expanding as much as we can for as many vulnerable populations as we

can. self-help for the elderly, jewish vocational services are providers of ours that serve a significant number of seniors. we would focus on increasing outreach specific and targeted outreach and coordinating with other agencies that offer services to seniors in order to really make sure we are using resources as efficiently as we can. >> do we offer incentive to employers to hire these people that we have trained? meaning that, for example, if we have a placement and there is an issue that arises, do we have an program where we can be case manager, conduit to help resolve the issues? >> yes, we have a couple ways to offer support to employers, particularly within the tech

port fellow use where we know that cultural competence is an issue for people from nontraditional backgrounds to tech programming. we have women in the trades program for women in the construction trades so that they have support and can troubleshoot issues that are specifically aimed at, you know, entering into an industry that may not have a significant number of people who look like you or have people from the same background as some of the participants we are trying to place. within our more general work force we have retention services. there is follow-up activities that the providers do outreach to those placed to check in on them. it is lower touch but a general check in, how are you doing, are any issues arising?

that is more aimed at the participant as opposed to the employer. within the employer incentive we have ojt dollar also. within our youth portfolio we piloted transitional jobs to create career opportunities. that is the extent of it. >> do we have any data on how long these participants are employed or stay employed? >> we do not. we are in constant conversation was the state to see if we can access that data. we use the ui database, unemployment insurance data base. for the placement for the median and average wages. we have no longitudinal data. >> thank you very much. >> supervisor yee.

>> thank you, supervisor fewer for your questions. it is what i was going to ask. i wanted to let the public know we are putting a hearing together to look at the under employment of seniors and the unemployment and under billion dollaremployedof seniors and thh disabilities. several departments will participate including oawd including my staff is working with the departments to put a work group together to look at that issue more deeper and if supervisor, if one of your staff might be interested in that work group, you are more than invited. hopefully, the next time we see

this economic vitality tree, there will be additional root with the seniors and disabilities as part of this. you may already have this, but do have a program that is focused on working with the school district in trying to get students interested in education in general but specifically early education? >> we have the two programs that we work with, one is making sure that within some of the technical schools the students are aware of our sector programming and can connect to that. that is focused on city build and construction careers. we are working with the school district to broaden to other

sectors. we also have competitive grant from the department of labor around career pathways where we are -- the school district, city college, and oewd are working together to create work intensifieducational experiences where the students apply some of the learning they are doing in an educational setting into a work-based learning environment. i don't know if one of those is what you are thinking about. >> i just feel there is a big need in early education in terms of people entering the field. mainly because of low pay. as a pathway like my own daughter who started in early

education, did it for several years, especially through college. her interests continued. she got her masters to teach in the public schools. it was a natural pathway for her. i wonder if there is a specific program to look at that because many of our young people, especially in high school, they take one or two course city college, they could qualify, they would have some knowledge or academic base for early education programs, for them to sub or something or work during the summer when they always need people, they could earn the minimum wages right away. almost like a win-win to me. >> we will talk to the school district. a couple providers have programs aimed at child development.