Go out and pursue, air service, from International Destinations . San francisco. And that contract is, you know, it goes to the regular, city process. And for the effort. And do you know what the dollar about is . I can get that for you. Okay. Thank you. Okay and we are having an expansion, beginning in the planning and so i am going to have to appreciate. And kefp carroll and so i have the questions about how you are avoiding the contracts for catering for parking, for janitorial and for concessions and Event Planning and etc. , i know that it is a pretty Broad Spectrum here, but which is why it is important that we hear this answer. So, again, how do you award these types of contractses and then the second follow up, is, is there existing equity based model . For a contract . Yeah. So, just i represent the Hotel Council of San Francisco. Okay. We dont make contracts or provide contracts or negotiate contracts for the hotel industry. Okay. But the hotels handle that themselves and we
Supporting what changes need to be made and how do we hold them accountable, and i am holding it more for the specifics and not necessarily the bigger picture, but, i guess that we will get to that over the course of the conversation, i know that supervisor cohen has been more active and has taken the leadership in this whole issue in the first place, but i still dont necessarily see other than holding this hearing, what i can do as a member of the board of supervisors, to help push legislation, to help push support, or to help make the necessary changes in order for it to be successful. So that is what i am looking for. What i want to get out of the hearing today. The last two items, at the end of october i am due to present the interdepartment report on what the different departments that i am working with will do for the agenda and that is something that i would like to work privately or publicly with your office to get your views on if we are on the right track. Not a legislative b
Recruitment or advertisement or how do you let people know that hey, the membership organizations please, come and join us. We go into, well, first of all when we hear of the leads, and we have a whole staff, that basically is paid to do that and they go and reach out to any business that they see that falls within their area. So, it bohooves them to reach out and on top of that, now, we do, again, look to the leadership of each neighborhood and so your neighborhood merchant associations and so we go out into those, neighborhoods and in the twofold, and again, how the working with them to help to create their neighborhood as a destination but then, also, in that, to let them know about the benefits that they can receive, by being a member of San Francisco, travel association. Got it. So up until recently, we have connected you to the merchant of the bay view Merchants Association that is what i know . I am sorry, up until recently, you have been connected. Exactly. So let me say this b
Join us. We go into, well, first of all when we hear of the leads, and we have a whole staff, that basically is paid to do that and they go and reach out to any business that they see that falls within their area. So, it bohooves them to reach out and on top of that, now, we do, again, look to the leadership of each neighborhood and so your neighborhood merchant associations and so we go out into those, neighborhoods and in the twofold, and again, how the working with them to help to create their neighborhood as a destination but then, also, in that, to let them know about the benefits that they can receive, by being a member of San Francisco, travel association. Got it. So up until recently, we have connected you to the merchant of the bay view Merchants Association that is what i know . I am sorry, up until recently, you have been connected. Exactly. So let me say this because you alluded to having the staff and i assume that you have had the staff and i will just want to express my
Found that was the time for me to go back to school since i wasnt able to go immediately into college from high school. I want to tell you a tail of 2 city colleges. When i started in 2003 i saw a large number of diversity studies courses, African American studies, gay lesbian stud as, Latino American studies and a number of different arts classes that appealed to me. When i started there i was working on my aa degree and 2 dance certificate that the college offered. I had to leave school a little while after that because of some family issues and my fathers health but when i returned last year found a lot of things changed. There was a dance Major Program offered there i can work tworts fwr my aa and focus more on that, but at the same time the performing arts and Education Center wasnt present and found that a lot of money was diverted from that. A number of diversity courses offered in the past were significantly lowered and i found that disheartening. At the same time i was happy t