hours of community meetings, four, five, six years ago are finally bearing fruit. finally bearing tacos and bearing fried chicken. finally bearing whiskey finally bearing wine and grappa. there are many things that are bearing fruit along this corridor and i'm excited and delighted to be here to see this transformation and rebirth. congratulations to all of them. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you very much supervisor cohen. as mayor breed and supervisor cohen said, it would not be possible unless you had someone who was willing to make the investments initially in the community and serving the great food, but beyond being an extraordinary entrepreneur, being a great mentor to those who have gone through the women 's program make sure -- making sure folks know it is possible to find opportunity in the city with determination and creativity and extraordinary food. with that, chef spears, thank

you so much and we love to hear a few words from you. [applause] [cheering] >> i was looking for my notes but no one wrote notes for me. [laughter] now that all the food is cooked on the doors open, i think i don't know i have to speak now. i just want to say that i am so grateful for this opportunity. being born and raised in the city of san francisco, my parents first home was here in bayview on bridgeview. i learned how to ride my bike up and down third street, at least when it was much safer to ride your bike on third street. we have a lot of obstacles now. cars and trains. it has been a long time coming. it has been a journey. i've been in business for 12 years now. and i am just excited to be able to bring this new business to the community and to really make sure that we are preserving the

legacy of african-american business. it is really important to me in the community. moving forward, and anything that i do, i have decided to bring along a community partner because i would like to reach back and pull community with me in everything that i do to make sure that we are all successful. meghan mitchell, who is here to my left, is kathy -- café envy's community partner. she is so wonderful and we'll try and bring as much livelihood and great things to this corridor. we are excited to be part of a merchant separate your belchertown, a.k.a., the mob. [laughter] >> which was started by a group of great women here in bayview. we have barbara grappa from greta lyons and we have her partner, kathy hanson. we have missed bernadette from

the jazz room is a big part of our movement. we have -- i see andrew out there from laughing bunk. we have josh out there somewhere from bayview pasta. earl shattuck as part of merchants about your town and our executive for e. dot. that is economic development on third street. our goal is to enhance and bring business to the corridor door. i see michael hammond out there as well. my mom to the right. please forgive me if i forget people. i get a little nervous with all these cameras. my mom is here. here to support me in everything that i do. [applause] >> she has always been here. my aunt brenda smith spears. she has always been a great supporter of me and she is here today to support --dash i see bernie mac out there. she raised her hand like don't forget me, girl. we have miss bernie out there.

i see my homeboy out there. i see video out there, deal ellington of district ten, running for supervisor. i see you out there. i am glad to see you here as well. a lot of people out there. please forgive me. marcus, i see you out there from renaissance. such great people. i see my home by dutch homeboy for giving me the eye. i see richard washington of luxurious nails. please make sure you support your black owned nail salon here and i see mother vincent. she is my angel and i love her. she has been by my side through a lot of things. i'm glad she is here to share the stay with me. gary and teresa, the owners of the previous monte carlo are here to support as well. i see you all out there. thank you so much for being here i am just really excited and hopefully that everyone comes

out and supports businesses on the corridor are. we have a lot of great things going on in bayview. we sometimes get a bad rap out here for all the negativity, but there is so much positive things going on here in bayview. so many positive people. we want to highlight those positives and those businesses and community members. please support us here in bayview. we are here to serve you and hopefully you can all come down and have a great meal and a drink on us here, while not honest, but with us. [laughter] >> with us. with us. thank you so much. then, ben who walked me through -- i lost some sound, ben who helped facilitate and get everything going with the 87 liquor licenses. without you, i would not have got through that process. it wasn't that hard but you made it so easy for me. i really appreciate all the work that you did.

walking, thank you so much for always being here and rolling with us in the bayview. and our corridor manager. mr larry who is on the pavement every day. he works hard every day with us and we are also, you know, we have a great movement going on. larry is a big part of that. we hope that we will be able to succeed in that -- thank you. supervisor cohen, i appreciate you for being here and supporting the businesses, as always. mayor breed, i love you and i'm glad that you are able to take out a bit of your time from your busy schedule to be here. i really appreciate you coming to support. thank you guys talk so much. come on in and a few seconds, i guess. back to you cleat back to walking. thank you guys, so much. [cheers and applause]

>> i want to give a shout out -- i think everyone can see one singular small business, please come on in. do it. >> auntie jackie. i love you. she is way in memphis and she is a person who helped me put my business plan together to make sure we were able to secure this business. i love you, if i did not remember to say that i would be in so much trouble. there would be no more at me and there'd be no more business if i forgot. i love you and thank you so much for everything. [applause] >> thank you auntie april and thank you chef spares. as everyone can tell, driving spaces make thriving spaces outside and that is the work that we invest in and every single business as you can see here, we have not been to the bayview before, this is the community that is here to support you. it is here to welcome you, with loving and wide open arms in this extraordinary neighborhood at extraordinary corridor. i want to give a shout out to the team members. holly lunn, as well as at darcy

who helped support some of the signage here as well. and, with that, we would love to formally, with you and with the mayor and with the supervisor, and partners, cut the ribbon. >> all right. [applause] >> five, four, three, two, one! [cheers and applause] >> congratulations!

>> manufacturing in cities creates this perfect platform for people to earn livelihoods and for people to create more economic prosperity. i'm kate sosa. i'm cofounder and ceo of sf made. sf made is a public private partnership in the city of san francisco to help manufacturers start, grow, and stay right here in san francisco. sf made really provides wraparound resources for manufacturers that sets us apart from other small business support organizations who provide more generalized support. everything we do has really been developed over time by listening and thinking about

what manufacturer needs grow. for example, it would be traditional things like helping them find capital, provide assistance loans, help to provide small business owners with education. we have had some great experience doing what you might call pop ups or temporary selling events, and maybe the most recent example was one that we did as part of sf made week in partnership with the city seas partnership with small business, creating a 100 company selling day right here at city hall, in partnership with mayor lee and the board of supervisors, and it was just a wonderful opportunity for many of our smaller manufacturers who may be one or two-person shop, and who don't have the wherewithal to have their own dedicated retail store to show their products and it comes

back to how do we help companies set more money into arthur businesses and develop more customers and their relationships, so that they can continue to grow and continue to stay here in san francisco. i'm amy kascel, and i'm the owner of amy kaschel san francisco. we started our line with wedding gowns, and about a year ago, we launched a ready to wear collection. san francisco's a great place to do business in terms of clientele. we have wonderful brides from all walks of life and doing really interesting things: architects, doctors, lawyers, teachers, artists, other like minded entrepreneurs, so really fantastic women to work with. i think it's important for them to know where their clothes are made and how they're made.

>> my name is jefferson mccarly, and i'm the general manager of the mission bicycle company. we sell bikes made here for people that ride here. essentially, we sell city bikes made for riding in urban environments. our core business really is to build bikes specifically for each individual. we care a lot about craftsmanship, we care a lot about quality, we care about good design, and people like that. when people come in, we spend a lot of time going to the design wall, and we can talk about handle bars, we can see the riding position, and we take notes all over the wall. it's a pretty fun shopping experience. paragraph. >> for me as a designer, i love

the control. i can see what's going on, talk to my cutter, my pattern maker, looking at the designs. going through the suing room, i'm looking at it, everyone on the team is kind of getting involved, is this what that drape look? is this what she's expecting, maybe if we've made a customization to a dress, which we can do because we're making everything here locally. over the last few years, we've been more technical. it's a great place to be, but you know, you have to concentrate and focus on where things are going and what the right decisions are as a small business owner. >> sometimes it's appropriate to bring in an expert to offer suggestions and guidance in coaching and counseling, and other times, we just need to talk to each other. we need to

talk to other manufacturers that are facing similar problems, other people that are in the trenches, just like us, so that i can share with them a solution that we came up with to manage our inventory, and they can share with me an idea that they had about how to overcome another problem. >> moving forward, where we see ourselves down the road, maybe five and ten years, is really looking at a business from a little bit more of a ready to wear perspective and making things that are really thoughtful and mindful, mindful of the end user, how they're going to use it, whether it's the end piece or a he hwedding gown, are they going to use it again, and incorporating that into the end collection, and so that's the direction i hear at this point. >> the reason we are so enamored with the work we do is

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unique in fact, san francisco city departments are filled with truly initiative programming that turns this way our goal is to create programs that are easily digestable and easy to follow so that our resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative they're getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today san francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. >> we're sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesn't

have to be find in the trash. >> i could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their used clothes to the store and deposit off. >> textile will be accessible in buildings thought the city and we have goodwill a grant for them to design a textile box especially for families. >> goodwill the well-known store has been making great strides. >> we grateful to give the items to goodwill it comes from us selling those items in our

stores with you that process helps to divert things it from local landfills if the san francisco area. >> and the textile box will take it one step further helping 1230 get to zero waste. >> it brings the donation opportunity to the donor making that as convenient as possible it is one of the solutions to make sure we're capturing all the value in the textiles. >> with the help of good will and other businesses san francisco will eliminate 39 millions tons of landfill next year and 70 is confident our acts can and will make a great difference. >> we believe that government matters and cities matter what we side in san francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world.

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>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for

this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our

neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park

to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here. you. >> well to the epic center are you ready for the next earthquake did you know if you're a renter you can get earthquake shushes we'll take to the earthquake authorities hi welcome to another episode i'm the chief resilience officer for san francisco i'm joined by my good friends for the earthquake authority we're at

the el cap center for the city and county of san francisco started in 2013 to get the community and talk about the risk we think about earthquake if usual great city you'll see one of the demonstrates we've built the model home and i encourage other episodes we'll be retroactively retrofitting and showing you as property owners to employ you work for the california earthquake authority talk about your role and earthquake shirnls up think the viewers want to know if you're a renter or property owner how the insurance issues. >> i'm the chief mitigation officer or c e a a property line funded pubically managed entity that provides earthquake shiners for one to four units and mobile owners to come down and renters throughout the state of california. >> what make the c e a deft.

>> we work with 19 participates the insurer that sells you, your homeowner policy you're not obligated to buy it but you can buy a policy. >> am i covered with homeowners insurance. >> no california homeowners understand their homeowners insurance doesn't cover earthquake they need a separate policy if you're an shiners you can get the earthquake insurance policy. >> so explain why it is for the c e a is deft if a traditional insurance agency. >> irreverent so in the 80s the state of california passed a law that requires any company that writes the policies to over earthquake insurance the homeowners are not required by commissioner cranshaw can bye

there was so much loss they were going to stop writing the insurance policies for earthquakes they wanted to stop a serious insurance policy. >> we're talking about the homeownership's buying the earthquake shiners but 70 percent are renters what's my opposite. >> the option for renter the earthquake be insurance company is affordable i think people don't realize just exactly what it covers it covers damaged property but loss of use if you have to be under a building they have a quarter main that was broken as well as emergency repair if interests glass breaks in the carpet you need to be in our unit that's whether earthquake is important. >> you're title you're the excessive mitigation officer for the state of california when i think of insurance i don't think about mitigation.

>> so as part of public safety mission the c e a started to put aside mitigation loss fund 5 percent of invested income and when i joined the company 34 years ago we had $45 million to make a difference for moving and incentivizing and mitigation for california homeowners to structure engineering a unique opportunity to cervical homeowners to help them to mitigate the equivalent. >> whether an owner or renter i want to find more information about earthquake insurance where should i go. >> earthquake authority.com not only information about insurance but a calculated figures and as of january lots of deductible and 25 percent if a homeowner mitigate their hope up to 20 percent off their

premium as an incentive for the work. >> what does mitigate the home mean. >> strengthen, renovate, retrofit through a home particularly older to earlier codes and you put in adding streamlining maybe collar bolts to tie to the foundation or to the wall so it is braced to earthquake can be very, very affordable and really makes a difference. >> thank you very much for being with us i encourage the viewers not only to checkout the earthquake authority but we'll talk about

>> good afternoon, everybody. how are you doing? are you having a good dream for us? great. great. and did you have fun last night? all right. how many people are here have been to dream force before, raise your hands? all right. fantastic. well, welcome back to san francisco. we have a really great treat for

you. we have our mayor, london breed. please give her a huge, dream force welcome. [applaus [applause] >> well, welcome to dream force, mayor. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, mark. >> very excited that you're here, and i'm very excited that you're the mayor. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. >> you know, i've been waiting to have this conversation with you, and i've got so many questions, and so little time. so, you know, one of the things that i love about you is that you're a native san franciscan, you grew up in this city, you are part of the city, you're a native draw native daughter, and now, you're the mayor, truly representing the city that you love so much. when you look at being the mayor right now, at such an important

time in the history of san francisco, where we have so many opportunities but also so many challenges, what is the most important thing to you that when you think about what you do every day, where you spend your time right now, what are you truly focused on? what is the most important thing to you? >> the hon. london breed: the most important thing to me is to take care of san francisco. i wake up every day, thinking about how are we going to make even more progress, how are we going to help people who sadly are part of our most vulnerable communities. i come from that community. i grew up in san francisco in public housing and lived there with my grandmother for over 20 years of my life, and it was a very challenging environment. hopelessness, violence, drugs, despair, and we have people in all parts of san francisco unfortunately still living in very similar conditions.

and in fact, you know, people who don't have roofs over their heads now. so what i care about most is changing that, changing the lives of people that are counting on us to make good decisions. >> now you're a leader of a huge organization, our city. you have a huge budget at your disposal, every resource is available to you, every key stakeholder in the city reports to you, except our public schools. they report to our school board. when you look at running that huge organization and getting them headed in the direction of this vision that you just articulated, what are you doing every try to really make this manifest into reality? >> the hon. london breed: so there's definitely a lot of meetings that take place, a lot of conversations with different department heads, and just to express to them that we are public servants. our jobs are to take care of san francisco, so when i meet and talk with the police chief, i

basically, you know, have these really in-depth conversations with him about, you know, law enforcement, the relationship with law enforcement and the community and how people, they do feel safe when they see police officers out on our streets, but there's another community that may not trust the police, and it's our duty to change that by building relationships with various communities and being consistent and being out there and being visible and having conversations with the public when, you know, basically, there isn't anything bad going on. so that's just the police department. but there's the department of public works. they're responsible for cleaning up the streets, and we're spending millions of dollars to keep the streets of san francisco clean, and so making sure that people are out there, not only cleaning up the streets, but again, having conversations with san franciscans that are just out on

the streets, talking to people that are even changing their behavior. in fact i'm walking the streets, i run into people sometimes and people are throwing things on the ground, and i say hey, pick that up. and they turnaround and say oh, i'm sorry, madam mayor, and we will have a whole conversation on that. i think people will think twice when it comes to littering. we have to be responsible for taking care of this city, and that means not throwing our garbage on the ground or flicking our cigarettes out on the sidewalks because that creates what people complain about the most is -- you know, it hurts my heart when people say san francisco is a dirty city. you know, i take that personally, and i go out there and do what i can, like i said,

to hold people accountable, but more importantly, making sure that i'm out there myself, doing the work, as well. >> well, i see already, being the accountability mayor. i call you and you're sitting on the curb waiting for the police or the sanitation department to show up. last night, i saw it in reality where we had this amazing concert, you know, in the shadow of your city hall, and it was the cleanest i'd ever seen the city in quite a few years. and i was like wow, what is happening. and i kind of connected it back, and is london breed becoming the accountability mayor because i had just called you, and you're like mark, i can't really talk to you right now because i'm waiting for our employees to show because i need them to fix this right now. and until they do, i'm not going anywhere. >> the hon. london breed: yeah. >> if that -- is that really happening? >> the hon. london breed: that's really happening. and in fact, it happened when i went to the gym this morning.

there's an area where people -- sadly, they're homeless and they're sleeping there. immediately, there's a whole group text that goes out to a number of people. i'm like there's trash, there's a number of people. we need day shelters. where are the opportunities for folks, and why are you not bringing me the solutions because people should not have to sleep on the streets in san francisco when we're investing over $300 million annually trying to solve this issue. there needs to be some accountability for how we're spending that money, where our resources are going. as mayor, our plan is to look at all of what we're doing now, and if something is not working, it effectively needs to change. >> you inspire me, and what i've been telling people is mayor breed cannot do this alone. each and every citizen in this city is going to have to pick up

this trash. you built this great app, or what the city did, sf311.org. if i see a picture off a bunch of gaur gabadge, but i take a picture -- garbage, i take a picture, and it's cleaned up. to see that action happening, everyone is starting to realize that this is all on our hands. >> the hon. london breed: yeah, and you have a powerful voice on twitter. even a tweet you send out gets a lot of likes, getting a lot of re-tweeting. you tag 311, and you tag me. like, i want people to see what we're doing, but i also want others to help us. i want other people to do exactly what you're doing, what i'm doing to get people -- like,

for example, the mattresses or the garbage or somebody who is sadly sleeping on our streets. there are a number of challenges -- and let me be clear. it's not just as easy as picking someone up and taking them into a shelter because we unfortunately have so many people who struggle with mental illness, who struggle with drug addiction, and it's a lot more districted to try and provide support for those individuals and there are some things that we're working on, which i'm really excited about, that you think are going to make a big difference. >> one of the projects that both you and i are both involved, there's a french artist, j.r., who's in town right now, going to speak at the moma at 7:00 tonight. he was here as you know, because you're part of this. every day, he had a semi, and he was in a different part of the city for a month. i think he took thousands of photos and videos of every

possible san franciscan. and as you know, we have quite a few different types of san franciscans, and we have an incredible set of characters in our city and that's what makes us great. and you know, as we were talking, a couple of amazing thingsz things happened. one is he saw a portrait of tolerance. he said i saw somebody naked walking down the street. he said what's that? >> i said that's pretty normal. i said this is where summer of love came from, so she was from paris. she didn't actually believe it, and she went back to where she was staying. she took off all of her clothes, she went to whole foods, she

bought a pack of gum. and she went back to her apartment, called j.r., and told him. nobody even asked me a question or looked at me. what is going on in san francisco? why do we tolerate everybody's freedom and kind of -- why do we accept everybody? why is that here? why does that make us so special? >> the hon. london breed: well, you and i are both native san franciscans, and you know the answer to that question just as well as i do. it's just -- i think it's the kind of city that we are, but there's a difference between someone choosing to go to the store naked and someone who unfortunately is mentally ill and is basically taking off all their clothes and out of their mind and just, you know, struggling, clearly struggling. but i know senator scott wiener is in the audience, and he put

together some restrictions on that naked ban a couple of years ago before i was on the board of supervisors with restaurants and a couple of other things, but hey, san francisco, we are what we are. and i love the fact that we are, you know, such a tolerant and accepting city of people. but i also think we shouldn't tolerate what we see on our streets, the challenges that we see on our streets. it's not okay to just let things be the way they are. i refuse to accept that because it's not just about being a mayor yorks is mayor, it's about being better and getting our city to a better place. >> j.r. was telling me this story, he was doing this mural, and he meets this mother and daughter, ten-year-old daughter and single mother, but they're

living in our forest. they're living in golden gate park, and the child doesn't have any shoes. i don't know if they allowed him to take a photo or not because obviously it's an issue of respect. you are just a huge part of where we raised $37 million to get every homeless child and mother and family off our street in two years. i think tamika from ham ill sil families has about half of them off the streets. it's about getting them back into normalcy and having a good life. what are we going to do about this homeless families? it's about people who are intentionally homeless, or homeless by circumstance. their grandfather died, maybe they're on the street, mentally ill, people who are addicted to drugs. homelessness is such a complex issue and it's a catchall for so

many different types of people. how can we solve such a huge issue? because we're becoming a city that's becoming known for its homele homelessness. >> the hon. london breed: california is known for its homelessness, and i think we have to take a regional approach to building housing and building housing faster, but making sure it's not a one size fits all. even when you have affordable housing, the process is so complicated, and we have to make things easier for people to get housing. so that's why i'm really proud of the city and our one system where it's a place where we bring people in and we insert the information into a system that acts as the central location for how we help people get into our shelter system, navigation center, and eventually permanently housed,

so there's a real process, there's real tracking, accountability, so that we can get people permanently housed. ultimately, we're going to have to build more housing, invest in things to keep people housed. like what i just did in our recent budget, write to civil counsel for people that are facing avics. we can purchase buildings that low-income people are living in to prevent them from being sold. we've been doing amazing work, looking at all different layers of housing opportunities that exist, purchasing under utilized land, like we did on the mcdonald's site on haight and

stannion. not just doing it in isolation with san francisco alone. we need help from our state partners. i would say our federal government, but i'm not even going to try that one. ultimately, we're lucky here in the state of california. we have incredible leaders like david chiu, assembly member, and scott wiener who have been leading the charge on new legislation for middle-income housing legislation, for our conserveatorship, things that we need locally to assist us with the different complicates layers of people that are sadly dealing with homelessness in san francisco and in the state of california as a whole. so i think that part of what people are always saying, well, what can i do besides just giving money? and part of it is, you know, really being consistent and investing in the programs that

we know serve a purpose, like hamilton family services, like larkin street youth. what we did with larkin street on this property for transitional aged youth, that's kids age 18-24. there is a property on haight street that just needed some work done, we needed to put an investment in, and there needed to be a long-term subsidy so that they could hire employees to actually work and facilitate and support the young people in this housing. i mean, it can be expensive, but it's also less expensive than spending the money, you know, with the people who we sadly are trying to help when they're homeless. this is a less expensive way to help deal with the challenges. >> well, we know we have 1200 homeless families in san francisco. we know we have this 37 million

d i don't know dlrz targeted towards them. are -- million -- $37 million targeted toward them. you have navigation centers and a lot of other vision centers and ideas. what's your big vision or what do you see working on a strategic level or do you just think tactics or will dictates strategy over time, which is something that is an alternative approach? breed brood i think the coordinated entry system -- >> the hon. london breed: i think the coordinated entry system is a way to measure success. we have an estimated 7500 people that are homeless. this coordinated entry system, we've already exceeded our goal by logging in over 2,000 people that we are now tracking and

work on and in some cases have housed some of those particular individuals. i think we have got to show the public, you know, what we're actually doing and what we're doing it for and how it's leading to results with a system of this nature, but more importantly, we need to look at the need and plan for the need and identify places in which we can meet the need. we actually just opened mentally, which is 50 units of housing for formerly homeless individuals who weren't necessarily easy to even get housed because of some chals that they face, and we had -- challenges that they face, and we had the opportunity to purchase another building, to lease another building. we're identifying spaces throughout san francisco, and we're looking at how many we have in this coordinated entry system, how many housing we need, and supportive attached to

that housing, and long-term strategy, and how much is it going to cost us? and do we need to look at what we're spending now, and what services do we need to keep and eliminate so that we can reach the goal of getting people housed. so that's a process, and my ultimate goal is to make sure that we are developing solutions, that we're housing -- we're focusing on families, seniors, we're getting more access to mental health stablization beds which people don't necessarily talk about, people who struggle with mental illness, who need to be in a facility, a mental hospital, but our jails are being used as a place for those people who are not housed. so there's a combination of things that i want us to do. but i want us to really make smarter investments and i want to be able to show exactly the

truth about what we're doing, where the money is spent and how effective we've been. the other thing we don't want to talk about is so many people do come here to san francisco who are struggling. many of the people that i've met on the streets that are homeless, they don't come from san francisco. the data says that 70% of the people were homeless in san francisco came to san francisco before they became homeless. i only met one person in that category -- >> you're 100% right, because when we did this project, looking at all these profit, they're out of town. that was dead wrong. as far as the people that i have met, talked to personally, actually been on the street, you

know, and we have it documented. and i think that, you know, these people, in some cases, they came to san francisco, and one person told me, you know, san francisco's the four seasons of homelessness. this is the best place to be, san francisco. we take care of our homeless better than any city in this country. we have the best services, best quality, the most compassion. we're the most tolerant. we're willing to have them and listen and engage, and so we're attracting them because we have a huge heart in our city. it's a huge level of responsibility and now it's turned into a huge challenge where we're going to have to be able to execute. so what can we do to help you? look, every citizen in san francisco is behind you. we all want to do the things that you're interested in. we want to be accountable, just like you do. we want to be focused on

homelessness just like you are, and get the homelessness crisis under control. we want to have a cleaner san francisco, we want to have great public schools, make sure our teachers have affordable places to live. what can we do to help you right now? what do you want from each and every one of us in this city? >> the hon. london breed: so one of the things that i know that you're doing, you are contributing on a regular basis to our public school and to so many incredible causes in san francisco. the thing that is most important to me, of course, is to fix the problems that exist in san francisco, but ultimately, what i care about doing is making sure that the next generation of san franciscans don't end up tomorrow's homeless people in san francisco. i want to make sure that we open the doors of opportunity that did not exist when i was growing up in san francisco. as i said, i lived in public housing, and what we saw, you

know, the drug dealing, and everything else, that was normal. we didn't know what was going on downtown other than there was some buildings down there, and every once in a while, we could go to macy's and get a pair of shoes. i want to make sure we have paid intern opportunities for students here in san francisco, and i want every company doing business with san francisco to pay for them. i want every company to offer 100 slots where the employees of all of these companies are really taking a role in being a mentor to support young people. like, these are not your kids but they are our kids, and we -- if we don't take responsibility for other people's kids, then we're going to continue to have problems time and time again. so we have to make everybody's kid our business by opening up our doors in these companies and

making sure that there are paid internship opportunities, that we are mentoring the next generation of engineers, software engineers and tech folks and mark benioffs and everything else, we have to take responsibility. so that's what i'm looking for is i'm looking for people to open the doors of opportunity for young people and to start being mentors to young people. and i'm going to make sure as mayor that we have paid internship opportunities for all high school students in this city. >> mayor breed, thank you for being at dream force. thanks for opening up your city to all of our trailblazer. we are grateful for being here, and i hope we all leave the city a little better when we depart tomorrow. thank you very much. >> just spend money at our hotels and restaurants. thank you.

>> good morning, welcome to the government audit and oversight committee for wednesday, september 19th. my name is jane kim, i serve as the chair of this committee, and today i am joined by supervisor vallie brown. unfortunately, aaron peskin cannot be in attendance today, as it is yom kippur, so taking a motion to excuse his absence. recognize the committee's clerk, john