Good afternoon. My name is jessica baker. Im also an employee at jool labs. I came to work at jool about 2. 5 years ago purely based on two things. One, the people, and two, the mission. Our mission is simple. Its to eliminate combustible cigarettes worldwide. Currently, 1 billion smokers are using cigarettes, and thats a powerful mission, and that was enough to make me inspired to work here. As a child of the 80s, much of my holidays at grandmas house were consumed with big clouds of smoke inside as they all sat around and smoked cigarettes, and me and my brother would hide from the smoke and go upstairs and seek refuge wherever we could. My grandmothers now 83 years old and suffering from copd. There was no alternative to cigarettes at that time, and now shes suffering. Mentally and physically, shes healthy as can be, but when it comes to hur lungs, they are her lungs, theyre failing her due to her longterm smoking habits. My father was a smoker, and the first thing i did when i star
Business week. Adam began working with Small Business Week Committee in 2009, which is my first year and managed it through 2019. Adam is to commended for his excellent skills and talents in producing and managing a week long occasion that has over 60 events and workshops. This was an accomplished about his amazing ability to coordinate and manage consisting of nearly 20 Small Business community organizations. Adam was instrumental in maintaining partnerships with sponsorships which resulted in San Francisco Small Business week being the largest and most comprehensive in the united states. For these reasons and many more that the Small Business commission is proud to recognize adam straus for his contributions to celebrating Small Business in San Francisco and San Francisco Small Business week. Without adam straus Small Business week would not be what it is today. Hes a d. J. And whole lot of other stuff. Adam, congratulations thank you very much for everything that you have done. You
Justice system to keep young people from coming to the system. Partnership with the school personnel, problem solving with young people who are in crises, direct engagement are also some of the things that we have seen can be beneficial to youth when theres a schoolbased probation officer. It does sound liking for youre 12yearold meetin meetih a probation officer it seems stigmatizing. Is there i dont know. Im not doing that work. Are they identify as probation officer . It varies by setting. When we had this in place the probation officer became and almost seemless addition to the staff in that environment. They brought with them their expertise of the juvenile Justice System problem solving with young people in crises and offering referrals. Supervisor mandelman do you have data on outcomes, success of that particular intervention . It was a very shortterm program. I can look and see if we had any evaluation that was conducted. I can share that information with you. Im also aware the
I went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, th
Front table. Welcome. Each Small Business meeting with the reminder that the office of saw business is the only place to start your new business in San Francisco and the best place to get answers to your questions about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first stop if you have questions what to do next. You can find us online or in person here at city hall for our service is free of small. Small Business Commission is here to address your concerns that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses here in San Francisco. If you need assistance with your Small Business here, start here at the office of Small Business. Item 1 call to order. Roll call. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum. President adams next item please. Item 2 [agenda item read]. President adams do we have any member of the public like to make comment on item that is not on todays agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment closed. Next item please. Item 3 [agenda item read