Hi, Bart Charlow from Samaritan House. Happy to be here.

Zia MacWilliams, Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

Good morning! Danielle Lee from the San Mateo County Recovery Initiative

Welcome everyone. Chris Benner from UC Santa Cruz. I’m happy to be with you all here this morning.

Good morning….Mike Callagy, County Manager

Good Morning! Rosanne Foust with SAMCEDA.

Hi all. Julie Lind with the Labor Council. Can’t wait for this presentation!

Good morning everyone! Patrick Kallerman from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute

Good Morning Khee Lim Millbrae Public Works Director

Good Morning, Rico from the City of San Bruno

Good morning everyone. Mike here from David Canepa’s office. If you need follow up with him for any items afterwards, please let me know. Thanks!

Welcome and Good Morning everyone! Peggy Jensen, San Mateo County

Hi, everyone. Andy Switky, co-chair of the NOVA board.

Hello everyone, Rachel Monaco from Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

Good morning everyone! Hong Liu from San Mateo Probation Department

John Ford, Commute.org - happy Thursday!

Good morning. Sophia Brink from Office of David Canepa

Good morning, this is Alok Gupta from the Renaissance Center for Entrepreneurship.

Good Morning, Jessica Stanfill Mullin, Office of Sustainability and the San Mateo County Recovery Initiative

Good Morning, Kris Stadelman, NOVAworks Director

Good morning. Juda Tolmasoff from Supervisor Carole Groom's office.

hello! Diana Bautista from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford

Good morning! Alexandria Gallizioli from the County Office of Sustainability.

Hello everyone - John Hutar, President and CEO of the San Mateo County/Silicon Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Good morning. Joseph Sanfilippo, Economic Development & Housing Specialist, City of Burlingame.

Good Morning from City of San Mateo. Jennifer Chen the City's ED Mgr

Heather Cleary, Peninsula Family Service. Good to be here.

Good morning- Tammy from Recology San Mateo County Hi everyone 😊

Great to see everyone...good morning. Joanne Bohigian. Chair. Foster City Chamber of Commerce.

Good Morning , Amy Buckmaster from Chamber San Mateo County

Good morning, Angela Tsui representing City of Menlo Park. Thank you for hosting this event!

Good morning! - Larisa Ocañada, SAMCEDA

Good morning. Susan Wright from the County Office of Sustainability

Good morning all. Georgia Farooq, Thrive Alliance

Good morning...Lisa Mancini, Aging and Adult Services

Good morning! Kitty Lopez, Executive Director, First 5 San Mateo County

Good Morning Everyone! Cecilia Taylor, Elected Official, Founder of Belle Haven Action OK when we get started

Good morning! Rosa Shields, Community Services Director, San Mateo Central Labor Council

Hello! Louise Rogers, Health Director.

Good morning! Jennifer Torai, Director of Local Government Affairs for Stanford Health Care

Tanya Beat, CSW, DVC, LGBTQ Commission

Good morning! Effie Milionis Verducci, County of San Mateo Office of Sustainability

Good Morning! Kalimah Salahuddin, REACH Coalition and JUHSD Board

Good Morning - Emma Gonzalez, Office of Community Affairs

Good morning, everyone--Ken Cole, Agency Director --San Mateo County Human Services Agency

Good morning, all! Andrea Jones, CZI

Good morning! Akemi Flynn, ALF SV

good morning. Sherri Sager, Stanford Children's Health

Hey Yall, Evan Jones Mid-Peninsula Boys & Girls Club

Good morning all! Laura Parmer-Lohan (she/her/hers) Chief of Staff, Amgen & Mayor, San Carlos

Good morning. Linda Wolin (she/her), Senior Legislative Aide, Office of SMC Supervisor Dave Pine

Good morning, Don Cecil supporting SAMCEDA.

Good Morning. Suzanne St. John-Crane, ALF Silicon Valley

Love being part of a strong County team — Michael Brownrigg, City of Burlingame; also founding partner at Apis & Heritage, helping workers of color own their futures.

Good morning everyone. Marci Dragun, Office of Supervisor Warren Slocum.

how come health care was not included on the pie chart on the preceding slide regarding recovery?

Good Morning, Dana Stoehr, San Mateo County Event Center

Good morning. Ruben Avelar - JobTrain.

Thank you again for joining this morning! Please feel free to add questions to the chat - we will have time for questions after each speaker.

Interested in the interaction between COVID-driven changes in workplace and patterns vs housing expense for workers. In other words, while “remote work” may have been catalyzed by COVID, does it stick because of housing shortages? And is that what we want? Could housing costs/shortages drive our innovators off the Peninsula irrespective of COVID?

Question: What - if anything - can be done or is being considered to better the job prospects for undocumented workers/residents?

Are you planning on conducting interviews in other industries such as hospitality, food service, construction?

Google, FB and Twitter are cutting pay for remote workers who move to less expensive areas. It’s impacting those that have long commutes and need to drive 2+ hours to get to work in order to keep their salary. Any insights on short / longterm impact on workforce and traffic because of this?

@Sherri - thank you for asking about health care and the recovery - the circle around the pie chart was about health care as that affects all aspects of the recovery.

Question: Is there any energy behind raising wages to a realistic level to enable their workers to sustain here?

Great article in May/June HBR that provides a model on evaluating long-term remote/hybrid work models. Looks at analyzing remote work by place/time constraints. Article provides a model for this analysis. It is a solid decision making process for remote/hybrid work. Employees will also understand the rationale for these working arrangements based on the model.

https://hbr.org/2021/05/how-to-do-hybrid-right

Ditto @bart. We don’t have a worker shortage, we have a shortage of high road jobs that pay a living wage. Our county has the highest cost of living in CA with the widest gap between the haves and have nots, and this gross inequity was exacerbated by the pandemic. If individuals are staying home because they make more money on unemployment than they do by going to work, the issue is not that unemployment compensation is too high. It’s that wages are far too low. To keep “talent” here our employers have to treat them like they’re talented.

Question for Patrick: Based on your interviews, how open are large employers to inclusive hiring and procurement priorities (Anchor Institution strategies)? This could include creating intentional pipelines for local talent from SMC impacted communities and small businesses and Disadvantaged Business Enterprises.

Question: “Quality of Life” for high paid workers is dependent on service workers being able to provide much needed services but small businesses can’t pay the wages needed to allow workers to remain local. Is there any public sector momentum around susidizing low wage workers so small business don’t have to absorb the full cost of needed local living wages?

I do wonder about impact of remote workinvestment in communities of color especially diverse workforce food service and other. I also wonder about the idea of working we’re you live abd deep relationships there ultimately impacting the power of deep connection.

As a former venture capitalist, I would just point out that it only matters where the VCs are because, historically, the VCs insisted on being able to drive to their portfolio companies, so within a zip code or two. So the VC investment preferences lead to a concentration of start ups on the Peninsula, and it is the start ups (not the VCs) which grow into big employers. The interesting thing to me is whether VCs recognize they can invest beyond the Bay Area because of zoom etc. That might have a bigger impact on location of work and concentration of innovation.

@Shawneece - agreed. In 2016 we know that 90% of Silicon Valley philanthropy left the region. The majority lack a strong connection to local community.

Interesting, albeit somewhat controversial, Business Times editorial about the more hidden impact of closing roadways in local downtown: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#advanced-search/from=john%40mcnellis.com&subset=all&within=1d&sizeoperator=s_sl&sizeunit=s_smb&query=from%3A(john%40mcnellis.com)

Can you elaborate on total regional output v employment rates?

will these slides be sent out to folks?

This is great information and data! Will you be sharing a copy of this presentation slides?

We will plan to post these slides to the Recovery Initiative website and can also send them via email. Www.SMCrecovery.org

Hi all- Try this link to the article instead: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2021/08/06/on-real-estate-cities-seek-to-save-retail.html

EXCELLENT, Chris! Thank you so much.

Locally various health care techs (ie OR tech, OB tech, Surge tech etc) are in demand. Not clear where they fit in to this helpful larger picture in terms of ladder etc.

Food industry is one of the most difficult industries to be in, by raising the minimum wage, it will be making it even more difficult for business owners. Yes, gov’t assistance has helped a little bit but is not enough to sustain the food industry for longevity.Is there anyway we can partner with tech/bio companies to help subsidize the work force demands of the food industry? I believe that if the culture of small businesses in San Mateo is important to these large businesses, we should be working with them to keep it around - otherwise it’ll slowly disappear and it will transform into any other major city with big food chain restaurants.

Dr. Brenner, are you seeing any movement in major employers hiring for specific skills over college degrees? Tech is a great example of this.

For community members connected to Human Services Agency, they may qualify for subsidized employment services. We have the opportunity to pay wage subsidies. In addition, we operate a food training program. Anyone interested, please contact me jdvalencia@smcgov.org

Professor Benner Outstanding and insightful presentation. I think it would helpful for CBOs and academic institutions to hear your talk. Perhaps this is already happening, however if not I’m interested in helping make that happen aachacsanmateo@gmail.com

Or possibly present to our Thrive Alliance of Nonprofits in San Mateo County.

Great question, Barrie! We have removed degree requirements in many of our positions where the right skill set is more imporntant than the degree. People of color and women are especially unlikely to apply for jobs that they are well qualified for but don’t meet the degree requirement. Degrees can be huge barriers to mobility.

The in house food of at the companies is what is taking the workforce away from small businesses

We created career ladders based on Salesforce Marketing Certifications and programming skills. Those replaced degree requirements.

@Bart and @Lisa - We are happy help set up additional presentations of this information and also suggest that the upcoming roundtables would be of interest to THRIVE and others. Please share the roundtable flyer widely - we'll send it out again - and follow-up with Danielle about additional presentations.

Can we get a copy of the slides?

Thanks you, Dr. Benner. Excellent information!

Will do, Peggy. This is great material.

@Peggy-Will do & Thank you!

Claire's Crunch Cakes are AMAZING!!!!

I have posted the full slide deck in the chat window—large file, (5.3mb), so we’ll also make it available on a web-site to download later. Thank you all for your interest.

Chris thank you for a very informative presentation

Congresswoman Speier framed the childcare worker wage gap this way: "We pay people six times more to watch our money than our kids." Wow. That spoke volumes to me.

The problems foundational to child care are also the same as for elder care, another industry we need enhanced for our workforce to be able to go back to work!

Rosanne, thank you for including Karen on this panel.. People sometimes forgot our dedicated child care providers are backbone small businesses.

Karen mentioned 500 childcare providers closing…was that in the state, Bay Area or sac? I missed the specific region she referred to

+Laura Palmer-Lohan. Really puts it into perspective.

THANK YOU CLAIRE! We see you. ❤️

Claire we support you!

Thank you Claire for being here and such a strong member of our community!! We love you!

Claire, thank you for the honest expression of emotions!

Claire, thank you for sharing your heart

We’re here for you Claire!! You’ve been there for us!!

Claire we support you!

Thank you SAMCEDA/Rosanne and SM County for your support of small businesses! Such a touching and important topic! Thank you Claire and Karen for sharing your experiences.

Claire and Karen you are fantastic :-). Never been more proud to live in San Mateo County. Thank you Rosanne and SAMCEDA for EVERYTHING you have done

Claire and Karen, thank you for your openness and sharing your experiences.

Amy: +1

Thank you Karen for sharing your perspective and experience as a child care provider and critical member of SMC!!

@Laura, yes the low wages for backbone child care worker jobs are shocking and Congresswoman Speier's words tell the story simply and powerfully. F5 learned at one point that a high percentage of our front line child care workers are also beneficiaries of our safety net Medi-Cal health insurance program locally.

Claire and Karen - thank you so much for sharing your experience and insights today.

You're really talking about a more sane society that supports its citizens/residents, instead of expecting or demanding that everyone carry his/her own (when it's often impossible!)

People need to be paid more money.....period! And to live here they need even more!

+1 Kitty!

Can cities add development fees that support child care centers?

It would be so amazing if we could connect "childcare' with our great public schools. It is not just care needed before kids reach school age but also care needed before and after school especially for mid and low income families.

This is an Education, Equity, and Livability issue

+1 evan!

Right you are, Evan.

SSF

Development fees can go into a community needs fund and can be used for dependent care and other needs in the community.

Bigger question: How might each of us, as members of the San Mateo County ecosystem, be a part of propagating a culture of caring for our neighbors and civic engagement? I’d be curious what each of us pledge… because individually we are making a difference, but how can we be a part of shifting culture?

Beautifully said Claire — thank you

Claire we love you!

Thank you for saying this out loud Claire. God we need to face this.

Thank you, Claire, for sharing your feelings!

WE must ALL be anti-racist warriors wherever we see it

+1 Kitty.

Thank you Claire for being with us and sharing. So important to hear and address

I am proof of that cake point

Bring on the Calories and Love :-)

Love those cakes!

Claire really speaks to the challenges that business have had this pandemic - the twofold moment of pandemic and equity that rose to challenge the core of everything we do.

Thanks you for sharing Claire. Our community has a lot of challenges with racism, we all need understand it and work on it to ensure this is a great place for all of us live.

www.clairescrunchcake.wixsite.com or clairescrunchcake@gmail.com OR 344.8690 -- puts Claire's in your speed dial!!

South City Ciderworks ROCKS!

Agreed

Awesome video

Love this video

Thank you everyone for all you are doing!! Please support local, every day in as many ways as possible!

Wonderful kick off to the Recovery Round Table discussions, thanks to all who made it happen today.

Thank you to everyone for their hard work and I can't for the future meetings..

Fantastic! Thank you

Wonderful session! Thank you

Thank you so much! This was really helpful.

Thank you everyone!

Excellent session thank you!

Thanks everyone !

Thank you for all the information!

Thank you for an insightful and informative session.