Workers, how did they become a poll workers, and what is it like being a poll worker as such a young age . Lets meet some poll workers. Hello, i have been a poll worker for about poll workers for 13 years now. Hello, this would bymy my 7th year now. My name is eddie, im 20, im a senior, i will be graduating this may. [music] students dont just show up on election day, theyre recruited and trained by the department of election. [music] we visit to almost all San Francisco high schools, talk to students, in government class, and talk to them about being a poll workers. Students play an important part in poll workers in San Francisco, were going to hire about 1,000 this year, its a great opportunity for them to learn about the democratic process, they also earn a stipend in work, and earn credits. I was excited to see at my high school, to work for the department of elections, we can get extra credit for one of our classes. I was like, i need money, i want to do something for her, my city. I said, hey, why not, it might be cool, i have been an active community person. [music] it gives a real experience that takes the concepts im teaching in class, its real life, its not something that is just in a textbook, its representative of democracy, and direct democracy, all in one day, for the students to interact with the public, it is complicated, there are problems you have to you know deal with these issues as they arise immediately, and come up with a resolution. It was really crazy, and hectic, there were a lot of voters. It gives me experience with helping people and getting to know people, and how to treat people. Being a poll workers, its a cool way to see what life is about beyond school. [music] students must be 16 years of age, get permission from their parents and school, and have a 2. 5 student gpa, to become a poll workers, they also have a two hour training session. Im glad they had training, i had all my questions clarified, so i really prepare you for election day. San francisco is a multicultural, city, with many languages, spoken every day, more than 80 of the precincts. I know spanish, i want to help them. In addition to english, they proviet student voters with spanish, japanese, vietnamese. It does look grade on a resume, theyre interacting with the public, theyre problem volume ving. You have to be responsible what you are doing, you got to work with a partner, team work, its not just about me, its about us. Its kind of a precareer experience, and it can open up doors later in the future to job tunts. You feel more connected to our government for the participation in this program. I see the impact in my students work, i see it in their writing, in group discussions. I just really like the sense of going out there, doing something for the community and being part of the community, helping others voice their opinions, work as a student and be a part of their democratic process of San Francisco. I feel that i did something for my community. When you are a high school poll workers, you are excused in class, you gain so much knowledge in skipping school, its probably one of the best experience i had had, im glad i had it all throw high school. They recruit new student poll workers, through every election, for more information, go to sf elections. Org. [music] well, good morning everybody welcome to the transit hub in San Francisco that is reeling hub i wanted to say good morning to everybody our San Francisco city and county conducted a study and a recognition part of our local and Regional Transit report viewing 2030 what we all had to do to help the residents our regional would it be fair to say and businesses all succeed using the great notion of increasing and improving our entire public trappings system one of theyre very specific recognitions that i had the privilege of focusing on with supervisor wieners leadership has been our night life late night and early public morning Transportation System you you know we have a great economy in good a great part the 15 thousand people that need to use Public Transit that are part after a 50 million revenue stream for you will have our night life proclamations hotels, the bars, the hospitals and all the workforces there and everything this is open 24 7 we understand and know that the workforce is not just limited to people to live in San Francisco in fact, because of the increasing expensiveness there is for housing and by the way, this is going to be a site of a 100 percent Affordable Housing in the near future where we move own over to the Transbay Center were trying to build as much Affordable Housing in the city we need to know where people are living and how they need to get to work and by the way, in this 2030 transit study we had made we knew the workforce regional probably going to be people that are working second jobs and sometimes third jobs question we cannot simply force them to use air cars to help or force them to buy vehicles that is a workforce that needs our support and recognize to make sure that they can get to work or have visitors or all the kinds of things this 50 thousand person industry and 50 million world of revenue stream needs our support on i am especially thankful to the Regional Transit agencies that weve had the privilege of working with ac transit and bart and golden gate and along with our own San Francisco muni Transit Agency all ushering together under the umbrella working with the mtc, our municipal Transit Commission finland funds to extend the Services Like our outline service i think our drivers are going to be proud of and i know well talk about in a minute thats what were going locally but all the agencies working together have fund funding to reach where workers and people live and those extended hours of operation 4r0k9 routes throughout the bayview and the east bay has been credible part of 24 service to support the late night shifts and the Early Morning shifts of youre working folks i get to announced this effort because part of our 2030 vision plan for San Francisco was to make sure that we give attention to the programs that were creating and that the reasons why were treating e creating this is because we need to sustain this workforce and recognize theyre working all hours of evening and supporting their effort through Public TransportationPublic Transportation throughout all the modes ive identity one of the grandfather equalizer in the prosperity economy were doing if we dont do this well leave a lot of people out of success of our big economy being so hot weve got to get people to work and again, i say a great equalizer those are working families second and thirds jobs their probably doing and making pretty good money im increasing nor night Life Activities whether mid Market Street day and night life and all the housing in the city that want to operate at all hours im very proud of the agencies the Regional Transit agencies were working with and get that bar bonds passed; right . But we need support i need to be out with ac transit and golden gate our own sfmta to make sure that Everybody Knows were going to cover those gaps with all levels of transit extensions along with helping bart and helping your Regional Transit centers with a great Transit Center were building and completed in the next few years ago at this time and right now it is about many workforce and the visitors that use late night transit we have to give them a very affordable addition to the way they get to work and the way they get back to their families safe at night and have is extended you are hours make sure we publicize that a great system with that, i get to introduce someone that is a little bit reason turn around me literally on all things to do with transit and Small Businesses by the way, i want to make sure i mentioned that our Small Businesses with the great beneficiaries of this this is their would it be fair to say were talking about but Supervisor Scott Wiener has been a point person on the vision the 2030 pain and suffering with me on vision zero projects partnering with me on the mtc and all the other agencies that kind of help with the bay area discussion around our Transit Needs and making sure that were do know all the right things in the city let me traffic introduce a great supervisor supervisor wiener clapping. great. Thank you thank you, mr. Mayor this is really exist today because it brings together two of my absolute passions transportation and our night life economy our night life for people having fun and working and two areas that are often been neglected and i have the honor of service on the board of supervisors and sharing our Community Transportation authority and also representing San Francisco on the municipal transportation commission. Thank you to mayor ed lee for appointing me to the mtc and for years and working on night life issues what we hear over and over both from Business Owners from workers from patrons is that that is just two hard to get around at night that our Transit System shut down even before the shut down serve becomes incredibly inadequate until ridership came along good luck getting a cab at the 2 00 a. M. When the bars shut down and it was good hard getting around i held a hearing we started to hear from workers that were talking about how do i goat home late at night with 200 or 300 with tips in my pocket without getting robbed and the anthsdz of getting to bart before that is closed we started hearing from Business Owners and from aprons and people in night life and so i authored legislation to create a Late Night Transportation Working Group to require a planning process a wonderful, Wonderful Group off people came together for a year it is actually still functioning and putt together a great road map thank you to the Entertainment Commission and your Community Transportation authority and the office of Economic Workforce Development for Reilly Clovis on that plan and recommendations a lot of things including the eventual prize the second bart service that but in the meantime before we get to the promise land dooekd one of those thing is better overNight Bus Service and make sure that people know about the in fact, habituate and thank you to golden gate transit and stem tram for coming together to say that is one integrated network we need to move together to expand that overNight Bus Service and i want to thank the metcalfs forces stepping up to support the martha campaign to promote to Late Night Service to the public to help to fund but but also to provide tens of millions of dollars to help the transit agencies expand theyve over Night Bus Service weve seen all the transbay routes create and muni has capacity its overnight outline services making it easier and easier to get around at night and give people confidence had the bars close at two or three or 4 or 5 in the morning theyre actually able to get around that is exciting we need to promote this Marketing Campaign that will permanently hope people dont know i thought to housing unit to 511 in helping the public it access this information about the Transit Service with that, i want to call up people the president of the board of directors of the ac transit one of the key partners in making sure the people could a get across the bay in the middle of the night. Thank you, supervisor wiener and mayor ed lee my name is chris im an elected at large director of at transit and the president were pleased to be part of the effort to encourage the late night work and play in San Francisco and oakland question he provided some service but because former senator included us in measure 2 had service with was inadequate i want to absolute supervisor wieners lairp in putting together the late night working groups that vastly increased the service bart paid for it and bart tom who is president of the bart board is the director for the mission area and he was very revolved in that my former colleague now the ocean boulevard city council rebecca helped we have pretty good service on the west side of the east bay we had some problems in the some of the routes that went further out but i think this effort this publicist effort is very important so everybody thinks whether youre coming to pirate or work over here, whether our cleaning up after people that need to get home at 3 00 oclock in the morning there the transit available and absolute supervisor wiener for all the work and this publicist effort means many more people will permanently be aware of the possibilities of getting around after midnight. Thank you. clapping. thank you so one of the things that we when we started to project we were first focused on patrons getting home on the bart and the clubs closing at night and started focusing more than on workers when they get off work late another night one thing weve not focused on originally but know an issue a number of people that are going to work early in the morning to help you city activate and come to life and the challenges people face getting to work early in the morning i want to bring up karen the owner of mission pie one of the neighborhood businesses that is baking early early in the morning and talk about shes a great participated in the task force and like to say invite her up. clapping. thank you, supervisor wiener and mr. Mayor ive been listening to everyone speak ive been stressed by how much u how much has happened not last couple of years this is not a new problem but a problem rooted in historic planning in the region that has maybe only increasing low needed to be inclusive and co hey a lot of the Transit Systems are really great individually but were designed and envisioned at a time when Service Workers lived in their community as the affordability in our region changes and the demographics follow that change more and more and more people are traveling longer danced to get to work our Records Center in our shop coming from vallejo the Mission District and unlike large cities like new york that built unified systems were struggling to overcome the legacy that once made sense and not now im so excited we hear other people talk about Early Morning needs which is sort of a recent quiet voice at the table actually not quite to reflect on the change that you know a year ago i couldnt tell the people that work in our business without with who vision i wont function i couldnt give them an answer and the people this theyre first week of work uninvariable were late on the weekends and shocked to discover there was no way to get if the east bay to work on time and now there it is a so concrete and incredible but but every relationship including the relationship between a worker and they Transit Provider is a relationship of trust that may sound strange we have to keep the cheer on about these changes because it will permanently take people some time to really have faith in something not been there before and fundamental issue in the region of Economic Justice that everybody in every kind of working job has access to their job at any time of day or night thanks to everyone that has been working on this. clapping. thank you. Okay. So thank you, everyone for being here today and great step forward and not the last implementing those recommendations until we get to a truly twentyfour hour Transit System here in the bay area so thank you very one of the maj was asked to do is Water System Improvement Program and one thing i looked at is about the 4. 8 billion dollars wurthd of work and a lot of the work was regional. We looked at how can we make sure that we provide opportunities for san franciscans and people in the region and so we looked at ways we can expand our local San Francisco lb program. So, we thought about it and worked with general manager at the time to form an advizry committee to talk about how to include local businesses in the region. I was on the First Committee back about 10 years ago and the job changed over time. In the beginning, we just wanted people to know about it. We wanted to attract contractors to come into the system which is a bidding system and bid on some of these projects. Our second job was to help the sfpuc to try to make themselves more user frndly. I like that they go out of their way, have contractors trying to teach and outreach to Small Businesses and lots of creative ways. Help the community as well. There is so much infrastructure going on and repair, new construction that i think is helping to get construction back on its feet. My faiv rlt part of the committee has been that we have played a opportunity for many Small Businesses. [inaudible] Women Owned Business to come in and [inaudible] sfpuc. It is a great opportunity because some are so small they have been able to grow their companies and move up and bid other projects with the sfpuc. Everyone i was talking about with any contractor [inaudible] and super markets and things like that and i realize the transition was on the sfpuc. He got that first job and knows about the paperwork qu schedule and still works on this type of job, but he works with general contractors that also did other things. Pretty soon it is like he did that one and that one. It completely changed his business. My name is nancy [inaudible] the Office Manager and bid coordinator for [inaudible] construction. Worked on 10 plus puc, lbe contracts. Today we are doing Site Maintenance on the [inaudible] chr site and currently the gentlemen behind me are working on every moving and basic specs of plants. In order to be success you need to work hard, bid low and keep a look at the sfpuc website for future bidding opportunity. This is a Successful Program because it provides opportunities to regional communities that might not have opportunities to work for large scale projects. The sfpuc is a fortunate agency we have a lot of Capital Program that span over 7 counties who also to see how some businesses like [inaudible] and bio mass started as small micro businesses grow and expand and stay in the program and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. That is what warms my heart. My name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. Bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. Small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of San Francisco we can also perform services. This program had tremendous impact to the region. In fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. This has h a major positive impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded 50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. And, i significantly helped the business. It is one of the major contributors to our success. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council here at city hall in room 400. Friday, august 19. City hall is accessible to persons choosing wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at the grove van ness and mcallister street via ramps. Wheelchair access at the public street guarding