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Item up for Public Comment, are there any members of the public that would like to make Public Comment on this item . Please come forward. You will have two. Sir. Excuse me. Miss jackson could you come forward, please . Thank you very much. Dr. Jackson again. And you know i came before you, two years ago, and i think that the problems that you all are having, with the different departments is because of the fact that i mentioned to you San Francisco is the only city that did not have a state, fe...

There have been organizations and we have much more progress to make, and i look forward to new ideas that come out of this and i want to mention a few years ago, the number of leaders from the Fishermans Wharf came to my office and wanted to think about the out reach to more diverse job applicants and we worked to kick off a job fair in the day view and the plaza and we are continuing to do these out reaches throughout the city and but this is just one of many ideas that i know have been discus...

Final report. And happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you. Very much. Next speaker, Kevin Carroll from the Hotel Council. I am sorry. Actually, sense you are here, you can go ahead. Pines, you will be next. Okay. Good morning, supervisors thank you supervisor cohen for calling this. And my name is Kevin Carroll and i am the executive director and impart of the working group that is called that is regarding this report that we are talking about today and i am also a member of the Subw...

From the Hotel Council. I am sorry. Actually, sense you are here, you can go ahead. Pines, you will be next. Okay. Good morning, supervisors thank you supervisor cohen for calling this. And my name is Kevin Carroll and i am the executive director and impart of the working group that is called that is regarding this report that we are talking about today and i am also a member of the Subworking Group that has been put together, that includes the Hotel Council, and 7 of our major hotels and the hr...

Our fire department, and dhr. Okay. And refresh my memory on this particular audit, because there is a reason why the finding is there and it probably is directly, what, the labor contract is saying, and policy. Yes. And i will get back with you. And the thing that i know that, there have been a lot of recommendations and there have been a lot of changes, and we will continue to have problems and we will continue as we audit the different departments to have specific requests that we have, but, ...

That, there have been a lot of recommendations and there have been a lot of changes, and we will continue to have problems and we will continue as we audit the different departments to have specific requests that we have, but, there should not be a case, where they are allowed to not resolve a particular issue for more than two years. And so, i think that at this point, my goal is to try and close these out, or bring those particular departments before this committee, and hold them accountable, ...

Outlines a framework and tangible commitments that the city can make to enable and support the inclusion of the African American, and the African Americans in this respective industry. This hearing is timely and as i introduced and passed with all of high colleagues sponsor ship, legislation to commemorate the freedom trail and to highlight the social, and the psycho, social and impacts of the African Americans, Community Inside of the city. On education, on entertainment, and as well as civic l...

In the city. And so, we will move to the presentation. And the general structure that supervisor cohen mentioned is that i want to give the different information on the contributers in the background and we will give a little bit of a supervisor breed in particular, less of the data and so we will give the data on the snapshot and what we see is the hospitality, and we will turn it over to the colleagues, and findings that we do have the supervisors request and the suggestions and the thoughts o...

Background, just introduce why we are here today. The hospitality and travel industries are some of the Largest Industries in our city. Just last year, in 2013, San Francisco benefited from a record of 16. 9 million visitors who spent over 9. 4 billion dollars in our city on tourismrelated activity and we only expect that number to continue to grow in the coming years. Hotel tax revenue is up, 8. 1 percent, to 607 Million Dollars and tourism jobs have increased to 3. 8 which is a total of 76,834...

Thank you. Chair, and supervisor tang, and chair, and cohen, and chiu. We are so excited to be here this morning to present to you what we think is a successful model and we know that we thank you all for your leadership on this issue. And we think that this is a model that can actually work and change the tide and equity and inclusion in this city and in particular with the respect of African Americans to participate in the higher wage and growing industries and also, coming out that this has b...