economics and chinese and the future of our plans to pursue a career in asset management or mergers and acquisitions in real estate or investment banking. also prior to my internship last summer i was able to go to china briefly and intern in a company with skills that previously developed at prometheus. as a student trying to get into the business and finance group has help me to stand up from the crowd and develop skills that we use in future jobs and globally. thank you. (applause) at this point in time we will bring a public comment, this is the most important part of today s agenda from everyone s point of view up here. i m going to call 5 speaker cards; if you could get up and line up behind the podium and take it one at a time. wanted to come up with district two. (reading card names) lineup here and everyone will have two minutes. first of all i want to thank all of you for all you do, mayor lee, supervisors chiu and farrell and all members of the department. a
who has been running the city s summer program. good morning eric mcdonald, a couple of thoughts about our summer jobs plus program, our mayor and city leading the way in the nation responding to president obama s challenge to create opportunities for our young people. the last summer we set a goal of 5000 and achieved 5200. this summer the mayor set a goal of 6000, and we are charging hard towards that. we had about 800 people come last summer through us. we had about 175 volunteers, 75came from city departments who did mock interviews, can indication skills, much management, all fantastic. we work with high schools to create the career academies like here at galileo, and attach those to vocational training and attached to the work academy at san francisco state and usf, and continued hospitality industry, we have a growing cadre of young people who are ready to step and begin treating citizens in our city. if you have young people send them our way. they can go to uabw.or
in the nation responding to president obama s challenge to create opportunities for our young people. the last summer we set a goal of 5000 and achieved 5200. this summer the mayor set a goal of 6000, and we are charging hard towards that. we had about 800 people come last summer through us. we had about 175 volunteers, 75came from city departments who did mock interviews, can indication skills, much management, all fantastic. we work with high schools to create the career academies like here at galileo, and attach those to vocational training and attached to the work academy at san francisco state and usf, and continued hospitality industry, we have a growing cadre of young people who are ready to step and begin treating citizens in our city. if you have young people send them our way. they can go to uabw.org, or they can call 211 and get more information. what we want to do now is bring up briana white, to talk about the value of experience. we wanted get the exposure and a
good morning mayor lee and supervisors. the api includes employment services, youth services, family resource centers and services for families and children. one of the things that was remarkable last year, after years of budget cuts and deficits that do not allow us to support our staff was a 3% cost of doing business; that in our contracts resulted with the first raises for staff where they have been losing ground year after year; it would can have that again this year it would go a long way to support a committed, capable staff and our capacity to continue these important services and none of us would argue about what it means to the quality-of-life for our residents to have nonprofits to be strong and vibrant of the city. another project that was funded which was also amazing was the language axis project. as you know there was a language access ordinance passed requiring city agencies to provide language access to very diverse, often monolingual residents. it was not
year after year; it would can have that again this year it would go a long way to support a committed, capable staff and our capacity to continue these important services and none of us would argue about what it means to the quality-of-life for our residents to have nonprofits to be strong and vibrant of the city. another project that was funded which was also amazing was the language axis project. as you know there was a language access ordinance passed requiring city agencies to provide language access to very diverse, often monolingual residents. it was not executed well. the resources were not there and often times the staff that was hired, the capacity was for one language. someone in the back office it really didn t have customer service as part of their job. and so because we got funding last year we are piloting community partnerships and it wasn t enough. our ask was 2 million dollars and we would like to see 500,000 dollars more this year to ensure that access to ev