We are featured about the town and its really doubling our list of friends which is a great thing wefrm getting great positive attention from really low investment and a lot of creativity from staff from the puc who came up with the campaign under the direction of tyrone. With that, that concludes my quarterly report. Im happy to rho return to do a longer report. What im interested in the advertisement is to use that when we engage in a water shed approach. By doing this campaign we can see we are very successful in getting this in shape to help shape the ssip. It really helps us to engage to talk about what our program will eventually look like. All right. My next item and my short general managerial report. Done a you want to go over the regular meeting calendar. In your packets commissioners you have the proposed meeting schedule for 2014. In its standard you have the second and 4th tuesday of each month scheduled for your meetings with the exception of november, the second meeting
Global economy and when you look at the parts and supplies and protection policies that seems like a good idea until you realize youre using parts from all over the accruing world. And the granted program be reapplied into a National Program that comploiz the income to Smaller Companies to give people onthejob training terrific. For the next may mayor. I want to give us reductions to what is written here in big letters free wine. This is the after party its on 25 mission go left on howard and left on first and left on mission 925 mission. Free wine. Please join me in thanking our penal clapping see you all at the good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Its a Beautiful Day in San Francisco. My name is Joaquin Torres the director of economic and Work Force Development and the mayors investing Neighborhood Initiative which is an office coordinates through out our neighborhood commercial services that our private partners bring to bear. It also includes something we realize in th
To my parents who had immigrated here to the u. S. Actually, i started really becoming active in working with the community when i was in high school. Came out to california for college, went to stanford. I was always politically involved. When i was a college student, i worked on the initiative to get rid of affirmative action in our public government system. Currently, we have 3 legislative items that are pending. The first is going to be coming to a final vote on tuesday, our midmarket uptown Tenderloin Task exemption legislation. It is basically an incentive to encourage businesses to come to midmarket. In particular, where we have the highest commercial vacancy. And then when i graduated, moved out to San Francisco about 12 years ago. I always loved Sanford Cisco in college, and i just wanted to try it out. I started working in Economic Development policy. I was a Community Organizer for six years. I worked with young people, parents, and families around issues that concern our ne
Valuation and our John Gardener team is here, maria who is a researcher and monica lopez and laurel is here. This you thank you for coming ladies. I may call you if you have more to talk about. This is really an outcome driven data driven and outcome driven project. As you know our services are required by doe to be evidence based. We have established the common indicators and outcomes and now we are working with our Partner Agencies to ultimately ensure that we are all working in achieving what we said we were going to achieve. We partnered with stanford who has been working already with the School District for several years and several other agencies to create a research and evaluation design. We are entering the muddy waters and scary waters of data sharing agreement and working on consent issues and we are just required by doe to get an irb clearance, individual rights review board. Well be conducting a survey in the spring to get at a lot of the data that you just cant get with th
There hasnt been that collaboration. Potentially, the thing is that there is a strong overlap, between 13,000 people they serve and our 7,000 and its so important that we make that connection and we incentivize working together. It not about working in silence anymore. These are challenging conversations where we are challenging the sector, nonprofit, School District and city departments and we want to engage in a positive way to really ensure that we are doing the best by our constituents. Thank you. Thank you and congratulations again on 40 years serving our city. I hope you are coming. I dont think commissioner mendoza is going to be able to make it. Before i turn it over to policy, maybe i will discuss briefly what louis skipped over is the promise zones. Thats what we are working on with various city agencies and commissioner mendoza and others to develop this proposal that is really about integrating federal funds both from the department of education, from hud, from doj, you mak