Progressive values, and i think there is a danger and an overly narrow definition of what is progressive. We have to remember that being progressive stance for values of inclusiveness, of tolerance, of acceptance, and we need to think hard about how we characterize various votes of either being within that definition or outside of that. Before i ran for office, i worked in San Francisco as a criminal prosecutor and a civil rights attorney and really got to understand how much of a beacon to the rest of the world San Francisco is for social justice. I also been spent a number of years helping to grow a small business, got to understand the innovative spirit here in San Francisco. At night, i volunteered as a Neighborhood Association leader and also as the chair of an Affordable Housing organization and learned so much about the challenges facing our neighborhoods and facing a really special tools that are the urban villages that we live in. Sen for assistance facing really the special j
Present to the commission and i also want to acknowledge commissioner yee riley, who last summer served on the working group, the investment in neighborhoods working group, that helps to oversee the creation of this program. Do you have my presentation in front of you . Okay, great. Im going to give you an overview of the program. The elements, the Baseline Services, the commercial district assessment and Customized Services and do some q a. So essentially the mission of this program is our neighborhood commercial districts will thrive and its born out of the mayors commitment to Economic Development as a central platform of his administration. At the end of 2011, after he was elected to a full term, he directed our office to greatly expand the scope of our neighborhood Economic Development work. So we have been doing neighborhood Economic Development for years at oewdss Economic Development division and invest in neighborhoods represents an expansion in that work. I will tell you how
Thank you. Actually, we were thinking about a centralized resource meaning the consultant, Small Business development center, our community partner, which we provided Grant Funding for this program and other programs in our office. Not a location, but a place, where somebody can talk to you to guide them through the process. Great. Thank you. Commissioner yee riley. I want to know if there are any new staff requirements or just going to use existing staff . This is going to utilize existing staffing. And we have a 60,000 commitment that is in the mayors budget right now. That money is going to go for the consultants, the staffing that is going to be coordinating is between dph and oewd is already there. The 60,000 is for additional staff . For consultants. For consultants . Yes. So the gentleman before you is a Consulting Group that does all of this for a fee . Correct and it would be an openprocess for once the program is up and running for consultants to work under this program. Righ
The Richmond District center. I grew up in the california area, ended up at ucdavis. I made my way out to San Francisco in 1984 when i was a college student. I remember growing up on clement street. I have always lived around in richmond area, just being around a unique area of the richmond, discovering San Francisco in the 1980s. I am hoping we can not support Small Businesses like this because they are the unique character that makes neighborhoods like this so rich and lively to live in. I have also been active as a community organizer. I worked at the chinese progressive association. I also worked at the Mental Health center in the Richmond District. I have always been passionate about civil rights, equality for everyone. I have a 10yearold daughter, so having a girl has made me much more sensitive to gender equality issues. I guess i have always been vocal about my politics, but as a supervisor, i have to listen to other perspectives and making decisions. Very soon there will be of
Department of Public Health and supervisor mars office for reaching out to oewd and the department of Public Health, and the groceries association. I think its wonderful and you did a great job. So do we want to make a motion on this one, anyone . I will make the motion to support it. Second. Chris . Commissioners, i have a motion by commissioner yee riley to recommend approval of board of supervisors file no. 120996, administrative code healthy food retailer incentive program, seconded by commissioner dooley. On that motion, commissioner president adam [stphfplz ] yes. Commissioner dooley . Yes. Commissioner dwight . Yes. Commissioner brien is absent, commissioner ortizcartagena is absent. Commissioner white . Yes. Commissioner yee riley . Yes. That passes 50. Thank you. Next item, please commissioners that brings us up to all right 4 presentation and discussion on the mayors invest in Neighborhood Program by jordan klein, office of economic and workforce development. Welcome, jordan.