i consider us as workforce angels. the people we help every day, it's because of you sitting up there and folks working across the community in making sure we push contractors and employers to hire people from the community, the folks that are really in need. i want to thank you, community sesay, for making sure that they hire community members. again, our workforce director, joshua orce, apologizes he can't be here. he also wants to thank you for the support you've been providing to the program, and also we have our acting city build compliance manager here, chris begara, who's pushing behind the scenes working numbers, reports. i have a lot of points that i want to address with some of the questions and comments that was provided from commissioners. first is beyond construction, and we've been working with the team and ocii staff in looking at what are other opportunities because one construction is done, it's construction. we're going to begin piloting some of these programs for high school and college students. and

i believe we have angel cordez from the office of economic and workforce development. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is angel cordos, and i serve as director for the san francisco small business development center. our program is funded in part by the small business administration, and we are hosted by the office of economic and workforce development. we help aspiring and existing entrepreneurs start and expand businesses in san francisco by providing no cost consulting and business training. since the program launch in 2015, we've is theed over 1,800 unique compliants and trained over 690 individual participants. we've created over 1,000 jobs and sustained over 600 jobs. finally, thanks to our services, our businesses have increased their sales by over 120 million and accessed more than $50 million in capital. in 2018, the state of california allocated funding for the technical assistance expansion program. we applied and were awarded $203,917.50 thanks to a consult of client oriented services and economic impact. the purpose of these funds is to both deepen and widen our serv