the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how

the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how people

the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how

the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how

the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development.me to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how peopl

now we are going to hear from sarah dennis phillips the executive director of the office of economic and workforce development. thanks, sarah. >> hi, everyone. thanks for having me here. san francisco's night life sector has been critical to our city's economy. prepandemic night life generated sick billion in economic impact and employed 64,000. we know you are facing real challenges today. according to the controller's office the hospitality sector remains down over 20,000 jops from the peek of 64,000 compared to before the pandemic. our goal being present here today is to learn from you how we can return to but grow that level impact in the future. make no mistake, your work is vital to the recovery of downtown and all our neighborhoods even the sunset. your venues, bars, upon events and festivals have been one of the big evaluate reasons people come to san francisco not just to visit but live and work. san francisco is changing and adapt nothing ways after the pandemic the importance of night life has not changed. that night experience matters more than ever. residents and visitors

the guest today is sarah phillips the executive director of economic workforce development. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. let's talk about the city economic plan and specifically the city's road map to san francisco future. can you give a brief overview and update on progress? >> absolute e. in february 2023 mayor breed released the roadmap comprised to 9 strategies to move the city forward understanding there was structural and lang lasting changing by the covid impact. 134 were shorter term impacts how people using transit downtown and coming out and are using small businesses, some of them remember long-term structural impacts. the way we work. how often we are in an office and how much office space companies who had headquartered in san francisco need. some of those were structural impacts how we stop. there has been a long-term change as online shopping takes up a greater share how we performs and covid-19 took a shift that would probably take 10 to 15 years happen and collapse what happened ofern the timeframe to 2 years so saw structural impacts how

[applause] sarah dennis phillips from oewd director. my sister, theresa, where you at? you for showing up. i said you need to come and you came. thank you for showing up, sis. allen lowe, where is my guy allen? this was his familys building. and sold it to us. thank you allen for it discount. [laughter] raquel from soma pilipinas, where you at, girl? always hiding in the cut. love you sis. this lady brought me to the white house. moms demand action, where you at? she brought me to the white house, nancy. [applause] we got to go back. sherman, where you at? thank you. introduce my brother here, stand up. come on up. this brother here introduced me to this young man here, freddy and two lady friends. would you stand up? they are from the neighborhood. [applause] and the reason i want to introduce you all is because i'm from this neighborhood and born and raised and live around the corner. i'm eugene colman mentoree so i take it serious with this neighborhood, because not only did i destroy this neighborhood at one point, but now a stakeholder and building stuff for the pe

so i want to say thank you to sarah dennis phillips and katie tang from d and the office of small business, respectively, together with their respective staffs, thank you to the neighborhood stakeholders and advocates who have been patient but persistent in their advocacy. we especially scott rowett's, executive director for the yerba buena community benefit district. raquel diaz, executive director of soma pilipinas. and manuel rodriguez, a noted purveyor of deliciousness at bonchon and more recently, izzy and wicks, which i would encourage everyone to visit at 155 fourth street, once again, chair chan, i can't thank you enough for your leadership on this and the work that your staff has done. this is it really is appreciated. your your commitment to our downtown core and the challenges that the yerba buena community is facing. so thanks so much. thank you, supervisor dorsey. and with that, today we have, office of economic and workforce development here making the presentation. thank you. thank you. supervisor dorsey. and good morning to you all, thank you for the opportunity to present

i'm sarah dennis phillips, representing the office of economic and workforce development. thanks for having us today, budget reductions are, never fun. never something we want to see, particularly when they impact valued community partners. nevertheless we understand the reality of this and future budget years, and are doing our best to make sure we continue basic and necessary services to san francisco's businesses and workers. each year during budget, we remind you of our mission statement, but our goals simply put, are to one start, grow, and keep businesses in san francisco grow jobs and train in place san franciscans in those jobs and then third, in doing both of those things to generate increased business and sales tax revenues. and i just want to reiterate that last point, our a big part of our mission is to increase our tax base so the city can better fund the other departments that you've heard represented here today with, with reduced reductions, while our budget today reflects some unfortunate realities, every investment you're going to see in here is intended t

i'm sarah dennis phillips, representing the office of economic and workforce development. thanks for having us today, budget reductions are, never fun. never something we want to see, particularly when they impact valued community partners. nevertheless we understand the reality of this and future budget years, and are doing our best to make sure we continue basic and necessary services to san francisco's businesses and workers. each year during budget, we remind you of our mission statement, but our goals simply put, are to one start, grow, and keep businesses in san francisco grow jobs and train in place san franciscans in those jobs and then third, in doing both of those things to generate increased business and sales tax revenues. and i just want to reiterate that last point, our a big part of our mission is to increase our tax base so the city can better fund the other departments that you've heard represented here today with, with reduced reductions, while our budget today reflects some unfortunate realities, every investment you're going to see in here is intended t