a month ago when we asked them about it at our meeting with oewd. besides affordable housing, access to local sustainable jobs is an important strategy to preserve community in the south of market. as a formula retail business, we want to make sure that their presence in this neighborhood will not display small businesses, and instead support local entrepreneurs. we are in conversation with them to carry filipino produced and sourced products. no concrete commitments have been made. as a community, we have had many experience of broken promises from corporations seeking to open in the cultural district. we would very much like to partner with whole foods on their proposed market store to be a good community neighbor and partner. however, we need more time to craft agreeable and enforceable agreements to continue this item >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners. i am reading a statement from cultivate labs. cultivate as a member of the soma filipinos and has been the lead organization and organizing undiscovered spirit they have brou

i am with oewd. because they know me. i am ace on the case. >> next speaker. public comment is closed. supervisor stefani? >> thank you. i want to add that i am excited about the work that oewd is doing and excited about the citywide public space initiative i'm impressed with the equity framework and have the opportunity to participate in an assessment of a space and i was very impressed with how thorough and how they're going about this i also want to say, great team at oewd, i know these funds will be spent wisely. i'm a former colleague and there is no better public servant out there. i'm very excited about seeing what we will accomplish with these funds. i want to let you know i am supportive of releasing the funds and releasing the budget. >> i think we are on -- in a unanimous agreement and excited about the team that will be carrying this out. this is really exciting. i do have one question about the bollards. are we discussing bollards and mental plaza. >> there was a conversation about scholars that may have been more expensive and slowed on the progr

i would be happy to work with you on how we can actually make a pathway with oewd's work force, because when you look at the jobs that tech is able to place, those are living-wage jobs. in a hotel, hotel worker, other jobs, they're not living-wage jobs, but in tech, they are. i appreciate it. i just felt like hi -- i had to say it because there is so much money on the table. and there's an opportunity and i feel like we need to insert ourseou ourselfselvou ourself selves and part of the vetting process is the companies that are working with the communities, formerly incarcerated, people recently out of work, women who have been out of the work force, too, or people of color. these are -- so we don't have to say specifically about a race or a gender, but we can say about aligned with work force development. i know i've gone on a long time and i also want to thank you for also having a special conscience around all this money that is city money earned off the backs of hardworking san franciscans. >> i'll be brief, but there are ways that we can push it a bit more, in the envelope, and be

we're also -- have the support of supervisor kim and oewd, and so throughout this whole process, all we've heard is positive things, and ultimately, what the community is telling us that they not only want a grocery store at this location, specifically, they want the whole foods that's going to be there because whole foods has a commitment to healthy food because whole foods has a commitment to treating their employees the way they should be treated. what i'm going to now is turn this over to adam smith, the executive director of whole foods. >> thank you. good afternoon, president hillis, commissioners, and staff. my name is adam smith. i oversee store design and development for whole foods market here in northern california. i started working for whole foods market in 1999, making sandwiches in the mil valley store, and since that time, i've had the opportunity to be involved in the opening of 50 whole foods markets in the united states, canada, and the u.k. each one of its stores has its own unique character which is by design to respond and serve the unique needs of the community

trained work force, working with oewd. permitting review and other things in terms of the location of existing businesses as well. >> supervisor tang: great. thank you for taking that all down. any other questions or comments from colleagues? otherwise, we will -- diego sanchez? >> yes. i want to provide the commission's recommendation from october 25, to be on record they voted to disapprove the original ordinance as proposed and sought to explore alternatives, which this new iteration is doing. they were not in favor of a ban and thought that regulations on employee cafeterias should consider geographic considerations, size considerations, enhanced entitlement process and other alternatives yet to be defined or realized. >> supervisor safai: there was no conversation about conditional use? >> i think it was mentioned, i guess, in an enhanced entitlement process. that's how i would interpret what that means. >> supervisor safai: that's why i was wondering about referral back to planning. it was my understanding the enhanc

today, i have an authorization authorizing oewd to retroactively accept and expand a grant in the amount of 203,917 and 50 cents for the humboldt state university program foundation to expand the capacity of the san francisco small divisive -- business development centre for the period of october first, 2018, to september 30th, 2019. this grant will expand oewd charge's small business development centre services to serve a greater number of businesses, dive in deeper with clients to assess the business development and business operation needs, adding from front new opportunities were previously unable for them to do due to limited funding such as online training. the grant award will give them more flexibility, because it is not going to have access to capital services. they will have greater ability roll over the funding into future years if appropriate. these services are free and low cost for small businesses in san francisco. and my second item, i asked that we adjourn the meeting today in memory of the western addition and fillmore residents in san francisco who lost their lives in

we've been funded with oewd. it's taken a whole community effort to build a culture of safety which is our mission. we're out there, rain, shine, smoke, when the kids are out there, we're out there and it's their neighborhoods looking after them. this is collective impact at it's greatest. we're expanding. we are continuing our leadership development. we continue to hire residents and we continue to have safe streets in the tenderloin and beyond. we invite everybody to be a part of this. we include everybody. join us. thank you for the honor. thank you everybody i apologize if i missed anybody. it's taken so many people. levels latina and work the moms before 2008 an incredible community effort and thank you for honoring the residents of the tenderloin today. we're going to do a quick photo. >> we'll head outside. >> congratulations to you all. >> supervisor: madame clerk it's a few minutes before 3:00. let's go back to our business. i believe we left off at items calling items 14 through 18. >> clerk: these item

oewd is working with the project sponsor to negotiate an agreement which would specify community benefits. there is a limit in scale with the project, focusing on open space and affordable housing. mayor breed has named housing, particularly affordable housing, a top priority of her administration the mayor has continued the work of late mayor lee and initial y iinitiali initialialized housing in all parts of the city. i thank you for your attention to this project. >> can i use this over here? >> president hillis: yeah. either one. >> happy holidays, president hillis, commissioners, director ram, and staff. i'm dan safire, project sponsor. >> president hillis: pull that up closer to you. >> how's that? >> president hillis: good. >> okay we've been working on this project for close to four years and today we have a brief overview of the project as context for the draft e.i.r. we anticipate returning in the spring of this year to provide additional project detail including specific plans for the architecture and design. this is the site today. >> president hillis: can we go to the computer

doing this and i hope that other departments follow and also use the data because i can see, you know, oewd, housing, all sorts of other people being able to use this data to make good policy decisions. so, i'm into this. thank you so much. >> thank you, commissioner fong? >> thank you. i'm into this as well. and reminds me of the video game sim city. i don't know if you ever played that before. partially why i enjoy sitting here on thursdays. i think it is great. as commissioner melgar says, sometimes it is reactive to things and this is a great opportunity for us to be proactive to things including resiliency in case of emergency. congratulations. >> commissioner johnson? >> i just want to echo what was said, fun fact. did you know some city was inspired by rebuilding of oakland after the fire? so it has a bay area context. and, you know, i just want to echo that i was so excited to see this and i think some of the public commenters share that i think the greatest hope of all of these efforts is that the public can really engage with it and come a new relationship with the city and also w

we will hear from oewd and i believe josh is here from the office of economic and workforce development. workforce development and particularly the pipeline to city jobs was a major priority for the committee. we also had a very robust discussion on which populations are best served and by workforce development plan adds this includes the reentry population. this includes people experiencing homelessness and also includes our youth and transitional age to young people we designated $1 million annually to additional workforce to go towards quote vulnerable populations, ". that is a definition that you guys have come up with and i would love for you to start your presentation by defining vulnerable population. >> absolutely. thank you so much. i am the director of workforce development in the office of workforce development, i am joined by our deputy director for whom our agency is very indebted to enter the work she did to bring us to this point that i am very excited to present and share with you. >> thank you. >> i to the question, if you would like me to continue, thank you. to your q