Brown leaned on the Department of Human Services and city and state departments. The result was the opening of Career Centers in the Bay View Hunters Point, Mission and Northeast side. Low income workers obtained employment services, assessment and training. An African American company is working the new hand held parking ticket writing program, a big item in the city. He has not forgotten the need to help those who have never had a voice at City Hall.
Airports are big money and job generators for urban centers.
That's why Atlanta's first black mayor Maynard Jackson once moved to block plans for a new airport until blacks were given a fair share of the pie. It was a political lesson that Willie Brown took to heart and to the runways of San Francisco International Airport. Some blacks who failed to get airport jobs ripped Brown and are now backing his opponent Tom Ammiano. Still, airport staffing for blacks stands at 11 percent and nearly 17 percent for management. Still on the employment front, the federal court-ordered Consent Decree and Stipulated Order for the Fire Department ended as blacks and women logged significant gains in employment.