Really excited about and want to focus on today is the incredible partnership of all the members of the Small Business community that are here today. Where are you, jason . Raise your hand. Hi, jason from shop small saturday. Thank you very much for your partnership and continued klb ration. Collaboration. We have mark quite thesing, regina dickendreezy, the council of district merchants has been a critical partner of ours as well. We have the Council District of merchants here as well. Juan of the things that were really proud of and really inspired by is our mayor, ed lee. The mayor came to us four years ago, the office of Economic Workforce Development and said i challenge you to create a program and campaign that gets more shopping done in our local neighborhoods. Increase the amount of spending to support jobs and Small Businesses and also support taxes and the vitality of our neighborhoods. And we, through the incredible work of Mariane Thompson and gloria chan, Joaquin Torres in
Hi, im muhammad the director of public works in San Francisco were doing a show for public works tv and my guest today. Interview thank you. You run an organization that actually empowers people to be stew address of the land and troy to change peoples lives. Tell us about the organization and maybe a little bit more about kind of what you have been doing in public works . Interview well, i founded the Hunters Point family when i was 23 and basically it was in anticipation of having my first child and if i wanted a Better Community for my children, we would create that. We employ people who are in the reentry population, former life ers, people with life sentencing to monitor the toilets and that means to make sure that they keep them safe and they keep them clean and the thing this population does is they have overtime developed a sense of Emotional Intelligence so they are able to so easily and smoothly make sure people can come in out and diffuse and deescalate any situations that a
Create those, versus this group were trying to target. The subsidy is not there. So its more expensive to build those units in many ways and with less return than marketrate unit. And thats what a lot of investors and investments are based on. Well continue this conversation. I appreciate the chair hosting this and moving this conversation forward, and well work with these departments and members of the public to further an idea on how we can created a ages a create additional revenue. Councillor tang i wanted to say, maybe even a year or two ago, it was difficult to have this conversation, so i do want to thank supervisor safai and city staff for working on this. Its a real issue. We have the data to show its an increasing problem and were not here to take away housing from other people. Were trying to broaden the pot, as supervisor safai said. So i look forward to being engaged on this issue with all of you. Thank you, supervisor. Echo those comments as well. With that, a motion to f
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Families and people that are down here with information guides about where to stop and where to get the best bargains right and also, just being here at this Winter Wonder land i know karen is excited because this wonder land grew out of the need to have a place that was outside of the construction immediate zone or to change that zone for the holidays so john is glad to do this more tor yum and well talk about extended construction later on and during the central subway construction, i think we used our innovation to really Work Together to invite people down here and hose up that construction for a period of time which starts now and wont end until after the new year but this is calm and quiet and you will hear less about construction and more about the voices of our family and kids and people just excited to run through here with all the activities on Winter Wonder land were here to make sure its not only safe but clean, welcoming environment, helpful environment and there were be h