Thank you. Thank you commissioner wynns and i want to recognize that were joined by supervisor campos and the school board commissioner. Thank you for being here. Commissioner mendoza. Thank you. First i really want to thank united way and dcyf and department of Workforce Development for all of the work around this. This is the third summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i think part of the challenge coming into this was not ever having a coordinated effort or a place for the young people to go where they can have the applications come in and on the back end have Jobs Available for them so this is everybody has been doing their own thing making their own connection and having their own relationships so this whole effort is tremendous just in terms of the relationships that have been built over the years. Having said that theres a lot that still needs to get done. I think part of what we have been talking about as a team is how do we ensure that those inter
Students so we have orientation for the Business Partners and the students. We have ongoing workshops. We have packets, everything you can think of and how to ask for more or less work so i think we have those students. Now the other students that i am talking about and were excited to expand out for the project labor internship they have the same services in the summer, but they dont have the follow through during the school year, so its episodic for the pla kids that come out of the different high schools but we have the same services so they have that orientation. They have those workshops. We make sure that they fill out time sheets and those employers are supported just as well. We spend a lot of time developing the work, the Work Base Learning rotation for the summer so muni and darlene they sit down and work out what the opportunities are doing when they visit two days a week and its based on curriculum and a plan. We dont wing it. If i can follow up for a minute when you say th
Them make the connections and build on the experience because we dont want it to be a one off. Thank you. Thank you commissioner wynns and i want to recognize that were joined by supervisor campos and the school board commissioner. Thank you for being here. Commissioner mendoza. Thank you. First i really want to thank united way and dcyf and department of Workforce Development for all of the work around this. This is the third summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i think part of the challenge coming into this was not ever having a coordinated effort or a place for the young people to go where they can have the applications come in and on the back end have Jobs Available for them so this is everybody has been doing their own thing making their own connection and having their own relationships so this whole effort is tremendous just in terms of the relationships that have been built over the years. Having said that theres a lot that still needs to get done.
Presentation on summer schools that jobs and the program that muni has is well received and is a Year Round Program and they allow students to get to activities year round including jobs. So just to spend a moment on vision zero. This is such an enormous part of our work at the mta and specifically on the sustainable streets side and i thought it was important to talk about this and i will say that december 2013 was a really, really bad month for Traffic Safety and there was a lot of tragedies that month, and deaths in the traffic deaths and one of those that really captured the attention and hearts of so many of us and so many in the public space is the tragic loss of sophia lu and she was a six year old sherman elementary student who was killed in a crosswalk in the evening as an uber driver and this could have been anyones child and its deeply tragic and it has catalyzed us and moved everyone in the city, particularly you chair kim to do something about it and to really act, and i t
Right. And how is that related to the persistence i mean how Many Employers what kind of evaluations do we have from the employers . Are they offering more summer jobs . I dont have hard data on it but we have more private sector than we can fill and when talking about entry level and there is a lot now and its a buyers market in the economy and we often dont have enough work ready and past muster with the employers and thats what door ways is screening the people and i dont have a number for it but we have more opportunities on the private sector side. As a parent and all of the Public Sector Job Opportunities that we have, have we filled all of those . Yeah, theyre over subscribe the. We have no problem filling those. Maybe for next year when we do it again to have the data how were doing on that and that leads to the 2nd district which is for the School District. For instance what are we doing to get more kids available or being ready for the private sector jobs that we cant fill so