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I requested this item to be heard to get an update Media Relations with the San Francisco Unified School District but also to get an update on muni service to the students. San Francisco Unified School District we are constantly asking ourselves how well were serving our students so its natural we would inquire how the City Services are doing and we educate 57,000 School Children and the majority fall within the federal poverty guidelines and many are dependent on Public Transportation it to and...

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 ...

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 pla...

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 ...

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...

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 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...

Them travel safely two and from school and i would like to provide some context for all of what we do including those on the Pedestrian Safety side starting with vision zero but also talking about our safe routes to school program, the School Crossing guards program and Accessible Services and then im going to turn it over to julie from our Transit Operations Division to really dive into the Transit Services component as well as free muni for youth. I will note that just having listened to the p...

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 t...