youth programs. and we are fortunate to get support from the city and to be out here. and all due to the attention that happened three years ago when there was a lot of african, asian tension out here, because of misunderstanding. we want to focus on young people. and we have our second summit where youth come together and organize it. and the theme they come up is called usla, a way to address trauma and stress. and the young people came up with this idea and put together addressing the trauma and the stress they deal with every day in district 10. and another thing we need more programs dealing with employments where asian and hiring african-americans and job training and latino population. to create programs and funding to reflect the population in district 10. we know that justification happens because of development, but we know that the city wants to invest in the community also. but we need to do it the right way. i have a couple of young people to share their experience in the program and hop

that the go solar program is a program statute did include a section that is a pilot program. that pilot program was for the first year. so that portion of the program that was characterized under the statute as pilot concluded. i think that we have come into the habit coming into it because the legislation was for ten years. so i think that perhaps, folks are thinking of ten years and that is the pilot aspect of it. and the aspect of the program has concluded that the program and the funding our capitol plan for ten years total. >> i think that you would come up. >> and that is a concern of mine is and so now, i clearly understand it and i appreciate that and i only have one last clarification. and once we start to rule out whatever we are going to rule out from this point forward, there is going to be conversation and there is going to be labor components and we did get it back on how we will let that out and that will also be ape subject of these discussions and am i right? >> that is correct. the whole idea behind this is to bring our stake holders in the room and come up

it's a great program. the quality is really exceptional probably because it's been built as a community over the past 12 years, so it would be a real shame to see children not be allowed into the program. as jan said a bridge into music and arts at an early age when children are receptive to that type of learning and again i seen that with my children with other kids coming through the program, and what i think is a really important point is that because the community that has been built over this time any money that would be put into the program would be in effect multiplied many times over over the various number of families in there. thank you very much for hearing us and for supporting the program over the last many years. [applause] >> supervisors thank you for your time and patience listening to so many. i am a pastor of a good news presbyterian church in san francisco. i am here to tell you about the families and the ministry i'm doing now. i'm the representative of the exodus organizations. i am re

we would like to take our program off line and continue pushing this program forward mr. mayor. >> hi, i am lana miller, with hu hunter's point family. and i have so many things to talk about and so many things we are passionate and work on. now i am here in my role as a member of the mental health board and particularly for trauma and community related violence. i know for the last years barbara garcia has counted mental services in d-10 as community and violence and trauka. and for years we have talked about it and talked about it and when we try to engage the department of health, we got yes we understand it's a priority but we don't know what to do. in november/october last year in 20 2012, we had the southeast mental health summit around trauma. and a large segment of the community and dph and we put together a plan that was adopted by the san francisco mental health board. and signed on by all community-based organizations that provide mental health services. i am saying that we have a plan in d-10 and we know how to get started. now it's time to quit saying it's a

over pg & e's program. i just want to know are there any plans, i mean what are we going to be able to do to deal with that? >> i'm glad you asked the question. first of all, the 11.5 percent rate for the pg & e is what they quoted. that rate is expected to go up next year because pg & e's proposed a higher base rate for next year. even if that doesn't happen, if we launched that program today, we can have a rate with the revenue requirement that we've discussed that will be under 11 cents. 11.9 cents is a ceiling and it gives us a little room so we can plan for. we would not set the rate of 11.9 today if we were able to launch. >> right. you said somewhere around 9 cents is something you were looking at. i thought i heard a mention of that rate. >> it would be below 11 cents. pg & e's rate is 9 cents that would be adopted. >> you don't have an estimated rate below 11.9? >> the latest we have is about 10.9 cents and we are working with shell and i'm still trying to cut back our budget. >> i know there is a

art programs and we look to expand that program to include for-profit businesses. including old navy and start-up design companies, and as well as non-profit art organizations. we provide training and communication skills, the so-called soft skills that are important to keep jobs and continue on a career that is meaningful. i want to speak on the san francisco art commission and the proposal to extend cultural equity grants that is important for communities throughout san francisco. i was part of a task force for many years that established that program. thank you for your consideration. and thank you to all the community for being here tonight. thank you. >> good evening, i am jackie flin, i am executive director of the program in san francisco. i want to thank you supervisors for something and thank you for your service to the city. but i am here to ask for your continued support in three major areas. one is in employment services. and i would like to thank you, rhonda simmons for supporting the randolph institute and for the contract around construction services

program. spur had previously released a report called the public harvest report that showed even though we had seen tremendous demand for urban agriculture, community gardening and urban farms grow across the city in recent years, there has been a notable lack of coordination among different agencies that govern urban agriculture. the legislate ition helped create the program designed to serve as a one stop shop for urban agriculture to assist in the formation of new garden projects, to provide resources and tools, and partnerships with various community organizations. the legislation last year required that a strategic planning process take place and that is something that happened in the second half of 2012. i want to thank the office of the city administrator who is the lead city agency for this planning and the city administrator released the results of the strategic planning late last spring. and today will present its process and recommendations which include a recommendation that our re

i've saw hundreds of programs come across my office in terms of programs that were design to serve youth. and i can attest cold hardly that the first tea is the best programs that we have in san francisco. and i think it's important to understand that this issue in terms of the golden gate park lease should not be a we verses them for youth verses older golfers. we can look at this in terms of how we can grow this program in san francisco and form a stronger community of golfers. i want to share with you a letter that would attest one of the segments of our programs that we don't have here this morning are the teachers in the program. i'm going to share with you a letter that i received from one of our teachers. the purpose of this letter is to share with you my personal experience in having my sunts participate in the first tea program. i've had my first grade class participate. when i first started with the first tea i thought the students would learn to play golf. i thought that was a great idea. most inter city students don't usually have the opportunity to learn about a sport such a

program is. thise extent that some in chamber wish to review or provide more protections, we should proceed through debated legislative process, so the full implications for security are clearly understood. i reserve the balance of my time. >> the gentleman reserves. for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana rise? >> to claim the opposing time. >> does the gentleman rise in opposition? >> i rise to claim the time. >> is the gentleman opposed? >> i am not opposed to the amendment. >> does the gentleman from new york seek? >> i claim time in opposition. >> i had a feeling. [laughter] >> the gentleman from indiana is recognized to claim the time in opposition. >> as a work in progress, i'll recommend the gentleman from new york for 1.5 minutes. >> the gentleman is recognized for 1.5 minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment has been described and offered as an alternative to the amash amendment that we will consider next. it is not. this amendment restates the existing ban on the in

i mean that we have intern programs that are ongoing before they have to fight the intern program. >> are they offered the expectation that they may get a job that is long term. >> i believe on the projects here and ultimately we would like them working on the program and just with the continuation and consistency, but yes,... >> your students stand? >> would you have your students stand? so we can acknowledge them? >> [ applause ] >> thank you. >> my name is analise and am i team leader and this summer we had the opportunity to employ over 100 youth from san francisco and with me today are two the interns who are going to talk to you about their experience. >> hi. >> hi, everyone. my name is natalie and i am going to be a senior at will high school. >> and my name is (inaudible) corey and i am going to be a sophomore at san francisco state university. >> good for you. >> so, like she said, we are interns for the project poll. and we both work at the sfpuc up on the 12th floor in communications, do you want to tell them what was our job? what do we do? >> i first want to ask you, is s

when the balboa program was funded it was the highest attendance program. i want to thank supervisor avalos helping to get the print shop over to balboa. i actually see balboa high school students working in this court room right now. this is just a reflection of some of the things the program has provided and we really just wish this can be thought-out. the county has made into turning balboa around and balboa resurgeries is not the time to abandon it. thank you to you'll my youth for being here. thank you >> the item program. >> thank you very much (clapping) (speaking a foreign language. >> good morning. i'm a member of the coalition of homelessness and power. >> but today, i'm representing the homeless coalition. >> our demands are for the supervisors and mayor. >> we ask that fund reserve funds be dedicated to poor folks and folks who are homeless. >> they're very long lists for folks waiting for shelters. theirs long lists. >> so we ask that funds be dedicated to folks not only are we suffering but our children and a thank you very much. >> thank you.

medicaid is surely a complex program, but it is also a very dynamic program. its its also surely open to improvement as is anything we created, but fundamentally, as i look out at the experience of the states and what is going on in the field i see a program that works for america's most vulnerable. thank you, mr. chairman. >> chair thanks the gentleman and now recognizes mr. bragdon. five minutes for opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. members of the committee. i serve as the ceo of the foundation for government accountability. we're a florida-based free market think tank specializing in state health and welfare policy solutions. medicaid in its current form or old medicaid, represents as you have heard, the single largest and fastest growing line item in state budgets, consuming one in four state dollars temp federal level method okayed spending represents a quartser of deficit spending and is projected to double over the next decade. given these costs projections, medicaid is failing the american taxpayer. more importantly, it's failing the patie

i like to thank all of you and the mentors and hopefully this program continues to shine brighter and better in the future. >> (inaudible) san francisco state. >> no. >> she runs a program that we fund to look for promising young scientists. and many of those scientists were just here this weekend in san francisco about 600 of them from all over the state. and many of them go on to being faculty members of stem cell institutions here and other parts of the country, if so if you are serious i want to go and meet dr. (inaudible). >> thank you guys very much. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> so i am going to wrap it up since we went over our time. so much experience here. >> that was my fault. >> my fault too, i did not get to make sure that we only had a couple and a few minutes and they were just so excited to talk to you about the programs. >> since there are so many people in the room who were interested in giving public comment but we are going to ask them to hold the public comment because we are short on time and the commission needs that time. >> but if they want to write us somethi

welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> can we start off the program by asking you a little bit about the background of the sunshine social welfare foundation? >> the sunshine social welfare foundation was established in 1981 by a group of people who felt that the needs of burn survivors and people with facial disfigurement were not addressed. it all started with a book written by a burn survivor called people who shun the sunshine. in this took, the lady expressed difficulties going back to society after her injury and their ejection seat -- the rejection she faced not only in the workplace but in society. a group of people after reading this book were very touched. they decided to start a movement to raise funds to establish this foundation because they found these people with facial disfigurement had been left out. they were not considered disabled enough, but they were not considered normal enough either. so they were not receiving adequate welfare services and their rights were discriminated against. at is how the foundation started and the movement was ordinary people who came t

there was a delay, so the program -- i'm going to go through this part briefly but the program was kind of inspired by some of the work happening in new york city and park and day which is an active civil disobedience and invented also in san francisco. at the time mayor newsom tasked the department to come up with a program. and i think sometimes we forget just how successful this program is. in san francisco there's a lot of parklets on the ground but these are seen as innovative spaces. in other cities we filled requests. this is an example of the media and i didn't put the local journalism. they're national and international media sources. this is a short list of the cities that have started parklets of their own and you can see international cities like cape town where i was born. that is a photo of a cape town parklet. these are international cities and we get calls from others to start a program. >> actually supervisor wiener and i saw one in mexico and it's amazing one. >> we will add it to the list. there is a lot of curiosity within academia and journalism and the design profe

i know in my program that 70 percent of people that enter the program complete a program and graduate and are 80 percent of employed and housed at the end of the program. we think that's good. and there are serial neeb rate programs across the united states. we have a call from ireland and alaska which begs the question how can you be homeless in alaska? but there are. if i were brought to a conference for the police, we'd have a very different point of view. if i was at a conference for the district attorney we might have a different point of view . the nice thing about this program is we are going to have a job. the police are going to arrest these. the attorneys are going to prosecute their cases and the public defenders is going to defend their client and everybody gets to do their job. they are going to do it legally, ethically, but we ask more that they do it morally. so, if i'm walking down the street and i'm pulling my dog's chain or i leave my dog outside in the cold and i don't feed it and it has health problems or i kick it and make fun of it and treat it harshly, you can a

not everyone will stay with the program. we don't expect that we'll have necessarily unanimous support from anybody to approve parts of the program. but we do know that there are san franciscans who welcome the ability to have clean power that is generated publically whether it's a combination of bundled power and recs. and the people that sign onto the program because we believe that moving forward on reducing greenhouse gas emissions is an important goal to do and important thing to do for the future of this city and future of california and we have to make our mark in that effort and there are many san franciscans who want to do that. today is a very important part of that process. we have an opposition that has come from p g and e and we have to make sure that this small group of people that try to influence what we do here today don't necessarily prevail that what we have to move forward knowing that we would face this kind of opposition in trying to approve our clean power sf program. this is one step of the process. w

the program is challenging and i found the program highly ininstructed that gave each participant personal attention when needed. and a word of warning, new attendties should be committed to study time and discipline in this 18-week program. what i want to say to someone who is interested in this program, you really, what you really have to do is you must be committed, and you must be dedicated to this program, and most important, again, most important, be respectful to your teachers, fellow students, peers. i want to thank workforce development, mission hire hall and my peers to speak at this cycle 7 graduation. >> our next student speaker, i could speak about now or about the guy but what i will say in short is that he inspires me, kerri winford. thank you, mr. jackson. >> good evening, everyone. my name is kerri win ford. and i'm a graduate of city build cycle 16, and i live in san francisco community. questions, what brought me to the city build academy? what brought me there was a friend who followed me to it. and he referred to it as it was something. but, as i went to the mission hi

. -- port the program's program championed by my colleague. that's why we increased the advanced manufacturing program by $5 million over fiscal year 2013 within an account that is cut by $971 million. i oppose the amendment and urge members to do likewise. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman -- the gentlelady from ohio. ms. kaptur: mr. chairman, i move to strike the last word. the chair: the gentlelady from ohio is recognized for five minutes. ms. kaptur: let me say to the gentleman from california that i am sympathetic toward his efforts on the renewable energy activities at the department of energy as they are critical for america's energy future. and i'm torn as i listen to his arguments, and i just wanted to demonstrate a chart here that shows the relative superiority of the united states in the nuclear weapons field. the largest total inventory in the world with russia right behind. we have a significant capacity, much

welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> can we start off the program by asking you a little bit about the background of the sunshine social welfare foundation? >> the sunshine social welfare foundation was established in 1981 by a group of people who felt that the needs of burn survivors and people with facial disfigurement were not addressed. it all started with a book written by a burn survivor called people who shun the sunshine. in this took, the lady expressed difficulties going back to society after her injury and their ejection seat -- the rejection she faced not only in the workplace but in society. a group of people after reading this book were very touched. they decided to start a movement to raise funds to establish this foundation because they found these people with facial disfigurement had been left out. they were not considered disabled enough, but they were not considered normal enough either. so they were not receiving adequate welfare services and their rights were discriminated against. at is how the foundation started and the movement was ordinary people who came t

our program. where you may have heard the housing project this will help us to continue the work with the resident and insuring the residents to play a key role. we must fix the current system and for instance, repairs are not getting done. no residents are involved in the decision-making process etc. in order to make this happen we need to get residents assessing and using the system so we can get the system the residents want it to run. thank you for your time >> good afternoon. i'm patricia thomas. i'm a resident of the housing site at 79 pacific avenue. i serve on the board of the resident commission board. i would like to share my thoughts are - i also have a well-built resident association that is met - of course, this has been with the support and assistance provided by the chinatown development center that has helped us to grow into a well-established housing community. we advocate for residents there are still lots of problems unresolved. we here the same problems like leaking faucets and

we give tours to other youth working in the youth works and project poll and sfip and all of the programs that you saw before. and probably we have most likely give to everyone back there and we tell them how green the building is. >> how many people are with you from this program? >> in our little group? >> here today? >> we have all of our tour people are back there, do you guys want to raise your hands? >> welcome. thank you for all of the work that you do. >> so what is the most interesting question that you have been asked on these tours? >> that is a good question. >> the living machine and the fire fly wall and we are not allow to go up to the other floors because we do not want to distesh the other workers there, and sometimes people ask us and they have a little video that shows the other floors, but we also play a game. we tell the kids at the beginning we are going to ask you guys questions about what you just learned about the puc and we show them a video about the sewer program and we split them up in a team so they play with the food prizes they are getting invested because

our ada program. and a few others, but also as i mentioned we're also working with these other city agencies. this is just random examples of other city services that we're going to is deploy as customized services in the neighborhoods, but we actually have a list of over 100 different services in our toolkit that we're going deploy strategically. right now we're finishing the neighborhood profiles to develop and implement customized plans and identify benchmarks for achievement and then for some of these neighborhoods, graduate them from the program. so that we can cycle through other neighborhoods and make it a citywide program eventually. and then we're working with the controller's office to develop a plan to evaluate the initiative and identify specific quantitative and qualitative metrics that we use to see how we're doing. and refine the program accordingly. so i am happy to take your questions. i know that was a lot of material that i just threw at you. we would love it if you would follow us

pedestrian program within the district. we ultimately received an award of $6 million through the feedback program. those programs net $18.2 million in r tip funds that will not be available in the phase one timeframe is a net of $10 million to the program. which leaving us with the budget change of an additional revenue remit of roughly $2 million. as we discuss in february and march we proposed to take the loan back to mainstreamed to adjust the interest rate and the coverage radio that will generate between 97 and a $100 million in all revenue. we also have actually applications in for a tiger 5 grant based on the scope of project for 8 pointed $23 million and a grant in for 3 and a half $6.2 million that is based on the enhancement of structural connections coming out of the rb a possess. we're going to continue to pursue other federal government grant programs and local and regional support communication with the transportation authority with m t c on bridging the rest of the gap. as we mentioned in peanut butter febru

city of santa cruz had a program and one precinct in the city of la had a program in place and found the same results. finally optioned for the board of supervisors to consider in dealing with the issue establishing a bicycle program would be a improvement and it would take some paperwork but it's not particularly hard for bicycle shop owners or the police department make the process easier if some kind of serial number was brought forward. standa standarding the methods we found they're actively in terms of taking actions according and some other stations less so. conducting bike baiting operations i've mentioned. they do require staff resources but it's something to consider both to stem the tied and a send a message to bicycle thieves. we found when we talked to the police department there's a strong perception that there are not going to be repercussions >> and particularly in the areas of locking and safety and where to park your bikes where their safer than other when you leave them on the street. enhancing information on stolen bicycles the police department does collect data