and it was not enough to be able to live here in san francisco. he could not live here. he worked and went to school and always was providing for other people and so many mentors told him this you know you gotta take care of yourself first it was not enough. it was not enough. his left week of his life i'm tired. i'm tired and sleeping outside. i have not showered i'm not myself. i'm not myself now. it is still he brought people in the center. tell jenkins to release the video of the tapes. because banco was this dangerous person i'm reading the comment and plaining to the mothers the step mother and birth mother of banco brown and the father i'm so sorry the nastiness the narrative than i are pinning about your son i'm sorry.

i'm sorry. i'm trying to do better. by all the young people y'all. please. open 2 hour drop in center. thank you for sharing your comments. that's okay. [screaming]. next speaker, please. welcome. can you lift this microphone. >> there you go. why i'm rick and i know some of you and supervisor rone -- i had the honor of cofounding the

navigation center and for many years i new julia when she was a teenager. will i'm comings a parent. as a community member. i might get emotional. last thursday i had the honor of doing a training out reach training at young women's screening center and met so many incredible commune organizationers and young leaders in the city. and you know -- thursday was the day this banco brown die exclude i got robbed of being able to engage with member young and had so much to offer i stand in municipality with this incredible group of people and implore you that you find justice for him however you can. and -- to finds resources to put in places like this i can tell

you i have never been in know organization that was so loving and full of life and so hope -- and leaving there as a commune organize exert someone on the shelter committee doing work for 20 years trying to create spaces that are safe. it hurts to have something so terrible help had it did not have to happen this child was innocent and a child of san francisco stands up against the policies and all of the crepe that is going on in the world especially in san francisco we need to lead the world it is in the safe for anybody in this world. thank you very much for your time please remember that when you are vote for policies and thinking about how we can create positive change consider your child it could be. thank you for sharing your comments.

is there another speaker? welcome. >> hello julie i sit up under you. your district. i'm one of the founder of your district. and i want to say, this city has so much resource so much organizations but they all get too comfortable in their own community. hi can't come out and do when i do. i get out and do my out reach. i'm up here fighting for housing with homeless. every chance i get. i fight for the homeless families. and it is trough. this city is a century. people come all over the united states to get here. they hear about the resource

here. but it is just really traj doe and sad. that you know -- what about one of my families and homeless family go up in there buzz they don't have no moncompetence get manage for their children special get shot down flont of kids. what you guys gonna do in you'll, y'all need to come up with new strategy for the city. stop giving the organization money and ain't about your people. help are us to help young people. our people of respectfully. thank you. welcome. >> hi. i'm jane i'm a member. why i want to read an article 25. regulation for private protection and security services.

section 1750, 19 drawing of hand guns. shall be unlawful for any armed guard high school in any place in the city of san francisco. to dra or exhibit other than in a hollister any gun sept in a lawful response in an aft roll pacific threat to person and or property. justice for banco brown. next speaker, please. welcome. hello i'm tory. can you make sure you are speaking right in. why i'm here as a commune member and also a licensed owner myself it is making no sense how

somebody can be hot in the become and no charges are -- given. but member was to break in my home and run out the back door and not shoot it is not making no sense. i'm here for justice and banco brown was my little cousin got reu noticed with him. we cannot condition to be oshg pressed. i know we have been grownup black this and that this is our land. you capitolize off us to the fullest. like we are the intyen this is issure land we other only people have been reclassified so many times by let's make it make sense this is our you are building apartments for techys to come in. we need a transitional youth center in the just for transpeople but for black

people, period. like every vacant building or space used to be a parking lot or used to are a commercial thing is not in an apartment building >> it is no space. god bring in outsiders in. and let's build and work and what we are here. we have to do better. with all us none of this would be like it is. let's not forget. >> thank you. i did not know banco brown i leave that to his friends and family members. i am disgusted by lack of leadership in the city.

be able to do this murder and paid to do this murder. you all are just as responsible if you don't change that is going on in the city today. i try to be involved in that is going on in the city i missed the part where private corporations are able to have ma lit why in the streets of san francisco. why was banco brown killed murdered over when. at wall greens shampoo and a bag of chips are you kidding me? and i want to see more here from you all today than the empty looks on your face and blank words. i want to see action. i want to see money to go to

where it needs to go to the youth i don't want the initial guard in the street was city because you are terified of youth? are you kidding me. youth that are being kids in the staechl trying to get shampoo and a bag of chips are hot down because of y'all's lack of leadership. step up if the plate if you are voted in office in the city and change something or like i cannot tell you guys what will come and you are not prepared for it. these need to change now. like literally now. and so i want to hear what you will do today to stop bringing the police and armed malitia and national guard to san francisco. welcome. jordan davis >> good afternoon. my name is injured an davis.

my pronounce she, her, they them. black lives matter; defunds the police. i find it sick brook jenkins. [inaudible]. banco brown a black transman. i know white girlfriend who is shop lift and they don't get killed. greed don't care about black and or transpeople. we need resolutions. the city needs to band [inaudible] most person low we demand housing, health care, reparations for the black community. frankly i don't care if this killing leads to riots luting and graffiti a life was lost and lives are more important of property. >> should resign don't care about gun violence. matt dorsey resign his building

and the white boy don't care. aaron peskin should resign he hates black and transappeal. engardio should resign [inaudible]. you all have blood on your hands i yield my time. f -- -- you! [screaming]. y'all got the blood on your hands my sister was not a bad person. she loved my kids. she was like they were hearse. she does not harm nobody. was no threat to nobody. she wanted change her life. last time i talked to her she said i promise i'm getting on check. then this happened. so -- y'all letting people go 3 and not holding people

accountable. did y'all know that. did you'll know this. repoe it. hips gun license cancelled since 20 felony temperature is 2023 why do you have a gun on you in >> why do you have a gun on you? >> we can expose this. the only thing you haveow is a baton that's the only thing that says is current. if you go to your firearms, which says cancelled why do you have a firearm? and cancelled since 2014? you got in 2012 and expired 2014 it is 2023. meaning your security business working under the table and did not care the reason [inaudible]. where is the backgrounds check. do a fake backgrounds check on my sister how was she steel with

a receipt. why was he carrying a gun with no license. make sense. do better for your people you fund governments but it it is not helping nobody. i'm still on the street. i have to find housing myself not through your i pay my rent i try to get help. when they tell me. come become this day. give us a call. give us a call. how many times do you want mow to cal y'all. should i die, too. y'all not sad you did not want to help me when i was here. stands upon for my twin. thank you for your comments. at the end wall greens should not have armed security guards. like. sir you have already provided

public comment. sir duff du already provide 2 minutes of public comment. 2 minutes per speaker. where there are others in line who have not spoken yet. we will recess. madam clerk. sfgovtv we ever

>> welcome. >> i'm andrea a community organizer with coleman advocateings we were here last week talking about police and the state of policing and the fact we had to bury another black young men in the streets. this is why we stay that police and the active policing is in the the answer we need to hold people accountable this is senseless acts of violence our communities endure and the fact we are here and have to continue to be here and continue to showum for you'll to hear us and hear community had is when we say. we mead communities in the tables. y'all mode to get become to the communities to get the answers answers is not police or the state of policing or getting people weapons at a wall greens. people need their needs met.

the fact we are here for someone killed over a basic need is ridiculous. it is side we are a rich city and people are getting killed for these things. justice for banco brown and all the black boys and girls killed here. listen to community we are here to need the answers y'all are giving the police millions of dollars and -- taking monfrethe community and youth. that is ridiculous. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. say his name. [screaming]. say his name. [screaming]. >> f-all you all y'all are f-ing

pigs. i'm tired and tired of opening social media and seeing black and brown bodies shot. seal thrown in yes, i will and mental institutions. y'all are not doing shirt! we have been criminalized since babies. police are in our schools. police walk freely murdering black and brown indigenous, transpeople. this is our land and y'all are pigs all y'all. i'm here with my sister from the young women's freedom center and we are here on behalf of banco brown. he deserves justice. say his name! [screaming]. says his name. [screaming]. thank you. you believe okay. you get 2 minutes. hello i'm emily ramirez i'm a

student of uc berkeley i will one day take your seats and will be protecting and keeping my community safe, i am here with the young women's freedom center on behalf of banco brown demanding justice of his life there is no reason that a security guard should be shooting a person that is trying to come across necessities. meanwhile we allow white men to come to our schools and murder our babies while they are learning that should not be happening. why is it more -- frequent our black and brown know communities are murder. you are not protecting the children in schools of america. thank you.

i'm sympathizing with the young peoples. i have been where they are now. they're need your guys support. they are homeless. some can't gettion and than i can't get housing. the proposal that walton made prior to this conversation coming up i think you guys should open this and make sure the houses in the port are have been continue but we need homes for the young kids. who don't have the opportunity i'm a homeowner a property taxpayer. i owned my home for over 50 years. if i want to today to bea home i could not beone. i paid 30 thousand dollars for my home hi bought it and over i million dollars now. i could not afford to live in san francisco. you know what i'm talking about. okay. these young peoples who goes to

school and get out and can't find a job and cannot find is a problem. you know these are my grand kids and kids. and i feel for them. i know you foal for them. the one thing i got up here to say and i have to skip over some of this. i came here before asking you guys to put a monument up on -- coit tower in honor of nancy pelosi i wish you guys do that take that under strong consideration hen a peeshg of the house and give a lot of money become to the city and done a lot for this country. as speaker and i think she deserves that. at the same time i want to go become. fight for the young peoples. they are coming up with hearts heavy. you know i mean in my days in

the 60's. >> thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. [screaming] next speaker, please. [inaudible] former girlfriend of banco. first i want to say y'all robbed us of a beautiful soul. and [inaudible]. he lost family that's how they died i laid in the bed with that man tierce crying because he felt abandoned by people.

had no help. upon he did i upon promise we'll get justice banco. [screaming]. >> i hear black lives matter one time. >> [screaming]. his name?

[screaming]. is there another speaker, please? come on up, sir. was it this one. sorry. i'm nervous. i'm sean have been a long time residents of dean's district. appreciate you paying attention to us. when i heard about this murder, i was horrified that this could happen here not only it happened here our own police department our chief of police said that this was wrong and arrested him. how do we live in a situation where our own police department acknowledges this is murder and we have an ash pointed da let this man walk free along with the machine that murdered ketoo'neil i don't understand

why we need more of this why do we need armed military people in target and wall greens. i mean, i have talked to security officers. they said on the receiving end of having member they prefer less loathal. we don't need guns to protect our retail if i could may i yoeld my time to the gentlemen. no, you cannot. i yield. thank you. >> another member of the public who has not provided comments? step up. [screaming] should be no police in any building in the federal. if in the a school or a bank if it is not anything like that a corporate building should not be armed security guards period.

>> thank you. that's what i was trying to say. [screaming]. >> all right. ma'am, you have provided 2 minutes of public comment. thank you. why is there another member withhold like to proride comment? you can return next tuesday.

thank you for sharing your comments. [screaming]. thank you for sharing your comments is there another speaker? welcome.

>> good evening i don't know if you guys expected this. situation. to me i cannot be sensitive to somebody die it is clear. i did not know the guy i have no clue the situation is but it is wrong. this isson orchestrated situation this makes you want to bear responsibility to let you know, guys, now you are even more the target of the system to prevenn you to act. we are talking about a [inaudible] you have to when you we are talking about safety. that's enough we talk about responsibility. with responsibility come safety. it is through irresponsibility. that happens. makes sense. whatever the way you intercept

responsibility because lawyer differences. will same feels. responsible for safety. we want to think about technology next time of important. the way technology unsafe. try to put a directive. for fam to say using a cell phone buzz it is addictive it becomes unsafe in a way as others for social behavior and health. the it is important because it links hutalk about safety. the concept of safety. responsibility. people who bring safety that is because they are irresponsible.

i don't know you know what happened today. the careful the way you deal with it. i think so. thank you for sharing your comments. thank you. sir, can i ask to you speak up or peek in the microphone. [inaudible]. [cannot hear speaker] i thought

you could hear me. okay. i like to see the ordinance this prevents chain retailers from moving in neighborhoods repealed. now given the there are many empty store fronts over here i see new ones and businesses um basically emptying out prevents chains from moving in those store front and want to fresh the character and the neighboring increasing the foot

traffic the stores are close said they will have people walking in the streets >> thank you. anyone else in the chamber withhold like to provide comment. we will move to the remote call in system. do we have a caller there are 13 listen and 5 who are lined up. welcome. hello? >> welcome. mr. decosta:supervisors open up your eye and your hearts. we don't have this type of the game for our youth.

don't play with the youth you play with the youth you play with fire. and some of you'll the way y'all behave you don't have a soul. if your hearts are not in the right play, there is no way you get anybody to a better place. and today the youth have spoken to y'all. they have suffered a lot. could have in here earlier. if you don't do something about this situation you will bring it up on yourself. that's not [inaudible] year ago. i was the first to rise [inaudible]. i was the first to rise about mario. i know it. some of y'all sit on there and

as though you were privileged. that job is to represent the people. the city of san francisco. had y'all have done is indirectly brought up on shame on the entire city and county of san francisco. think about it. >> thank you very much. thank you, mr. decosta. next speaker, please. welcome, caller. hello? yes. >> hello >> we hear you. >> you can hear me now. >> yes, we can. this is the first time you trying to use this system. because i'm senior disabled not

able to come down there but i have a very serious complaint. i with united health care and anthem blue a couple of times before and i go back and forth those other only 2 this give us heck in san francisco. they promised us transportation to and from our medical doctors for preventive care. they don't provide it. february of this year i missed 2 appointments. i go on well and make the appointment and stay on the line and make the appointments. thinking they will sends you a ride they sends you uber and lyft at the last minute. uber exert lyft don't wait for senior disabled people. they are mean and e vil and the last 1 in february go to my

doctor, she called me threatening me that in i was not witting on the street she would cancel my ride. so hostile i cancelled my own ride i am not gets in another uber and lyft with another hostile driver that a couple years ago one took me exit rhode 3-4 block and threatened to put me out there. that is not what medicare pays for. they get the money but don't deliver the services to give us healthy, safe rides. please. they are killing me i can't plan my care. for my heart and digestive system for my kidney i can't get the care. please, please all of you, it does in the matter what district all of you be on this. make sure blue and united

provides us health care say they will. otherwise they falling the state of california. thank you, make. can you hear mow. >> hi. i'm sarah. i'm [inaudible]. my name is sarah a san francisco resident. and [inaudible]. but i'm here to press the same with folk who is are supporting banco brown as well as the folks talking about reducing the spending going to police.

i'm disturbed boy this killing. it seems again and again, black folk and queer and transare killed by police. if you ask anything on the ground armed security guards don't keep us save what kiests us safe are services access to food and health care all things you have funds. you are bank rolling the police department to get over time pay every other department is taking cuts. it is disturb to me as a residence denial of san francisco. justice for banco brown i'm disturbed by da's decision to remove all the charges. against banco brown's killer and

i think that even our security guards have accountability and you all should be ashamed of yourself this is helping and that someone was murdered over a sandwich in your city. i'm ashamed you should be it is disgusting you hope you take this to heart and get in touch with the commune and figure out how to prevent this from happening. thank you.

seem in the united states and in san francisco you like the u ylang ukrainians more than your black residents. a dog's life is respected more than our human lives. the city failed that discipline and hold people accountable the harm they commit against black people. i success you look at genesis 15. . 13. it is again interesting that those who kill others no justice or peace. power to my people and just for banco brown. thank you.

next speaker, please. good afternoon i'm sheryl thornton and a san francisco resident i'm calling on behalf of yesterday for banco brown. san franciscouneified school district failed black and brown children the worse educational out come in california there leads nounder or no inspect and a lack of housing there is no way in this city that be riches city and counsel in california that black youth are unhoused banco brown was unhoused for 10 plus years this is disgusting and something needs to be done this it is a human right's crime and we need to do better by our

youth all youth. black, brown, asian or white. we mead to do better for all of them. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello. good afternoon. i'm stein torres i serve in the lbgtq+ cultural district. it is painful to hear another transwas murdered. this is not an anomaly it is over people the 24 hour wall combroen in the castro. supposed to serve our people, transand queer people are contransplantly harassed by the employees at that wall green

this is is harassment routine in night live community with lbgtq+ and otherwise, are supposed to be a safe place [inaudible]. it is not clear why armed security are necessary at wall greens. leadership appointed orb elected must be accountable to the people. thank you. >> thank you commissioner torres for your comments. next next. >> hi. once again [inaudible] shown us that she has no intention of standing by victims of police violence. this is not the exception the pattern. for those of you on the board who have supported her are you surprised in baz the da does holding police or security

guards accountable we turn to you to manage. how many more black lives lose before we see policing does not work. most of you voted pass the police budget supplemental in march how did that over turn money to prevent the transgender deal and murder of an innocent person? we need to see the murder of black and translives to outrageous crimes more important than a petty theft. wall greens security guard should not have the power to take a life. what are you as the board of the city that prides itself on progress going to do? san francisco is failing black youth and transyouth and manage needs to change today. justice for banco brown. >> thank you.

for your comments. all right. next speaker, please. caller? >> hello >> welcome. >> boycott wall greens. everyone had. that's all i have to say. thank you for your comments. let's hear from our next caller, please. wow. that was interesting today. huh. du hear community. it is a san francisco. got hot up in there. what can you say a young man was banco was shot in the back, right. is that how it goes.

why are we having armed security guards. we have been knocking on the doors, london, jenkins city pattern anyone for information. please? i don't know what the hesitation is. we need our city back. clean up work -- newsom and all them guys doing with the national guard are not working. we need everybody's participation start over. upon the works. just leave our city and give us a piece we got it from here and got the ideas we will not share the ideas. just leave your keys out the door and become at your desk. don't let the door hit you while you leave. 200 die friday january first of

20 tea to april first of 2023. this is a record of san francisco. and [inaudible]. on you guy and london breed's legacy. 200 people in one quarter died on the streets of od. we know how to 56 it you have no idea how to fix it we know. brown act law -- first amendment exercised today this is good. leave, just get the keys over to the community we got it. this is gloria bari from district 10. i'm calling first of all to -- reiterate how the chilling banco brown brings continuous hrm to the black communities.

our on going harm boy this city is just is traumatic. it is [inaudible] and its something this we are all feeling if you are a black person in san francisco. yesterday, i attended my supervisors town hall on budget. and he put as a priority that there will be reparations. i hope that all supervisors especially the withins who like to kneel when it miss to killing of black people in other states i hope that you will start caring about the black people in san francisco and put in budget rep rigz to repair the hrm we are continuing to experience. i also hope you are encouraged other departments to include

this in your budget ask. this is very painful for our community. and until we do some bold repair and -- change. policies. and stop supporting va that don't care about us, it will get worse that , is all. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. . hi. i'm amalia a san francisco residents and calling to express anxiety and disappointment and ridge our community lost banco brown. i'm tired of seeing news articles law enforcementing the businesses in the city. i feel like there were 20 articles put down about the closing of wall greens locations

and the fact we allow security guards to have arm system wild! that this city that y'all as a board of supervisors choose and fund policies allow us to arm security guards to funds the police. you don't fund safe housing. you don't fund affordable housing. you don't fund community health care. because our real community is taking care of your black transyouth not our security guard and over expanding the police budget and giving them over time. i want to see accountability you will fail banco for 12 years. fail to give him housing. failed to meet his needs. again arming wall green security guards to protect private propertiful rather than giving banco brown safety is

disgusting. >> thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. why next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm michelle. [inaudible]. i am very disappointed in our da. he is elected but clear not representing the will of the pep in this mobile homeful this is a failure on her per to do her job. and i condition believe that everything we have been through with black lives matter and stop asian hate we will continue to allow this to happen in our city. have we not seen enough people die? have we not suffered as a colored community? please, i'm beg our progressive

supervisors to use your voice and your power to bring justice for banco. this is unacceptable. i yield my time. next speaker, please. where are the human right's commissioners in all of this? [inaudible]. thank you for sharing your comments. good afternoon. i was a senior manager for

director attorney and i want to echo everything that has been express third degree hen a travesty and mestre fleckive of this travesty is both the security guards why do we and so much of so many parties involved lacking cultural competence in expressing just the basic saddam husseinsy in seeking justice. if this had come before the alameda da no way charges would have been dropped in 5 days. no. this should have been handled with her and they are absolutely has to be prove this this matter was not about self defense.

hello caller are you with us. i supports with the guard a knife was pullod him that machine was in fear of his life i human is hard for in to here but tht reality everybody who care about public safety face and frankly, quite fringely, wall green around san francisco has been hit with a lot of shop lifting and progressives mead to come up with a positive fwnd to deal with that instead of wine

about the brave security guard doing had he needed to do to come home at the end of the day. who is next the law enforcement deal with domestic violence and risk protection orderses in we know where i'm going with this. i'm going to say this. we are poseed address the body as a hole this body shown a lot of courage on gun violence reduction special it is commentable but there are times when in law enforcement has to protect themselves and i as one of the supervisor stefani fans will get on my behind leg and defend brave law enforcement to sherifed to protect xu this is necessary. or the police department or the security forces. there is another side this has not been told. i feedyield my time thank you to the sheriffs.

thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. i urge everyone to do good about what is the root cause to support the demitt to protect

and credit funding for afford okay house and supportive housing resources and release the roto the public. thank you for sharing your comments. . thank you for sharing your comments. >> hello. hello. >> miami turn >> welcome >> thank you. i'm [inaudible]. known the flower lady i robbery serving my community for 25 year in san francisco. i -- facing being homeless because i german guy who came to the city and bought my building it is [inaudible] nothing i could have done. he worked for apple and see over

and over again how the city leaves the priority to people like what and people like the ones they want to run away the [inaudible] public 99 community work. i am a mother of 2 children. and i'm called the momlet low in san francisco of men kids they are there right now. i [inaudible] this kill suggest insane. it is 10 years he was shot 50 times and his body. recognize and nothing has been done about that. the boys who was working with

the commune to take kids out of drugs. this is insane. this is insane! that our children are being killed over a footworking sandwich buzz he has no home and no food. and for you guys to give more money to people who have aways to kill our childrens is saying it is insane that -- it is dead now. and nothing to be done to bring him alive. but to come and let this guy who killed him free that is. thank you for your comments this afternoon. next speaker, please. >> yes. good afternoon. this is peter warfield library

user's association. library users 2 where are 04 @yahoo.com. we work to have better libraries for everyone. and certainly interested in had is going on in san francisco. in san francisco there is continuous advertising for social media. facebook, gram gram and so on and so forth in their among low fag mag wreens not all publicity. for no reason other than an advertisement recruit am effort possible low to get people it go on to get information about the pleasure. the selling of a project.

which has many problems social problems and francis we robbery talking about her testimony. a high person. profits over safety and now something else. we have a high official at google quitting. and expressing grave concerns to the new york time and win up elsewhere. serious dangers of misinformation. there is no warning about any of this stuff. with regard to what bad things happen to to sight and democracy and information in general. library needs to do something.

thank you very much. why thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello my name is [inaudible]. and upon i'm call nothing to say that it is disissue pointing once again member had it lose their life over stuff. i don't get it people are stuck on stuff. why scared of somebody black in is that the black person's fault

because member else feels scared and he has the right to kill us in i think -- all this needs to be looked at. it will lead to a bunch wrong in the city. it will heightening the feeling and it is difference between people and you don't help the city. by causing the frictions. this is -- this is like the da creating restrictions between peopleful i don't know and it intentional or not. doesn't matter you meant to do that's had you did. i hope that they fix it. and corrects this. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. justice for banco brown we want the video release third degree

is a human right's crime. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. another caller in the queue in this would not happen if this was a white person we than. what is his name. everybody what is his name! say it aloud! please! justice for banco brown inform upon and do we have another caller in the account.

i'm calling to say i'm so sad that banco brown. the security guard officer shooting member in a wall green. wall greens has a pharmacy. and notice a security guard who shoots somebody over trifrngets and the security guard does not state they need to carry a gun or weapon. not fair to shoot somebody over trifrngets over somebody's life this is horrible.

and it is horrible when jenkins said. it states black lives, black translives don't matter in san francisco. it does not matter over several things you don't shoot somebody over material things over propertiful he deserveed have a full life. and this type of justice is horrible and should be ashameed in to cut come and tell throughs is no charges this is absolutely horrible. thank you for your comments this afternoon. mr. lamb any other callers in the queue? this was our last caller. mr. president. public comment is closed. clothesil rerefer to roll call

for introductions. criminaling yesterday is not my area of expert ease and prit and apart from the public comment we heard today. in so as far as everas far as the kellying of banco brown. occurred in the third supervisor district at 825 market street last week i'm familiar with a number of the details of that case. obviously the loss of life is tragic. but i'm deeply concerned based on my conversations with law enforcement by the district attorney's decision not to charge. at least manslaughter. i think it is important that the members of this board as well as the public know the details that i know at a minimum that should

be subject to public knowledge and scrutiny. and i am inclined to have this board through formal action ask the district attorney to reconsider and reexamine that decision which i was struck i know various individualos this board were taken aback by my staff was quite taken aback by last night. it is very river that legislative branch weighed in individual case by case decisions of the district attorney. but if you hear the details i heard, at a minimum this appears to be a man lawsuiter case to this non[inaudible] and if i did practice luit would be criminal but i don't. i will be calling for that and that will come before the board in a form or fashion.

but i appreciate the expressions of heard from every one. you and does bay reexaminingation by the district attorney and i am submitting an memory for banco brown. >> supervisor walton. >> thank you, president peskin. i do want to state for the opinion that to everyone who came in and gave public comment today. this you don't have the right to execute someone because you have i gun. and you don't have the right to execute someone for shop lifting. and so i stand behind president peskin's statements. the da should be charging in this case. because this person from everything that we know as of now was not threatening or in a position to harm -- the security guard this had a gun.

and -- you cannot go around shooting people just because you don't like an okay they may have taken. we don't need those folks work nothing our stores or businesses. and this is not the first time where someone cowardly shot someone unarmed. we cannot accept things like that happening in our city. i hope we get the release of the video. as soon as possible. but i do stand by the fact that -- you don't have a license to kill machine because they shop lifted. if this is even what has taken place. >> supervisor ronen on rereferral. >> i wanted to thank everyone who came out and -- thank the young women's freedom center and

give them my deepest condollence and love for this huge loss. and just say how much we are grieving with you i know that banco was a beloved member of your organization. you are an organization that i worked with so close low and i have so much deep respect for and i want you to know we heard you. we were all listening all of us. and i thank you for coming and making the powerful statement that you made today. it impacted mow at my core and i appreciate you for doing that and i also send you all your members the family and banco brown's family my deepest love and condolences. supervisor preston. >> thank you, president peskin

and thank you supervisors robe sxen walton for your words. i also. to thank the many members of community who came to public comment today to comment on the tragic killing of banco brown and demand some answers and my team has had staff at the rollys. you know outside of wall greens and joined with the protesters. the comments that were meated today you know so many levels the folks speaking out are correct. 91 of this makes sense. 91 of it adds up and i want to echo the comment supervisor walton made arnold releasing the vo tape. it makes no sense when the district attorney is making charging decisions around a

radio and making public statement when is is in a vo tape. the district tournament has this tape. as a lot of speakers noted. there is all kinds of wild claims on orb media and the media as often happens with really aloment of claims around the victim. and alop of things that could be resolved by public low release that tape. i extend my condolences to banco brown's friends and family and our office stands red to take what steps are necessary not to just address this killing but make sure this kinds of killing does in the occur in the future. thank you very much. >> supervisor safai for rereferral. >> i wanted to say quick low if

i could be added to the memory and make it from the full board. >> yes. you read my mind and thank all the commenters for coming out today and dpifing an opportunity for them to express their concerns and condition dolenses to the family. >> would you read the adoption referencical dar >> 41-45 introduced for adoption without reference to committee a unanimous vote is required today. any member may require a first read to go to committee >> anyone like an item severed. a roll call. >> supervisor stefani. >> thank you, president peskin i'm added an a coporns to item 44. >> shall be noted. >> supervisor engardio.

>> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. why aye. >> supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor ronen. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye >> supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> supervisor chan. >> aye. >> and supervisor dorsey. >> aye. >> there are 11 aye's. >> those resolutions are adopt exclude motion approved. today's meeting adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of supervisor ronen, for the late kingman young on behalf of president peskin the late kyle bradley reef and on the entire board of supervisors for the

late banco brown. >> we are adjourned.

>> welcome to the small business commission meeting on april 24, 2023. the meeting is called to order at 4:30 p.m. this meeting is held in person, in city hall, room 400 and broadcast live on sfgovtv and call 415-655-0001. the small business commission media services and sfgovtv for televising the meeting, which can be viewed on sfgovtv 2 or live streamed at sfgovtv dot org and we welcome the public's participation during public comment period. there's an opportunity for general public comment at the end of the meeting and there's an opportunity to comment on each discussion or action item on the agenda. for each item, the commission will take public comment first from people attending the meeting in person, then from people attending the meeting remotely. members of the public who are calling in, the number is 415-655-0001. access

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thank media services and sfgovtv for coordinating this virtual hearing and helping to run this meeting. call item one, please. >> item one, roll call. >> commissioner carter? >> here. >> commissioner dickerson? >> present. >> commissioner herbert. >> present. >> president huie. >> here. >> commissioner cartagena. >> here. >> vice-president zhou. >> you have a quorum. >> the san francisco small business commission, an office of small business staff, acknowledges that we are on the ancestral homeland homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san

francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land, and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> please call item 2. >> item two, board of supervisors, file 230313, skush side shared spaces permit and license fees. this is a discussion and action item. the commission will hear and possibly take action on an ordinance amending the public works and administrative code -- presenting, we have supervisor safai. >> thank you for coming today, supervisor. >> okay, good. good to see you guys. thank you, commissioners and president huie and did i say that right?

>> yes. >> vice-president zhou and all the rest of the commissioners for having me here today. executive director katie tang and staff. we wanted to talk about a proposal to eliminate the fees that are associated with shared spaces. one of the things you all know better than anybody because you're on the frontline and many of you have small businesses, businesses struggled over the last few years and many of them are still struggling and trying to hang on by a thread and so, we came with some proposals in the past. one was a rent relief program that we had put forward to the mayor. it was a request for over $25 million, so small businesses could pay their back rent. the mayor chose not to fund that initially and then finally, we were able to get $2.5 million. it literately, we have our director of small business, excuse me, director of of the office of economic and workforce

development, when they put that out, it was gone like that. and there's that demand and need out there as you know. so, we came after talking with many small business and many restaurants and cafes and others, when we heard the program was going to be implemented, they felt strongly the fees associated with this, somewhere in many businesses, it can be between ten and $20,000 just for the fees them self to legalize and to stabilize this program. that's not including the fees that's associated with rebuilding the spaces completely because now the city, ada, fire, building, planning, all the stuff you all already know, that is causing many of them to have to be completely rebuilt, so without these shared spaces, without these parklets, many of these businesses will go under

and we have heard that loud and clear and i know commissioner ortiz has been out in my district, in particular, talking to the small businesses and they have said, a, we won't pay because we can't pay. we don't have that cash and b, you're asking us to choose between money that we can help to keep staff that we can help reinvest back in the business and keep our doors open. so we saw this as a short-term small business stimulus. we think that it will be, have a significant impact and so, what we're proposing is, and you can see on the screen, for public movable and commercial parklets to waive the first parking space and any additional parking space fees associated with that and then on an annual basis, the annual fees will be still and people can, and at that point, pay the annual fee. so, that's what

we're proposing. we're waiting for the budget and legislative analyst to come back to us and give us a final analyst of the cost and this program is up and running and already operating and i think that the impact to the budget would be minimal, if any because there's not money already in the budget. this is money that will be realized going forward. so, we're -- looking for the bla and others to come back and tell us what the actual cost will be after talking to the departments, but again, we're framing this and we believe this is a short-term small business stimulus. we think it's better to keep the money in the pockets of small businesses rather them paying the fees to the city. so....that's my presentation. happy to answer any questions or hear any comments or constructive criticism. i know commissioners zhou likes to give me constructive criticism.

[laughter] just kidding >> thank you. let's see. commissioner herbert. >> thank you, i just want to say, first of all, thank you so much for even thinking about this because it's really important for all of san francisco small businesses, but specifically as a restaurant owner, it's really, really important that we get some of these fees waived. restaurants are, you know, a vital part of the health of the city's economy, as you know, and restaurants can also help with revitalizing areas which we badly need in this city and so, i would propose that you take it a step further and waive, not just the application fees, but i think the permit fees might be waived already for two years. >> i think those were -- that's the same thing, is that correct?

the permit fees are the annual fee? yeah. >> permit is one time and then, sorry, the license is every year, so i would -- i think it's waived for two years, if i'm not -- >> i think that's right. >> okay. and then i would raise the bar for restaurants in terms of annual revenue, also, because a lot of restaurants are in trouble even the ones that make more than $2.5 million, so, again, i want to thank you for that and i think actually we can do more. >> uh-huh. >> obviously, i'm a little bias, but -- >> no, i understand. just so you know, we did raise the -- with talking with the golden gate restaurant association, we did raise the gross receipts from 2 million to $2.5 million in this

legislation who would be able to be impacted. >> thanks again. really appreciate it. >> and i just want to say, we did work with the ggra on this. >> that's great. thank you. >> commissioner ortiz cartagena >> thank you, president zhou. president safai, thank you. i appreciate your commonsense, legislation, it works, you're hearing your constituencies and hearing everyone around the city. this is what restaurants and small businesses need in general, so i appreciate you for bringing this forth and the work you d you really reached out to the ggr a laurie thomas and thank you. i appreciate it. we need more. more, more, thank you. >> thank you. >> let's see. commissioner carter. >> oh, there we go. >> yeah. supervisor safai, i also want to thank you for this

legislation. it's really hard for small businesses across the board, so any support is, like, i think not only small business, all business right now in san francisco. and i think i'll echo what commissioner herbert said and taking it a step further because, is this fees waived for a first time parklet or -- is it just -- >> i'm listening. >> is it people for just getting parking for the first time? >> no, it's existing as well because right now, i think the fees haven't kicked in yet, so it would be -- >> oh! once it kicks in, they will have to potentially pay that one-time fee. >> uh-huh. >> okay. >> so, it would be for new and -- that's how we were contemplating. >> great. yeah. i would say extend it to the annual also, it would be helpful. >> okay! >> any other commissioner

questions or comments? i know, oh! no, no. go ahead, commissioner zhou. >> thank you, supervisor. i appreciate you coming before us with this. yeah, i agree the gross receipts threshold going up makes a lot of sense because, for those who don't know, the food business is a high grossing industry, but small margins, so high gross doesn't necessarily mean that's the profit. and i just wanted to ask two things. what's the timeline that you expect since you're waiting on kind of a budget and how can we support? >> so, we are -- because this was introduced and coming up close to the overall budget conversations, it might get folded into the larger budget conversations, but we're working with the chair to get information, at least accelerate it from the budget and legislative analyst to see the impact to the overall budget and there's some additional

legislation out there: there was another legislation that was first year free for a lot of business registration. this is similar in that sense because it's a one-time, you know, right, you're eliminating the initial fees for the parking spaces, which is similar to initiation fee for a business, so there's some -- there's some synergy between those two pieces of legislation, so we're hoping to move this sooner than the budget if we can, but it does have budget impact, so the timing of it might be folded into the larger budget considerations, which are happening in june. >> got it. >> when we do, we'll coordinate with you and let you know when it's finally scheduled and i believe it will be at the, it's an administrative and public works code change, even though it has budget implications so it could be in rules and budget but we'll let you know for sure. >> okay. and then, how does that

-- how does that wind up with when those permit fees are due for, by small businesses? >> i don't think -- i mean, i might defer the executive director, you i don't know if any of the fees have been collected yet. >> so, it's not like small businesses are having to plan, whether they can do this or not, okay? >> i don't think they are due yet. the timing is making sure they know well in advance. >> okay. that was my question. >> if we have to contemplate funds, whether we get there, we'll do that but hopefully we don't have to do that. >> okay. commissioner herbert. >> one more thing while on the topic, i know shared spaces funds itself with the annual fees, right? but isn't it possible for the program to request more funding for

staffing from the city that's not uncommon, right? that's a work around because i know that's going to come around. >> yes. that is something that could potentially come up during the budget conversation, so again, i would think that right now if we're thinking about waiting to keep businesses going and stimulating the economy, it's better to keep the money in the pockets of small businesses rather than ask them to pay for operating a program that might not be operating for any businesses if they go out of business. i mean, right now, we don't want to push businesses out of business, so, i know that from what we have heard over and over again, a lot of these fees, thousands of dollars, they don't have it. and i know for the example on the sunset, the inner sunset, that was a significant blow to that business because it cut their seating in half, so -- which is significant.

>> thank you. >> commissioner ortiz cartagena. >> can i add to that, like, you know, i've been on the ground, so, just to revenue -- the revenue this is going to generate for the city conference by mitigating or adding, like an example, there's a business in your district that if they don't have the shared space, they probably go under. that means that's another vacant storefront. >> right >> that's property values and reassessment because i don't have a tenant and -- and it goes on and on and in addition, the shared space on average employs one part-time person minimum. that creates jobs. it stimulates the economy, so we're here to support you that they have to make this happen. this is essential for the economy of restaurants in the city, so.... >> thank you! >> great! thank you. knowing, i have one question. knowing that there is going to be some sort

of budget, you know, conversation around this, are there opportunities that you've identified to be able to maybe offset, like, support for shared spaces through other programs? because i know there's other people giving thought to how to make shared spaces just more templated or streamlined and easier to access and easier to say yes to small businesses because i think a three thousand fee is significant, but like you were saying, the cost of building a small shared space is often times, like, upwards of $25,000 or more. i would love to know if there's, because i've heard a few different programs that's thinking of ways to make, you know, the first step less of a barrier for small businesses and i'm wondering if there's things on your radar that kind of fit into this plan, like, on holistic basis?

>> that's a great question. i'm glad we have the director of office of economic and workforce development here because the truth is that, that type of a request is in some ways, it's looking for one-time capital sources, right, because if a business has to invest in a shared space, they might have to come out of pocket, you know, 10, 15, $20,000 just for the construction, but it's a one-time fee and for some businesses it's insurmountable and that's why it's good for, that's exactly in the alley and the realm of the office of economic and workforce development. they have pools of money or they can create pools of money that's one time capital dollars that would go into helping small businesses. i know for example in this upcoming, we had a budget town hall the other night and we heard from small businesses that's looking for one-time capital sources of funding and that can be the,

again, it can be the difference between a business expanding, staying open. i know that many of the empty storefronts we have that is one of the biggest hurdles, just in and of it, the dollars on the interior and doing construction on the outside for shared space. >> yeah. thank you very much, sir, for bringing this forth to us. do we have any other comments up here? no sometime to take public comment. any public comment? >> are there public commenters in the room? commenters online, press star three to be added to the queue. we have one caller currently waiting. >> caller, you can go ahead. >> good afternoon. my name is

(indiscernible). i'm calling on behalf of the golden gate restaurant association. shared spaces as you know has been a program for the survival of many restaurant communities and offered to locals alike. we're grateful the city recognize this and it's an ongoing program. restaurants recover from covid and those brought by the inflation and the storms -- we strongly support attempts to reduce the one year, the application fees especially measures to (indiscernible) and to raise the threshold for the 50% discount for fees to $2.5 million. we strongly believe that the long-term health of the program is essential to our industry and ensure the department supports this program and it needed to be funded and this program is [hard to understand speaker] >> again, thank you very much.

>> there's one more public commenter. >> good afternoon, commissioners. and supervisor safai. thank you very much for letting me speak. my name is janet talog and i'm calling on behalf of the glen park merchants association and i serve as president. i also, i'm in leadership of the san francisco council district merchant association. for glen parks merchant association, i want to echo the sentiment that fees from the city right now are impeded our ability to recover from the pandemic and getting to

a place of sustainability over the long-term and the glen park merchants association is in support of this legislation and we would like to call on the commission and the office of small business and the board of supervisors to one-by-one find more and more opportunities to make operating in san francisco more easy and reduce these as many as possible. thank you. >> >> if there's other callers, press star three to be added to the queue. there are none. >> great. hearing no further callers, public comment is closed. are we ready to take a

motion? would someone like to make a motion? >> i move to support. >> i'll second that. >> motioned by commissioner ortiz cartagena to support this legislation. seconded by commissioner dickerson. i'll read the roll. commissioner carter? >> yes. >> commissioner dickerson? >> yes. >> commissioner herbert? >> yes. >> president huie. >> yes. commissioner ortiz cartagena? >> yes >> vice-president zhou. >> yes. >> motion passes. >> thank you, commissioners. thanks for your time and great questions today. >> thank you. we are just, item three, workforce development division presentation. this is a discussion item. the commission will hear a presentation from the workforce development division to better understand their mission, programs, and identify opportunities for future

collaboration. and today we have kate, and presenter: joshua arce, director of workforce development and lauran acevedo, employer engagement manager, office of economic and workforce development, workforce >> great. thanks for having me and i'll be brief. i wanted to introduce my team and reiterate how important my department sees workforce in the ecosystem of our economic recovery and specifically as it relates to supporting our small business community. i was at a meeting earlier this morning and was reiterating as we sort of build toward our new future of san francisco and take the opportunity of the crisis that we and all of our small businesses have been through to kind of cocreate what's next, that our superpower are power. the people who work for our businesses and the people who make each of our businesses something that is a reflection of who we are as a community and our values and that really

empowers the businesses to be successful and be profitable and connect with their customers. and i know sometimes when we think about workforce development at-large, we talk a lot about our sector training programs. we talk a lot about moving large numbers of folks into employment opportunities with big employers but i want to assure you and i think this presentation will highlight the fact that small businesses in the dna of our workforce development capacity, it's the handshake between one individual, one job seeker and one business one at a time and sometimes it can be daunting to figure out how we engage with every small business to know what you need and what they need, so it's a privilege to be in partnership with our office of small business, with our workforce development team and so with that, i'm going to turn it over to director arce to kick

it off. thank you. >> thank you, executive director sofsus and director tang and the commission. thank you for the invitation as the director said. i'll joshua arce and joined by lauren, we're excited to share with you what the partnership with our office looks like and it's interesting because the slides that you see there, it talks about partner with us. we're so excited about the partnership we enjoy with your team and director tang, marianne thompson who is amazing. the fact is that we are working together closely with your office and i think what we want to do is share the work we do together and make sure that you're aware of the resources available with respect to the workforce development system and how it's there to partner and help support the employment

needs of the small business community, i think, we're vividly on display. last week at the ferry building with the second annual job fair between the small business community and hospitality leaders including the hotel council, golden gate restaurant association, 80 employers came out. over one thousand job seekers and lots ever folks hired on the spot and everybody got applications that we spoke to. when you look at mayor breed's roadmap to economic recovery, it's just that to take those opportunities, those small businesses, and i think commissioner herbert mentioned the challenges with respect to staffing up and hiring up in the small business community. it's our system here to help be your partner, as lauren will share more about what that means and the offerings available. we want to promote but to really match the employer needs with those job seekers that's out there because actually unemployment, we have seen an uptick. 3% as of

last friday. that's since march 1st. there's 17,000 people looking for work. 17,200 to be exact so it's our goal to bring them to the great jobs you're offering and maybe those not looking for work, to bring them into the labor force as a part of the charge of the mayor's economic recovery roadmap that we think is brilliant and part of something we're honored to wake up and do everyday at our office, so, a couple of slides. i'm going to turn it over to lauren and i'll do your slides when you're up there. our agenda is about us. the workforce resource availables and partnership benefits and this is a resource we hope to work together to share with you and the small business associations that are out there and networks. some feedback around employer researches and contact information to stay connected here. we'll talk about a workforce link assess platform

where there's thousands of those looking for jobs and hundreds of employers growing everyday. we can go to the next slide. our office here is -- it has a shared mission with the office of small business and it's to create a thriving and resilient economy and barriers for -- removed and i think within bold, you see there, the highlight around prosperity that can be shared by all, which is certainly key to what the mayor called our economic recovery that is equitable or equitable economic recovery, so our mission at the workforce division is curate and support this workforce development system, which is a very kind of policy and wonky way of saying, how public, private and nonprofit service providers to support those job seekers in the community help connect with employers. if we can go to the next slide. job center was the first point. we fund job centers in neighborhoods of need. this

has grown in recent years to help to immediate the moment across san francisco's neighborhoods expanding on the westside, but you can see through here, the different job centers you can see by going to oew dot org workforce and you have the address on the site where folks can visit and call in and drop in an e-mail, the different job centers, which are in these neighborhoods here. community based partner that's do a terrific job of bringing you into the workforce system if you're looking for a job much you walk in and say i'm looking for work or a better job and you're in and these are, what we call job readiness services, support with your interview skills and resume and referring you to employees. i'll turn it over to lauren in a minute. we have, you'll see on this site, job centers for those with need and limited english speakers and those with justice -- and those with disabilities and veterans

and community members accessing the workforce system. training programs are where we're investing in sectors and industries where there's a pathway to quality jobs with something short of a full on educational certificate or degree, although we partner with san francisco state and city college, in trying to bring those individuals into the workforce, helping meet the needs of folks who are out there looking for a job today or tomorrow and may not have two or four years to do that. we offer together with unions and employers and together with nonprofit partners, pathways to get a foot in the door in technology and hospitality industry, and health care and construction through our long-standing city building partnership which is going on its 17th year and i'll introduce our employer engagement manager, lawyeren acevedo and i'll do your slides. >> thank you, director arce and

sofus for the introduction and we're good afternoon, commissioners and president huie. thank you for the opportunity to be here today to share information about our workforce resources. so, for the first part of our presentation, michael is to demonstrate how easy it is for businesses in san francisco to access workforce resources and also highlight some of the benefits in partnering with us and i'll begin with our workforce employer concierge service, which essentially helps promote jobs to our network of job seekers within our workforce community partner network and we can move on to the next slide, so, there are many benefits to collaborating with oewe and just to name a few, we help

businesses with hiring locally with accessing support with free recruitment services and also accessing hiring events, like the hospitality and small business job fair we hosted a couple of weeks ago in collaboration with director tang's team and the office of small business. we had over one thousand participants attend this event to connect with over 85 employers, so that's just one of the services we can provide to businesses in san francisco. and additionally, when businesses work with our team, we're also promoting their jobs to job seekers that have been trained in the different sector focus areas that director arce mentioned in hospitality, healthcare, technology, and construction. so, now i'm going

to talk a little bit about the employer experience, so what it's like when a business interacts with our team here at oewe. the first step when a business connects with us, we ask them to register in the city's free job matching portal, workforce link assess and you can think of this as an indeed platform, except it's free, easy to use, and when you sign up with workforce link, you get connected to a concierge support team member to help your business are, add your jobs to the system and review applications and get connected to our community partners. additionally, with workforce link, you can access it on any device and as i've mentioned before, a really neat feature about it, you get access to a

portal where you can log in and keep track of applications that have come in from our cbo partner network. so, once your business is registered, then you get connected to an employer services specialist, who acts as your concierge support, and generally we like to try to schedule a call, learn a little bit more about your business, your hiring needs, and also see if you are seeking support from any other city resources and figure out maybe where we can make other connections for you for a business, such as connecting a business with the office of small business. so, again, just i want to mention that partnering with us, with workforce development is very simple. it takes about five minutes to register in workforce

link, to connect with one of our team members, add your jobs, and get connected to qualified local talent. so, we wanted to share just a couple of employer testimonials and i wanted to highlight one testimonial from bandago because some of you may know, former president lagana is the president of bandago and we had a great experience partnering with them and as their operations manager, ashley myers, highlighted that the normal job sites produce underwhelm results for a growing company but when they turn to the office of economic and workforce develop, their inbox was filled with candidates and ready to be a part of their team. so, i hope this

presentation was informative and we look forward to building new relationships with businesses in san francisco to help them access our resources and find local talent and i'm going to pass it back over to director arce and we're happy to answer any questions what you have. thank you so much for the opportunity to be here tonight. >> thanks, lauren. thank you, president huie. happy to answer questions or thoughts you have. >> thank you are the presentation. it was good. i learned a lot. commissioner ortiz cartagena. >> thank you, director. thank you, lauren. i want to commend you especially your job fairs. they are amazing and they keep getting better and i get feedback and they are getting jobs, which you know, it's dope. it's really working, line a city

program and agency that's -- like a city program and agency that's doing what they are supposed to do and work link, man, that's so good. like, it's really, really good. it's intuitive and it does work. small businesses, i can't promote it enough. like, i wish we could get it out there more because it's a good, good system. seriously and i appreciate y'all. i mean, i don't say much about other city departments, but -- [laughter] you guys are rocking, so.... >> thanks, commissioner. >> commissioner carter? >> great presentation. and even framing it as a concierge, i think that's really, really great. and i wish i would have used it. i've spent a lot of money with "indeed," so it's great. i'm curious how guys get this out to employers and also, the job fair was great? i saw the pictures and heard different people, like y'all had it packed, so that was really great. i'll curious how does

employers find out about this service? >> thank you for the positive feedback, commissioner carter and really, believe it or not, it's word of mouth. it's folks like our director here, executive director for the office of small business, director tang promoting. y'all kind of encouraging individuals. it's a part of our flyers, but we have been, i think due to the pandemic, this tool was something we developed in response to the need for something like this. in the absence of being able to do the job fairs and so, i think with the (indiscernible) who is our workforce solution manager who developed the platform, we piloted it and do what they called the soft launch and with our hard working service providers, every grantee of our office, which is a job center or coordinator for the different areas of opportunity about, i want to say 30 to 40 different

organizations. we give them free licenses, so they can use and sign up other clients for free at no cost and we do training so they can do that, so that's on the job seeker jobs and with respect of doing more and more events and true believers, former commissioner lagana was a big proponent helping spread the word and a number of y'all have done that and director tang and others and the mayor has promoted it on her social media and it has been a grassroots word of mouth. it has given us the ability to tinker and work through things and now we can send text messages to those, see you at the job fairs and we were able to sign them up right then there and drop it on their computer because it's based on sales force and we use it as a check-in tool. those who go to the job fair, the first thing you do with volunteers is say, hey, i'm here. you check-in and

we know you have made it and we can follow up. hey, did you get a job. we can call the employer and see how it works out through lauren and her team. it's a grassroots approach here and we're excited about the potential to promote it even more beyond the word of mouth and proven success record. >> great! commissioner zhou. >> thank you. that's good stuff. thank you so much for telling us all about it. i think my question is geared and my suggestion is geared towards how do we reach neighborhood ecosystems and micro businesses, as they were ten or are less employee businesses? and a partnership that i really would love to see would be with the council of district merchants because i think we're having a -- kind of an -- in our attempt to build capacity for small businesses, we're siloing their

resources a little bit, so while there's a lot of funding for activation on corridors and that sort of thing, there's not a lot of leverage capacity for small businesses hiring within their neighborhood and unfortunately, i think a lot of avenue green light funding wouldn't accept proposals like that because it was too, you know, small business focused but we all here understand that an eco system needs participation from residents and small businesses as a whole and so, i mean, my question and you know, with the recommendation in there, have you had any successful kind of success center hosted neighborhood based, hosted smaller job fairs and what, you know, what could you envision in that kind of regard? >> in the moment, thank you for the question, commissioner. i'll turn it to lauren in a moment because we had the pleasure and

opportunity to present to the council at the request of the invitation of bill barnacle and mayor lauren can share follow up with that, in terms of ideas of conversation with the district measure merchant representatives but we had support from our colleagues at the community economic development department. director deanna and her team have been great in promoting these events in the corridors and areas they serve as well, but i think it's a great idea in terms of something we have kind of talked about, making sure folks in the neighborhoods know there's this resource, but even beyond that. that they know there's a job center in their area. it may be measure xhants on irving or those may not know self-help for the elderly and they operated in china town. we funded their support to open up a satellite office in the sunset richmond. but any thoughts following that presentation with

the council? >> thank you, director arce. i was -- one of the task as the employer employment manager, i'm trying to bring more visibility to our workforce resources in general, so we did have one presentation with the council of district merchants. i would welcome other, if there are other opportunities to get out into the community to speak with businesses directly about workforce link, about workforce development. i'm definitely open to those opportunities to come out and share information about our resources and job center partners because oewd, we have been hosted larger job fairs, which have been quite

successful. our job centers also host job fairs on a more regular basis and those that were always, i'm always trying to connect businesses that are, you know, mart commercialing with workforce development to those job fairs as well and connecting them with our job centers so we can help job seekers in different neighborhoods in this city get access to opportunities. >> great! thank you. i guess just a follow up to make it more specific. i think the b to b culture, like, small business to business culture could also be an addendum to thinking about workforce because we have a lot of small businesses that are actually just self-pro pie tore, so south of market, the neighborhood needs -- owe their

measure chabt couldn't get funding f. you're looking for a daycare and looking for clients, come here, if you're a small poster service, come to this and table because people from the neighborhood will be there, so something really specific to the existing landscape of a certain neighborhood that can encourage both small employers, sole proprietors and expanding the workforce bigger than what i see a lot of times as a narrow business and a big business and service workforce and so, i think, i mean, any encouragement in diversifying what those hiring services look like and being neighborhood specific is a high need in my experience. >> we appreciate that guidance and i apologize, commissioner, i misspoke. bill asked for flyers and he had the sunset and it was

massive at the merchants that brought us in, i want to say, it was the night of the power outages, so we were doing on zoom and he was very gracious in introducing us and giving us time to share but it's a great topic to follow up on. >> great. those are the executives. we need to get to the business owners in those neighborhoods for sure. and give them some -- leverage your capacity and you have so many resources. my question is how can we better get these to neighborhoods. >> thank you for that guidance. that's a good -- it's a good charge for us. one day, it's a sigh of relief because it takes months to plan but within 24 hours, it's wear neck. those are good ideas. >> thank you for your work. >> commissioner herbert. >> thank you for the work you're

doing. it's so important. i just had a question and then, do you have a way of measuring how you're affecting employment or unemployment in some city? do you have a way of reflecting and looking at numerically, seeing a direct correlation between the work you're doing and how it's affecting the job or unemployment in the city? >> yes. we have a few ways and one of the things we do is, it's the unemployment rate, so even though we have seen something of an uptick in recent months, we're able to do a few things. one, when an employer of a certain size and scale, it's usually large employers, if there's an instance that is of 75 or more workers laid off, we get a warn notice. and i