Jurisdiction of this commission, you may speak on item 4, and then that will be heard for 15 minutes. And if you are unable to get in during that time, we will continue that item to item 10. Last, just a reminder, when you do speak to the commission, please address your comments to the commission, and neither the commission, nor staff will answer questions during Public Comment. But they may ask staff to respond after Public Comment is done. With that, we are on item 2. The president s report. The president is going to ask a question before we formalize how many minutes we are going to speak. Quite a few people entered the room since i made that just decision. How many people are anticipating testifying before the commission today . Well keep it at 3 minutes. Thank you very much. I will be very brief. First as it relates to the agenda, because we are missing commissioner levitan and commissioner bonilla is being excused at noon. I would like to take items 4, 5 and 7, so we get full vot
David, jeff, Michael Carlin, commissioner arsed. Good morning commissioners. David de la torre, local 261. And on behalf of my father i want to thank you everybody present in support of this resolution. Commissioner tom harrison opened up with being one of the fortunate ones under the mentorship of my father. I got to say, i too, have been fortunate to be mentored by my father. I had a certain indoctoration into the labor movement. As a previous board member of the bbc. We used to meet monthly on a saturday at the village what they call the village. The board consisted of some of the residents, and the stories that they used to tell as far as the bloodshed and the violence within that community which made it a despondent community with such potential. It was not even newsworthy and that is what bothered me the most. I would heard this, but not on the news, and that is due to the lack of opportunities out there in the community. I am the current chair of the Phillip Institute center and
Reality is that i think the staff is doing a super job and i wanted to point out that the public agrees with you. Thank you, that concludes my report. What else am i supposed to say . Nothing. Thank you. [laughter ] is there any Public Comment on this item . Okay. Being none, Public Comment is closed. We are now going to go to item 4, general Public Comment up to 15 minutes. And this item will be continued to item 10, if we do not get through all the card right now. At this time members of public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subjectmatter jurisdiction of the commission and that do note appear on the agenda. With respect to the agenda items your opportunity to address the community will be afforded when the item is reached in meeting. Before we get started, i would ask folks, we have a few seats left, if you could please, go ahead and fill the seats. And we can pull a few more chairs out from the back. But if we could get everyone to
Get into whether it be the private or the Public Sector careers. Now as mario de la torres son who came here with limited opportunity and more importantly the unions and laborers who helped to organize and offered organized and offered training. One of them being english as a second language, which helped to further our members careers. And so on behalf of my father, i am here to encourage you to support this resolution. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning commissioners, my name is Jeff Armstrong and im the director of the Northern California laborers Apprentice Program and here to speak in favor of the Training Academy. The laborers and the city of San Francisco have had many joint labormanagement Apprenticeship Programs that are successful and this is the next step in the next evolution in getting young men and women trained and getting them the Economic Opportunities that so often comes with the training. Appreciate your support. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, mich
These cards first and will call for additional Public Comment after we go through the cards. Each person commissioner, three minutes . Three minutes. On each item under Public Comment. If you would like to address the commission on an item that is not on the calendar, but is under the jurisdiction of this commission, you may speak on item 4, and then that will be heard for 15 minutes. And if you are unable to get in during that time, we will continue that item to item 10. Last, just a reminder, when you do speak to the commission, please address your comments to the commission, and neither the commission, nor staff will answer questions during Public Comment. But they may ask staff to respond after Public Comment is done. With that, we are on item 2. The president s report. The president is going to ask a question before we formalize how many minutes we are going to speak. Quite a few people entered the room since i made that just decision. How many people are anticipating testifying b