mohamed nuru from public works. our agency, as many of you know is a 24-7 agency, and a lot of our work is really dealing with improving the quality of life for concerns that the city has mostly around street cleaning, keeping our medians green, streets inspections, curbs, and building many of the city's streetscapes and buildings. a lot of work guides us at public works is our strategic plan. we are probably one of the few agencies that actually spends time on making sure that our strategic plan guides us and does the thing that the city expects from the agency, so we have a few -- we have three goals. one is to be the best place to work, and you can see a few things that the strategic plan has done. we have been able to hire over 300 apprentices. we also, with the blessing of this board, and the leadership of the mayor, funding was set aside to give public works control of streets and ra right-of-way, so that has allowed us to grow some of the urban forestry staff. and with that, we have 65% l.b.e.s who benefit bu

we're definitely signing up for this and might be signing up to the other things. >> chair mohammed nuru: if you can go back to the first slide on the revenue. >> other than that, i think we are good to go. >> okay. no members of the public willing to comment, all right. [roll call] >> that is six time mac. item 12 is approved. >> do we need to vote separately on the underlying item? >> the action was to approve the action as amended. >> thank you. >> i'm just making sure. >> thank you. >> we will gloat -- go into closed session. there is no members of >> we are now back in open session. in regards to eight and 16, there's nothing to report. >> very good. thank you very much. meeting is adjourned to a new date in july that will be a different delay due to conflicts thank you. everyone have a great day. >> working with kids, they keep you young. they keep you on your tones -- on your toes. >> teaching them, at the same time, us learning from them, everything is fulfilling. >> ready? go. [♪] >> we really wanted to find a way to support women entrepreneurs in particular in san francisco. it

] >> and of course, i have to introduce the next person who doesn't really need introduction , mohammed nuru. [applause]. >> thank you. it is always great to see you. i hope you are enjoying your life outside of city hall. i know that is how important this project is to you, and i'm so glad you're able to be here with us today. good morning, everyone. i serve as your public works director, and just like everyone else, i'm very happy to be here today, even with the wet weather , seeing how many people are out here shows as how important this project is to so many people and of course, the animals. today is an exciting day for our city, and an exciting day for san francisco animal care and control. we are celebrating the start of unique project, and it brings me great pleasure and joy that public works will be overseeing the design and construction of the project. it is not every day in san francisco that a modern structure more then a century ago. that is what is happening right here. the new animal care and control facility. the new shelter will be built with the original brick warehouse beh