Meeting with the public. We will start with the roll call. roll call . We have the first order of business Public Comment. This is for any Public Comment for items not listed on the agenda. Seeing none, general Public Comment is closed. Next is 2. Approval of minutes for august 20, 2019. I will ask for a motion for approval of the minutes. Motion. Second. Any Public Comment. Seeing number none, it is closed. roll call . The minutes are approved. The agenda item report from executive director. Thank you and good evening, commissioners on my topics to discuss with you this evening, i wanted to first apologize as i mississaugmiss reported somethiu at the last meeting regarding streamlining. I think i said it had passed when in reality at that point it passed through first reading. My apologies. I will give you an update. It has passed now. That is great. On wednesday, september 11th mayor breed signed the legislation and it will go into effect on october 11 to enable Retail Businesses to diversify offerings to attract new Business Models to vacant storefronts and increase opportunities for retail and nightlife businesses to sell vacant storefronts. It will support live music by limiting doilycative inspections and will reduce the Food Service Requirements for new and existing entertainment venues. It will clarify planning codes provisions around Liquor License types in order to bring consistency to the process. Update on implementation. As we approach this Effective Date in october, the office of economic and Work Force Development will meet with all departments impacted by the legislation including us and we will discuss implementation and outreach included in the package. Our role in this, too, not only are we going to be educating ourselves as defendant staff on how Department Staff on how we will handle the permits differently. We will do an Education Campaign to definitely incorporate educating constituents in a newsletter as well as at the summit this year. Moving right along, i want to give you all an update on the special Events Steering Committee born out of the mayors executive directive supporting special events. A copy is in your binders. You can follow along if you want. You have seen it a couple times. This calls upon city departments to review the current permitting process and identify solutions to make the process more friendly, streamlined and efficient for event organizers as well as City Employees and residents. The mayor convened the committee to handle the review and make recommendations to the mayor. She designated two cochairs the city administrator as well as director torrez. All role in this. I am serving as a member of the committee. We are also assisting the cochair in the Mayors Office to provide research and support for the meetings. We kicked off the first meeting at the end of august. This is going to run through the end of november. From her directive the mayor is asking departments to look at a few different buckets. We are looking at digital permitting, fees and ways to reduce fees, as well as organizational structure. I dont want to get too in the weeds with those because they are ongoing topics with in the committee. As we have drafts i want to share those with you so you are informed throughout the process. The group is engaging event organizers in the process which we did prior to this committee which was the impetus behind creating it in the first place. By way of focus groups and small interviews to continue to understand the pain points around the process as well as ideas from their end on potential reforms. I will keep you informed. If you have questions along the way, i am available at any point. Finally, we have an update for you. I think i mentioned this. I might not have mentioned this at the last hearing. It might not have happened at that point. We issued an administrative citation relative to a sound truck permit that was appealed. In that process the appeal goes to the controllers office, and they assign a hearing officer there. It is much different than appeals to the Entertainment Commission or by way of Entertainment Commission decision to the board of appeals. It is handled administratively. You will see the prehearing statement we developed to support our citation and issuance of it as well as response to the appellant. We had the hearing last week. We are waiting on a decision from the controller. It is over a minor infraction of 100, but, you know, we will keep you appraised where that appeal process goes and whether or not we win. Do you have any questions . Okay. One comment on the previous item and just pointing out that in the executive directive from the mayor the actions are taken by the Entertainment Commission and staff. I just wanted to take some i want the Entertainment Commission taking credit for moving forward and laying the groundwork for the special events work being done. I am glad you are representing us in that process, and i hope it makes things easier for all of our applicants and people looking for permits. I am glad you are involved. As we all know, our department as well as commission are a little bit biased. We support our constituents who are organizers. By nature of that we want to find where the holes are and where there are potential improvements so dillons work is vital in all of that and it is great that we should always say thanks. We are looking at that work as part of the Steering Committee on how to improve it and how we can utilize that in potential future reforms. I just want to sort of second that. I want to commend the mayor for assembling the Steering Committee. It is way overdue. It can do a lot of good to make small cultural event in the city more frequent. I also think it is fantastic we have a meaningful seat at the table that is a wonderful thing. I am happy that you are doing all of this extra work on it. Thanks. I want to give a shout out to oawd forgetting the streamlined legislation passed. There is a long road. I know that ben is watching this and i am excited for him and everybody and i commend the mayor for signing this. The hard work paid off. Is there any Public Comment on our directors report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 4 is report from the Deputy Director. Thank you and abou good even. I will take you through the report on the highlighted sections. Page 1 with club 26, you have seen this on your report for a few weeks now, and i want to let you know that we are responding to complaints that come in on the weekends. I have spoken with the head of security and it is about the outside dispersal at 2 00 a. M. They are in compliance with the security conditions on their permit. However, during the week that is when we receive the complaints. We dont have inspectors in the field on sunday through thursday at 2 00 a. M. I have asked the station to help us. We are still working that out. I will say of the times we have responded on the weekend, they are in compliance so that is where that stands. If we go on page 3, looking at royal oak, just letting you know we have received 8 complaints since the last hearing about this location. They are not having live entertainment, it is streamed music they are playing with doors and windows open, and we have been receiving neighbor complaints. The inspector has responded and determined it is not live entertainment. I have spoken with the owners and let them know we are receiving these complaints. They are not eligible for appeal due to the Zoning District unless they do conditional use authorization. They are willing to go for llp. The bulk of people come after 10 00 p. M. We will see where that gets us. I looped in northern station and asked for support on this as well. On page 7, just bringing to your attention there is a flea market on saturdays and sundays. We are receiving complaints about them, quite a few complaints. Again daytime events unless we schedule an inspector for the daytime we are in the field at night. It is hard to respond to. Now we received complaints two weekends in a row we will coordinate an inspector to determine if they need a permit for this and what has happened. Inspector roberts is in contact with the complaints, and we are doing our best to respond when we have people in the field. Moving on page 12. Virgin hotel. The inspector went to conduct a routine site inspection and this is a complaint i will let you know this came in on sunday after he responded excuse me. This came in on sunday after he conducted the routine site inspection on saturday night. We have been receiving complaints about this location specific to the rooftop bar. On saturday night when the inspector went to do the site inspection he did find the dj after 10 00 p. M. It was close to midnight. It only allows entertainment on the roof until 10 00 p. M. They were issued a notice of violation for this. Financi want to bring to your attention there was an outdoor event that happened with quite a few complaints about it. We did contact the event producersers. We will set a sound limit for Outdoor Entertainment events prior to the next event that they host. We were informed no more Outdoor Entertainment with music events happening until next summer. The rest of the year we will have and into the beginning of next year we are keeping that on the radar. That is all that i have highlighted for you. I am happy to answer any questions you may have. I am curious if they dont have a poe and they are playing their music just cranking it up, what do you tell them . They have no permit and no dj, not in our purview. They are disturbing the peace. What is the next recourse . Royal oak . That is one example. Anybody for my own information. What generally happens the inspector collects Contact Information and then i reach out to the Contact Information, hopefully, the owner to follow up to say this is not permitted. You must have an entertainment license for this. Sometimes that works. Some people comply because they didnt know. In the event it is an out vitthat they are not wanting to get a permit, then we have to bring in pd. Correct me if i am wrong. Are you referring to places that dont host entertainment at all . If they cant get one and just play streaming music way up there without disregards we cant do anything about it, what is the next recourse. A venue that doesnt host entertainment we would take investigation in pursuing that. They don dont want to pursue e would engage the Police Department to enforce. We are looking at code relative to this today. It is not that common where we are dealing with a place that has no oversight from the Police Department to regulate. Within police code, you have to be in compliance with the eight decibels. Are we allowed to give them a ticket . That is where it is very odd. When we look at actual staff within the city that use sound meters and understand sound code, it really is us relative to entertainment or music. We could set a limit. It is not attached to an entertainment permit. We are trying to sort that out. We dont want to use staff hours on things we cant cost recover on through the permit application or license process. We want the neighbors to be able to enjoy. We dont want them to say, well i dont think that is the issue. We reglate sound when somebody has a permit and the police regulate if there is no permit. In this case the applicant may be applying for limited live. In that case we will have the opportunity to talk. So say if they get an llp and do entertainment until 10 00. After 10 00 they stream music, if they want to go louder after 10 00 thanks is not acceptable. They have to be in compliance with the sound limit at all times. They can be regulated by us. If the place has sound complaints currently pd enforces that and says turn it down when they have the availability to do so. They are working on heavier things. The neighbors have a number evera numberof number of the. You know you have local pd, local politicians, neighborhood groups. All of these things get together, trust me. I know. I have never been on that side of it. We have never had a problem. His all have permits. My personal feeling that is not we have laws around what it is we can and cannot do. We keep responding to the calls and we are not getting recovery from it. When we respond, we look to investigate on the entertainment front. I am not going to have my staff go out multiple times if we are not finding entertainment. At that point we have to send it to the Police Department. We have a sound monitoring fee so we could cost recover on that if the Police Department wanted to utilize our services in setting limits and enforcing them in some way, shape or form. I think commissioner lee is bringing up an interesting conversation. I want to go back to where we started at the meeting with both executive directors comments. I am looking at the flea market right now. I certainly dont want to understate the frustration of the neighbors. I also think this could be exactly what we are talking about when we talk about small cultural events. Maybe we could get in front of these things and see if we can get this to be an approved event because i think we are just so darn bureaucratic, it is a complex process. Part of our charge is to promote entertainment. This flea market could be a good fit. I know there are a lot of things to overcome. As we have said in the past. This flea market would be easier managed if they were actually permitted. What i am putting forth to you and your staff is seeing if we can license them at least in some capacity and actually turn this into a positive and make this to what president blieman was saying earlier, a real cultural event. I have no idea what the flea market is. It could be a asset and attract people. I think that is what we are all shooting for. Instead of looking at these straight up violations, which it is, but if there is an opportunity to make good out of it and meet the mission that is put upon us to promote entertainment and bring about these little events, this could be an easy one, and, hopefully, satisfy the concern of the neighbors. Thank you very much for the report. Any Public Comment on the report . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Moving along. We are on number five. Police department comments and questions. I dont see any officers present. We are moving to number 6. The next item is hearing and possible action regarding applications for permits under the jurisdiction of the Entertainment Commission. Deputy director please introduce the items on the consent agenda. The two permits on the agenda are accessory permits. They both received an outpouring of support. The Police Department had no added conditions and i am happy to answer any questions you have about these. Motion to approve. Second. So there is a motion to approve the consent agenda. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. roll call . All right. Congratulations. Your permits are approved. Please follow up with the Deputy Director at your earliest convenience. The final agenda item number is number 7, commissioners comments and questions. I just would like to propose we close tonights meeting in the memory of a dear friend who passed away presently. He and his band mates were my introduction of the San Francisco live music. I would like to dedicate the session tonight to the base player of native elements jamie durand, jimbo, may you rock on forever. Anybody else have anything . I have a few things. First to congratulate commissioner coulcommissioner cg reappointed. I want to point out the three cultural institutions near the ballpark that closed this week. Padros and petes tavern shuttered out of the blue. Nobody saw it coming. It is an indication of the state of Small Business in the city right now. The costs and everything that is going on that is making it regard to do Small Business. I am just want to continue to think about ways, for example the streamlining legislation and Steering Commission to make Small Business easier to flourish. I want to say the 4 00 a. M. Bill which became the 3 00 a. M. Bill died in the assembly, never came out of the assembly. It is not on this calendar this year for legislation which is very sad and i think it will show us the rest of the state still views nightlife as a nuisance. In San Francisco we see it as a economic and cultural driving force. It makes me proud to live here. Knowing senator wiener, it will be back. He is the energizer bunny. Maybe the 12th time is the charm. Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. We will close tonight in honor of jamie jimbo durant, and the meeting is over at 6 01 p. M. Thank you. Welcome to pricidia middle school. I am emma dunbar and i had the enormous privilege to be the principal in this community. Thank you all for joining us. [ cheering and applause ]. I want to give a very warm welcome to my students, to our staff, to elected officials, Board Members, mayor appliappli and our trusted partners at sales force. I couldnt be happier to host you all on this yard just opened for our new school year after four years in the making. It is a prime example of what investment in our Public Schools can look like. Four years ago, mark benniof, along with the mayors and superintendents from oakland and San Francisco, stood on this very same yard to celebrate the third year of the sales force grant. At that time, there was success to celebrate. Wifi in every middle school, computers and ipads available to every school, the established of the principals innovation fund. We may not have appreciated how much more celebrating there was to come. To date, weve now seen over 40 million invested in the students of San Francisco unified School Districts. [ cheering and applause ]. And 20 million invested in the students at oakland unified. [ cheering and applause ]. This has had incredible results in math, computer science, and College Readiness throughout both of these great cities. What i want to share with you today is what this means for presidio and what i observed seeing these transformations. Not just to our physical environments but to our students lives. Here is an example of what our community has seen since 2013. Increased Student Access to and interest in coding and robotics. Teachers and students collaborating in online environments in every classroom in our school. In addition to our beautiful new space, our community enjoys partnering directly with sales force volunteers who have supported our teachers throughout the school in creating welcoming environments for learning. We know that our students thrive when we can surround them with the support of everyone in the community, from teachers to volunteers to Corporate Partners to parents. Id now like to personally thank and introduce mark benniof coc. E. O. And chairman of sales force who has championed this great, incredible, amazing work for our students. [ cheering and applause ]. Thank you so much for coming today. Its a gorgeous day and always the hottest day when we do these announcements. I just want to say you have an amazing team up hear that i want to call out. We have principal dunbar. Thank you for everything youre doing. [ cheering and applause ]. And we have two of our fabulous mayors here in San Francisco and oakland, mayor breed and mayor shaw. Thank you. [ cheering and applause ]. And we have our amazing team here of our superintendents kyle and vincent, thank you for everything that youre doing. [ applause ]. We have anthony from the Sales Force Foundation too. Thank you, ebony. [ cheering and applause ]. Doing work like this really does take a team. One member of our team is not up here and were thinking a lot about him. That is ed lee. It was really mayor lee that had the vision that we felt so strongly about to work on the 12 middle schools. That was seven years ago and now we can see today here is this incredible manifestation of our middle schools getting rebooted and its in his memory that were doing this work. Lets remember him and lets say thank you as well to all of you for being here. Thank you for your support of our kids. Thank you to the kids also. So thank you guys for coming here. [ cheering and applause ]. One thing about doing this is the kids are always like, this is boring, when is it over . Its going to get worse before it gets better. [ laughter ]. I apologize. No, its okay . Youre interested in this . All right. All right. Then lets do it. Thank you, principal dunbar for welcoming us to this beautiful Presidio Middle School and to you and all the staff at presidio that make a difference for our kids. Thanks to our great partners and all of our leaders and great principals here. If youre a principal in San Francisco or oakland, would you just stand up and be recognized. [ cheering and applause ]. You know, these principals who are on the frontlines every single day in these schools and with these kids doing this leadership work. They have our best hopes with them. As part of our program, as our principal innovation program, gets 100,000 a year over the last seven years to do what they think they need to do for their schools. I admire their creativity and desire to improve the education of each school, but i just want to thank them for their hard work and dedication to the schools. Its so powerful. And i also want to thank the kids. Thank you for all of your hard work too and everything youre doing to have a great education. Because ill tell you, the best ideas for our schools come from our kids. As weve been working with the schools, of course we have ideas and our visions and we remember when we were in school or when we were in middle school, but what it means to be in middle school today is different than what i was when i was in middle school. Thank you to you guys for keeping us in touch with whats important and using your voices and also speaking your truth and saying what you really want for your school. Its the kids actually before you who have graduated and over there at George Washington high school who said that they wanted a new playground, that that was very important to them. You can thank them because they used their voices and said thats what they wanted. Thats why were here very much today. Keep in mind as you go forward that we want to hear from you, what youre doing. Were all here because of you. Were all here because we believe in each and every one of you. We believe in your future and we believe that you are going to create an amazing future. Weve had our chance. Our chance is over. [ laughter ]. Now its your chance. So were looking for you to be the leaders and to take us forward and hope fulfully. Im here as your neighbor, not just a c. E. O. When it comes to our Public Schools, a lot of people say they want to help but they dont know how to. Well, a few years ago ago, some of you heard this story before, i came over here, walked through the door, and i said to the principal, how can i help . What can i do . Thats a message for each and every one of us. The principal is the local c. O. Of that school. All we have to do is knock on that door and say, how can we help you . Every c. O. Can adopt a Public School. Every company can adopt a district. Every one of us can do something. I think that that is what is so powerful. Ultimately, its the connection with the principal thats so important the more work that weve done in the Public Schools, we just get reminded of that over and over again. In my mind, i always say how do i make presidio the best school on the planet . Each of us wants the best for our kids and make these the best schools that we can. So often its the principal that knows how to make that happen. Thank you to our principals. Thank you for what youre doing. This has been an amazing process for me. As ive been working on Presidio Middle School, ive had a lot of friends who have gone through this school and i didnt know that when i started the process. Ill tell them this story. Ive adopted this school and this is what were doing and so forth. Different friends of mine have said, i have went there, did you know i went there, one of our Board Members went there. The amazing thing happened is my mom came to me and said she was here for one year. [ laughter ]. Isnt that amazing . So my mom was here for one year. I dont know how she did that. I dont even know how that happened, but luckily i got some kudos from my mom when i said were working on Presidio Middle School. So we so stronger believe at sales force that were here for all of our stakeholders, not just the shareholders. Were here to serve communities, Public Schools, everyone who is part of San Francisco, oakland, or anywhere were doing business. Were thinking about the bigger picture. That is how we guide our companys management and our leadership. This is part of our mission. Thats who we are at sales force. Thats very much why for the last seven years sales force has forged really an unprecedented collaboration with the School Districts of San Francisco and oakland. We are happy to be their largest b benefactors to support them. Our journey has only started. We are at the beginning of what we can do with the schools. We are committed to the long term for our schools. We are there for our districts and for all of you. Its why we adopt Public Schools at sales force, 34 of them in the bay area. 100 around the world that have the same spotlight on them that presidio does. Here we have a commitment that every one of our Senior Vice President s at sales force has a adopt a Public School. Its part of their responsibility. This school is my school, so they lucked out. [ laughter ]. But a lot of the schools have the same level of attention and support. Our colleagues who i want to thank and who are here have given 4 million hours in volunteerism since we started the company. If youre a sales force employee, raise your hand so i can thank you. [ applause ]. Ill tell you, these results, its really working. We monitor if were doing the right things. We see these incredible results for San Francisco and oakland. For fulltime teachers for math and technology. A surge of kids who are enrolled in stem and computer science. More young women and more students of color. Higher attendance rates. Higher math scores. Higher grades. You guys all have to get higher grades now, isnt that good news . Thats what were expecting you to be in school more and have higher grades because of this. This year were going to give another 17. 2 million to San Francisco and oakland Public Schools. Incredible. [ applause ]. Im excited that weve given more than 67 million to these local schools. Congratulations to you. We are well on our way to giving 100 million to local San Francisco and oakland Public Schools. I hope that is just the beginning. [ applause ]. You know, i mentioned mayor lee and mayor lee is no longer with us, but our Work Together today is an homage to his life and legacy. We see the results of the partnership right here at presidio. When i adopted this school, i asked the students, what do you want . And they said, we want more fun. I said, well, what does more fun mean . Well, we want more fun at school. What does that mean . We want more computers, better networking, faster networks, better, faster wifi. And we want to have a better playground too. Is this a better playground . Yes. Did you like the prison yard that we had for you here before . No. We thought it was designed by one of the best prison yard design groups. You voted to change it, so we did. Where is ron who designed the playground . Right over here, ron. [ cheering and applause ] thank you, ron. Because when the kids said we wanted a new playground, we hired ron. He is one of the top playground designers in the world. Hes done a lot of amazing things. He came over here and he said, my vision of a School Playground is just a big pile of dirt that kids can play in and create whatever they want, that i admire the creativity of kids. And i thought maybe that wasnt going to go over very well. But ron is still after that idea. Then we came up with a huge vision for what the playground could be. Then the kids who were here before you said we dont like that. Thats not a very good idea. We said, fine, why dont we Work Together. So we created a class where those kids could work with us and ron. For a year they designed the playground you now have. So this playground is designed by the students of the middle school. That is pretty cool. If youre liking it and feeling like they made the right decisions, you should really congratulate them. If you dont like the decisions they made, theyre right over there at George Washington, and you can go talk to them about it. With a help of a grant at sales force, we teamed up with the schools Security Guard to start a new book club. Some of the students in the club were able to attend a book event with the author angie thomas. [ applause ]. Im trying to give you inspiration that everyone here can adopt a Public School. To walk down a few blocks from your house just like i did. To knock on the door of the principal just like i did and let that journey unfold for you. Its very exciting. The most important thing is to listen to the kids because they have the answers. They represent the future of our world. Thats why we do this work, so that they have the education they need to be successful in the future and to take care of us because were getting old. Were going to need you to take care of us. Thank you very much, all of you. Thanks to all of you for being here. Were so grateful to everyone. Thank you. [ applause ]. Mayor breed im next. Thanks to sales force and mark beniof and all the work that you have done to change lives in San Francisco. Whats so amazing about sales force and their incredible leader, mark, is that Public Service is embedded in what this Company Stands for. Its not providing software only, which is a great resource to have, but its making sure that we are all doing our part to give back and support our surrounding community. Im so proud youre a native san franciscan. We appreciate all you have done and will continue to do to improve the lives of all san franciscans. Thank you so much, mark. [ applause ]]. Mayor breed ive got to say mayor shaf thinks it is San Francisco and is surprised that the rich man is shining bright with the sun. Every now and then the sun shines on the west side of San Francisco. I cant help but go back to my time i spent in San Francisco. I wasnt probably as well behaved as some of the kids are here today. In middle school, i was a handful. In fact, id always have to go to our girls Counselors Office and say it wasnt me this time. The thing about the teachers and principal, they never gave up on me. They supported, encouraged, listened to me. School was my sanctuary. Coming from a community i lived in public housing. There was a lot of challenges in my community. I was so blessed to have incredible teachers, counselors and principals. I played french horn at franklin ben and i wasnt that bad at it. The opportunity to be a part of an Incredible Community was what inspired me to want to also give back. Because i wanted to make sure that every young person in this city had an opportunity to succeed and to do whatever they want to do in life. There are people who invested in me at a time when i didnt understand what it meant to support the efforts and the work that i was doing in school. Now i get it. They were preparing me for a better future. That is our responsibility. It is a responsibility that i dont take lightly. Sales force has been at the forefront of really investing, but also Holding Others accountable to do more to invest in our young people. We have the resources right here in San Francisco. There was a real disconnect between my community and what was happening downtown in the financial district. A real disconnect between all the possibilities that existed in this city. Its why i started opportunities for all, to make sure that every High School Student has access to a paid internship. I know sales force provides incredible internship opportunities so these young people can learn firsthand what happens in the world of finance, technology, or any industry they choose to be a part of. Whether they want to take over when mark retires in a couple of years. [ laughter ]. Mayor breed he says you have to take care of him on top of taking his job. Whether i mean, im term limit out eventually. Were going to need new mayors, councilors, principals. Were going to need the next generation to not only take over the world in all these amazing positions, but were also going to need you to save our planet. There is a lot of work to be done and it starts right here, making sure that no child is left behind, no matter their financial circumstances, no matter if they were raised like i was by my grandmother in public housing, no matter where they come from in the four corners of this city, we want to make sure that we invest in our young people and that they have successful. Thats what today is about. Yes, it is a significant contribution, larger than any weve received in the city, but its a personal commitment from mark beniof and sales force, many of our officials and others, to do better, to make sure we are taking care of our young people every single day. It matters. Its the difference between what happened in my family. I became mayor and, sadly, my brother is still incarcerated. I lost a sister to a drug overdose. This is the same family, the same community. What a difference it makes when you make the right investment. So lets make sure that we listen to what mark is talking about. All of the companies out there in San Francisco, were coming for you so that you can take care of our kids and our future. [ cheering and applause ]. Mayor breed we all have to start taking responsibility for everybody elses kids too. Thats what today is about. I want to make sure that ten years from now that these young people are prepared for the future, theyre prepared to take over our jobs. I can tell by the look in their eyes that theyre going to do just that. So today is a celebration. Thank you all so much for joining us here today. At this time, i want to introduce my sister from across the bay. Shes making it happen in oakland and shes doing great things every single day on housing, on education. Im just so grateful to have a partner to address so many of the challenges that we know we face in some incredible cities by the bay. Ladies and gentlemen, oakland mayor, libby schaaf. I brought the oakland weather with me. It is so good to be here in our bay area. We may have two cities, but we have one bay. We have one bay area. We know that we rise or fall togeth together. Also in memory, since you invoked the memory of our mayor ed lee, someone who lived the values of regionalism. One thing i hope you all know about the mayors of oakland and San Francisco is we are homegrown girls and we are graduates of our Public School system. [ cheering and applause ]. Now, i want to pile on to londons challenge to the corporate community. There is a lot of talk these days about shareholder responsibility, how that is a thing of the past and we need to move on to stakeholder responsibility. I challenge other companies to do what sales force has done. That is put your money where your mouth is and put your love where your money is. The fact that sales force does not just Pay Lip Service to the idea of Corporate Responsibility but they invest deeply and they invest with humility. I dont know if ive ever heard a c. E. O. Use the word listen so much in a speech. I know you have not heard a lot of c. E. O. Speeches, but i have. Its not a verb that comes up often. Sales force approaches this partnership with our School District with a huge sense of humility, with a curiosity and a desire to learn from you young people who are the stakeholders. That is something that i think has made you successful in business, but it is also making you a success in our community. The fact that you dont just write a check, look at the love of all these blueshirtwearing geeks in the back row. Notice they let the kids sit in the shade and they are roasting in the sun back there. That is love. Now, i want to talk about what excites me so much specifically about the investment in oakland. Young people, we throw around this 8. 7 million. Let me say it in the long form 8,700,000. Okay. Think of a stack of 1 bills. Thats some serious cash. That is just this year. I just want to recognize that since you began partnering with oakland, you have increased your investment every year. [ cheering and applause ]. Since london had a go back in your time machine, youre going to have to indulge me a little bit too. We all can picture in our minds that teacher, that teacher that changed our lives, that teacher who is the reason that we developed the confidence, the vision, maybe the hutspah to be where we are today. What excites me about this years investment from sales force is a new focus on teacher recruitment and retention. [ applause ]. Teachers like ms. Ducatz. She was my Dance Teacher at skyline high school. When i started running for mayor, she would show up at all my events. She would raise her hand and inform everybody that would listen that when i was in high school i choreographed a dance number where i literally leapt off a tall structure into the trusting arms of my fellow dancers and that she knew i was going to be a great mayor because i have always been a risk taker. There she was. My High School Teacher tracked me down to support me for running for mayor in my hometown a lot of decades later. Trust me, my young friends, when i went to high school, i took typing class. There were no computers. There was no internet, no facebook, no snapchat, no fortnite, none of that stuff. And yet, when i became the mayor and visited my Old High School campus, it didnt look a lot different. Now sales force has changed that with a deep investment in computer science. You all probably dont know what a typewriter is, do you . Do you know who a typewriter is . I see a blank look right there. Its all right. Its all right. You dont need them anymore. Yeah, you. I am also truly excited in our investment in our newcomer population. I am extremely proud to be possibly the most unapologetic city mayor in america. [ applause ]. We know that our region thrives because of its commitment to inclusive diversity, and we recognize that while everyone in this expensive bay area is struggling, there is a special need from our families who are fleeing oppression, violence, and seeking opportunity in this country. We want to welcome them and help them be successful and thrive in our communities which we want them to feel is home. In oakland, we know that, like San Francisco, we struggle with homelessness. And yet, when we look at our Homeless Population of our students in schools, half are newcomer, uncompanied minors. That is something that deserves our serious attention, love, and care. Thank you for investigating in th that. [ applause ]. Finally, i want to recognize your continuing investment in middle schools. Middle school was miserable for me. It was a hard time. And yet, it is one of the most crucial turning points in our life, when you find your identity, where you start to dream big, where you start to see your future unfold before you. As i introduce our next speaker, i will share something personal because i know shes going to go into a little bit more depth about the oakland investment. One little fun fact about the two of us. I see you, principal. We are both the mothers of middle school, Public School students in oakland. So to our incredible, heroic middle school principals, this investment could not be more deserved than by the leaders that take care of not just our babies, but literally our babies. Its my pleasure to introduce to you the superintendent of the oakland unified School District, kyla johnson. Trammell. [ applause ]. Thank you all for being here. I want to give a shout out to my tour guide so i could see the campus. Thank you for your hospitality and touring us around. If you can repeat after me. I am because you are. I am going to flip that a little bit. I am because we are. This was an old african proverb that my grandmother said to me a lot. It resonates in terms of why were here beyond the cameras, beyond all the lights. Really what i believe is in marks heart and all of our hearts is that we are much Better Together than we are as individuals. When we all come together with our brilliance, when we come together with our resources, when we come together with our determination for these students, we can do impossible things. I truly believe that. If theres anything that you all get out of today. Its, one, that i believe mark has not only set forth a vision, but actually a pretty concrete model in terms of how corporate can work hand in hand with School Districts. I think theres so much more we can do if we Work Together. I want to talk a little bit some of the journey weve been on in oakland, specifically around middle schools. I want to give a shout out to some of my middle school principals, superintendent. I know there was a lot of them that worked together with mark. So the listening isnt lip service. Its really him coming and listening to what are the needs in the schools. Oakland and San Francisco, we have similar challenges, but there are differences. There is a different context. He really took the time, hours, to really listen for us to craft the best way to use the resources so that we would have impacts. So we really decided that we would focus on middle school, knowing that ultimately we want our kids to graduate, not only prepared for college, not only prepared for work, but prepared to be thriving, productive citizens. So really wanting to have a deep investment in middle school, knowing how critical that adolescent time is, to prepare kids to actually be their best
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