Bren chair ronen good morning, everyone. I hope you all do your best to stay inside today and keep your loved ones safe inside, and our thoughts and solidarity and love are going out to the people of Northern California and Sonoma County who are suffering tremendously, and we will continue to fight to keep each other safe and very grateful to the mayor whos setting up a shelter as we speak to do our part in keeping our neighbors to the north safe. So our thoughts are with the people of our region. And the meeting will come tord on. Welcome to the october 28, 2019 meeting of the rules committee. Im chair hillary ronen. Seated to my right is rules Committee Supervisor shamann walton, and to my left is gordon mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Items acted upon today will appear on the november 5 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Chair ronen thank you. Can you please read item number one. Clerk item number one is an ordinance dissolving the Workforce Advisory Committee and a statement on the workforce alignment. Good morning, supervisors. Im angela calvillo. Im simply before you because of the housekeeping language in the ordinance which actually sunsets these two bodies and sunsets these in july. I understand that there is a desire for the bodies to be reauthorized, and if that is the case, we are happy to work with the committee and the supervisors to reach that organization. This is just a housekeeping step to remove them from the administrative code. If there is to be reauthorizing legislation, it would just be put back into the code. Im available for any questions. Chair ronen okay. No questions . Okay. I also see joshua arce and lisa pagan from oewd, if you wanted to make any comments. Thank you, supervisors. Joshua arce, director of office of economic and Workforce Development. As clerk calvillo mentioned, the committee has sunseted, but we just wanted to answer any questions that you might have. Were here joined by if not now, then in moments, the cochair of the committee, the esteem esteemed chair, sheryl davis. Were also here joined by one of the members of the Workforce CommitteeAdvisory Committee and thats annie chung, the executive director of selfhelp for the elderly, as well. Just to give you some highlevel components its just this one, lisa . Thank you. Thank you, lisa. Weve also got members of our Workforce Team to make sure we can answer any questions that you have. The committees were going to talk about today were established in 2014 under an ordinance 842014 establishes what we called the workforce lines committee, and workforce c. A. C. , and those committees were scheduled to run through july 2017. In 2019, there was a second ordinance there which extended the sunset dates of those committees to june 30, 2019. Theres weve referred to this period as kind of the first period of extension. Throughout this entire time, weve continued to meet and continued to work to perform the duties of these bodies as weve discussed because the work is just too important not to continue as we seek direction here from the board. And in the current year, the plan is to convene, and weve convened these committees twice. Well convene them again in the next several weeks pending the direction of the board because our opinion, the work is too important not to. We report back to the mayor, the workforce, and city departments and as of last week, you should have the latest report out from the body. Through the ordinance, it is made up of agencies listed on the slide. Director davis and i chair these committees. Director Joaquin Torres joins us at the meetings, as well. Human services agency, department of public works, department of children, youth, and families, San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission, and the department of Human Resources participate in these committees. And in the next slide is the question that i think is appropriate. What do the committees do . Were charged under chapter 30, the admin code, to increase access to job seekers, to stable sufficient employment with sufficient wages and benefits to support families and advance the needs of vulnerable populations, improve Business Engagement strategies to engage those workers and also to have a better system across the different agencies about how we track and report out comes across the city and city. We talked about the members. Theres two additional agencies that have joined as of 2017. Thats when we sought director of Human Resources and Workforce Advisory Committee. I think in conversation, had a question from supervisor walton, had vacancies in the committees. We would wait for the direction from the board, and in the case of the c. A. C. Are board appointees or the mayor appointees on the community Advisory Committee. And if we can hold on just for one second, i want to make sure we identify our community developers. Selfhelp for the elderly, bayviewhunters point center for arts and technology, and Episcopal Community services, among others. Lastly is just a quick rundown of the policy recommendations that have been developed and reported out by the committee over the past several years. Weve talked about the need for the work to continue both at the Alignment Committee and the workforce c. A. C. Because its just now in the report that weve finalized to the board a set of recommendations and in some ways now is when the real work begins. And so the five areas that have been identified as weve seen here, breaking the cycle of poverty for San Francisco through better workforce delivery, support and services. A what is called in the report, a workforce map, how they engage different agencies, how they end up being served and coordinate through the different departments. A datasharing infrastructure so that were all looking and getting apples to apple comparisons about the number of clients served, placements, longterm retention, objectives. And then fourth is what the workforce policy called demand side, which is looking at the industries where theres growth and opportunity for goodpaying jobs and to help guide the programming. So these industries that can help the problems that we seek to breakdown. And streamlining the contacting process, which is making it easier for Service Providers and contractors, whatever we can do to make things easier and better is the goal in that regard. As i mentioned, weve med informally. Well continue to do again. At oewd, everyone seeks to contribute something individual thats maybe core to our agencies as we coordinate across the different departments. At oewd, one of the things that we always talk about especially when we look at these industries, that we partner with organized labor because i think for a lot of us that come into this work from a Community Labor perspective, Community Labor is one of the most effective means of advancing workforce objectives. Im happy to answer any questions and happy to explain any recommendations. We respectfully would love your support to continue this important work. Chair ronen thank you so much. Any questions or comments . No. Thank you so much for all your work. Appreciate it. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you. If theres no more speakers, then well open this up for Public Comment. Is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item . Please come forward. Good morning, supervisors. Im an executive Committee Member of the San Francisco labor council. First, i want to start by thanking you, supervisor ronen, for all your work. Also, i did not have an opportunity to speak you with about this particular item, but i did speak with supervisor walton. Supervisor mar, thank you, also for all of your work to help us find a little bit more information about transparency and accountability mechanisms in this space which we highly value. I think director arce did mention that one of the most critical components of success in this space is that labor piece. Were all friends with labor, but it does jump out with me that labor is not a part of this committee and has not been. We are enthusiastic about the continuation of these efforts, but primarily for the following reasons. We believe that theres a lack of transparency in this space. While we want people to get paid and we want to expedite those processes, on the back end, we do believe there should be an enforcement mechanism in connection with transparency and accountability measures. Weve seen too much fragmented approaches to Workforce Development especially with the lowest paid workers. What happens as a result of lack of coordination is we undermine the minimum labor standards for people that have already been provided a real career opportunity, instead, cannibalizing these strong wage positions, we need to be thoughtful how we expand that through preapprenticeship and apprenticeship and a real pathway together. Thank you so much. Chair ronen thank you. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Chair ronen supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you, chair ronen. Thank you to everyone for bringing this farther and making sure we do our Due Diligence and act in accordance with our duty with the city. I just want to start off and im not going to go deep into history, but these committees were started to make sure that opportuniti opportunities were provided for folks in community to be able to work here in San Francisco and also to make sure that our c. B. O. Community that was providing Workforce Services could Work Together with the cities to figure outweighs to stream line resources because we have so many different pots of workforce money from several different departments and we wanted to put together something that was going to provide a space, an opportunity, for all of our city departments that provide Workforce Services to figure outweighs to stream Line Services so that it makes it easier for the Workforce Community to provide services to our most vulnerable populations. I do want to say that even though unemployment is down here in San Francisco, we have a very low Unemployment Rate, certain subsections of folks here in the city are still unemployed at disproportionate rates. Lgbtq, folks of color, people that are living in lowincome housing, so we need to continue to work to stream line resources is very important. I want to definitely work very closely with the City Attorney and the Clerks Office to bring this body back as soon as possible, and we will make sure we look at the recommendations, what has been presented, and that these bodies are very active, and that they will continue to actually do the work that is necessary for us to keep folks employed here in San Francisco and address the wealth gap and disparities that are here in the city. So i will be working closely to make sure that does happen. I know we have to deal with the formalities with the city here today, but rest assured that were going to move forward. Thank you all for being here this earning month. I ju this morning. I just wanted to make sure i put that on record. Chair ronen any other comments . Supervisor mar yes. I have some questions, but im glad to hear that supervisor walton is intending to to to introduce legislation to continue these these important bodies, that both the Alignment Committee and community Advisory Committee, but i think were taking action today just to dissolve them. I do have some questions about the work of the committees and the outcomes, so mr. Arce, im wondering well, i was just curious i guess for the Alignment Committee and the community Advisory Committee, how functional have they been since theyve been created, how many meetings have been held, and what are the significant outcomes of the two bodies . Absolutely. Theres been 14 meetings of the workforce Alignment Committee, meaning therell be 15 here on november 13. Therell be our our sixth meeting of the workforce c. A. C. Will be on the 19, shortly thereafter. I have to apologize, one of the hardest working members, we lost because he was elected to district ten, but he was responsible for driving a lot of the work that came out of the workforce c. A. C. I think one of the big picture achievements of the Work Together was that there was a time i think when the city was prepared to otherwise look at a record low Unemployment Rate and take a step back and say the notion of full employment has been achieved. And i think the workforce c. A. C. Really weighed in to push our agencies and the city departments to really go deeper in some ways at 1. 8 unemployment which is what we saw as of september. The work really begins because black and brown communities, two to three times higher. The Public Housing community, those with housing challenges, its really to take the jobs that are on the table to address the racial, genders, socioeconomic and all the problems that we see. So in some way, having opportunities for all, which has been a topic of all the last couple of meetings ensuring that all 22,000 High School Students should have access to a paid internship last summer, it speaks to how all the departments Work Together to partner this that. A partnership between our offices and the Office Agency but Civil Service required that they have a College Degree to go make the next step up in city employment. So our office put resources in in collaboration with Human Services agency for those men and women to do their College Education in the evenings online when theyre not doing their work at the at their host agency. Another example is the city drive program, which is when city the Chariot Company went out of business and our office offered those men and women who are losing their jobs to come and drive for muni as muni drivers. So i think the Alignment Committee, which especially you have this report, kind of recommendations what were able to achieve, especially now that youre looking at the ordinance provides stability to look at some of these outcomes and im happy to go deeper on some of the examples that you might have, supervisor, but to take on certain initiatives and projects. The last meeting we had, we said we all want to express to the idea to continue the work, and one of the ideas was to look at Public Sector workers, particularly where they need to do better and have a strategy with our office to engage private sector and have a coordinated strategy to do that. But i want to introduce the cochair of our strategic Alignment Committee, sheryl davis. Number one, with the workforce alignment, we got to a place where we to be honest, not a lot of alignment. I think Building Trust was the most important piece, and i think we got to a place with the departments around the table to say we know we can do a better job specifically with the groups that have already been mentioned, People Living in Public Housing, understanding the reality of racism and the way that it impacts your ability to move through society. I so i think being able to have those honest conversations and getting to a place where were saying, not to talk in the he greggahe in the agreggate and thats where we are, and to be real and to start measuring impact. Supervisor mar thank you so much director davis, carr ardi arce, sharing some of the results of this amazing work. I had another question. Could you point to the points of organized labors not being represented in this committee actually, i guess there are some seats on the workforce investment board. Yes. And supervisor, your question, i dont see anything in the ordinance that would preclude participation and partnership with organized labor in those conversations, the meetings, and maybe in a certain sense. So i think were open to that that kind of conversation because whether its a part of this committee or whether its part of the workforce c. A. C. Or otherwise, from our perspective, you heard from Building Trades that apprenticeship and preapprenticeship is something in the industry. You all unanimously approved for the cannabis industry. Were all in conversation, city drive utilizing a apprenticeship. Were in discussion with other l