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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 ...

Jurisdiction of this commission, you may speak on item 4, and then that will be heard for 15 minutes. And if you are unable to get in during that time, we will continue that item to item 10. Last, just a reminder, when you do speak to the commission, please address your comments to the commission, and neither the commission, nor staff will answer questions during Public Comment. But they may ask staff to respond after Public Comment is done. With that, we are on item 2. The president s report. T...

Reality is that i think the staff is doing a super job and i wanted to point out that the public agrees with you. Thank you, that concludes my report. What else am i supposed to say . Nothing. Thank you. [laughter ] is there any Public Comment on this item . Okay. Being none, Public Comment is closed. We are now going to go to item 4, general Public Comment up to 15 minutes. And this item will be continued to item 10, if we do not get through all the card right now. At this time members of publi...

These cards first and will call for additional Public Comment after we go through the cards. Each person commissioner, three minutes . Three minutes. On each item under Public Comment. If you would like to address the commission on an item that is not on the calendar, but is under the jurisdiction of this commission, you may speak on item 4, and then that will be heard for 15 minutes. And if you are unable to get in during that time, we will continue that item to item 10. Last, just a reminder, ...

Commissioner low here. Commissioner harrison . Here. Commissioner levitan has an excused absence. Just real quickly a reminder, we would welcome everyone, but ask that you turn off any electronicsounding devices that could go off during the proceedings. If you are having secondary conversations, we would ask that you take them outside to allow the meeting to run as efficiently as possible. If you would like to speak on any item, we request that you complete a blue card. You do not have to fill o...

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...

Any item, we request that you complete a blue card. You do not have to fill out a blue card, but we go through these cards first and will call for additional Public Comment after we go through the cards. Each person commissioner, three minutes . Three minutes. On each item under Public Comment. If you would like to address the commission on an item that is not on the calendar, but is under the jurisdiction of this commission, you may speak on item 4, and then that will be heard for 15 minutes. A...

General positive feedback and then things to improve . Yeah so those were some of the things to improve. Right. Overall we definitely get a lot of feedback thanks for helping me get a job and starting my career. They like the youth resource fair as an opportunity to build skills and they find a job and a nonprofit and in 2012 we didnt have door ways and not easy on the ground point to get help and since then we have a place for them to go we get good feedback. I know this isnt always true but so...

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...