several different coalition meetings for statewide coalitions on what -- we will do something now about pg and e. we will do something now to block the bailout and we will do something now to reform the cpuc and previous reforms of the cpuc included breaking up the cpuc so that it becomes part -- part of it goes to a telecom agency, part of it deals with the electricity problem, and then we take the transportation staff that the cpuc unfathomably it is in charge of, and i -- to evolve that to local control. if you can be proactive about that, 2019 is probably going to be our opportunity. there probably will be a bill driven by the advocates and a couple of good legislatures to reform the cpuc and that's our opportunity to say enough of

this nonsense. we will bring it all back to local control. please have that on your radar and on your agenda so we can get on top of that. thanks. >> thank you very much. public comment is )-right-parenthesis can you please call item number 5? i'm so sorry. i did not say or see you there. >> if we could direct staff to add any cpuc reform regarding transportation to our legislative watchlist? >> that's a good idea. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. public comment is now closed. can you please call item number 5? >> for the record, no action was taken on items three or four. >> thank you very much. >> item number 5 update on request for proposal for legal services. >> i believe our attorney is excusing herself and i believe mr goebel has a presentation.

>> this will be brief, commissioners. i'm happy to report that the r.f.p. process for legal services is starting to wind down. our evaluation panel is meeting next week and i anticipate that we will have a final push finalists selected in the next few weeks. we will then of course, enter into a contract negotiation once the process is complete. we have some strong candidates. >> commissioners, any comments or questions? thank you, brian. okay. as their public comment on this item? >> good afternoon, once again. brooks. san francisco clean energy advocates and californians for energy choice. it sounds good that there will be a choice made. i've said this a lot but i want to hammer it home that the more local that legal representation is, the more they will be accountable and buy in to getting our needs met. please make sure that that is a top priority in this selection

process. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. can you please call item number 6? >> just for the record, there was no action taken on item five >> yes. >> item six is the executive officer report aid, community choice energy summit and the budget update. >> thank you very much. >> commissioners, this week the community trace energy summit is underway in san francisco and i have been attending some sessions. i wasn't able to attend all of it because of my duties here. it is ongoing today and. clean power s.f. intern is there the most interesting panel i attended was a session yesterday on the pcia or the exit fee. what struck me in learning about how the pcia is arriving to that is there is no transparency whatsoever in how pg and he sets their rates to determine the exit fee. i'm still trying to understand

how all this works. one presenter pointed out that the p.u.c. chapter decision and process fails to address whether the costs are reasonable at all. summit also pointed out in a panel that ccas were created to stabilize energy markets and that this process impedes the ability -- the stability in the energy market. that conference, continues today and i will report more on that dust on it at the next meeting. second as i have provided you with copies of our latest expenditures as of november 15 th. so far this fiscal year, our expenditures are now around $73,000. i have, of course, started thinking about next year's budget and what division will be in the next fiscal year and even beyond that. i'm also trying to determine what our process should beef for figuring that out. i'm currently working on a two

page that maps out the future of the company, and i'm very interested in getting all of your input on that. >> colleagues, any questions? thank you very much. no action needs to be taken on that. public comments, please. >> good afternoon, again, commissioners. sorry, but there so much. we haven't been here in a while. there is a lot to cover. on the community choice piece of the report, one thing that i'm really excited that the whole state is rising up and getting angry about pg and e. there is one thing we need to be careful about. there is a lot of demand right now for california to just take over the electricity grid. that is a desirable long-term goal. there's a lot of talk about, let's just make sure that we don't shift costs from pg and e. to the customers, which is important, and if we do that,

they will go bankrupt and he'll be cheaper for us to take over pg anti. that. that is not necessarily true at all. and i want to remind folks and the public that when we created a community choice in 2002, part of the reason we created it that way is so pg and e.e. and utilities would retain control and the expenses of the wires and the transmission and we could move rapidly as possible working on only energy generation and energy purchasing to make sure that california, through community choice programs, which are booming right now, specifically builds enough clean energy and efficiency fast enough to deal with the crisis we are seeing that is currently burning down california. and if we were to make the grab right now within the next year or two to make california a public power agency, that would slow that down. we would have to buy pg ne's

system and the other utility systems. we would have probably a lot of legal debate. the cost could be anywhere. if you look at public power agencies, a lot of times they are not as aggressive on clean energy. we have spent the last two decades getting community choice in place. it is about to serve 80 5% of the customers, and it is building renewables fast. we need to be careful on that and not to derail it. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. no action needs to be taken on that. can you please call item number 7? >> his public comment. >> would any members of the public like to come forward,. >> one more. [laughter] >> we need to talk about

legislation. 2019, as i said will be a very important year and advocates are angry and moving to pushed forward to. i mentioned cpuc reform. it is definitely going to be on the table if advocates have anything to say about it. the top priority right now is no bailout. that needs to be a strong focus. there will be a bill to that effect and we need to be very proactive about guiding the board of supervisors and guiding the s.f. p.u.c. to oppose any bailout and make sure that the costs of the wildfire liability is directly on the corporation and its stockholders, because if it isn't, they will not have any incentive to prevent forest fires. it will be just like the bank bailout where the banks have no incentive whatsoever not to creat just crash our economy because they know we will just pay for it. we can't do that with the wildfire. there is also an important piece

of legislation that probably will be put up again, we have a lot more activist energy behind it. that is on transmission access charges. be looking for that. clean coalition will be the driver of that bill. what it will do, right now, for all of this excess transmission that we don't need that we pay for, we pay, at the customer metre for transmission charges. that is not good to. a lot of times, that is buying energy that comes locally. the customer metre is not where we should pay for transmission access charges. we need to pay for app at the substation where there is real transmission coming in. so this bill will switch those charges up to the substation and that will make it cheaper to get local renewables built because we will no longer have to locally pay for transmission charges that aren't used. >> thank you, very much. >> public comment is now closed.

>> my doctor's school -- i had to pick it up. i'm so sorry about that. i wanted to echo commissioner pollock and asked that we keep any bills related to the pg and e. bailout on our watch list as well. >> can you please call item number 8. >> item number 8 would be future agenda items. >> are there any future agenda items,? >> this is restating what we've already stated in the meeting. i just wanted to be clear that i wanted it as a future agenda item and i will defer to the chair on scheduling which meeting it goes to. but just to make sure that they are adding, as an agenda item a special study that will builds on the report that will model the sydney plan.

we can think of a better name for this agenda item at a later time, but essentially, that is what i am looking for and that it also be included in our budget discussion when we look at the next fiscal budget. thank you. >> thank you very much. is there any business, other business for us today? >> that concludes our business -- public comment. >> public comments. i'm so sorry. >> hello again. one little comment on this. this is something i've said before but we need to make sure we are hammering at home. biomass is not a good way to do renewables. the sydney plan has a lot of biomass and biogas in it. it is very important. that plan was written before battery storage became competitive with coal. and so now the battery storage is being competitive and especially renewable projects

that are combined with battery storage, it's very important that the sydney plan -- the sydney plan is awesome, but that part of it is not awesome. when we develop our plan, we need to make sure we replace the biomass and biogas with things like battery storage and efficiency and demand response because biomass and biogas actually, especially in the short term, make the emissions go up. if you look at the intergovernmental panel on climate change report, they are saying we have a decade left to get our act together. we can't afford to play with the biomass. that is an injection early on of carbon that we shouldn't be putting in the atmosphere. it's very important as we move forward with this plan that we ask the contractors that we hired to do it to not to do biomass and biogas and to really focus on battery storage to replace that component. the purpose of biomass and biogas is just to make sure there is 24-hour reliable power

that is always on. battery storage solves that problem. the sydney plan was made back in 2013 or something like that. we are way beyond that now i need to get that component in. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> could you please integrate his comments when you are looking at scoping that out for us? >> i would be happy to do it. >> thank you. madam clerk, is there any other business for us today. >> that concludes our business today. >> our meeting is adjourned. thank you very much.

sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online,

it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to the bil

adjourned. >> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop & dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help

san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 my name is jim woods i'm the founder of woods beer company and the proprietor of woods copy k open 2 henry adams what makes us unique is that we're reintegrated brooeg the beer and serving that cross the table people are sitting next to the xurpz drinking alongside we're having a lot of ingredient that get there's a lot to do the district of retail shop having that really close connection with the consumer allows us to do exciting things we decided to come to treasure island because we saw it as an amazing opportunity can't be beat the views and real estate that great county starting to develop on treasure island like

minded business owners with last week products and want to get on the ground floor a no-brainer for us when you you, you buying local goods made locally our supporting small business those are not created an, an sprinkle scale with all the machines and one person procreating them people are making them by hand as a result more interesting and can't get that of minor or anywhere else and san francisco a hot bed for local manufacturing in support that is what keeps your city vibrant we'll make a compelling place to live and visit i think that local business is the lifeblood of san francisco and a vibrant community

>> this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your san francisco history used to be. >> we hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. >> even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. and they tell us that. >> you're going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something that's very, very good. ♪ >> the legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by san francisco

simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. it really provides for san francisco's unique character. ♪ >> and that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. >> i'm michael cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. ♪ the bakery started in 191. my grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. it is a small operation. it's not big. so everything is kind of quality that way. so i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. >> i'm leslie cirocco-mitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family.

♪ so we get up pretty early in the morning. i usually start baking around 5:00. and then you just start doing rounds of dough. loaves. >> my mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. after that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. ♪ you know, i don't really think about it. but then when i -- sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and we've been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. you know, that geez, we've been here a long time. [applause] ♪

>> a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. we all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco

hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy's joint. tommy's joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. tommy's is a place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the

same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important. ♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings

them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco. >> it started in june of 1953. ♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. the business really boomed after that. >> i think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of san francisco. we were really surprised about

the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. businesses come and go in the city. pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and there's so much competition. so for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. >> we got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. she was our customer in 1953. and she still comes in. but she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that we're carrying on our father's legacy. and that we mean so much to so

many people. ♪ >> it provides a perspective. and i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, you're missing the context. for me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. >> i just think it's part of san francisco. people like to see familiar stuff. at least i know i do. >> in the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommy's joint and looks exactly the same. we haven't change add thing. >> i remember one lady saying, you know, i've been eating this ice cream since before i was born. and i thought, wow! we have, too. ♪

>> well, thank you all. we are going to start. welcome to the bristol hotel. my name is randy shaw. i'm the director of the tenderloin housing clinic. see, i wasn't -- see, i thought, i didn't prepare remarks. why don't we keep people moving in the door here. thank you all for coming. it's really a special day because the bristol is a special property. i don't know that a private bath hotel that would be for lease for formerly homeless people, and the bristol hotel, i would say half of these rooms are bigger than any of our 21 other hotels that we lease. it's big rooms, quality hotels. right where you're going to

take a picture, there's going to be a kitchen installed. it's in the building department now. i want to give some background how we got to this point. i think it's important to realize that when we met with the owner to do the hotel, we agreed on a certain price, but then, there was a private donor who was willing to pay more. i contacted mayor breed the day after she was elected. it took a while, because she was busy and i was out of town. i got together to see what we could do with the property. a lot of people would say hey, we don't have that money in the budget. we can't get into a bidding war with private developers. but that's not what mayor breed said. jeff buckley was with me.

she said, do whatever it takes to get that hotel. i said okay, mayor. i called bill, the owner of the hotel. i called bill, and i said bill, look. we can offer to pay a little more. mayor breed said she really wants the hotel. i'll tell the private people we don't want to use them, this is the key thing where we get mr. bennioff involved. we had an agreement, but we had no funding source for the hotel. so time was passing, and i'll let the mayor pick up the story, but i got a text one friday at 6:00 from mayor breed, saying i got the money for your hotel. and i'll let her tell you -- i'll have her tell you how she

accomplished it because it was no small feat. with no further adieu, mayor london breed. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, randy. it's really exciting to be here today. when we have an opportunity to provide housing like this to so many people who we know are living on the streets, we have to do whatever it takes to get access to this housing. and so when randy and i talked about this in my office, and he told me this was a newly renovated hotel that could provide 58 units of step-up housing, i just got super excited because this doesn't come along every single day. so i started making the phone calls. and not everyone said yes, but mark benioff said yes as soon as i asked him about this project. as soon as he said yes, i

immediately called randy and said tell bill to hold off because we have a generous supporter helping us address homelessness here in san francisco. mark and lynn benioff have been absolutely instrumental for addressing these issues. thank you, mark, for being here today. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: well, we are here to celebrate this along with a number of other things i know we will be able to accomplish in san francisco to address what we know is a real crisis. we have 58 units of step-up housing which creates exits for people who are living in permanently supportive housing who are now able to live independently, and it will also create 58 vacancies in our existing supportive housing that can go to people who are in our navigation centers and who are in our shelters.

because of the activism of people like randy shaw in the tenderloin housing clinic and the generous support of mark and lynn bennioff, we are able to turn this into housing for formerly homeless adults. we all know there's not a one-size-fits-all. we all have a story of our own of challenges of people we have tried to personally hope. i work alongside jeff kozinski who manages the department of homelessness, and there's not a day we don't talk about people we are trying to help.

we know that this is no small task. it's been an issue in san francisco for decades, but through bold and innovative solutions, we know that we can make a difference in people's lives. it's not sometimes just housing, it will be supportive services, it will be shelter beds, it will be all that we need in order to address those issues because sadly, we do know that so many people who are struggling with homelessness are struggling with mental illness and substance abuse disorder, and those are challenges that we have to address in addition to providing a place, a safe, affordable place for people to call home. we know the voters recently approved additional funding to homeless programs, and i'm committed to clearing any additional hurdles that this funding may face.

but we can't stop. since july, we have helped 500 people overcome homelessness, and i am working to open 1,000 new shelter beds, this will clear the shelter wait list so that everyone has a place indoors. and our new one system, a central database tracking individual case management and responses is ahead of schedule in signing people up. we had a goal to reach about 2,000 individuals by the end of october. we are almost at 4,000 people in our one system, which is our coordinated system to try and track and help people out of w

introduce the man that's stepped up to the plate and made it happen for us, mark benioff. [applause] >> okay. well, make a little adjustment here. well, good morning, everybody. good morning. and to mayor breed and to jeff and everyone from the city, to randy shaw, and everyone from the tenderloin housing clinic, to all of our friends who are here, and our partners from these amazing n.g.o.s, like our good friend, tamika, larkin street, glide, catholic charities, so many of you who

are doing god's work, working on homelessness every single day. thank you for your work. we are ending the crisis of homelessness in san francisco. and we have a very serious crisis of homelessness in san francisco. everyone knows this is my number one priority. we have over 7500 homeless individuals on our streets, we have over 1200 homeless families, many with two kids each, and it is time to bring this to a close. that is why lynn and i are excited about this announcement, and we are thrilled to be making it today here with the mayor. this is an example of the difference that we are going to make with public-private partnerships, the city, business, philanthropy, and n.g.o.s. this is the path, this is the formula to bring homelessness

to a close in our city. when mayor breed, a champion of the homeless, knew that the bristol hotel needed funding for housing units, she swung into action. she contacted me, and i agreed that this is something we want to do. i glagreed to give $6 million towards improvement of the bristol hotel working to get out of homelessness. bras the because the experts tell us, and the medical research shows that when a homeless person finally gets a home, which is what it's all about, when a homeless person finally gets a home of their own, it's transformative. it's a catalyst for change. it's a reduction of all symptoms and all issues in

their life. and i'm told that these units are going to go to people who are living in lodgings where they have to share bathrooms. these people are on our mind, especially at this season of the year. that's part of what having a home is all about, the basic dignity that every person deserves, and that is why it is my number one priority for our city. randy said getting the call was lik like a miracle, but i'll tell you, when it comes to ending homelessness in our city, it doesn't take miracles, it doesn't take miracles, it takes money, and it takes a lot of money. so this is a solvable problem. there are programs that work. we have many great examples of programs that are working, like randy's program, like tamikay's

program. but we need a scale of these programs, and that is going to take a lot of money. that is why with the passage now of proposition c, the city will start collecting that money january 1. that is the miracle. that is the miracle that i'm so excited about. and a result of the campaign, we identified so many new ideas and so many new opportunities, like the partnership that brings us here today, and many others that we plan to announce in the coming weeks. bristol hotel is a preview, and this announcement here today, is a preview of what is to come because the city will finally have the money to do it. not just to do this, but to do so many other things that are on our list. it's the beginning of a whole parade of new investments to end homelessness in our city. and i want to make one final point. starting january 1, starting january 1, the biggest, the

wealthiest, the most important companies in our city, like mine, salesforce, the city's largest employer, will pay more, about one half of 1% of our revenue to help homelessness. that is very exciting. a lot more buildings like this are going to open up, a lot more shelters, a lot more services, a lot more capablities. that is very exciting. that is the miracle of this season, but that doesn't let anyone off the hook. it doesn't, in any way, absolve the rest of us. it doesn't absolve me, it doesn't absolve you from giving what we can and embracing our responsibilities as citizens and as neighbors. prop c doesn't replace philanthropy as today is evidence of. it complements it. that's why jeff tullio has

given $1 million to homelessness. that's why the chair of airbnb has given $5 million to homelessness. i challenge every c.e.o. in our city to join us, to join sales force, to join the city, to join all of our n.g.o.s as we work to get everyone in a home. join us in the wisdom of st. francis. st. francis, who is the name sake of our city, who said, it is in giving that we receive. that is why we are here, that is what we are doing, that is what we are committed to doing, so we all must be committed to restoring the greatness of our city. this is a san francisco that takes care of its people. it always has. this is a san francisco that is a fabric of tolerance and diversity and inclusion, but it is a city that is a fabric of compassion and love, especially

at this time of the year and especially when we look at our city's most neediest, when we walk down the streets and see our homeless and say wow, there through the grace of god goes i. thank you all for being here today, thank you, mayor breed, for your wisdom and your incredible work, and we can't wait to have this opened it up and getting it used for great order. >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. i do want to say, if you look at the actual practical effect, if mark benioff and his wife had not stepped up, they would have been renting these units out for $2,000 a month, as compare today the 50 -- compared to the 500 to $600 a

month. coming up, our next speaker, gail, who is a tenant in one of our other s.r.o.s, who has to share a bathroom. >> my name is gail seagraves, and i'm a collaborator at the s.r.o. and i'm a tour guide for the tenderloin museum, and i'm also very active in the community. but today, i'm here because i am so excited that the bristol will be opening soon as a much needed step-up hotel. i've been living at the elk hotel which is a supportive s.r.o. for over ten years now, where i have to share a bathroom, and i have to share a shower, and i've woken up many

times in the middle of the night because tenants have issues. and this is why this is so important for people like myself. when i came here to san francisco 12 years ago, i came here for a job. and then, life hit me hard, and the job fell through. and then, when i went through my savings, i had to stay in a shelter, and then an s.r.o. so after working on certain areas of my life, i became ready to move onto a more independent life, you know, where you can have your own rest room and a community kitchen and laundry, those simple yet very, very needed things for a person. not only that, but when people like me that are independent and can live independent when we leave, that will open up so many s.r.o. rooms for those on the streets, for those in

shelters. it's just going to be amazing. i have talked to anybody that would listen, i mean, anybody, that we need step-up hotels and it would just go right around and help everybody. so i am grateful to see this happening with the bristol, and this is a win-win situation with the homeless, and thank you for this opportunity, everybody. [applause] >> so the mayor and mr. benioff will be available to answer any questions, so we're concluding this event. and there will be a tour after you've talked to the mayor and mr. benioff, i'm happy to take people to some of the rooms. i want to give you that.

[applause] >> i moved into my wonderful, beautiful, affordable housing march 7th. i have lived in san francisco since i was two-years-old. i've lived in hunters view for 23 to 24 years now. my name is vlady. i use titus and i am the

resident commissioner for the san francisco housing facility. from the very beginning, this whole transition of public housing and affordable housing was a good idea. but many, many residents didn't think it would ever actually happen. it's been a life changing experience. and i'm truly grateful for the whole initiative and all those that work on the whole sf initiative. they've done a wonderful job accommodating the residents, who for many years have lived in delap tated housing. now they have quality housing. i was on a street where the living room and the kitchen and stairs. it wasn't large enough to accommodate. the children are grown. i had the accomplish of having a

dishwasher in my home. i really like that. [laughter] i really like not having to wash dishes by hand. we still do it from time to time. the mayor's office has been a real friend to us, a partner. we know that our city supports us. i love san francisco. just to be able to stay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, it's been a real joy. it's been a real joy..

>> my name is naomi kelly the single-story for the 775 i started with the city and county in 1996 working for the newly elected mayor willie brown, jr. not only the chief of staff a woman but many policy advisors that were advising him everyday their supportive and nourished and sponsored united states and excited about the future. >> my name is is jack listen and the executive director of a phil randolph institution our goal to have two pathways to sustaining a family here in san francisco and your union jobs are stroen to do that i have this huge way to work with the community members and i think i

found my calling i started in 1996 working for willie brown, jr. i worked in he's mayor's office of housing in the western edition and left 3 years went to law school of san francisco state university and mayor brown asked me to be the director of the taxicab commission and through the process i very much card by the contracting process and asked me townhouse the city purchaser and worked with me and i became the deputy administrator and . >> having trouble struggling to make ends meet folks will not understand what importance of voting is so we decided to develop our workforce development services after a couple of years offering

pathways to sustainable jobs. >> (clapping.) >> we've gotten to a place to have the folks come back and have the discussion even if participation and makes sense we do public services but we also really build strong communities when i started this job my sons were 2 and 5 now 9 and 6 i think so the need to be able to take a call from the principal of school i think that brings a whole new appreciation to being understanding of the work life balance. >> (clapping.) >> i have a very good team around me we're leader in the country when it comes to paid and retail and furiously the affordable-care act passed by 3079 we were did leaders for the healthcare and we're in support of of the women and support. >> in my industry i feel that

is male dominated a huge struggle to get my foot in the door and i feel as though that definitely needs to change this year needs to be more opportunities for i don't know women to do what tell me dream i feel that is important for us to create a in fact, network of support to young people young women can further their dreams and most interested in making sure they have the full and whatever they need to make that achieveable. >> education is important i releases it at my time of san mateo high ii come back to the university of san francisco law school and the fact i passed the bar will open up many more doors because i feel a curve ball or

an where you can in the way can't get down why is this in my way we have to figure out a solution how to move forward we can't let adversity throw in the