Muchneeded bonding and security to our new mothers to my fathers, samesex couples that set up our children for success from the very beginning. The bay area has also been at the forefront for progress for women because we know when women succeed the world moves forward. Gender equity, empowerment, opportunity is personal for me. I am reminded every day for my mother, my wife, my 2 daughters who are now women in their own right, to make sure that i do every day my personal response ability to keep the San Francisco at the forefront of gender equity. We have made great progress. Half of our citys workforce are women and they are equal to men in management positions outstanding women running major city departments like our city administrator, our fire chief, our emergency management, Public Health them up our ports, our environment, our Human Resources and the status of women directors. We lead the nation on familyfriendly policy paid leave, health insurance, Retirement Benefits for working parents and family family work policies, like fully paid family leave. In recent times, we have come to join together as cities to make sure that we increase our minimum wage and boost paid family leave. Oakland and San Francisco are also exploring how to further advance families financial literacy, boost college savings, and supports women onto the doors. But mayor shaft and i know full well as mayors of cities around the nation know, that our urban areas are facing and affordability crisis. Thats why we will focus on reducing the pay gap and create policies that create even more inclusive and more affordable policies that better serve the region for women. Thats why were holding the bay area womens summit. Thats why were holding the bay area womens summit on june 21 and focusing on the every woman. Workingclass and middleclass, working poor, those that need fair and inclusive policies to make sure that we have inclusive policies and legislation in our region. The summit will also engage men as allies. I hope to be an ally and a coldproblem solver just like jack baer, just like john kilroy, just the people at comcast, just like all the other men. Weve got to be coproblem solvers with our women. Right . [applause] mayor lee but, at this summit, at the summit i look forward to hearing from inspiring nationally recognized local women get the summit will also have very intensive women and men as speakers and were signing on more every day. We are also recognizing that we are home to a lot of women entrepreneurs, and thats going to be reflected in many ways at this mayors summit. Just small examples of this, the summit will be one of our sponsors among the bus was the founder of task rabbit it should be very prominently there. Also, a woman lead company like urban centers is going to be there because theyre going to be helping us with guaranteeing at least 200 a babysitting, or the babysitting or the entire day for working mothers and families who attend this womens summit. Isnt that a great contribution . [applause] mayor lee we have achieved a lot. Were very proud of it. But we are not here just to sit on the laurels of what weve done just yesterday. Going to come and Work Together and work even more. Im excited about that. Im excited about the partnership i have with mayor libby shaft good when she and i and mayor gordo go together come come together on all these policies, whether its housing, transportation, supporting our families, you know working to get stuff done. We will not waddle in debate. Within the get a lot of this done because when the country looks at mayors, we dont have time to endless debates. We have to support our families right away and making sure theyre included in everything that we do and with that, let me introduce to you not only partner, but she inspires me to do even more and were going to cocelebrate the wedding of our warriors very soon, mayor libby shaft. [applause] well, im very excited to be here. Im excited about our team and i wasnt talking about the warriors. I was talking about the Regional Team because we know that the problems that are most pressing do not respect municipal boundaries. Just last night elves on a panel with sam ricardo about climate change. The issues around affordability. Criminal justice reform. The building for people to have income security, housing security,. We understand these are regional issues. They were not caused in isolation within any of our cities, nor will they be solved. Thats why im so excited to be joiningand let me just be clearthis actually was his idea. The womens summit was actually the guys idea. Okay . [applause] now, in case you didnt notice i am a woman and i am in a profession that women are very underrepresented in. That is being a mayor of a big city. I think roughly 18 of big cities have women as mayors. I will say just like naomi share a little bit of her personal stories, i too am a mother of young children, 8 and 10 years old. Unless you have had to bring a breast pump to work you just dont know what its like. These are these Little Things that a lot of people dont talk about. Because they are uncomfortable. There are barriers that we need to bring up to the light and break down. Now, our 2 cities, oakland and San Francisco, are truly proud of our record of our leadership in fighting for equity and fighting against discrimination. But just like our golden state warriors, we came into the season knowing that we were champions and yet, being fully committed and focused on working hard every day to get better. That is what we are committed to doing, even when we may be the best but we know theres still so much work to do. In oakland, we are proud that 45 of our businesses are women owned in open. [applause] thats the good news. The bad news is that while they contribute one and a half billion dollars in revenues to our economy, that is only one 9th the revenues of male owned businesses, their counterparts. That does not make sense. One 9th. So, we need innovation. We need disruption and im looking out at some of the leaders in this region, in those 2 arenas, innovation and disruption. [laughing] alright so, we need to bring you that creative problemsolving to figuring out how to break down these barriers. One great example that mayor lee and i both our partnership with kiva zip that we know that one of the reasons that women ownedand frankly, businesses owned by low income people of color have trouble growing and realizing the Great Potential its because they cant get loans. Traditional loans from banks. Access to capital is a barrier. This is used a very innovative webbased platform as well as outsourcing to give businesses like that access to capital. Thats the type of creative problemsolving that we need to break down the barriers so that we can realize the incredible potential, power, and leadership of half of our population that is women. We also recognize that women play critical roles in taking care of our families and our children. Mayor lee and i were so happy to step forward as the cochairs of the minimum Wage Campaign because we know that two thirds of the minimum wage earners in california are women struggling to support their families. We are excited that when we Work Together we can uncover scrapings, but we cannot do that alone. We want you to get engaged. We want you to get energized. We want you to join us in our commitment that this is not going to be another networking event. All rights. Are we altogether on that . [applause] we can do some networking. That is fine. But there has got to be some tangible action, some real problemsolving among some Creative Ideas and some true tangible movements that come out of that summit. Thats why were putting our energy into this. Thats why we want you to put your energy into this. Rick so excited to see you on june 21 year in San Francisco for our womens summit [applause] thank you. Mayor shaft, and mayor lee, both, said to me when we first started this endeavor, exactly what you just told you that this is not just another womens summit. We need of actual items coming out of this womens summit on an ongoing basis. So i nearly turned around and asked the Womens Foundation of california to come help us come up with a strategy and an agenda for our mayors, and from a regional perspective, and help us work and partner with us in putting this womens summit together and i the honor of meeting serena khan was the head of the Womens Foundation of california is helping us with exactly that. Im very proud to introduce her. Shes a career leader in the philanthropic and nonprofit social Justice Sector spanning 2 decades and shes the leading expert both nationally and internationally, many of the social justice issues. She and her team have been instrumental in ensuring the success of the summit which is partnering with us in every way and i would like to introduce you to serena khan. [applause] thank you so much for the administrator kelly, and thank you mayor lee and mayor shaft for your leadership on this issue. We cannot be more delighted to be partnering with the city of San Francisco and open on the summit. We the Womens Foundation of california are partnering along with the leading edge womens Rights Movement and the state along with our partners really across the country and the world. We are part of a movement of hundreds of organizations advocates, Community Good foundations and philanthropists who been working together for decades divided by problems and solutions to challenges facing the women and our families. In every county of california. Over the last halfcentury ever since women started entering the workforce in unprecedented numbers, weve adopted many important aggressive laws here in the bay area and in california. We should be really proud of that. Because these laws have improved wages. Theyve improved working conditions, the livelihoods of women and inspired other states and the federal government to follow in our footsteps. Yet, there are so many women that are being left behind. By the 8th largest economy in the world here in california. Yet, almost 3. 5 million women and girls are living in poverty could just put some context around that, originally grew up in connecticut and thats almost the entire population of women and girls to live in connecticut, rhode island, vermont and massachusetts. The entire population of women and girls could so, we have been tractable problems here in california and they area is leading. Women here are red winners were cobreadwinners in 60 of our families which means that theyre responsible for their families wellbeing. But women are also two thirds of minimum wage workers, two thirds of parttime workers, and two thirds of its workers. The reality is, california women are trying to win bread for their families, but the size of the loaf is shrinking. For some its disappearing altogether. Today, 40 of single mothers in our state are living in poverty and we know that has to change. At the Womens Foundation of california, we been working for more than 3 decades for more than 35 years, strengthening womens economic security, removing barriers to womens economic wellbeing and expanding opportunities for our economic mobility. Weve never done this alone. Nor can we. Real change happens in community and it happens in partnership. Thats why were so excited to be partnering with the city of San Francisco, the city of oakland and to bring our communities together to learn and to develop good Effective Policy Solutions for the challenges that women in the bay area are experiencing and facing. As mayor shaft said, this is not anthis is an action summit. Not a think summit is not a networking summit. Its an action summit. Our ultimate goal is to come up with policy recommendations and clear next steps very clear next ups to improve womens wellbeing and to inspire other cities in california to start actively thinking about womens economic wellbeing and developing and implementing solutions. There is no magic solution. It takes hard work. What we need to do is a combination of solutions and put our Heads Together and think about Solutions Across issue areas and across stakeholders. Higher wages. Affordable childcare. Sick and family leave. Flexible and predictable work schedule. Overtime pay. Healthcare benefits. And tighter Legal Protections are just some of the solutions that we are going to talk about. We are all responsible and were all call to action. We believe in a california that, where the women of california are both, they are resource will, wheres we are smart and were given an opportunity we will find allusions to the challenges that we are facing. I cant wait to start the conversation at the bay area womens summit. I cant wait for all of you to join us, and a giveaway to give women the platform to share our ideas and collectively take action this year and in the coming future. They area we all know has long been at the forefront of gender and Economic Justice issues come and we are so proud of again to partner with the city of oakland and the city of San Francisco to continue advancing gender equity. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you, serena. So before concluding i need to give a special thanks to some of our sponsors the womens summit. John kilroy from kilroy realty. Kaiser permanente, microsoft, cisco, comcast, at t, uber etc. Google an urban center. So, we want everyone to join the conversation we are in the process of getting more speakers were in the process of getting more the program. I dont talk to some you about we want you to participate in this. So, join the movement. Visit our website at www. Visit our website at www. Bayareawomen. Org for more information and ongoing updates. We are adding more speakers by the day. And we look forward to seeing you. Thank you. [applause] [ gavel ] good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the regularly scheduled Ethics Commission meeting for april 25th, 2016. And i will call the roll, commissioner andrews. Here. Commissioner keane. Here. Commissioner hayon has been excused. And i would like to take this o