From the Hotel Council. I am sorry. Actually, sense you are here, you can go ahead. Pines, you will be next. Okay. Good morning, supervisors thank you supervisor cohen for calling this. And my name is Kevin Carroll and i am the executive director and impart of the working group that is called that is regarding this report that we are talking about today and i am also a member of the Subworking Group that has been put together, that includes the Hotel Council, and 7 of our major hotels and the hr directors and the local to kasey and pines and as well as thomas from the office of economic and Workforce Development and we have been leading and developing the process, right now. And the first thing that we did was finding way to attracting and having the opportunity for not oebl the Community Based organizations but the off can americans to learn about the Hotel Industries and the jobs available, and so the first thing that we did was developed a show case, that we invited, over 60 Communi
Our fire department, and dhr. Okay. And refresh my memory on this particular audit, because there is a reason why the finding is there and it probably is directly, what, the labor contract is saying, and policy. Yes. And i will get back with you. And the thing that i know that, there have been a lot of recommendations and there have been a lot of changes, and we will continue to have problems and we will continue as we audit the different departments to have specific requests that we have, but, there should not be a case, where they are allowed to not resolve a particular issue for more than two years. And so, i think that at this point, my goal is to try and close these out, or bring those particular departments before this committee, and hold them accountable, and potentially withhold their ability to actually, you know, pay out in some of these instances, so that this practice, of being able to circumvent the system that the money that we are issuing to the departments is not abused
That, there have been a lot of recommendations and there have been a lot of changes, and we will continue to have problems and we will continue as we audit the different departments to have specific requests that we have, but, there should not be a case, where they are allowed to not resolve a particular issue for more than two years. And so, i think that at this point, my goal is to try and close these out, or bring those particular departments before this committee, and hold them accountable, and potentially withhold their ability to actually, you know, pay out in some of these instances, so that this practice, of being able to circumvent the system that the money that we are issuing to the departments is not abused because that is pretty much what is happening. I fully understand. Okay. Thank you. In 2012, cfa audited Human Service agencies and the vehicle Fleet Management and there were four recommendations which remain open. And the recommendation asked hsa to take advantage of th
Outlines a framework and tangible commitments that the city can make to enable and support the inclusion of the African American, and the African Americans in this respective industry. This hearing is timely and as i introduced and passed with all of high colleagues sponsor ship, legislation to commemorate the freedom trail and to highlight the social, and the psycho, social and impacts of the African Americans, Community Inside of the city. On education, on entertainment, and as well as civic life and so colleagues and also, San Francisco and members of the public, we are here because the people in the African American community are missing out on the Employment Industries and the booming industry, when as in the African American Unemployment Rate is close to, close to 3 times that of the other racial dem graphics and so we have a major problem here and we have to begin to turn the tides and so the purpose of the hearing is not only to highlight the important work that the working gro
In the city. And so, we will move to the presentation. And the general structure that supervisor cohen mentioned is that i want to give the different information on the contributers in the background and we will give a little bit of a supervisor breed in particular, less of the data and so we will give the data on the snapshot and what we see is the hospitality, and we will turn it over to the colleagues, and findings that we do have the supervisors request and the suggestions and the thoughts on those steps to the board of supervisors. So, in terms of contributers, as supervisor cohen mentioned, this has been a coalition of over 60 leaders representing San Francisco Community Faith based community, that is the sf travel and the naacp and the chamber of commerce from the beginning and i am the Senior Advisor to the mayor. And the african inclusion and i also serve at the Public Utilities commission as a policy and Government Affairs advisor and so the city was really second to the part