that is what started the conversation on sf city. they have an ongoing program to create the curriculum for hiring kids or our public schools and aimed at returning veterans, career folks that want to get into technology-based industries, and then the snowball effect has really helped. twitter, not even moving in -- there are four companies that have moved into the market because of this. san disk, zoosk, allie pincus started an on-line returned as an company. hundreds of square feet of space that had been vacant for many years. revitalizing our city of the same time, doing job creation, creating the conditions for hiring and training local 7 siskins to get into the workforce. as andy is saying, that has caused other industries, particularly the construction industry, to get revitalized immediately. you have heard sales force had 18 acres in mission bay. they got excited about just being downtown, so they went ahead and did 400,000 square feet, now looking at an even larger space to continue their growth downtown. >> i want to direct

but also in collaboration with code for america who has been working with us, with sf city as i mentioned earlier, spur, our department of technology, our committee on information technology, and then we have an open data working group which really tries to get volunteers from the different departments to work together and see what other kinds of data analytics that we could provide to the public. >>> i want to just say today, you're going to hear some demonstration projects that are already started with our open data. again, as a way to celebrate innovation month, not only are we opening up different companies throughout san francisco, but we want to also encourage, examples we're going to be announcing yoyo working with phil ginsberg to provide data where are small parks or where the events are happening. what is the cost? how to get there in the hours that they're operating? a smart phone application for all of our events in recreation and park department, that to me is going to be invaluable to visitors and to our neighborhoods. bronwin who is working with us on data information from

we have got a huge partnership with sf city to get into that unemployment group of people. one of the things that the technology companies have signaled his they want to give back. part of the way you can give back, by way of their success, is to help me establish one of the first the employment training centers in the country aimed at people who want to join the technology industry. this employment training center is being funded and led by the technology companies through sf city. they began with how they are recruiting right now their employees. they decided to consolidate their recruitment efforts online to a website that we have called hiresf.org. that is the beginning. there will be training programs. they are working on criteria that could then be reflected in training classes for skill sets they will hire people for and create internships for. that is how serious they are, that is how technology companies are working with us. technology is part of our future. if it is not technology just in the gaming industry or social media, it will be technology that helps our ci

as you know, i've been working really hard with organizations like sf city and code for america and others to make sure that we keep being leaders in technology and celebrating our status, but also implementing the programs to help us continue that very nice title we have, the innovation capital of the world. and i am here today in collaboration with board president david chiu and so many others from our committee on information technology, spur, our different various city departments, really trying to improve on what we've done already. back in 2009 then mayor gavin newsome to the light of all of us had introduced that we ought to really establish some guidelines to open up our city's data. and in the year later, the board, less legislation, the first open data legislation in san francisco that made us cutting edge throughout the country, the first to come out and say to everybody in the public, to people who wanted to create businesses, wanted to look at the city with kind of an open invitation to involve themselves with what the city had. and part of that really neat understanding was t

work with you and make sure that you know that i am grateful for everything you have done and for sf city and the companies that have joined in membership. they will be successful companies. i am so excited, just hearing the company instagram getting bought by facebook 4 $1 billion, knowing that they started here, there innovation was right here in san francisco. signals to these other companies you are going to be as successful as you want to be, but hopefully it is in san francisco where innovation continues. we are and continue to be innovation capital of the world. i am glad to be here tonight. thank you, rose, everyone from the commonwealth. it was only six months ago, october 6 to be exact, with 15 other colorful people, and i am still recovering from that. i do not think today will be as entertaining. i recall there were some wacky statements made that night, but i am glad and honored to be here to explain what i have done and all you have heard and read about some of the things we are doing. clearly, i am excited about hear your comments and questions tonight because this city is

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of the first things the technology companies did, because we do have a tech chamber of commerce of sf city here in san francisco, they led a national discussion on the web to join in the sandy hook promise that they personally were taking up this cause and using the web site to spread the information and word that sandy hook should never happen again and as they arrive on the scene of this national debate they are now turning their attention to the very cities that they are located in and realizing that in their home towns we've got this issue. but the technology companies are talking with each other, they are using that web site to have a national discussion so that's a great thing because more people who have the discussion and put in front of them kids whose lives need to be saved, families and safety, are going to be of great benefit of this. they are also part of the national effort with gabby gilford and mark kelly to, again, be part of those conversations and very difficult ones because many of them are company owners. they want to have those conversations with the nra individuals a

we have already invited sf city to help us tackle through hackatons to innovate in ways never thought of before. muni is more than just buses, it is taxis and bicycle lanes. as complicated as the system is, we're starting to get great ideas on how to improve parking and transit in more than one way. i think we're going to use technology to help guide buses and trolleys to get places on a more responsible timeframe. that is the number-one question every time i meet with employees of a new technology company, how we're going to improve muni. half of them write it to work. if they're going to spend 15 hours at work, they have to do it at work and not on muni. >> we were talking about the america's cup. they are pulling back on what they're doing in the city. i have a couple of questions related. this person wants to know how that will affect small businesses. there is an overall interest in how san francisco will support the burdens of small business. >> we're still working with america's cup to make sure small businesses do get a shot at this great event. it has been scaled down to the

sf city has really been a driving force behind helping government think about new ways, new and improved ways maybe for some of you they're old ways now. but new and improved ways for government to reach users of our programs and services. and i want to say the last special thank you to the folks from apple-liscious. this thing is awesome. this past year, the trust for public land which is a national parks organization determined that san francisco, which has 4,000 acres of open space and over 220 parks, over 15% of the city's land is open space. the trust for public land said we have the best urban park system in america. and the challenge for us is making sure that all of our park users understand all of the wonderful things in our park system and know how to use our parks to tailor to their own specific experience. as diverse as this city is, there are hundreds if not thousands of different ways that people like to use and enjoy our parks. and in this app there is information about our parks, about our play grounds, about our ball fields, about our trails, about our community gardens,

i had no e-mails on my sf gov account or any city account. and i am not each sure if i remember whether i had deleted an e-mail. i was copied on it. i think in my you know i may have told olive that i don't have any e-mails i deleted them on my personal account. which i do repeatedly. in a matter of housekeeping. >> when the it department did not recover and i did not have in the packet the specific e-mails that were recovered were there e-mails from your account? >> not from my personal account there were no e-mails on my stgov, account. >> i see, thank you. >> mr. ginsberg... >> following up on that. >> sure. >> you get this e-mail, this request from miss gong, what

and ultimately frisbee and treks, surviving the city on $5 and sf navigation, learning the city of san francisco itself. we have camps geared for older kids and it's worth noting as in past years we'll be hiring close to 200 youth to help us run our camp programs this summer. so we're incredibly proud of our efforts to ensure all kids have the opportunity to go to day camp and last year we provided scholarship it more than 2200 individuals to the tune of $760,000 in subsidized programming. get them right they are hot. the brochures and registration begins saturday. we're hosting the summer resource fair at everett middle school saturday march 9 from 10:00 equal to 2:00 p.m. the fair say great opportunity to find out about the multitude of summer camps and summer options available to the youth of san francisco. we are just one exhibitor around the city who will be attending the fair and representing programs from kindergarten to high school and there will be presentations and information session on the kindergarten to college program. you are going to hear in a little bit from katie pet

we are very honored to be playing a role in the fulfillment of the grand promise of hope sf, to transform the city's most troubled public housing complexes into vibrant and exciting new mixed income neighborhoods that better serve their current and future residents, their communities, and the city as a whole. bringing world class design, first-class amenities and construction quality, green building materials and systems, no involuntary re dent displacement, a guaranteed right to return to a new unit, and new job training, employment opportunities and comprehensive supportive services to hunters view, phase 1 delivers on the promise we made to the residents eight years ago, but this was not about -- this was about improving their quality of life and their prospects for the future, not about making a buck and not about taking the land away for market rate redevelopment purposes. * so, i am so proud to be delivering on that promise here today. with 25 units, the buildings that surround you represent just 3% of the total hunters view transformation to come. when we complete the two buildings up the hil

. >> good afternoon, supervisors, i oversee the urban agriculture program and sf environment which is the city's environment department, i've been there for five and a half years and launched the urban agriculture program two years ago, it came out of a series of projects, supporting the zone coding changes which allow urban commercial farming now in san francisco, i currently participate in the urban sustainability director's network program working group which has representatives across north america, i've worked on many different aspects of several urban farm projects around this city, inside of sfe, we've run a study on the viability of commercial urban agriculture locally, we created a faoezabilities or strategy plan for urban farms to be more successful. i run the orchard's program where we plant fruit and nut trees through carbon fund dollars, i've been attending the task force meetings for about a year now, i've had the opportunity to work on a couple of different things with the task force, one of them was helping review and provide support for california cottage food, another one was a

city of san francisco. and the afa council includes school district staff, the sf, department of tru dent youth and other city and county agencies who are supporting our school time programs, and the program providers, parent advocates and community funders. last week, one of our pac member brenda martin, who traveled to baltimore as a pac rep to the san francisco after school all advisory council with four other asa council members to attend a conference. this conference is about building local systems to improve after school programs. teams from more than 30 u.s. cities attended the conference. council members have this opportunity to share those prejudices and learn from each other and hear from innovative thinkers in the field, san francisco was one of the very first city teams to improve parent at the conference. the pac recognizes the value that these opportunities provided to bring the parents and statutes into the conversation at the conference. the pac was to acknowledge the giving foundations for the generous financial contributions making it possible for the pac members martin to attend a conferenc