is not just citybuild.ervisor chu: thank you, supervisor mirkarimi. we have taken public, already. the item is before us. i believe there are recommendations and amendments. to the city attorney, those recommendations would not be sensitive? do we have a motion to take the recommendations as articulated by the department? ok. we will take the motion to amend without objection. on the item which have a motion to send this item forward as amended to the full board with recommendations. without objection. thank you. item five please. >> item 5. hearing to consider release of reserved funds, department of technology - committee on information technology fy2010- 2011 budget, in the amount of $6,393,373, to fund the consolidation, standardization, and optimization of the city's technology operations and applications. supervisor chu: thank you. i believe we have mr. walton hear from the department of technology and mr. vincent. >> thank you, supervisors. john walton, the part of technology. we have a brief present

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they will still be working with amd but also with citybuild.ervisor chu: was there anything in the resolution that recommends that? hiring a union-level instructor? >> no, i do not believe so. supervisor kim: could i have a copy of that resolution? >> i gave my copy to your aid. supervisor chu: could you just repeat the other amendment? i think there were two. >> at the very beginning, instead of the amount of 120,000, it should read 100,000. and then strike no. 3. supervisor chu: the union journey law will instructor. >> right. so the intent is to still work with a union instructor, but they are rethinking their strategy on how to do that and what partners. supervisor chu: that was something agreed upon by the organization that would have received the funding, an addition to the labor unions, and cac? >> correct. supervisor chu: anything else you would like to add to your presentation? >> i could read the background on it. in august 2005, the rincon hill area plan was approved, rezoning the carrier for residential development. the board of sup

there have been a real underutilization of workforce development strategies city- wide, citybuild, academies. if you could say bit about that. >> hello, everyone. i am from poder. i am also part of smac, students making a change. that is also in district 11. at poder, we're working with immigrant families. many times, these communities are left out of the conversation, conversations that includes affordable housing and jobs. as many of you know, driving in the state of california, you need a driver's license. in order to bget a driver's license, you have to prove that you are a legal resident of california. we are left out. we depend on cars and vehicles to make a living. it would greatly benefit our community, the immigrant community, if the city of san francisco extended that great theory that when you are stopped by a police you can call someone with a driver's license to pick up your car and take it to your destination. it would benefit us if they extend and that time period from 20 minutes to 45 minutes. sometimes that is not enough time to get to where we are at. i know times are tough

this is through our citybuild program where we help individuals gain the skills needed to work in construction jobs. we have a number of big projects that are really generating the job growth and place for people to be working. so i think that in terms of the pace and number of projects that we have, in terms of identifying some key sectors to attract, in terms of providing rebates for films to come and fill in san francisco and generate additional moneys -- that is something that is a movement in the right direction. we need to work on how we do a job training in san francisco. there are many different departments and many different players, and how it is where we train our work force, whether it is youth as a community, people preparing to train for different jobs -- we have a lot of folks involved, and we did not yet have a centralized way of doing it and making sure we are targeting the right sectors. so i think we have got some work to do in that area. >> talk about the role of sports in the city's economic future. are you happy with plans for the america's cup? do you think the city shou