The Salvation Army San Francisco center is a state licensed [speaker not understood] recovery program. At any given time upwards of 200 people are here onsite, go through the program and get their life back together. Our residential capacity is 106 single adults with up to 30 families and up to 52 kids with those families. Youre not likely to find many treatment programs with Child Care Program and also a licensed detox facility, but we have them here. We are truly a place for new beginnings and we have been that place at this location for 40 years. All those years weve been celebrating thanksgiving with our friends. As evidence of our thanksgiving history, i have these photos. Some of you have already recognized Dianne Finestein before she was mayor. She was on the board of supervisors, i think. Even before that, the gentleman in the middle uniform there is my grandfather who was the executive director here before i was born. So, weve been doing this at least 50 years, a long time. It
One of our biggest pin points or struggles has been with the legislation and the old models of the [inaudible] the regulations and laws which are being slowly worked on through the legal departments and the San Franciscos legal department. But essentially we found the experience through Innovation Office has been driving the initiatives through and helping us develop and the data sets have bon become cleaner. They have become easier for us to use and the process has become a lot more efficient. School. Cool. I was told if you have a question you should line up at that microphone right there. If youre coming up no, he did youant [speaker not understood]. I dont have a question. I wanted to comment on this. I think Something Else is really unique and maybe one of the Untold Stories or not told so much stories about the impact of open data is really the companies that are being formed. And as you mentioned earlier, theyre a Sustainable Company and this is being powered by open data and mo
Fund the position from my salary savings for this current yearv, placing the full salary in the draft budget, for the board then to determine the efficacy of the position in june with some measurements and we will show you in advance to get your approval on. And then come june if the position does not hold as much value as you would expected it to, that salary could be removed from the departments budget. That is a problem i see. Once you hire someone, it is very hard and very difficult to actually not to say that youre going to terminate that position. We can hire them with the expectation that this is a Pilot Program to be determined by the board. Right. I guess the other question that it raises for me is what metrics are we using to say what the value of that extra employee would be for this purpose. And, so, not kind of understanding what those metrics would be would be hard. Would it be the number of engagements that they have, the number of additional legislation that they put ou
The mayor wanted before you leave i have a surprise. Sophia will be a major opera singer. Today she will sing something we will hear a lot of for the next year. Well, thank you, everybody. And welcome. Happy thanksgiving and happy season of sharing and caring for each other. I just spent a wonderful morning with the Interfaith Council and their 15th anniversary of breakfast with quite a host of wonderful, wonderful people who care about the city and about the world. And while the theme was articulated as a very rich greening theme, i think we found out from many, if not all of the speakers, that the way we care about our earth is reflected in the way we care for each other first and foremost. And thats really important. And, so, today im standing with people who have demonstrated their highest level of care for people, people who work and live and breathe the social safety net for everyone in our city. And i could not ever do my job as the mayor, nor i suggest any member of the board o
Of south sudans war that was hard to lay it all down fighting intensifies on the Strategic Oil town of four. Cambodian Security Forces to protest camp in the capital the government facing growing opposition from striking workers demanding better pay. And then say goodbye to one half of influential us music duo the other two brothers joe adelaide has died from lung disease. Its so beautiful this headline star prospect thanks for joining us. First face to face talks between leaders of south sudans that warring factions have been delayed. According to a rebel spokesman the two sides will not meet its own agenda has been drafted by negotiators and agreed by both sides were on the ground the fighting continues on friday. Army moved on the rebel held town of four thousands of people are feared dead in the country after nearly three weeks of fighting that any reports only if the others above but share it in a warm welcome to representatives on both sides of something on the plate. On friday g