and then we will be left just with the bubble letter. make sure you get the center part out of there. okay. we will touch it up. time for color. i chose yellow, orange, and red. yellow at the top, then the orange in the center, and i am making a stripe right through the center all the way across. last, my red, which makes a cool fade. time for the outline. unclenate's creative time. figure it out. now we are going to do a drop shadow. a shadow underneath each letter and to the side.

it is really going to give it a 3-d look. wow! great job. i bet you didn't think you could draw that. now you can draw bubble letters you can use it to draw things for your friends, cards. it is really useful. i hope you had a good time. i will see you next time on uncle nate's creativity time. ♪

>> shop and dine in the 49

promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e

community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery

for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful murals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local people will spend their money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪♪♪ ]

>> it was an outdoor stadium for track and field, motorcycle and auto and rugby and cricket located in golden gate park, home to professional football, lacross and soccer. adjacent to the indoor arena. built in the 1920s. the san francisco park commission accepted a $100,000 gift from the estate to build a memorial in honor of pioneers in the area. the city and county of san francisco contributed an additional $200,000 and the stadium was built in a year. in the 1930s it was home to several colleges such as usf, santa clara and st. mary's for

competition and sporting. in 1946 it became home to the san francisco 49ers where they played nearly 25 years. the stayed de yam sat 60,000 fans. many caught game the rooftops and houses. the niners played the last game against the dallas cowboys january 3, 1971 before moving to candlestick park. the stadium hosted other events before demolition in 1989. it suffered damages from the earthquake. it was reconstructed to seat 10,000 fans with an all weather track, soccer field and scoreboards. it hosts many northern california football championship games. local high schools sacred heart and mission high school used the field for home games. the rivalry football games are

sometimes played here. today it is a huge free standing element, similar to the original featuring tall pink columns at the entrance. the field is surrounded by the track and used by high school and college football and soccer. it is open for public use as well.

>> you're watching coping with covid-19 with chris manners. today's special guest is joshua arsay. >> an i'm chris maners and you are watching coping with covid-19. my guest today is joshua arsay. he is the director of workforce development at the oewdt city's office of economic and workforce development, and he's here today to talk to us an about the resource and services that are available to the recently unemployed or for people who are

looking for work. mr. arsay, welcome to the show. >> thank you. thank you, chris. thanks for having me. >> the pandemic has devastated large part of our local economy, and in particular the service sector, but i understand there are some services and resources available to help the recently unemployed and for people who are looking for work. could you talk to us a little bit about the worker's hotline? the city's resources to help people apply for edd unemployment insurance, and the right to recover program? >> absolutely. chris, as you said, the pandemic has had such an incredible impact on the local economy, and that's because we had to make the necessary public health steps and safeguards early on and several times throughout the pandemic when the surged and that has meant closures of businesses and loss of work for so many workers. the resources that you mention are critical. you mention the san francisco workforce hotline. that was one of the first

efforts out of our office in partnership with the human services agency to provide a live voice to those men and women who in the earliest days of the first shelter in place order wanted someone to talk to. we were all overwhelmed at the local level, state, and federal to answer the questions and a lot of people were really struggling just to get someone on the phone. and an email address or a voicemail is one thing, but we really found that people wanted to have someone that talk to. as soon as the shelter in place order went in place in mid march, we actually in our office stood up a hotline. we answer phone calls in seven different languages. if we can't get you live in your language, we will call you back in your language. organizations like mission, economic development agency, self-help for the elled elderly and help us with spanish, cantonese and mandarin. it is 415-701-4817 is the san francisco workforce hotline.

there is no question that we won't do everything in our power and ability to answer whether that's applying for unemployment and maybe not getting through with one of our partner. we work very closely with at the state edd to help deal with the historic demand for their services and unemployment benefits. we will help you create your account. we will help you log on. we will help you find out information as best we can about the status of your claim and your benefits. we'll do whatever it takes helping you access paid sick leave if that's available to you. referring you over to our training programs which i know is some important we want to talk about a little bit later as well. but with respect to programs like right to recover and other covid relief programs. not everyone is eligible for unemployment. that might be because they haven't worked long enough to accrue the benefits or one's immigration status or any reason at all, there are people that

fall through the cracks of the benefit. may not have access to paid sick leave or quality for other public assistance. the right to recover program which was introduced by supervisor ronen and partnership with mayor breed, our office, department of public health, will help get you funds to safely quarantine and isolate should you, god forbid, test positive and need help to make ends meet. we will provide some resources to help you with your stay. there is other funds there, again, and the way to access those information and access to those programs specifically is to call notline 415-701-4817. five days a week. 8:00 to 5:00. and we're ready to answer calls in seven different languages. >> what resources are available for somebody who's lost their job in, say, the service sector? what kind of train canning they get to move into a new industry? >> for the pandemic, we are foes kued and four areas -- we are

focused on four areas of opportunity. when we look at jobs that are available, we look at the availability of someonement coing from a nontraditional pathway into a good paying job that leads to a career. those industries identified were tech, construction, health care, and hospitality. you can get training today to go out to learn the skills that will make you a competitive candidate out there in the tech industry, which has had impacts, but is hiring now and we expect is going to grow once again as we re-emerge. city build, one of the flagship training programs for construction, opportunities with the building trades and construction through city college and union apprenticeship programs is available. our next class will start in february. we just graduated close to 40 participants a couple of months back and they are all out there going to work because construction hasn't been as impacted as other industries. health care will be essential, is essential today, and will be.

there is opportunity there is, again, through the website oewd.org. and hospitality initiative and talked about training hotel workers, training for restaurant and culinary experts. that work doesn't exist the same as it did before the pandemic. so right now there's opportunities to get some skills in the security industry, preparing for tourism once again, but really what we're doing with respect to hotel workers and culinary workers especially in partnership with labor unions is supporting those men and women who lost work to prepare to re-emerge. >> i know the city's job centers are still open, but i hear they're operating a little differently because of the pandemic. what can a job seeker expect when they get in touch with one of the neighborhood centers? >> right now if you go into one of the job centers, you're going to be at this time doing it virtually. you will be logging onto our website, oewd.org/jobsenters and

you can pick one of the different sites. you can call, go online, you recollect email. we've got a jobs board we put out every week from our office. you can sign up and you can even on our website sign up to get that list of all those opportunities of employers that are hiring. when you go to the job center, you will learn about opportunities to train. we have talked about the opportunity to train in technology, construction, health care, or hospitality or elements where there still is opportunity right now. you will learn about those opportunities and more than anything you are going to get a sense of resources that may be available. some assistance as we mention around accessing unemployment and other benefit programs, covid relief funds you may be eligible. the most important thing is just to connect whether it's calling the workforce hotline, whether it's logging on with the job center. the most important thing is to stay connected with us so that we can do whatever we can to support you.

so you can go to oewd.org/job centers. spelled just like it sounds. and access one of these seven great organizations and whether it's young community developers, meta in the mission, over in the omi lakeview, inner city youth, self help for the elderly. and central hospitality house and tenderloins, south market, or the western addition success center are great organizations to start with. a lot of the work will be virtual right now simply because of the realities of covid-19 and not being able to get together and do the work. but the work is happening. >> well, that's great. finally, let's talk about the recent stimulus bill. what measures were included to help workers with covid-19 relief? >> one of the really important steps that our partners at the human services agency did was to work with the mayor and our office to relaunch and expand the jobs now program.

jobs now is a weight subsidy program and certain workers and can have access to wage subsidy to help pay the wages with an employer who commits to bringing on that individual and going to work. i bring that up because that was a very early stimulus strategy during the last great recession under president obama's leadership. and we're really hopeful in the early days of the new administration we might similarly see a scaling up of that investment. there is something else that we're really excited about that is going to happen with the federal government that will impact and benefit san franciscans, and that is in the last year we were able to get some resources, some national grants to support dislocated workers who've lost their work in particular industries with the state of california, edd office, we got a $1 million grant to support as many as 1200 laid off masconi trade show

convention center workers. close to 400 have signed up with the city build program to do a special training to get skills to transition into construction work. we have a similar grant with san mateo county and san francisco airport to support the thousands of workers who lost work at s.f.o. and there is a proposal in with the federal government as well to fund that through a retraining and support program to again support hundreds of workers that have lost work. we're very hopeful that we can continue to work to bring those resources to bear and support those san franciscans who need it, those worker who is lost work or struggling or getting ready to come back even stronger. >> well, that's very useful. you have given us some great information today, mr. arsay. thank you so much for coming on the show. awe thank you. thank you, chris. >> well, thank you, again. and that is it for this episode. we'll be back with more pandemic-related information shortly. you have been watching coping with covid-19. for sfgov tv, i'm chris manners. thanks for watching.

>> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco. south vanness runs from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and fresno in his honor. in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo.

in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. van ness avenue. >> >>[music]

>> i came in with her impression of what i thought it was good >> what i knew about auditing with the irs spears i actually knew nothing about auditing >> in my mind it was purely financial. with people that audited the pain no one wants to deal with it >> now i see a lot of time explaining auditing is not just about taxes. >> oftentimes most students believe that auditing is only financial whereas when they come into a government environment we do much more than financial audits. we do operational audits that were looking at the operations of the department for economy and efficiency and effectiveness. >> when i hire an intern some of the things that i am looking for first of all is is this individual agile and flexible because i am our environment is so fast-paced and where are switching from project to project depending on what's going on in the government at any given time. >> primarily i didn't with

audits on utilities management across city departments. >> citywide this ods management audit was also been assisting with housing authority audit program >> the homelessness audit >> the it functions >> [inaudible] >> were starting any water on the department of public housing environment allows >> i also assist with the [inaudible] program. >> then additionally i really enjoyed having staff who have some critical thinking skills. because i believe the basis of auditing is not do you know how to audit, but to have critical thinking skills [inaudible] >> [inaudible] even though i've only been here for short time our quick in-depth analysis and research >> analytical skills there's a

lot of taking enlargement of information a compacting it a very concise report because we've a big focus on [inaudible] if you're transmitting this information to the audience you need him to be able to understand it. >> so i work with the sparrow program primarily. broadway stan abused [inaudible] they prepare me for full-time employment because i knew i could not to challenge myself in order to be an auditor. >> at the [inaudible] we are a content feedback and communication and they pointed out areas where i need to grow. >> one of the things i like about working at [inaudible] is that they actually give you quite a bit of autonomy i feel like kevin sage trusted me. >> the environment really [inaudible] to everyone feeling super collaborative and wanting to get to know one another. which i think at the end of the date is a better work environment and gives you a better workflow. >> i believe that a really is

a great experience because it provides an opportunity to have a better understanding of how government works. >> i think what i've learned so far is that every audit is unique everyday. different learning opportunities. >> the recordation we make in on its i can honestly go home at the end of the day and zack and treated [inaudible] in a better way. >> even of not familiar with what auditing is you should deftly find out. it's been really really awesome he was it turns out there's a whole world of auditing that i cannot open file oriented performance and [inaudible] and that's an exciting. audit is a lot broader than i ever knew before. >> good afternoon, welcome to the remote hearing for thursday february 25th. the mayor declared a local state of emergency related to