sim susana robins. the executive district or of the san francisco film commission. the theme in san francisco rebate program was created in 2006 in order to increase the amount of production that was based in san francisco and make it competitive, at a time when much production was leaving san francisco and california in general due to generous incentives from canada and elsewhere. since then, we've had 27 productions use the rebate program creating thousands of jobs, spending millions of dollars locally and increasing the visibility of san francisco to tourists worldwide. this program is essential to attracting longer-term productions to san francisco and making filming in the city more cost effective. these longer-term productions provide consecutive months of jobs to local crews and local actors who work as independent contractors and benefit from this longer term production shooting in the city. since 2006, the city has rebated 5,522,876 to productions. these productions have hired 15,000 local crew and actors who are members often of local 16, teamsters 2685 an