City and County of San Francisco Monday, June 24, 2019

>> Chair Fewer:   hello, everyone. [Gavel].

>> Chair Fewer:   hello, everyone. I am sandra lee fewer. The meeting will now come to order.

This is the June 24, 2019,

meeting to the budget and finances committee.

Our clerk is Mr. John carroll,

and I'd like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this event.

Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements?

>> clerk:   yes. Please be sure you silence any

cell phones or electronic devices. Any documents you need to present should be given to me, your clerk.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Mr. Clerk, will you please read items 1 and 2 together. [Agenda Item Read]

[Agenda Item Read].

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much, Mr. Clerk.

I would just like to start this

meeting by saying thank you all

for coming today to come and give us public testimony about where you think your public dollars should be spent, and

your priorities to where the

public dollars has been spent. For the last two weeks, we've been hearing from city departments on their plans to spend public dollars, and now

it is your turn to tell us where you think we should appropriate these moneys. I want to thank you for your time. I know that many of you will

have to wait a while to speak,

and we are not doing speaker cards today.

Everyone can just lineup.

We are prioritizing people who have disabilities, people who

are seniors, and those with young children to speak first,

and I hope you will accommodate that. Otherwise, we look forward to what you have to say.

Remember, there is no sounds allowed from the audience.

If you agree with the speaker

we ask you to use your supportive fingers.

Once again, public, thank you

for coming out to educate us,

your legislative branch of the san francisco government. Without further adieu, let's start public comment. Everyone will have two minutes to speak. Our clerks will assist in

bringing people up to speak

with just lining up today.

We are not requiring any speaker cards whatsoever.

Welcome to the chambers. Okay. Let's start.

>> thank you, supervisors, for having me here.

I'm andrea.

I'm with coleman advocates for children and youth. I'm here in support of the immigrant parent voting collaborative.

We are educating our immigrant families to go into the schools

and have a say on their child's education. Sorry. Sorry. My son's there, and he has a phone. Sorry about that. Yes, but I am in support of immigrant parent voting collaborative. There was a budget that was approved, but we're asking for the full amount of 250. We have a lot of -- a lot of

our communities that need the

support, that need this information, that need to be able to have the proper information so they can be safe in their communities and also have a say in their child's education and who and what -- the decisions that are made about them.

So I'm here and just advocating

for that and just making sure that the urgency is there, right, the importance is there, that their families need the support, and they need us to be

there with them and supporting them. Thank you.

>> clerk:   thank you.

Next speaker, please. >> -- >> -- johnson. Thank you for letting me be

here to say what I need to say.

I my coffee cup, I put budget justice. Let me turn it around. And people say, why did you put it on your coffee cup?

Because we're always so hot to

talk about affordable housing,

we're always so hot to talk about senior displacement and all these other things, and then, we get cold.

My thing is let's stay hot. Transitional age youth development and job skill

training should be on the budget. I think affordable housing and people with disabilities should

be in the budget.

i think health sf -- mental health sf is what we're calling it, I think that's good because

if you have mental health, you

can work on getting a job and

work on staying together. So let's say hot, and other

than that, just thank you for

the chance to say something and

for giving me the chance to say it.

>> clerk:   thank you.

Next speaker, please.

>> good morning.

I'm judy garas, and it's great to see you.

I'm speaking for the inner sunset senior program. We started last year in October.

The inner sunset, as many of

you May know, has no community center, no senior center, nothing. We have coffee shops and

restaurants and bars.

That's what we have, and we have some really great

organizations like sharp, aspn, and valley community

associates, so we've got all

three of them. At the time, supervisor london

breed set aside funds, and

supervisor vallie brown continued the tradition.

First of all, we have to rent space. There are two churches with large community halls.

One of them came forward at a little over twice what we had

budgeted for the rent.

The other came in at twice what

we had budgeted for rent.

We had to promise we had 15 people. The first day, 35 people came in.

We rarely have fewer than 45 or 50.

That's a lot of seniors with

disabilities. It's a large crowd. We want to expand the program in the coming here to three days a week, we want to be able to offer more activities for seniors. It's a similar program that's

in district 7, that there have

been programs funded there.

The cayuga program has been funded in district 10. We are beyond our expectations, and we do need more money to

keep going.

It's a free program for

seniors -- [Inaudible]

>> so good to see you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you.

>> clerk:   next speaker, please.

>> Chair Fewer:   Mr. Wright. >> all right.

I'm ready to start now. The best way to provide housing and take care of the homeless problem in san francisco, you

got 8,011 homeless people.

I come across this transaction

deal for $57 million to build 144-unit apartment building

complex that's three stories tall. You build nine of these for

less than $500 million.

Nine times three is 27.

You built an apartment complex on the property that's on my right. On -- property like the one

that's on my right. The west

one on the left is being

built for $57 million.

We need to build these to take care of the homeless program and the people that need mental services as far as the health

department is concerned.

Here's prove that the mental health services department -- sf viewer. Here's prove that the mental

health services got a shortage

of beds, and another reason why

my response is true and correct. And statistics why you have a shortage of beds of the people you want to help has got a

combination of physical and

mental disabilities.

Here's how you have 8,011 homeless people out on the

street and the rate is increasing.

There's an article that says

you need $12.8 million, and there are 8,000 people homeless in the bay area. There's a person that's out on

the street that's been moved

and ain't got nowhere to go

because they don't have shelter beds.

The mayor had an $88.2 million deficit.

>> clerk:   thank you.

Next speaker, please. >> hello.

My name is steve, and I'm deaf, disabled. I want to thank you for inviting me hear for our comment.

I want to say we need a better solution for public housing. We have needs of people that do

not have housing, and we should also have new apartments around in san francisco. There's not enough housing for us senior citizens, as well,

and we need to expand upon that to improve that.

Many people who move out and buildings who are left have a can't should be left livable.

There are a lot of vacant that

can be used as spaces, for well. We need places where we have

rooms where we can also have

facilities to meet, and they can also be some small neighborhoods of housing that I've seen. Maybe as an idea, we can provide those.

That would be nice, but we need

more modern housing.

Maybe to make it affordable, to

keep it smaller, but we need

more housing, even if that

means smaller housing that provides all of the living

comforts, and we need to improve san francisco for everyone and not have so many homeless people.

Thank you very much.

Next speaker, please.

>> clerk:   thank you.

Next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon. Thank you very much for having us here.

My name is marcus, and I'm here to talk to you about a line item that was recent cut that

would be funding a myriad of

native american events and concerns here in this city.

And I find it to be remarkable

in this city that can do so much for so many people that we

have to come and do oppression ceremonies. Indian people are one of the poorest demographics in your

city, and rumor has it that

that line item was cut when one board member intimated that there weren't enough of us

around to make it worthwhile. I certainly hope that that's

not true, because we are here, we are alive, we are vital.

We hold powwows, we hold get togethers, we hold artistic

events in yerba buena gardens and we need your hope elp to do

this. $100,000 May be a drop in your

bucket, but to us, it's huge.

If you can remove a statue, listening to the voices of the indian people, if you can change columbus day to indigenous peoples day, surely,

you can put your money where your mouths are, certainly you can fund our events in this

city, and that's all I'm asking. Thank you for your help.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker, please. >> thank you. My name is betty trainer, and I'm with senior disability action and also the community

living campaign, and I want to

express our support for the budget justice coalition asks.

In particular, ones for seniors and people with disabilities.

I'll mention just a couple.

The dementia daycare programs

are really important, and also, the community connector program

that our first speaker, judy goddess spoke about.

This basically keeps seniors in

their home.

It helps them, those that don't have a support system, and it helps them have a support system, so we need to keep that

in the budget, budget justice.

The other thing I'd like to

talk about is expanding rental

subsidies for seniors and people with disabilities. This is a good-size ask, but an important, valuable ask. we have so many seniors that

just can't pay their rent or there's an emergency situation. They get behind for whatever reason, and we need these rental subsidies.

And the other subsidy, which is a program introduced by supervisor yee, would provide $500 million in rental subsidy for senior buildings. And it would be so necessary for our seniors that just can't

afford the so-called affordable rent. So please consider that. My last one is a real quick one. It's not necessarily for

seniors, but it's the red stone labor temple ask -- to save the red stone.

That's a community center at

16th and capp.

Supervisor ronen -- [Inaudible] >> hello.

I'm here on behalf of my roommate, edward. He had a stroke last year. I'm on social security

disability, and he had two jobs.

We had to cope with a rent increase of $900, which almost

$3,000 a month for our cabin or cottage. He had a stroke in September, and we were desperate. He ended up in the hospital in a coma.

He was paralyzed. All his income had stopped. What do you do? You don't have enough money on social security disability to pay.

Thank God I had an angel

watching for me. Q foundation with radco was able to pay the back rent as

well as helping us keep the

house, the cottage, which when

he does come home from the hospital, because without the

rental subsidy, we would have been homeless. This is very important that you

do maintain subsidy rentals for people, whether they're in an

emergency or they're homeless.

We all need support, respect,

and the miracles that come with that. Thank you.

>> good morning, supervisors. Lauren tedi.

I'm have district 5, and I'm a member of senior and disability action. Everybody knows there's a crisis of housing in san francisco, but what isn't

widely recognized is there's a crisis within the crisis. Thousands are shut out of

affordable housing, including 75,000 seniors, more than of

half of whom have disabilities.

75,000 seniors who are prized out of affordable how's -- priced out of affordable housing because their income is too low.

So I'm here to particularly

support President Yee's request

to establish and fund a $5 million pilot program to

provide long-term assistance to seniors shut out of senior housing.

The senior housing that's being built and senior housing that

will be built under the ballot

measure for the housing bonds -- the affordable housing

bonds, the alternative to President Yee's senior housing program is more and more housing seniors.

i refer you to the just-released community housing engagement survey of the

mayor's office of housing with the office of economic and

workforce development and the planning department. That survey that just came out confirmed the number one request of community members all throughout san francisco is affordable housing and city

assistance to reduce the cost of housing. Thank you.

>> clerk:   thank you.

Next speaker, please.

>> hello.

>> -- that luckily are available in the city but not enforced.

I recognize as the root of this issue the government, both

city, state, and federal's failure to side with the

workers, and this generational degradation of worker rights

and our ability to organize in favor of corporations. The largest corporations in san francisco enjoyed hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits from the federal

government, so the money is here. I challenge you guys -- [Inaudible]

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much.

Next speaker, please. >> hi. Good morning.

My name is lourdes alarcon. Generally speaking, I had the help of getting subsidized child care, but I also have to be part of the waiting list.

And yeah, I don't want to -- first of all, I want to thank the people representing us today, and I want to acknowledge that because you know how child care -- how important it is for a mother to

have, so you don't want to choose between not especially a

job and not being -- cannot pay child -- not accepting a job and not being able to afford child care services. I want to thank supervisor

ronen for opening the

horace mann shelter. But also, I'm advocating for the waiting list. This is a struggle, we have a lot of many issues. We're not against each other, but I think children cannot wait. They are, like, growing every minute, and they need the investment because that's investment in our future.

So we're advocating for child

care because that's part of our future but that's also

supporting women that need the services in order to make --

develop a better family and have their opportunities for their children. Thank you very much.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker, please. >> good morning.

My name is mia velez.

I'm a child care provider, and

with the consent of the parents of the kids I care for, I asked

them to have them here with me, some of them, most of them.

As you can see, the kids are over there, climbing furniture, crawling under the seats and things like that. If you can imagine for those of

you that are parents, if you had to bring your child here, what kind of work can you do? are you able to provide for your family? Are you able to pay your rent

if you had to bring your children here to work?

So I just wanted to remind you the kind of work that's needed for the people, for the citizens of frisk and united

states in -- san francisco and united states in general.

Right now, I have a waiting

list of full paying parents of 50, and I'm not including the

parents who subsidized.

We reserve in our program two subsidized seats.

We can only offer seats for two

families who need care.

I can't imagine what those

parents who need care are doing right now, how to provide for their kids, and what they're hoping for the future, so I

just want you to think about us. Thank you. >> good morning.

My name is maria jandres, and I'm here representing many mothers, many women, that we struggle every day, and we're

not struggling because we want

to, we're trying to thrive, do

all the things that we have to

do, but especially advocating

for immigrants mothers that since we are a part of the school district, but we don't know the rights that we have to be part of that school district.

And I'm asking here for -- to support the collaboration for the noncitizens voting because it's important for parents that are involved in their schools with their children to be part of that. But not only be part of that,

just coming and drop off your kids. I want my child to be successful.

In order to do that, I have to

be able to empower myself and know that I can make decisions

in the school board, as well. I'm also speaking on behalf of the child care because I've

been on a wait list since I was

in my second trimester.

And until I was homeless, I could not access that, and it's

a shame to deny parents to what is a human right. Kids should not be in spaces where they are not learning and their development is not getting what they need to do. So I'm very grateful that you

guys are working and doing these power -- these changes,

but please, let's support the immigrant families.

Immigrant families, we are very afraid. People are afraid of speaking up, and that's why I'm not here

because I'm not afraid, and I'm

going to tell all the other

parents to speak up, to fight

for their rights. But thank you very much.

>> good morning, supervisors.

My name is maria lusori, and

I'm with the parent advocates.

Every year, we fight the same fight. We have children in extreme poverty living side by side

with our millionaires.

We have the highest density of

millionaires and billionaires

and the fifth largest economy in the world.

We need to grow our economy for our children. Our children are only here four

to five years. the lost opportunities cannot be rebuilt. If they do not access child care, their learning potential

is minimized. When I was a young parent

starting parent voices, my

first paycheck went to pay for my infant care for my daughter,

and I was so sad, I had to call

a parent talk line, and they sent me a check, but that only

took care of my one.

Luckily, my parents came, and I

had to pull my son out of preschool so they could take care of my infant daughter and my son. Meantime, I'm still on the waiting list.

My children had to go home to

the philippines until I raised enough money. And finally, I was served and I got the funding because now my children are in college, and I think they benefited by the time they get the funding.

So I hope that all our children

will get the same child care access. Thank you very much.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much. >> yes. Hi. My name is June bug. I'm with parent voices, and I'm with poor magazine, and I support the justice coalition.

We need funding for our children 0 to 5.

We have over 2,500 children in san francisco on the wait list,

and children that don't have care can end up being homeless. Children that don't care can end up with parents without a

career, without college

education, without economic stablity. Cribs, not concrete. My daughter waited on the wait

list so long that I had to go through extreme stress just to get child care for her. My son got subsidy, and even with scholarship, I still ended

up paying $200 out of my

welfare check to keep us from ending up in poverty. I'm someone who needs child care, I've been through homelessness. All of these issues shouldn't

be pitted against each other. There's a way we can look at the budget and make sure these

needs get met if we do it in an equitiable way.

The amount we need to help

children get off the wait list is really large and would probably be at risk of taking money away from other services.

So I'm here to ask if we could start doing something in the meantime.

And that is at least $2 million because with $2 million, you can help 250 children. Thank you so much.

Remember, child care keeps san

francisco and our children learning.

Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you, June

bug.

[Speaking spanish language]

>> my name is antonia lopez, and I participate with meta. I had the opportunity to be a

leader for 30 years.

One day, it came into action in the collaboration. I had the opportunity to do

outreach in the community and to be in contact with many parents about this issue.

Throughout the outreach, I met

and spoke with many parents of immigrants.

I met many of them, and I know that they recognize the importance of the power of

voting, and there's many

parents that value this right,

but this is not -- this is not just about recognizing the value of voting but also participating in the school district.

Our community understands the

value of being able to

participate openly and freely. Much of their testimonies that

I -- that I heard spoke much about the fear that their

families were being separated

have a conflict of interest, deciding whether they should vote or feel secure.

As a mother leader, I would

like that they -- that they

brought in other resources --

the resources that we have for outreach to be able to clue more families, to be able to

incorporate more immigrant

families in this process. We need time for doing that and

to generate the trust and the consciousness in providing this

issue in order to be able to motivate more parents.

My wish is to be able to

continue this work and to keep raising our voice so that ultimately it would result -- [Inaudible]

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much. Next speaker, please. >> happy monday, supervisors. My name's kevin. I work with coleman advocates for children and youth.

We work with families in san francisco, adults, young people to transform their school communities. I'm here today to ask you to

support the budget coalition demands, asks from the budget as well as the parent collaborative. We are at a time where our

families are under attack from

high rent prices, displacement,

police harassment from the

President And his words. This city took a really courageous step in allowing noncitizens to vote for a school board, recognizing the importance that that process has and families feeling connected to the school

community and having a say in what that outcome will look

like at the school where their child is being educated.

So I'm here to ask you to support the noncitizen immigrant voting collaborative and really follow through on your commitment and make sure

that these families get the opportunity to learn about their rights and fully participate in the democracy in

the city that is setup to give them a say in their schools. Thank you so much.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, members of the committee.

Thank you for this opportunity to speak.

My name is arla s. Ertz.

I'm a resident of san francisco in the district 5 western addition neighborhood, and I have had the great honor and

privilege of living in this

wonderful city since 1970, and the only reason I am still here and have been here all that time is because of rent control, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to afford to live here. In October, I retired from my position as a social worker with the city and county of san francisco. I worked as a social worker for many years, serving many of the people whose needs are representing here today.

And one thing I can say for

sure are the needs outweigh the resources available and even

what resources are available sometimes require waiting for a long, long time if anyone gets them if they are still here by then.

So I'm here in support of the

budget justice requests, and

they're -- you're going to hear from many people today with many different needs from many different communities. I'm not going to pick and choose which ones to speak about, and I urge you not to

pick and choose which ones to support because the need is across the board.

So I encourage you to take an

equitiable approach and a broad approach to support all needs

from all communities. I -- just one last thing.

I was shocked, shocked to stand here and hear from the ohlone member of this group speaking about budget being cut. Let's not forget, we're

standing here, meeting on stolen land today, so let's not

add insult to injury -- [Inaudible]

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker. >> hello. My name is kim shuck. I'm the poet laureate of san francisco. i'm also a citizen of the

cherokee nation of oklahoma. I am also one of five

generations of my family that have lived in this city.

And I was appalled to see the

native programming budget got cut.

For a lot of reasons, I got to hear some nonsense being in and out of this building a lot, and it's not the fault of the people who say it.

It's miseducation and it's ignorance. Part of the solution is to continue to make possible public events where native people are visible.

There are a lot of us here.

It is one of the endpoints for the relocation in the 70's.

I have had the displeasure to

here one member -- not of this

board, but of another board,

refer to our member as not

looking like an indian.

That's serious.

The other thing that san

francisco is is on the list of

cities that have the most

murders of indigenous women,

which is a big issue these days.

It's an issue that's important. I want you to think about that. Have a good afternoon.

>> Supervisor Mandelman:   thank you. Next speaker. >> hello, everyone.

My name is cynthia.

It's an honor to be here and

for you to hear my voice.

It's very important for me

because I'm a domestic violence

survivor, and it's very

empowering right now.

It's a dangerous situation.

We need subsidies like

shelters, affordable housing, and to support all of the

nonprofits that are currently

working, enough subsidies because those are the ones that deal with these kinds of problems.

To me in particular, when I was

on crutches, two organizations

offered their handout to me

with food, a space where I could go.

Even though I haven't yet achieved the american dream, as

an immigrant and as many of us

that are here today, we are in a struggle. Also as a huge economic

contribution to this country,

trust -- we are here today for a better future for this

country and for our families. Thank you.

>> Supervisor Mandelman:   thank you.

Next speaker.

[Speaking spanish language] >> hello. Good morning. My name is cynthia maldonado.

I am the mother of two

children, of four years old and nine years old.

I am really concerned that they May be considering budget cuts

for programs for my children.

The truth is that me as a part

of the community of low resources, we always need to look out that our children have

the same opportunities that

other children have.

It's been very difficult for me because my child who is on a

waiting list for preschool has

not attended it.

But thanks to programs like

la raza and others, they have

helped me help him, and they have helped prepare him for kindergarten. I ask you to please keep in

mind our comments and our needs

as a community. Thank you.

>> Supervisor Mandelman:   thank

you.

Next speaker. [Speaking spanish language] >> good afternoon.

My name is carmen rodriguez. I am a latin mother from -- with a children that are 10

years old, 3 years old, and 7 years old.

In particular, la raza has been

helpful to me for having

support for my family.

And with the fact that they are in an education program, I have been also able to enroll them

in other programs, as well.

And I would like to see that other families can also enjoy the benefits of these programs

like I have enjoyed.

Like my colleague said before me, it is very helpful for us to receive assistance with food

as well as with health care. And I would like to see your

support so that many other families can benefit from these programs.

Thank you, thank you, thank

you.

[Speaking native language] >> [Inaudible] >> -- to low-income seniors.

Let's look at the city's housing portal.

This year, so far, there were over 40 affordable housing opportunities. Only three of them are senior housing.

[Please stand by]

The income is usually around

800, we need truly affordable

housing area the resources that the city has put into developing

senior housing is far from enough. Among the low income

population, 24% of them, the

city only both 12% of resources

under senior housing. And now we cannot even reach the threshold

to apply for senior housing. At

the same time, fund and support program to make senior housing

truly affordable to low income

seniors area thank you.

>> good afternoon supervisors, member of the committee. I

represent affirmative action, we are here to ask that you include our budget requests for noncitizen voting are reachable.

We are very thankful for our

inclusion in the draft spending plan. There is no doubt that immigrants, no matter what our

statuses are that we are under attack. Just in the last week,

you have seen how the c3 has

unleashed a new wave of terror

that has impacted our immigrant families, threatening large-scale deportation and

major us cities and shooting hours to get we want to acknowledge and thank all of the community members who came out today as a demonstration of

political courage and for their

ability to release the couch and participate in this civic activity on the budget process

area this is a testament to our

work. This is what we are trying to accomplish when we are saying that we connect with the

community they are engaged and trust community-based organizations who engage in

service provision, community education and civic leader-to be able to overcome the panic

and activate their political power. We appreciate-we would like for this committee to fully fund our collaborative that goes

towards seven organizations to

do this work in a multilingual

and multiethnic matter. We have demonstrated our track record serving 60,000 san franciscans

in the last year and connected immigrant families to key services. Now is not the time to

back out of the cities invest for immigrant safety nets. Now is the time to honor what we

mean when we say we are a century city. We will protect,

and safeguard, not just

immigrant life but safeguards as well.

>> thank you very much, next

speaker please.

>> hi, I am a parent to two children living in san

francisco. I am also a migrant

parent working with chinese for affirmative action. In last

year's election, in November, for their specialist, went to school with the immigrant communities to raise awareness

of immigrant voting and to

conduct community education. We

were able to reach more than 1000 chinese immigrant parents. I want to take this time to

share my experience working with

immigrant parents.

>> from the. Of May to November 2018, as part of our outreach

team, the five of us reach out to primarily chinese immigrant community centers and schools to

ask wayne voting in the unified school to erect and basic information. Especially in the

chinese speaking community. More importantly, we wanted to ensure

that immigrant parents are aware

of the right they have as to get parents engaged in schools, no how the schools of function in

school district in their own communities area --

communities.

>> I believe we are aware of the existence of immigrant families

in the city. Many. Chose not to exercise the rights assigned. Some of the reasons behind them, I believe, are the same one m-

impacting immigrant parents in

the unified school district the language barrier, cultural

barrier, to name just a few. The more alarming one is what we are in today. Our work is not only to educate parents about the

right but to empower them. >> please show your support to

immigrant parents and

communities across the city- >> I am a parent to three

children, I am also a specialist

with chinese affirmative action.

>> like we heard earlier, last year I went along with a team of specialists I go to different

schools to reach out to different immunity members of

the school district to talk to

them about the right, and their

access, to voting right, as

immigrant parent.

>> we informed them the right to

participate in the school district and to, to encourage

them to participate in the schools, and to care for the community they are in and also

the schools that they are part

of.

>> I am also among them as an immigrant parents. I also get to

understand my rights and to be

able to fully participate in this effort. I would like to

urge the board of secure-

supervisors to continue supporting immigrant parents voting collaborative with full funding so we continue to do this work. Thank you.

>> thank you, next acre please

read --- next speaker please.

>> my name is ivy, I'm also parent to two young children

here, and I am also a member of the specialist team. During the election last round along with

my team we went to schools to

read, speak to immigrant

parents, and their schools and

reach over 1000 chinese speaking parents to listen to their

opinions about the school. As

you know, san francisco is a

city made of many immigrants.

It's not that parents do not want to participate in voting,

there are one too many barriers

that exist for them like

language and cultural barriers. In this atmosphere today, there

are many reasons impacting their

decision. Our outreach effort is not just on educating and

informing people of their rights

to participate for election, but also recognize that there are

many ways to participate in the community and encouraging them

to do so. I would like to urge the board of supervisors to continue supporting immigrant

families in our community, by

restoring full funding for us to continue to do this work and continue to speak to immigrant parents about their rights. Thank you.

>> next speaker, please area --

-please.

>> my name is amy, I'm also a specialist with chinese for affirmative action with her daughter that also goes to

school in san francisco.

>> last year, I also went along

with my team to go to different

community to talk about noncitizen voting at the school

and the community spaces area one of my personal experiences,

we went to the school and it was the first time that the parents, and also the teachers, at that school that have heard about

noncitizen voting to know they have the right to participate in

different meetings and also be

able to vote. >> the parents and teachers

walked us to the door and passionately thanked us for coming to the school to speak to

them that day. Really encourage

us to come here to educate them about the right and opportunity

to participate.

>> this outreach effort is

especially needed by the newly arriving chinese leaking immigrant. They don't really know what resources are available to them. We really

want to use this opportunity to encourage that we can instill the full fund inc. For us to

continue to work area thank you.

>> next speaker, please area >>

my name is chris and I, I am

also a parent to a young daughter.

>> I'm also an immigrant parent

with chinese for affirmative action.

>> san francisco is a city of immigrant. Many parents opted to

not participate with the school board, where the activities in

the school, for the reason,

similar to what a lot of folks have already mentioned area my

language barrier and cultural barrier. [Speaking spanish language]

>> especially in this time it's, it's really impacted their

decision-making. >> our work is

not to only educate the parents but to empower them to

participate in the civic process

area we hope that the board of supervisors will support

immigrant families to fully restore the funding. For us to continue outreach in the

communities in education effort

to inform people of their rights. Thank you.

>> thank you very much. Next acre, please.

>> good afternoon, my name is norma garcia. I am here also to

call on you to support the full funding of the immigrant parent voting collaborative. As you

have heard from him of the work

of the collaborative is

powerful. We are empowering the

community by developing

community leadership. Let's not

forget, the city of san francisco voters approved

proposition and in 2016. We have an obligation to fulfill that

mandate of the voters, and make

sure that all of our citizens

are fully informed of the opportunities on the risks associated the implementation of noncitizen voting we cannot

tread lightly here. We need to make sure that the work of this

collaborative is fully funded,

because people's lives, their freedom, their ability to participate pacifically is all at stake, if we don't do this

right. I want to just remind everyone about the value of

voting, it's all right that we

all hold near and dear, and the

value of public anticipation,

there really is no equal. It's really important that we follow

up on our commitment to fully

fund the immigrant parent voting collaborative work area thank you very much.

>> thank you. Next beaker. ---

next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors, jessica lehman. I know it is a long day. I want to thank you for listening carefully to

people to speak their voice on budget priorities get we know san francisco is a wealthy city.

We need a just budget for all.

One that prioritizes generalized communities. Including seniors,

people with disabilities, lgbt, etc. Seniors and people with disabilities need to use

necessities. There is the senior operating subsidies that pres. Tron 11 have worked on to make

sure senior housing becomes affordable. We also need to

continue and expand the portable

tenant base senior and disability rental sub these that have been working so well to make sure that when a person is hit with a rent increase that they are able to pay in their

home. We know finding a new

place, unaffordable place is not an option. We also, of course, need sub these for homeless

families. We hope you will prioritize these area seniors and people with disabilities

need more community connector program, technological help at home. These are all about reducing isolation, which is a

major cause of death. Not to mention the impact of the rest of our community when we do not get to be in contact with other

seniors and people with disabilities get the current

proposed spending plan is a

start. As the pot grows and you

determine your district ask,

please ir ties as from the budget justice coalition. This is what community member's have

asked for and what we need. And

we deserve to be cared-heard.

>> next beaker, these.

>> good afternoon, we are here

representing senior and

disability action. We are asked

and you to fund the senior disability budget acts, but particularly the rents of these

that people have talked about.

People with disabilities. We

have seen so many of our members who are able to answer go, because of affordable housing

for seniors. That in foods members like therese area these are the people that built san fran disco and made it the great

city that it is and we want our members to continue to be able to live here most of their

families and communities area thank you.

>> 1016 next speaker, please get

>> good morning. My name is almon, coming back for a second time here representing mission graduates. There are two points

I would like to make today around immigrant voting. One is

we have a two-year contract with you all. It dates you are going

to fund it, and fully funded. I

want to name them. The second

part is, this is a good invest

and, and you know, as san fran

disco continues to build trust around different immigrant

communities, we want to foster

civic participation, many of the

collaborators and partners you

heard from have really deep ties to the community. They are

really essential to this work,

is ashley with the 2020 census

coming. When we look at the long-term, and how much information and education we

want to get out to our immunity,

this is a key time in san francisco, over the next 10 years, this is all around hard-to-reach communities to get

I just really want to stress

that, that it might as if it's

only for this purpose of voting within the school district, but

it is actually much larger than that. Thank you. [Speaking foreign language] >> my name is norma and I am

part of the parent program. I am

a mother whose mother is to form

inform other parent of

information. And our rights.

>> 1920s six immigrant but was already implemented. In 2000 and

continue throughout other cities

area in washington, boss none

other cities area the people

before us have left us and we continue to fight. It was not

fair to them and it is not fair to us area paying taxes and not

being able to have a voice, democratic voice for everyone.

To have the right to vote, it

motivates us to feel more at home, and to be able to advocate

for the education of our

children. [Speaking native language] We

want to continue with the

process of immigrant voting.

Since 50 years ago [Speaking native language] Think

to these type of fund, we can

continue to do this work. [Speaking native language] To

reach every parent with the objective of raising their

knowledge around immigrant voting.

[Speaking native language] And

the empowerment of families,

without us worrying about our immigrant status. Continue

contributing to our cities in

different ways. And around the

participation that the sick of

education of our children. With the help of immigrant voting,

leaving a legacy for our children. And for all of the

youth to leave a better future

for them. Better job, better

salaries, and a better style of

life. Educating the community- [Speaking native language]

Strengthening the voice of our

community. Promoting democracy. With the immigrant vote area

that we we are able to say that

the power of immigrant civic engagement [Speaking native language] There

is so much to say, but the most important thing is to continue

to help our youth. Thank you.

>> good warning, my name is

josefina. I am also a mother

leader here in san francisco. Supporting immigrant voting.

[Speaking native language]

Within the last five years, I

have had the privilege how

families dissipate more. One

another communicating, their

voice. We get information, and we get involved area so that

folks can hear our voice. And

take us into account. And to be

able to participate in all of

the decision, no matter how tall

they are. Like a community, we

are very important. We need to

know our right. And to keep

reporting the immigrant vote.

Thanks to these fund, and you

all, the supervisors, and our community organization we can continue to preserve our

sanctuary city. With our values,

of our sanctuary city. Thank you.

>> tran16 --- next speaker

please get good afternoon my name is amy lynn I'm a I am here

today to advocate for the budget allegation at 250,000 each year for the next two years to get

over the course of the week last

week, we have witnessed how an unsettled administration

terrorizes-and attempt to disrupt people's day-to-day life

and make them feel unsafe going

to and getting their children to. Moments like this remind us why the work to empower and affirm immunity members that they belong here. They have

right in their access to basic services is not jeopardized speak misinformation. I work with a cord group of undocumented parent and empower them to understanding their rights as migrant and as parent two kids in the school district to get have long face challenges advocating for the cells on their children. Act this way participation is enabled by this elaborative work to educate, empower and mobilize communities and for them to meaningfully participate in the communities they love and belong. Please continue to advocate along side immigrant families and ensure the funding info to emigrant collaborative for us continue to work a long time migrant the travel time. >> good morning supervisors, I am here in support of the immigrant voting collaborative area we began in May 2018 to inform immigrants of their rights and the risk associated with non-it is an voting on school board elections. Since that time we have look into over 6000 community members who are impacted by noncitizen voting. We work with the department of election to ensure implementation is accessible, and community friendly. Flying

in the face of the tran 50s- san francisco is hitting-

setting nationwide President. Not necessarily on allowing

noncitizen to vote, but how we implement noncitizen voting. There are several cities and municipalities that have reached out to us in their eyes on severances will in terms how we roll out the initiative. The

outright attack on immigrant- communities, the collaborative are part of the broader safety

net of services that san

francisco provides to its immigrant community members. As immigrants are under siege, we

need to be prepared and we need to inform community members of

their rights and the risks. As

the voters declared in November

2016, that they want immigrants on noncitizen to be able to vote

in school board election. The

school-the city of san francisco has a responsibility,

which means fully funding the immigrant collaborative at $250,000 a year for two years to get san francisco needs to stand wrong and not just with our

words, but our actions and

resources to fully fund the collaborative. Thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors area and give her your time. I

am the director of youth development at the youth

council. I managed the asian youth prevention services

program. It began in 1987, a

consortium of asian-pacific

islander associations including

j cyc community center, and the vietnamese youth development center. We are proud to have

been a pioneer for sub abuse prevention versus for the community not only in san

francisco, but across the

country. As we face an

increasing number of low income

ati families in the city, I am asking you to support $240,000 to restore the much needed services to the city's most

vulnerable children, youth and

families area thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors

and members of the committee. I am one of the program managers

area do we have a partnership with asian youth prevention services and I come here today to request review of the

budgeting process for the asian youth prevention service for the

year of 2,019-2020, and also which should be allocated to the

department of children youth and

families. Sorry. We asked that you acknowledge- [Inaudible] The one that will be

impacted by this funding would

be our families and the student.

Which api students make up 40%

of the district the islander

committee has been riddled with

violent, mental health issues and drugs. [Inaudible] We are taking positive steps in the right

direction by not only supporting

our youth and helping families,

stronger connectedness in the families, more support around family communication and

building up their families in

our communities. And also with

our culture. We know some of the values that we possess in our

culture will help out our young youth. [Inaudible] I know that is one of the bigger things. By

restoring the services or our

community it would build skills,

leadership skills, communication, mental health

awareness to better help our communities and have a better

outcome in the future. Thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors

area my name is debbie, I am the

associate director for the asian youth prevention services grant

at the jeffers unit -- japanese community council. I was a college intern at a y ps and

before that a high school participant. This program has been a part of my life for over

13 years now. The asian youth prevention services graham is

much more than just a sub than use prevention program. I cannot

put a price on the amount of support I received from account

orders and peers as a heist participant. The tools and

skills I learned from this

program helped me make healthy decisions, and succeed. I believe in this program, that is

why am here. I believe prevention work makes a lasting

impact on a young person. As the

cities api population continues

to grow, program like the asian youth prevention services provides a safe and welcoming

face needed for youth from our most honorable communities. I hope that many more young people will be given the opportunity to

be a part of the grant. And on their behalf I am urging you all

to support the full amount of the asian youth prevention

services request area thank you

for your time. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you so much for having this opportunity for us to

provide public comment. My name

is lori, and I am the health and

wellness program manager at the vietnamese youth development

center. We are also a heart of

the asian youth inventions services consortium. I am here today to speak on behalf of not just the contortions, not just

the organization that I work

for, but as a southeast asian,

one youth in such high risk, as

well as on behalf of the youth

that we serve here. Growing up

as a cambodian immigrant, in a

town where we were almost always

forgotten about. I somehow

miraculous the made it out of the juvenile justice system

runs. I made it out of avoiding

teen pregnancy. I graduated high

school. I cannot speak on behalf

of my peers without the same

scenarios. Many of them are now

grandparent. They are in the prison and the juvenile justice

system for their children, and so, so many southeast asians

have fallen through the cracks,

and growing up, there were not

any program that offered services prioritizing asian

youth. Services that are not

only culturally responsive but linguistically. I cannot trust

the power to be able to provide prevention services that are

culturally and linguistically appropriate for our young people, in navigating a city

that is so new to them, and with

pressure from society, and

parents, and schools. I can

speak to the power of the return

on this invest. I urge you to please consider our request.

>> thank you very much. Next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is cindy tran. I'm a

supervisor at the asian youth

development center. I want to

become behalf of the youth that

i work with. Being a part of the

rh1 we do a lot of programming

with community health programs

to get and to get accepted into

great schools and colleges and

create their own journeys. But,

this is like-having these

services gave them a stepping down to be exposed to how to

become a community leader. These immunity health readership program give them the ability to

talk and share it dances living in the tenderloin, growing up as an immigrant and also being a

part of a low income working class background. Things that

they can share with their ears

and build community with. I feel like these pogroms, right, not only do they help them navigate

life also feel more confident

with them else. In addition to that, learn about the history,

and how to gauge a better

environment for the community.

Throughout these program I have

my youth conduct interviews with community members, and they have done great community organizing

work area I am so proud.

However, we have been working under-to be intentional with this work we do with our youth,

knowing they are the future, I

believe-I really hope that you

support this to provide more funding for our consortium in

order to to need to do this work

area thank you.

>> thank you. Next speaker.

>> good afternoon everyone. I'm

a family educator from the youth

center. We collaborated with the

rh1 consortium to provide substance abuse and resilience.

Over the years, providing services to multilingual

families our consortium has received recognition for

achieving youth and families throughout sentences go. Serving populations including api low

income families, immigrant and families surrounding mental

health issues to get the asian

youth prevention services has-

under age drinking among api,

strength and bond and families to learning inventive parenting

skills area for an, many of our

immigrant families fill disconnected and have issues communicating with children growing up in the united states

get bringing parents on their

children closer and strengthening the relationship. Asian youth prevention services was not an available resource it

would be a devastating loss in our community. For us to continue to providing this

critical service, we are here to

ask the board of supervisors to

support the asian youth prevention services consortium, $240,000 in the budget. Thank

you so much for your time.

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is vanessa reynolds. I am representing the theater

center which is the bay areas

premier lgbt q plus petersons

1881. I am here today to respectively asked in addition to all of the important issues put before you today that you add art education to your priorities get the theater has

brought free health and wellness

education plays to students, in the san francisco unified school

district for over 30 years. At that time, they have served over half a million students as an inch addition of san francisco's

health curriculum. Youth aware

serves are the 19,000 k-12

students annually and supports teachers and administrators by

reinforcing the health

curriculum. This program is part

of us these requirement under education code 519344 hiv prevention education, including a section about body image, gender, and sexual orientation.

It's offered at no cost to all

participating san francisco

schools read we served 14,00769

student during 84 shows up 49

was in the sf ufc. On the

importance of diversity to the

cities next veneration area

please help us create a more effective sentences will

[Inaudible] You so much for your time. >> yay technology. I am jennifer walsh and I'm the abilities

integrator for the community living campaign area at the community living campaign we help build this wheels and tools

needed to have a good life. We create community all around

temperance is the in unique

ways. We believe everyone has their own gift with the out

works of neighbors and friend to

communities so they can be there for each other, plus have fun

and be more active together. To

have the ability to give back to our community. The community has

to be physically, emotionally

and psychological. We are

beginning with physical act as. All about making simple issues

fixable by shining light on them

so people can have the power to

fix them. While our new campaign

is eating construction areas

more accessible for more

abilities, we are targeting the

block between mission and

market. Everyone is welcome to

our next meeting on July 9 at 12 pm teen 63 mission, fifth floor.

thank you for your time.

>> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors

I'm here to talk about the

housing for the homeless, for

families, for use, for elderly and disabled. Be sure that we

get housing for all of these

categories, okay? In support of. Thank you.

>> good afternoon, I am a member of senior-and disability

action team. I am here to request support for the budget,

that is the senior operating city submitted by supervisor

tran11. Also the senior housing

subsidy. Thank you. [Speaking native language]

>> good afternoon my name is

guadalupe a. Thank you for

giving me a few minutes of your time. I am here because I am

supporting the fight for the sub

the. This fight is for us to

have a better life. About 1.5

years I was evicted.

[Speaking native language] And

it's really hard after living in

in place for 14 years, and

paying rent, that actually I was

merely able to afford. Speak because ---

[Speaking native language]

>> I know how a person suffers because we don't want to leave

from a city that we made our city. [Speaking native language]

>> I know in your hand, lays a

big responsibility. To take big decisions for the city.

>> okay, let me. I hope you guys continue to support, and guide

you to make the best decision so

you can continue to help us with

subsidies to make our life

better. Because --- [Speaking native language]

>> I know there is a lot of

asked today, and I regard ---

-I pray God that he will

enlighten you so you can make

the best decision. Thank you.

>> hi. Good afternoon. My name

is mina, on the interim

executive director of the san

francisco suicide prevention.

The only 24 hour crisis hotline

in san francisco. We literally

save lives through the hotline, manned by a staff and 200

volunteers that dedicate over

200 hours per year to answer san

franciscans in crisis area san francisco is an unusual city and out the golden gate bridge also

lives here. It really attracts the highest suicide rate in the

western hemisphere because of

that. As I walked into the 57-year-old agency I saw that

our building was at risk. Which would mean the collapse of a or

city infrastructure for mental

health. We were funded, over 25

years ago to receive about 2000 called. In reality we are

receiving 70,000 calls a year.

As the city has grown, and as

suicide awareness has really

used area we receive about $580,000 from the city currently and it has remained flat for the

last 25 years to get I

discovered while fundraising has been robust math organization,

we really need to offset the

operational foundation of the organization that has been compromised and not sustainable

for over five years. Our call center is jimmied together. We

really want the board of

supervisors, today, to know that

we know the city is reasonable. We have had multiple conversations with the department of health. With a lot of the leadership transition we have not had much leverage

increasing the base. I want you to know that to 35% of our callers are homeless or at high

risk of eviction. 20% of our

callers-

>> thank you. Next speaker.

>> hello, my name is robin and I

might isolate count or at san francisco suicide prevention. In 1.5 years I have taken 681 calls from people contemplating

suicide. This is a story for my first volunteering, donating the

rest of a young girl just 18 years old. She said she did not want to be saved, but just wanted somebody to talk to.

Within 10 minutes, I was able to connect with her will to live,

and get her to collaborate in

her own rest. Something that our

lien specialized in in one-I

kept her talking while we collaborated with san francisco

though dispatch and we tried to collaborate for paramedics to arrive on site. This was

difficult as she was wondering the street lost and confused rate it was hard to pinpoint her exact location. 45 minutes went by and she continued to take

those because she thought nobody

cared enough to come. Ultimately we were able to find her, and save her life. This is a much

closer call than it needed to

be. Our 20-year-old technology,

and limited staffing slowed our ability to identify her location

and relay that critical

information to dispatch. With proper funding, we would be able to update our core infrastructure. Enable a higher

level of ordination with the

city, during complex rest like these to get those emergency

services and have a collective

duty to do all that we can for this young woman, who has her whole life ahead of her and the

many others like her. I look forward to you supporting san

francisco suicide prevention by

fully funding our request. Thank you. >> my name is amelia, on the development coordinator with san

francisco's suicide prevention. I first came to-in 2016

because I had my own asked answers with a suicide. I

attempted suicide as a teenager

in high will, definite undergrad

in college. I struggled with-

over the decades that I grew up

with very strict parents who emigrated from mexico. Traditional values taught me to

work hard to try to pull myself rate even though they loved, they did not teach me how to

take care of myself. I know

within communities of color, mental health can be extremely

stigmatized. More so than the general population. And so, at

times, I felt exhaust, defeated.

I am here, I lived. I ended up

calling a crisis center the next time I felt overwhelmed. I

realize that people were out

there who cared. People like us

here. They wanted to help, and offered support and ultimately

that is what got me through. Now

I want to be that person for

>> -- especially to include in their budget two expiring

programs from our members which include language support

services for the tenderloin

arab community which will serve over 100 middle women, and the asian youth services which will

serve over 450 students. We hope that the board can

restore these two programs. thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. My name is sarah wong.

I'm the executive director of

community youth center, C.Y.C.

Today, I would like to request the supervisors to consider funding the program at san francisco international high school.

This is a school where it has

about 360 students are 100% new

immigrant students who reside

in the united states less than

four years and only english learners. The students have a high need

for connective services, and

also tutoring and other

support, so we really hope we

can have this funding as we support students from san francisco international high school. The other school I want to

bring to your attention is african american middle school.

We only funded for -- to serve

153 students, so we're serving 53% more students every day because of the need of the

school, with almost 50% of the

students receiving free and reduced lunch and about 56% of students more that need service there.

We also would like to expand

our current senior martial arts

training program. [Inaudible]

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you.

Next speaker.

>> so the domestic violence

consortium is here to -- the

city has made a great

investment over the years, and

it is deeply appreciated, but

to keep the services and staff

at the ready, we are going to need more investment.

I know that 1.3 sounds like a lot, but we are here

representing 39 programs. , some

of which you will hear from

today.

That's only 39,000 per program. Several communities are so at risk.

We are so concerned about our transgender sisters. Please continue the city's commitment to saving lives in san francisco.

We have reduced homicides.

When I started, it was 10 or 15

women and sometimes their

children per year, now, 1 or 2

are still tragedies, but it's a reduction.

Help us keep this trend going. Continue to support these services. They're vital.

People are counting on them.

Thank you so much. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is ben, and today, I'm

speaking on behalf of the chinese culture center in above

of art and culture.

The chinese culture center is a

supporter of the asian culture.

The chinese culture center is art and culture center of our community. Our survey shows that most of

our visitors earn $40,000 or

less annually.

They have never been to the

opera, ballet, symphony or

other programs, but they do come to enjoy world class performances at the chinatown

festival and dancing on waverley.

This turns the underutilized spaces in our community into livly music and dance halls that bring free, unique and diverse programming to the more

than 26,000 low-income and underserved individuals and their families who might otherwise not have access to these kinds of high quality performances. We therefore ask for investment in the chinatown community for

the chinatown musikfest value

and dance -- music festival and

dancing on waverley. We want to thank you and thank you to the community for listening to this. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is alicia justin cook,

and I'm a victim rights

attorney of the cooperative restraining order clinic.

We assist domestic violence and

sexual abuse victims to keep themselves and their children safe. I know that you're already aware of the connections between domestic violence,

sexual assault, and homelessness.

Domestic violence is a

contributing factor for 1 in 4

homeless women.

Domestic violence victims

suffer from homelessness

because they May have flee.

Their abusive partners May force them to quit their jobs or their physical or mental health issues resulting from the domestic violence May led to loss of employment. Unfortunately housing and stablity in turn puts survivors

at risk for more victimization. Homeless women experience much

higher rates of special assault than women with housing, and when there is no safe place for a survivor to go, they're more likely to return to the partner who perpetrated the violence against them. I'm confident that san francisco can become a model

for how to effectively address homelessness. We are grateful that as you

address the issue of homelessness, you will continue

to consider how the city's domestic violence and sexual assault agencies are also addressing this issue. We appreciate your continued budgetary support as we work together to support the most vulnerable members of our community and to keep domestic

violence survivors and their

children housed in safety and stability.

Thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is mary rivers, and I

am here representing district 6

and tenderloin. I address my comments to all of you. In regards to the new city budget we are asking you to

support job readiness and tech training programs that are

offered in the tenderloin and soma.

We offer this to all city residents. Our programs are rarely funded and sometimes overlooked in this process.

We operate at minimal budget and can only serve so many people.

The rest of the money comes out

of our pockets or the remainder

of the people we need to serve just go unserved. Without additional funding for

workforce development, we can't support programming in our

organizations and our neighborhoods.

Our organizations help residents and provide wraparound services and resources but at a minimum

level due to resources.

We're helping them find jobs and get healthy and thriving in their own neighborhood. We need your help.

We can't do this alone. Homelessness is a huge program in san francisco and we need others to get jobs to provide for their families to ghet et them off the streets.

This funding is crucial to help us meet our goals and we ask

you for funds to help us end homelessness. Thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is lucio rivera, and I

would like to thank you, but I

would like to thank hillary

ronen for her fight to save the

restaurant temple, and that's

what I'm speaking out for.

Some of us, we don't have anyplace else to go when it

comes to the mission district. We've got a place right there

where we call home.

And if the red building goes

away, there goes our place, our sanctuary, a place we can go and feel safe.

Since 2006, this organization has been right there, as

spanish speaking monolingual

immigrants, asylum seekers. Where are we going to go?

As crazy as it sounds.

We've only got two places to

go -- another one that I

forget, which is latinas in action.

but the point is very simple. This is our house. We go there from monday to

tuesday to be a family because sometimes we don't have no

family around us, so I think

it's time to put culture, to

put community, and legacy of

our money.

Save the red stone temple.

Thank you.

>> good afternoon members of the board of supervisors.

My name is mario paz.

I'm the director of the family resource center. I serve on the planning and action committee, but I'm also

a member of the family resource

alliance, it's an alliance of

26 family resource centers across the city of san francisco, and I'm Chairman Of the immigrant rights commission. I think you heard from some of

our families earlier how

important it is to support

programs for our families with children. Immigrant families put their hopes and dreams into their

children's future. It's important that we support

these programs across the city

so immigrant families can continue to live in the city and continue to thrive. I want to thank President Yee in particular for being a champion in early education in san francisco.

We know it's the best

investment we can make. Please support that. The second biggest challenge for families after housing is the cost of child care, so please continue to support that.

last, I'd just like to say as vice chair of the immigrant rights commission, you've heard

a lot of issues of our immigrant communities. They're under attack, they're under a lot of fear.

This is the time for us to

standup for our san francisco values.

I'm very proud of this city and

you to being champions of immigrant rights in approximate our community.

Thank you, supervisors.

>> thank you for listening to us.

I'm juneau dumas. I'm here to speak on behalf of the family resource alliance. I'm the parent of a daughter with significant disabilities, and she has a fine life because

she has access to services. I was not born knowing how to access services for her. I learned how to access

services through the family resource center.

Families must have access to information, education, and

support to help their children

research their potential. Think of it as a gathering place, whether it is in a specific neighborhood around a specific issue, like disabilities or homelessness or domestic violence. Families need family resource

centers to learn how to parent and build their skills. Research shows that families who thrive are core communities who thrive. You have lucked out.

You have 26 amazing family resource centers who can help you create a thriving community.

there's just a little

challenge. San francisco is costing more

and more while at the same time an organization like support for families is literally

serving thousands of families

every year, hundreds more than last year, and hundreds more than the year before. We need realistic financial support to keep moving forward.

Help us help you, support your

amazing F.R.C.S.

Thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. I am here on behalf of the

family resource initiative.

My name is isaiah palmera, and

a parent of three children. My baby is a cancer survivor.

Chemo has caused a lot of intellectual delay and disabilities.

Family resource has helped me navigate resources, education

and just my own advocacy for my own children.

They have amazing staff who are

also parents with children who

have special needs.

It is so key and vital for me and other families that are like mine. It is so hard to see the staff

that are there and to be retained because of the living

increases of wages of housing and all that. However, we know that with

increase in funding to these 26 resource centers, we know that

they can continue serving our families.

Thank you for these allocated funds, and God bless for all

that you do. Thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors,

and thank you for working

through lunch.

My name is diana pang, and I am born and raised in san francisco.

I work at chinatown community center, and we are excited to

share and empower with our arab

and muslim members in the student. I want to tell you about and

thank you for your continued support of the arab mothers community E.S.L. And life

skills program that is freetor

everyone operating as a T.L. In district 6.

In a little bit, you will hear a bit from arab mothers who are community partners, service

providers, educators, advocates, talking in

solidarity about this. So today, I'd really urge you to support and continue supporting, fully funding this incredibly life changing program.

This budget is approved by the

A.P.I. Council and the budget justice coalition.

And I want to thank many of the board of supervisors who are doing so.

For close to a decade, this

class has operated on a bare bones budget, and we are --

every single day, you'll see 50

immigrant refugee women in

hijabs, mostly arabic, and shuffling their kids through

the maze of open air drug dealing, and feces.

This is a space with

complimentary child care and

culturally empowering arab

community engagement. What's significant is I've not seen anything like it.

The class -- am I up? [Inaudible] >> I'll continue where she left off. My name is kate robinson.

I run the safe passage program through the tenderloin community benefit district, and today I'm here to support full funding of the women's E.S.L.

Class out of 201 turk.

I worked for chinatown C.D.C. As resident services coordinate

I don't remember at 201 --

coordinator at 201 turk for many years and recognized that this program which was once

part of the arab community

center which no longer has programming, about eight years ago, the funding was lost for

this program through A.C.C. And witnessed what it looks like when a community comes together

to retain a service that really

benefits the community.

It was chinatown C.D.C., and

one of the organizations you

will hear about after that kept

this class going to bridge the divide from low-income families to city college. We've seen the success of this program, bringing over 20 women

from this class to being

students at free city college. When you look at this program,

you would think it's a fully funded operation. It's really a labor of love and deserves that funding to be a

full operation. Thank you.

>> hello. Good afternoon. My name is 3w bashar, and I'm

originally from yemen, and I now live in the tenderloin neighborhood.

I fully support this class for

arabs mothers.

this class was crucial for me because I would walk down the street without knowing how to communicate with people. It's opened a lot of opportunities. For example, I have met face-to-face with the people I need to talk if I have problem without interpreter.

Second, I have -- I know how to

find a good high school for my daughter.

Third, I was a volunteer at tenderloin community school to

help translate for arab

mothers, and finally, I feel

strong in this class and happy to learn more. Thank you. >> good afternoon.

My name is awa, and I am

originally from yemen. Now I live in tenderloin.

I am a mother of three kids.

I support fully funding this

class for arab mothers.

This class is important to me because first it has improved my english.

Second, they teach me money things about my life.

For example, how I can vote and

understand the important issues

like what a proposition is, and

why they are important in our life. Housing. Another example is how I can

find a good school for my kids.

Third, I was able to become a community leader and learn how

to teach parents about strengthening sons.

I help teach this class for 14

weeks and made money.

Finally, I helped teach the on

people about the school board

and how to vote as a noncitizen, so this class is

important to us. Thank you so much. >> hi. Good afternoon.

My name is shaina. I am originally from egypt, and I live here in san francisco -- in downtown san francisco.

And I support the E.S.L.

Class -- arab woman class. We need your support. The class needs more teachers.

The class -- you're not just

learning english, it's help us

for us as a woman.

It help us communicates as a people. Okay -- sorry. And we need more support because we are in this class learning how to use our voice. We didn't have enough education before, and now, we can communicate with people.

And for my personality a,

meeting with Mr. Matt haney to discuss my housing problem, and

now I can communicate with

people very well than before. Thank you for your support. Please keep this program and

free child care for us. Thank you. >> hi.

My name is abda.

I'm speaking on behalf of Mr. Sal devine. This class is important to me

because it helps me to speak

english, so I was able to take

the class which are all in

english for child care. Also, this class helps me to

get work in child care, and

this class helped me to open my first bank account.

I'm proud to join this class. Actually, this class very

important for arab mothers, not

only english but also life skills. Please support funding the women E.S.L. And life skills

class for arab mothers.

Thank you so much.

>> thank you. >> good afternoon.

My name is christine cordero,

and I am the founder and

teacher of the arab mothers and life skills program in tenderloin.

I thought it would be really important for several of my students to come up and address you to show you this program really works. I can't tell you how proud I am of them and how much progress they've made over these years. The goal of this program is really not just to be a bridge

to city college but to be a bridge to other learning and to

become confident, contributing

members and citizens.

As I said, they've come so far,

and in addition to -- you know,

to english, many people ask,

why don't these students just go to city college?

For two reasons. One, we provide free child

care, which is really important. Secondly, in addition to the

child care, this has a live skills component, which city college doesn't really have.

And even though many of the women have gone on to city

college, they come back for the life skills component because english is more than language. It's really important to become culturally competent and linguistically competent, and I think these women are a

testimony that's possible. Secondly, the goal of the

program is to have them become

confident young women, and fourth, to become contributing

citizens so they can help their

communities become even stronger and more integral part

of this community. Thank you for your attention, and we support fully funding

this program.

Thank you.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. My name's rachel chen.

I also work for china down C.D.C.

I'm here today to support the E.S.L. Class because I think the class is really important to the community.

I think for most students, this is the only class they had

attended since coming to the U.S., and for most of them, it's the first-class and the first education they've ever received in their whole lives. For example, the teachers that teach this program, it's not

just an E.S.L. Program but it's

a culturally sensitive one-stop services program so that students can obtain information to community, understand their

rights and really, like, get connected with their community and also get supportive services from us. And as an immigrant and also

english learner, I have faced

the same challenges as most of the students and, you know,

coming to the U.S. With really limited english, feeling

isolated and really have a difficult time adapting to american culture. So I think today is really inspiring to see that many of

the students have achieved many milestones. they're today able to speak and write english, really participate in different

community events, and also, the

kids' schoolwork and become a role model and use their education, also language skills, to help other immigrants in the community, so

please support this E.S.L. Program. Thank you. [Please stand by]

Resulted in a lot of -between the resident community

and members of the class.

Something that members regularly participate in. Recently members

of the class on their children also attended coasts and filter

to chinatown with a private tour

and discussion of the art exhibit. It was a really

engaging chance for them to connect with other aspects of

chinatown cdc has an

organization and to explore new parts of san francisco. Not only

have members been able to participate in events, the skills they have gained from the class has led them to be proactive and take more of a

leading role in organizing these events. Multiple women have

reached out to me to help with projects for my work. Most notably the toy giveaway for the

citywide celebration of ramadan

here at city hall. In the arts

and crafts session for youth. It's been a wonderful opportunity working with the women on the projects that benefit their children. I believe the class was a key

component in bolstering this

with the greater tl district 6 community.

>> good afternoon, with

chinatown cdc. One of the things that struck me is apparently a city hall insider a couple of

days ago told a reporter from

mission local that today was going to be the waiting room for

mother teresa. What struck me is

you see this is not the case.

These people have advocated for themselves. These people at

times have created programs for

themselves. These people have educated themselves and are here

not to, you know, demand your,

you know, your generosity but really to advocate for

principles and needs of the

community. You will see it from

our, you know, incredible

mothers and parents that raise

children, all across the city.

You know, it is really, to me,

inspiring every day. When I work here at city hall, as a

legislative aide, when I worked in the community, it is inspiring to see what the

community does and how the

community reacts. The community

sees a need, and has made this

dsl life skill class that is incredible. For 20 years you will hear from my colleague,

angela, who has been working

with a family for over two

decades. I think that is what I

take away from budget public comment today which is like, you

know, our community is resilient

and knows what it needs. Thank

you very much. [Speaking native language]

>> hello supervisors. I live in

chinatown. I am asking you to support family housing vouchers,

the budget includes vouchers in the funding. [Speaking native language]

>> hello, I, myself, have a

house with four people, two kids

and a husband. You know, my husband sleeps on the floor.

There isn't any room for him to sleep on. My kids need to do

homework on the floor as well.

We have two put files on a desk

in our room. My son asks me, "mom when are we going to move

to a different house " it is not

that we do not want to move out,

we just can't afford any place

else for us to go. So, here we

are. That includes 50 vouchers

for families. Families that are

currently in shelters waiting

for permanent housing. We asked for hundred thousand, getting

our section 8 housing, as well

as looking for housing. We thank

you for your support.

[Speaking native language]

>> hi, supervisors, my name is chan. I am living in the sl units and with families

together, we are here to ask you

to support funding for the family vouchers. >> for us low income families it is really important because we

live in the small rooms, so we have everything put into our

small room, we do not have any

space for us to move around in the room even. [Speaking native language]

>> our kids do not have a space

to do the things. They have to

do homework, they have to play on the bed.

[Speaking native language]

>> we have a bunk bed, myself

and my husband sleep on the bottom. I think every kid should have enough space for them to sleep comfortably. They should

have a life where they feel

free, and they have a better

space to live. Safety is another

of our concerns. We have a

middle aged lady on our floor. sometimes she keeps things that

we feel not very safe for our kids.

[Speaking native language] In

the middle of the night she will move the furniture and make loud

noise, also she can yell in the

middle of the night.

[Speaking native language] At

one point she told them-the

piece of furniture down the

stairwell. We were really scared.

[Speaking native language]

>> thank you for your comments.

[Speaking native language]

>> hi supervisors. I come from

chinatown. Support us for $5.6

million for our housing voucher program. [Speaking native language] The people, myself, my daughter, and

my grandkids, in a tiny room.

[Speaking native language] >> so, my daughter has really

poor health. She is sick. She

works really hard. But the daughter told her, you must take

a break, you must rest. She had to take care of the family, she

cannot even take care of

herself. She is becoming having worse health conditions. This is

the situation we can move out,

even we tried, but it is impossible. We cannot answer my

daughter when she asks when we

can move out? [Speaking native language]

>> we ask for the funding, $5.6 million to help the families

move out. Thank you. [Speaking native language]

>> thank you for the funding

supporting our sro and the

homeless families.

[Speaking native language]

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

I am from the chinatown sro collaborative and I'm here to

ask for support for the $5.6

million for the voucher programs

for the families. [Speaking native language] >> I have two children and we

live in a small unit. We do not have a kitchen and bathroom in

our unit, therefore we have to

share the communal kitchen and bathroom with other families, in the building. Every time we have to use the facilities we have to line up for it. In the room

there is no space for families.

[Speaking native language] >> my children have to do their

homework in the bed because the

room is too small and often times when they play together

they might hurt each other, they might bump into each other and at one time my son was playing with my daughter, and he bumped

into something, and got hurt, and therefore her son asked her

"mom, when can we move to a bigger place?"

[Speaking native language]

>> my husband, he works very

hard for the family, and his

health is getting worse. His age

is also very soon to get retired as well.

[Speaking native language] >> my hope for support to fund

for the $5.6 million for the

housing voucher program so all of the families can move out of

this living condition. Thank you so much.

[Speaking native language] >> good afternoon supervisors. My name is sue young. I'm here to ask for support for the $5.6

million to go to the sro housing voucher program.

[Speaking native language] >> I live in a small unit we

have a small bed in the room and

there is actuallymy family to

move around. My daughter has to do homework in the bed and

there's no bathroom in my unit so we have to live up every time we have to use the bathroom and

there is no space in the unit,

due to privacy reasons, because

there is no bathroom in the

unit, my daughter cannot change her clothing in the unit and she

has to go into the bathroom.

[Speaking native language] >> because a lot of us are low

income and we cannot afford to

move out to rent the market

housing, in the market right now.

[Speaking native language] I urge the supervisors to fund the housing voucher program so a lot of these families can move out to a better housing situation.

[Speaking native language]

>> I was one of the lucky families who was able to use the

voucher program to move out to a better housing. Now I live in a three bedroom apartment.

[Speaking native language] >> even my daughter now, because

there is more space and more privacy, her grades have

improved and she has a lot of

space to do homework. She even 1/5 the place in one of the

drawing competitions are yet I'm very lucky. I also want other

families to be as lucky as I am.

Thank you. [Speaking native language]

>> good afternoon, supervisors. I am from the chinatown collaborative. I'm here to ask

for support for the sro housing voucher program.

[Speaking native language] >> I have a family of four, we

live in a very small unit and- and, my son is seven years old

and my daughter is 17 years old.

they eat and they do homework in a very tiny room that we all

live in right now. [Speaking native language] We eat and we do homework in a tiny room and even when they take about they have to line up for it. For normal families they May

able to get to bed around 10 pm.

But because we have to line up

for the shower room we have to sleep past 12 am. >> we waste a lot of time lining

up for the communal bathroom. Even to use the kitchen we have

to line up for at least three hours.

[Speaking native language]

>> I am here to urge your

support for the sro housing

voucher program so we can move up to the unit and to have better living conditions for my

children. Thank you very much.

[Speaking native language]

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

I am a member of the united collaborative.

[Speaking native language] I am here to urge you today to allocate $5.6 million to help a

family to create a subsidy program.

[Speaking native language] >> my husband and my son

immigrated here in 2014 and

every since then we have lived in this tiny unit. If one person

gets sick in the household, everyone gets sick. [Speaking native language] >> I remember very clearly not too long ago I got sick for over three month I got my son sick. When I got better I got sick

again. I wasn't able to work for that time because I had to pay a friend it was a hard burden on

me and my husband. We were really stressed out.

[Speaking native language]

[Speaking native language] >> my son is now 14 years old

and has been america for over five years. He's really tall

now, because we have a very

limitedone our units come he

often has to bend down in a very tiny low chair and table to do

his homework. As a mother, it breaks my heart to see that I was unable to provide better for my son because he needs to

study. I want him to have a bright future.

[Speaking native language] Therefore all of the mothers came out today to urge the

supervisors to help our children

in sro. Thank you.

[Speaking native language]

>> hello supervisors, my name is

tina. I am here to urge supervisors to allocate $5.6

million for the sro housing

voucher program. I have two children, one is a

three-year-old and one is 20 months old.

[Speaking native language]

>> a family of four we live in a

tiny sro unit. I'm not sure if you know, my unit is only able

to sit a bed and nothing else.

>> my children basically do everything on the bed. Eat,

play, do their homework, and sleep.

[Speaking native language]

>> our daily life is waiting in line for everything. The

bathroom, the kitchen, everything.

[Speaking native language]

>> we work very hard, almost every day. Asking the

supervisors if you can help us? [Speaking native language]

>> my children saw a meant- mental health person in the bathroom come he doesn't know who the person is aware came from. And now he is scared to go

to the bathroom again. [Speaking native language] >> section 8 voucher is our only

hope. I hope supervisors can

support us. Please help over 400 households in chinatown to move

out their units. Thank you. [Speaking native language]

>> hi supervisors, my name is gina.

[Speaking native language] >> I am urge you to allocate

$5.6 million for the section 8 program. [Speaking native language]

>> I am a family of three, our

room only fits one bed, nothing else. >> not only is my room very

tiny, there's also no window in my unit. My room is right across

from the garbage room, so every

day we have to suffer from the smell. >> because of this it has put a

lot of stress on my family. Because of this unhealthy condition, my family often get

sick especially my young kids.

[Speaking native language]

>> because of this housing

condition, my husband has developed a depression. [Speaking native language]

>> I been suffering every day

>> because of this I don't see a

future for my family.

[Speaking native language] My

son is only nine years old, I really want to provide him

housing, but because of the housing crisis and the rent is so high, even though I worked

really hard, not able to move out. >> the voucher is our only hope

so I urge the supervisors to

help us. You.

[Speaking native language] >> hi supervisors.

[Speaking native language] I live in chinatown and at the

same time I am also an

organizer. I am here today to

urge you to support the $5.6

million budget act. I hope that the supervisors would really

kill-care about the crisis we

face in the city.

[Speaking native language]

>> there was a time my unit

housed five people. It was very embarrassing for us, because

there is no room for us to change.

>> we can even hear each other

breathing. There are about 30

units in our building. It is

very common to see people fight

over the kitchen. I am not sure

if you knew there was a case

where a fight over a stove

turned into a real fight where people got injured.

[Speaking native language]

>> the comments you just heard

are a tip of the iceberg. There

are also many other issues and concerns that we were able to

talk to you about today. I am

here today to urge you to

support the $5.6 million and

helping the voucher for the families. So that our families

are able to move out to permanent and stable housing.

>> we hope that you can support

25 vouchers for homeless people

in a shelter. Also $100,000 for the collaboratives to help

families looking for housing and filling out applications.

[Speaking native language]

>> you heard what we have gone

through so we would really hope to have your support. We worked

really hard. Thank you.

>> now I would like to have my two minutes. I work at chinatown

cdc and formally and sro, until

I was 20. Luckily my family got a voucher, from another city, so

we were able to move out. Because of that I was able to go to college. I was able to find a

good job and land a job. You can actually see what a voucher and

housing can do to our next generation. I really hope the

supervisors can help our families. We've all heard their stories, it is true. I have gone through that. Thank you for your

time today. Thank you. >> good afternoon, I am the

policy director for st. James infirmary. I would like to start out by thanking everyone who has given testimony today. I really

appreciate it. I would like to thank hilary roman for working

with st. James infirmary as a safe house, young women's freedom center to develop this

proposal. I would like to think

budget chair fewer for proposed funding to curtail the violence. It will allow for st. James to

engage in weekend outreach all night weekend friday night and saturday night. This is critical to improved outcome. As I believe we all know by now, or

at least all public

professionals will tell you it's incredibly difficult to provide

services to workers without peer-based support. As such, we

provided invaluable asset to our city government addressing health and safety concerns we can only address. All we asked for today is the ability to do

what we do best improve health and safety outcomes for sex

workers. I want to lift up the obligation of actresses that

have proven effective. This budget item provides emergency housing vouchers to affect

workers who believe they are at risk of harm interrupting the violence before it starts. For

those workers who participate in the voucher program, will link them to the full spectrum of

care provided by the city and service workers. St. James infirmary has been proud to

partner with san francisco to implement best practices for sex

workers for the rest of the country in the world. Let us continue that partnership with

this proposal that centers the need and is supported by all parties who came to the table in

search of a solution. Thank you.

>> I fell, I am okay. I am tony newman. The executive director

for st. James infirmary. I am

here to ask you to support the mayor's budget of $2 million

with the q foundation and the yerba buena gardens initiative, mayor reed put in, 1 million for

this year and a million for next year for trans housing that

would give a coordinators or to

75 vouchers. We do know that transgender are 18 times higher than anybody else including in the lgbt queue. I'm also

advocating today for the violence against women. We are also a member of that coalition,

and I'm also advocating for the budget justice coalition. We

have $500,000 in their for legal referral resources counseling,

and case management for transgender. Thank you very

much. Have a good day. >> good afternoon board of supervisors. My name is lance, I

am the ceo of san francisco

community health center. We have been providing hiv services in the tenderloin for over 30

years. Most recently in 2015 we achieved federally qualified

health center status. We are the newest fqhc in our city and over

30 years. This enables us to

bring in significant federal dollars to provide medi-cal reimbursed and the behavioral health services to serve the

most vulnerable in our city.

After three years of being a federally qualified health center, we are becoming the

safety net of the safety net. Our clients are those individuals who are diagnosed with substance use disorders, mental illness, struggling with homelessness and pain

management. Many of whom who

fall out of the care and find themselves at our doorstep. We have identified the need for

dental services for our patients. Specifically target the lgbt individuals and homeless individuals. We know for the communities we are serving, oral health services

are a critical date-gateway to accessing primary medical and

health services. An treated

dental issues deteriorate once

quality of life and complicate every other health condition. We are asking for a one-time

request of three and $50,000 to establish ongoing and enduring

health services at our main clinic in the tenderloin. Once set up we are able to get to

bill and reimburse by medi-cal for the services so they are

self sustaining. We ask that you consider this request as you

balance the many critical needs of our city. The community health center is committed to providing the highest quality care for the most vulnerable and

stigmatized in our city. Thank

you so much. >> good afternoon, I am on the

leadership team at san francisco

community health center. As san francisco's newest federally qualified health center opening in 2015, our mandate is to provide the highest quality medical and behavioral

healthcare to homeless individuals. Our commitment is

to ensuring that those who are

struggling with substance use disorder, and mental illness, and pain management cs in the

tenderloin as their health home.

Where they can find acceptance

and a safe place to access care and support. Low income san

francisco adults are more than

twice as likely to report fair or poor dental health. 74% of those have not been to a dentist

in the last six months. 68% do

not have access to any dental insurance. We, at san francisco community health center, can be

part of a long-term solution. A one-time budget request of three

and a $50,000 we are able to

establish oral health services

at our tenderloin clinic. Once set up through our fq a e status

they can be built and we will

bring in more federal medicare

dollars into our city to take care of our homeless and marginally housed residents. San francisco community health center can become a referral

source for other programs in the tenderloin. We are co-located

with the chante and st. James infirmary. All clients

communities being served at these organizations will find an

extensive array of direct care

and support at 730 pulte. Thank you very much.

>> good afternoon paradigm the director of operations at san

francisco community health center. We have a partnership with the school of dentistry. This has helped us reduce some of the barriers by creating more

access to their dental services.

What we know is that our clients needs continue to prevent them

from being able to access care off-site. We have been able to work with one of their volunteer dentists to actually pilot a

program in which he comes on site and sees who in the waiting

room is in need of dental services. The first day we did this, we did no outreach. We

just had him come on site to see what was possible. What we saw was in our waiting room alone, over 20 people had seen a

dentist on these are homeless

folks. We had one gentleman who actually used would to create dentures for himself, because he

had such fear of accessing dentistry from negative

experience as in the past. If

our clients are able to access the services on site while accessing their other services,

that support them they are more

likely to attend. We know we are asking for your help in doing

this. Thank you so much.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. My name is sandra, I'm a leader

from st. James episcopal church in district 1. Our reverence

sits on the richmond district

senior roundtable to provide

testimony today. She has asked me to represent her, john

correctly in all of the seniors in our congregation. We wanted

to know, we are concerned about the needs of our seniors in the

event of a disaster in an

emergency. We support the $50,000 budget request by community-based organizations serving seniors in d1. The funds

requested are aimed at a

increasing the culturally competent emergency preparedness

response and coordination

capacity of our local cbo's. As

part of this effort, faith and action will help coordinate the

faith-based response in our district. On a personal note, I have lived in the richmond

district for 35 years and reside

in district 2. I have spent my career in public health. We have chosen to age in place. The

threat of earthquake or the likely occurrence of more bad

air days or disasters yet unknown israel. We are aware of other neighborhoods receiving

funding for community planning

efforts to meet the needs of those most vulnerable populations. We know there is

that money within the 2019

budget that could be allocated.

All we need now is the political

will and your support to make it happen. A 50,000 allocation to

this effort would be greatly

appreciated, thank you for your consideration of our request.

Claims to employ more than 300

individuals in the care of 528

young children. An average of

perhaps $200,000 per child per

month. To paraphrase, general

statements, caretakers do not

require money and high cost while she slept in the house, I

would have to be in the car, I

would have to like, make sure

that she was happy. It was just

an abusive relationship. Definitely what we need is more

housing, that is only really know. If you could like keep

your organization like focused on market street and all of

that, I don't know, you know, thank you.

>> good afternoon supervisors, I

work for larkin street services,

I'm here to discuss gary house,

which is a transitional house. Getting the fiscal year, we are going to have to cut that

program down to 23, losing 12 beds. Gary house is not just the

house, it is a safe haven for

those clients coming in off the street from being homeless. It

is a place where they come in

their community. My staff and I

work very diligently to assist

these clients with all of the

barriers. Employment, housing, wellness, and education. When you think about it, some people

May say 12 beds, that's not a lot. Tell that to those who are

living on the streets. Those who are about to lose the shelter

because they are running out of beds, or those that are coming

out of incarceration. I am here

to plead with you to give us the

additional funds to run gary

house, because what we have been funding, we cannot hold capacity

of 35 youth. I am asking today,

if you would definitely please consider giving those additional funds to keep our program

running at its capacity. Thank you. >> good afternoon. I am also

with larkin street youth services. I am the case manager at diamond youth shelter. Which is one of two youth shelters in san francisco and one of just

four in the bay area. We play an essential role in our battle against homelessness. To allow us to reach those at the tipping point before they actually fall over the edge. A role to change

courses of action to build strength in youth whose minds are still multiple who have not yet settled into patterns of behavior. While the goal, of

course, is for all of under 18 youth to be in homes and living

situations that are permanent. There always will be a need for a safety net. For the situations that don't quite fit the mold that the system has created for them and a fall back when the system doesn't work like it is

supposed to. Our shelter provides support and safety for

those who have fallen through the crack. With a proposed budget cut, our shelter will have half of the numbers

available cutting the total number of beds for under 18

youth by nearly 40%. It is not a

question that this change will have sweeping the detrimental effects and I'm already seeing

them in action. For the past month our shelter has had to act

according to the proposed new budget meaning a reduction in

beds and staff on site. For the first time, we have had to turn

youth away. We have had to say "no ". We have had two short length of stay for youth who

were not ready to go home or for homes we had not yet identified

a safe place for them to go. We cannot extend lengths of stay for youth who had particularly complicated situations. We can

no longer provide the same extent of support that we once

could and our capacity is limited. When we make decisions and consider impact we need to look beyond the moment, look at the whole web and effect that

one strand has on the rest. Diamond youth center is one tie of the youth services we have in san francisco. I urge you to

reconsider the budget cut. Enke.

--- thank you.

>> hello, my name is kyle, I am 21. I'm with larkin youth services as a member of the

youth advisory board. I am here

to advocate for my homeless

youth peers. I have noticed that

we are requesting for more

money, in the budget. As for

homeless youth, I also notice in

the budget a lot of the money was placed towards just homeless

themselves. I feel that is grouping everyone into like 1 specific pl. In reality, there

needs to be a lot more help. One in five homeless people on the street are under 25 in san

francisco. That is kind of an

issue, because us as the youth are the ones that are going to

bring a change into this place. When you cut funding for us, and you lower the budget for us, and you make it harder for us to get off the streets and you make it

harder for us to get out of being homeless, it really makes

it seem like you are really

supporting that issue. On top of that, the biggest thing I see a

problem of, a lot of these people that are basically about to get booted out of the shelters are people under the age of 18. They are minors.

They're about to be put out on the streets. The same streets that have artie had those issues. I know there is a lot of people requesting a lot of different funds and things. But,

I feel as though this is

something that is imperative and incredibly important. We are the people that are going to bring a change. On top of that, having

more people that are minors, having more people that are

younger ages on the streets creates more trauma. When you create more trauma like that,

that makes it harder for the mental parts, too. That will bring it back up into that. You will see more people having mental health issues are more

people seeing trauma from the

streets. That's all it got. >> good afternoon. I am a district 9 residents and I'm

also a parent to this dutiful

child. I'm here to talk about childcare slots now. As you can

see, it's a very important issue. I've heard that there is no add back money for childcare

slots. I would like you to consider the childcare slots that you have right now. There

are over 3000 families on the weight rest right now who are waiting just like me, who are waiting just like other families

who cannot work, their lives on

hold because they do not have access to childcare. This is an

issue that is important to all of us. Please consider childcare

spots now part I want to add, I

don't know if the funding got caught but I used to be a house

list youth. If I didn't have the

housing that they currently have now, I would have still been

left on the street and I would never have been able to leave

the city. Market street is one reason I am able to still live

here in the city. I just want to

tell you all please think about housing for young people.

Childcare spots now. Add that.

We are waiting. Families are

waiting. Thank you. [Speaking native language] >> good afternoon, my name is

margaret and I am period motor.

--- a promoter. >> I have been trained to do

outreach for parents who are not citizens. [Speaking native language] I am

here to address the funds that

are available, so that we can continue informing the community. I hope that the

budget is reestablished for the

collaborative. So that we can

keep counting on this money.

Thank you for the funds that you provide, representatives and

supervisors. To the different community organizations.

>> we believe in you, and thank you.

>> good afternoon. My name is

sidney holler, I'm a juvenile defense attorney. I have been a member of the superior court

conflict now for the past four

years. It is a an honor and

privilege to represent our most vulnerable people in the

criminal justice system, children accused of crime. The youngest client that I've ever

had is 11 years old. I spent the weekend talking to a 13-year-old

who is most likely not competent to stand trial. Also working

with an 18-year-old for his upcoming trial, tomorrow. I really enjoy representing these young people. The vetting

process to get on this panel is

very rigorous and strenuous. It

took me over a year to even be accepted onto this panel. I

spend hours meeting with my

clients explaining the criminal

justice system, what the charges

are, going through the evidence, the video surveillance,

explaining the juvenile court system. Sometimes our biggest victory as when they get released from juvenile hall where they get that ankle

monitor off. I am here to today to support full funding for the

indigent complex counsel. We are asking for our counterpart the public defender and district

attorney offices. Thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. My name is casey lee and I am here also to ask for full

funding for the superior court indigent conflict counsel program. I was born and raised

in san francisco both in the

richmond district and san francisco chinatown. I spent

time in los angeles as a public defender. I served as a public defender in la for eight years I returned to my hometown here to work as a conflict counsel. It's

the exact same type of work as a

public defender, minus the recognition, minus the support

staff and minus the benefits. In

my eight years here, I continued on as a conflict counsel and did

not apply for any public defender's office because my

experience has opened my eyes to

the fact that the clients who

cannot be represented by the public defender's office still- due to a conflict of interest, still deserve a robust defense.

I am a certified criminal law

specialist. There are only 20 of us in san francisco. Of the 20,

10 belong to our panel. I have

personally tried and one life cases and there are many more experienced attorneys on our

panel. All of us choose to do this type of work as opposed to

privately retained work because we believe in representing those most marginalized in our communities. We want to be able to continue doing this important

work. We are asking for parity.

Thank you.

>> thank you. Next speaker.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. My name is brett andrews, the ceo of prc baker places. I want

to thank you for your leadership throughout this budget process. I know there are many city

priorities and issues we have to deal with. I appreciate your thoughtfulness and consideration as you move forward on this to your budget. It is appropriate

that I go after the two attorneys, I am thinking through

a racial lens here and how often

so many people in our system are disproportionately represented,

people of color, specifically african-americans. I had the opportunity to see the last man in san francisco encourage everybody to see if there's a story to be told there. I am thrilled and excited about the

resources and commitment that the city has made around the

expansion of beds, particularly our treatment beds. Prc baker

places has 159 treatment beds, and 115 co-op beds that allow

our clients to move out of treatment and live healthy,

productive lives in the

community. With that, I would say we also need support of

services that wrap around these clients to make sure that they have access to financial

resources and employment resources and legal resources. I am here to encourage you to

support our expansion into the healthcare programs, funding is

such that were able to provide that service for the hiv-positive population and we are not able to provide those services for those in mental

health and sub's abuse issues. I encourage you to look at that

proposal and understand the significance of it and the seriousness of it specifically

through a racial lens. 36%, of 4% of the population that

african-americans make up 36% of the homeless population. Of that

36%, 44% of them are african-americans who have lived

in the streets for over 10 years. Please if were able to

provide health and human services through a racial lens we know we can walk and chew gum at the same time. I think you

for your consideration and your support. I want to give a shout

out to my sister organizations

in this room.

>> hi, I am nathan, I am an

intern at larkin street youth services. I'm advocating for requesting additional funds for

services that help end homelessness. As a young gay man

I see homelessness as an issue of the lgbt community. When a gay person is about to come out to their family they do not how they're going to react. I've had many friends be abandoned by their families because they are

gay. When they are kicked out, they May go to friends houses

for a bit, hopped couch to couch and eventually when the

resources are exhausted they go to the streets. Half of the homeless youth in san francisco

are lgbt q. If additional funds

requested by larkin street are not med, 40% of beds for

unaccompanied minors will be lost for the city. 12 beds will also be lost. An essential services for trans youth will be

lost. Many of these I have met at larkin where discouraged when asked to speak in city halls like this. When immediate

results are not seen. Youth

experience and homelessness are

not statistics. They are

disproportionately of color and queer identities and they need

specific services related to those identities. The queer community and the communities of

color have helped create the

culture of san francisco. Continue to fund efforts against

youth homelessness. Please increase funding for service

providers from the bottom up. Thank you.

>> good afternoon supervisors, I also work at larkin street youth

facility. I want to thank the supervisors for their many

assessments and addressing san

francisco's issues on homelessness. The youth at

larkin street are some of the most vulnerable not only across

the bay area but across the us. Who have been kicked out of

their homes. We have youth

leader families as abuse and

poverty. The school system has

failed many of the youth that we serve. Providing them adequate

and restorative services like at

larkin street crucial for alleviating poverty. Through

larkin street there is a chance to and cycles of poverty and end

our young folks from expensing long-term homelessness. We have

a need for funding to specifically allocate for transitional youth who are exchanging homelessness. Youth

under the age of 25 make out one

of five people expensing homelessness. We cannot fully address the issue of homelessness without thinking

about this vulnerable 20% that

makes up the population. With our additional funds, san

francisco will lose nearly 40% of the cities total shelter beds

for unaccompanied minors. 12

beds-essential services for the transit youth through the

housing initiative. If we want to provide these young people

with their basic human rights adequate housing and shelter. We

must provide it. Thank you.

>> hi, I am lauren babs, the director for planned parenthood

of northern california. I want to thank our supporters that students for actually standing with us. We are looking for san francisco leadership to increase safety and security at our

valencia health center. We have seen numerous abortion men sweep

this country with one goal in mind. I direct challenge to roe

v wade and to ultimately have the supreme court make abortion

and act inaccessible in this country. We have seen 16 abortion bands in the last five

months. Because of this there has been volatile protester

activity right in front of our health center. Our patients come to us for judgment free care and they should not have a fear

while getting that care. I commend all of the san francisco board of supervisors we have met with in the lap-past few months and their willingness to keep everyone in our community

safe. Thank you to the staff, as fpd, members of the attorney's office, city attorney's office

and we strongly believe funding

a security guard is the best

pathway forward. I urge you to support this funding request to keep our patients, staff and

community safe. Thank you.

>> good afternoon supervisors. I

am melia chavez I am here representing two different roles. The first is cochair of the homeless emergency service

providers association. We are

also a member-I wanted to say

thank you, and that I admire you for having the strength to make such difficult, even impossible

choices. I do understand how

hard this budget process must be for you individually with all of

the thoughts and time you put into providing this forum for all of us to be heard. I just want to thank you for that. A

couple of things that I would

really like to highlight, around our efforts. Around subsidies, really emphasizing the need for subsidies for seniors and people

with disabilities as well as subsidies for families. In addition to that, increased

resources for mental health services especially for families, and addiction prevention and rental assistance to keep people housed. My second

role, as deputy director of the homeless prenatal program. I

would like to speak out around

increased need for assistance, for family resource centers. We are one of 26 family resource

centers. Since the city moved to

the new quarter rated --

coordinated system. No longer able to access those. Families that are doubled up, families

living in sros and those that

are experiencing housing. I asked that you please increase

resources for family resource centers. Thank you.

>> thank you. Next speaker.

>> I am doug gary I'm with

living innovation and support

housing. Thank you to all of you for your incredible patience and work through this on the budget director and controllers, their

office does great work as well. Supportive housing works and it is the answer to long-term

homelessness and making sure does not happen again. The trick that the network is facing right now is that we have chronically underfunded contracts. Basically two impacts, one for the tenants we serve who are the most

resilient people I've ever had the chance to work with. They need to have appropriately funded programs in order to

thrive and in order to be sure

that they don't have the traumatic experiences of

homelessness. The other is staff

who do incredible work 24/7 all

over the city. We have significantly underpaid individuals who are not able to live in the city and they are

commuting from very far away.

They themselves, their families are living off circumstances

that move people into homelessness. The compensation ordinance can go a long way, if

we can get the dollar amount funded so that people in the

1650 all the way up to $25 per

hour can see a bump. We think we will be able to return to the

days before we had such recruiting and intention challenges. We think we can fix

the cracks in the foundation of support housing. We are so grateful to your support for all

of the work out there. If you fully fund the support housing,

it works. Thank you so much. >> hi supervisors, and department representatives. Thank you so much for being here today. Your time and attention

shows a lot of commitment. My

name is mary kate, I live in

glen park and I work as cochair, and as director of public

funding at larkin street services. I am here to talk

about new and existing services

that really need san francisco's support, and your support. Propose a lot of brilliant service strategies that we can

bring online as soon as they are appropriated. Housing, emergency

services, prevention and behavioral health functions. I specifically want to call out

and elevate youth to receive these critical youth interventions. One of five people expensing homelessness in

san francisco. My colleagues and

our young people, have

compellingly articulated they really intervene at a critical point in a young person's life. On that note, I want to express

support for fully funding larkin street request. It is extremely important to bring new services

online as soon as we can to meet the existing crisis in the streets. We have to do so on a strong foundation. Larkin

streets housing portfolio

provides a foundation with emergency, transitional,

supportive and subsidy based beds that provides, as my

colleague noted, not just beds but all of the interventions you can need to just thrive. Thank

you very much for considering our request. [Speaking native language]

>> my name is mary jane,

[Inaudible] I am asking for you

to support the coalition,

because it represents the needs of everyone like families who

are living in srl. With over 90%

of our families making 50% of ami, the only opportunity to

move out of sro is through housing voucher provided by the

san francisco housing authority.

Therefore, the sro families

united collaborated is asking

for new housing choice voucher that will support up to 50

families to move out and 25

moving in. 100,000 for additional staffing as the sro

families collaborative to support families. Thank you for

your time, and again, support.

Thank you so much. [Speaking native language]

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is mary. As you have

heard today, we have a severe

crisis, housing crisis. As an

outreach worker and the mission I'm seeing firsthand the

travesty that our families are

suffering. We are asking for our

families. We are asking for 5.5

million for housing. That would

allow for 50 families to move

out of sro hotels. And 25

families that will be allowed by

the moving on initiative. That

will be able to move from the

housing units with assisted

living. Making room for other families that are homeless.

[Speaking native language] With

an additional $100,000 for

personal, for staff and family

collaboratives. To live in the

sros. To support families with-

the process of signing up. As

well as interviews and housing

searches. We need a lot of your

support. To get our families out

of these unhealthy hotels and unpleasant situations that they

find themselves in. Thank you so

much. >> thank you.

[Speaking native language] >> good afternoon. I've had the

pleasure to work with families

for 18 years. Families that live

in the sro. I can't tell you of any group of supervisors that

has left a legacy for those families. I would ask you to be that group of supervisors that leaves a legacy behind for the

families that we are asking for.

[Speaking native language]

>> we would like to work with

you shoulder to shoulder to get our families out of the

situations they find themselves

in every day. [Speaking native language] Supervisors, don't leave just a reminder that you are a supervisor, but leave a legacy

that you worked for the

community and that you are thought of dearly.

[Speaking native language]

Because while I have worked with those families, those children are living in really poor

conditions and I would like those children to live in dignity. I would also like to see supervisors to come and

visit, to see for themselves how these families live. We would

like for the children to live in dignity, to live in a clean

place. They are our future. We cannot be offering our future in this kind of condition if we

have nothing else to offer for the children.

[Speaking native language]

>> thank you for listening to us, we will be the-we believe

in you and we want to believe in

you. Thank you.

>> I'm here representing san francisco youth force. Basically

we go around cleaning up the

city, beautifying it. It's an

honor every time. Nearly 40% of the city has been unfounded

because of lack of additional

funds, 12 beds of transitional housing will no longer be there

if funds is not met as a requirement. I believe that something should be done about

this, and it should be taken

care of, and things should be

better and way different. >> thank you.

[Please stand by]

>> our primary goal is to expose youth to coding who

would not otherwise have the

opportunity to. Thank you for supporting mission bit. I hope to provide programming in every district in san

francisco, and in order to do that, we require more funding to expand.

Please keep us in mind when

allocating money to after-school program in san

francisco to support our youth. In a city at the forefront of tech innovation, the opportunity to join the fastest

growing industries must be

available to all students to

improve our city's economic and

workforce groups for our future leaders. >> good afternoon.

My name is cynthia chin, and I'm also here on behalf of mission bit. Firstly, I would like to thank you for your support and the

funding that you've provided with us.

For five year, we have provided

free coding lessons across san francisco. for five years, we have given

students what they need to

compete for tech jobs in the

world's most influential career.

Our goal is to retain the students that are already enrolled in our programs and to expand so that we can give every student in san francisco the opportunity to pursue a

career in software engineering,

and we know that this is a

lofty goal, considering how

many students don't have lap cop

tops at home and have to

complete homework and assignments on their cell phones.

What we lack now in order to

reach our goal is a space for

your students to build our

community.

This is how we address the problem in our community thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you.

Next speaker. [Speaking spanish language] >> hello.

My name is norma, a mother and

leader in the community, a

mother grateful for all of the techno technological programs that are free.

I have two children that are

taking these classes, which I cannot pay.

Thanks to mission dev, a

program that supports for

students, primarily students of latin her latin

latin heritage or afro american students. They help us close the gaps

when it comes to technology

learning, then being most affected by the displacement of families.

I'm asking you, supervisor, to

support all the monetary recognition of these programs and the enrichment of our

children so they have a better

education and above all, a better future of having a

better job and better salary.

So that they can reach their

goals in technology and above all in their lives because the

city is very beautiful but very expensive.

Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much. Next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. My name is ricky pickens.

I work with larkin street youth services, assisting with youth.

Over the five years I've been

with larkin street, we've helped and assisted at least 200 or more youth preparing for

their careers to get into

higher education, get into housing and assist them into

two of the programs, which is diamond and g-house, so I think

you can help them as programs that assist them in the program. Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much.

Next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

Cheryl adams with larkin street services. Thank you so much for your time.

This is a big, big day.

You hear so many important priorities, and I really appreciate your time and interest. I'm going to let the words of

the young people and the staff stand for the things of larkin street, and I'm just going to

give a shout out for hspa, and

those organizations that support housing and opportunities in our community,

so thank you for that, thank

you for hspa, and thank you for

your time.

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is naima --

[Inaudible]

>> Chair Fewer:   oh, just come on down.

>> okay. I was just waiting. >> hi. Good afternoon.

I'm netty, and I am the

President Of the planned

parenthood chapter at san

francisco state university. Working with planned parenthood

has allowed me to educate

myself about the services

around safe sexual materials.

Barriers to access prevents people from receiving necessary care which harms the community. We must do better for our community members.

The antichoice harassment

invades the personal safe and privacy of the patients. I myself am at planned parenthood.

I can imagine how uncomfortable it is for those trying to

receive the many services that

planned parenthood survive. Intrusive interactions are the very things that cause someone to not enter.

I urge the board of supervisors

to fund a security guard to ensure patient safety during heightened protesters periods. Thank you for your time.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you.

next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon. My name is keith robert. This is the first time I've

ever used that name to announce

myself but I've recently come

out as transgender. As a transgender personal, I've

experienced a lot of hatred

towards myself in my life, but planned parenthood was somewhere I could go to get

safe and solid health care. When one of my younger relatives behave pregnant under

horrible circumstances, she decided to have an abortion, and when she went to the clinic to have this treatment done,

not only was she harassed and

dehumanized, but she was threatened, and that was a

horrible experience for her and for me to have to watch, and she grew up with that on her conscience, and her heart, and I believe that that experience

is still with her today. That's completely not something

that she should have ever had

to deal with or something that anybody else should ever have to deal with. It's completely unacceptable. This community is so strong and has such a phenomenal idea of progressive and forward

thinking ideals and thinking

and ideas that I embody. You as leaders that have created this environment can help us create an environment where we all thrive.

By putting a security guard outside the san francisco

clinic it ensures that me, my

family, and people that come

after me feel safe and secured in our community. Thank you so much for your time.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker, please. >> good afternoon-evening. My name is claudia, and I am the President Of the chapter of

planned parenthood of san francisco state university. This organization has allowed me to give back to the

community that I moved here

that welcomed me with open arms. At times when I have shown up to work at the health center, I've experienced individuals trying to make me feel shame for the type of work that I'm

doing at planned parenthood?

I'm at extra high alert when protesters are present,

especially during high protesting times, especially

during the last lent period.

Someone followed me until I was at the door, and I'm shaking as I'm talking about it. I had to take a deep breath, and calm myself and try to get

myself together, and that's something no one should

experience as they're trying to

get services at planned parenthood.

It is important to me that my peers, young people in need of quality and affordable care are able to access the needed services of planned parenthood

without the threat of violence.

I ask for the funding of a

security guard to assist during these times of heightened violence.

Thank you for your time, have a

great day.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker, please.

>> do in my

position is help victims access

justice by accompany them to the police station, acting as their support station and making sure that their right to an interpreter is honored by law enforcement. This often involves waiting for

hours with a victim and her children until an officer is

able to sit with her to take

her report, hours she would not be likely to wait if she did

not have an advocate there to make her feel safe.

I know you're all aware of the

homicide for domestic violence victims. The work of domestic violence

agencies in san francisco is really homicide prevention, helping victims and their children escape from the

violence in their lives, and

helping victims feel safer for reaching out to law enforcement when they need it.

I know you all support the work of domestic violence agencies in san francisco, and we

appreciate your continued budgetary support. Thank you so much for your time.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you.

Next s next speaker, please.

>> 42% of asian pacific

islanders in san francisco live in poverty. A third are seniors. Self-help for the elderly is a community organization serving over 45,000 seniors a year. Today, we are requesting help

for our 3133 taraval location. Because of the growing need for

services in the park side

neighborhood, our existing

senior south side locations are unable to expand our services to meet this need. for example, our meals program, champs, continues to grow with

over 2,000 seniors attending

who May need other services and never accessed ageing services before.

Fortunately, our donor donated

a home at 3133 taraval street

into a center to serve seniors

with a focus on asian immigrant seniors and other seniors on

the south side of san francisco.

We are requesting for $3 million to complete this facility and to help more seniors. Thank you very much for your time today and your consideration.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much. Next speaker. Hello, brenda.

>> thank you for listening to us.

Thank you for missing lunch. I am here for first voice. We present, produce and perform

the stories and praise songs of our people.

My grandfather was a founder of

japantown in the 1800's. My grandmother was a leader of

the chinatown -- the first chinatown garment union. The work that we do is deeply

rooted in san francisco, all of san francisco. We're considered thought leaders in the arts field,

nationally, regionally and locally. We gave the national address to the state of utah's annual arts complex.

I'm a committee member of apapa 2020, held in new york.

It's the largest convening of

arts producers in if the

english -- in the english speaking world. We do this because we know from our work nationally that

artists of color must not be marginalized.

We must be made part of america's culture and identity

so we can ultimately impact her psychology to embrace all of us who live her. 45, the number -- live here. 45, the number of artists that we've produced here. 1,000, the number of people this year including women in

recovery, seniors who took classes, rehearsed or performed

in our studio in the richmond

district. 2021, the year we premier and

tour a new work about san

francisco commissioned by the hewlett and commissioned by the

art fund.

We pass forward her history, the people who guilty built and fought for this children.

We are a member of the A.P.I. Council.

Although we have funding and grants.

We are asking for $22,500 to help us with organizational support.

Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you, brenda.

Next speaker, please.

>> hello.

I work at lyric which supports

lgbt and trans youth.

I am calling on the board of supervisors to show their support. The lyric fellowship is about

growing leadership to ensure

that lgbt and trans youth have

a voice to impact their lives.

we are asking you to continue fulling lyric at the full ask

of $200,000.

The majority of fellows and

people of color who live with disabilities, two thirds have experienced violence in the past year.

A third struggle with addiction

and none have finished college.

We have an obligation to uplift trans young adults who are at a

critical moment in development, both in terms of being transgender and in terms of transitioning into adulthood. Lyric fellows are already a

part of supporting their community.

They've worked on trans and youth elder brunch. One is a youth commissioner. Another recently got signed to a hip-hop label. Another created a short film that aired last weekend.

One is a member of the justice coalition.

We ask the supervisors to

affirm the budget justice coalition ask. Thank you so much.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you.

>> good afternoon. My name is joe-joe. I'm on the trans committee for

the mayor's office on trans

initiatives, and impart of the lyric fellowship for youth, and

I still access their services today. Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you.

Next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is michelle carington.

I am a lifer in bayview, and I

am a member of local 261. I am here to speak on behalf of open door legal.

open door legal -- I was a

client five years ago when they

first came to my community, a

community where -- had no legal

help whatsoever as far as housing, evictions, whatever the case was.

We had no help. These were two people who

graduated from law school who chose out of all the opportunities in san francisco,

to help in the bayview

community -- bayview-hunters point community, and they have been a God send.

We are now reaching out to

expand our services, free level

and civil services to excelsior

and to the fillmore districts. This money I feel will be very well spent in helping us do this expansion and help people like they helped myself and

many others here in my community.

I am now a three-year board

member, and I am on the

westbrook apartments tenants association.

I'm the treasurer. So I don't know what to say about this organization, but

they have been a God send, so I appreciate you listening to us

and hope that you will consider

us on the budget.

Thank you.

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is claudia, and I am going to talk in behalf of open

door legal, as well. I had a case with them.

I am a witness of what they can

do for someone that needs legal help.

I -- my kids were really complicated because it involves different type of things like domestic violence, restraining

order, homelessness, and also I was about to lose my kids, and

I was -- I came to hope door

legal, like, two, three days before think child -- they took my kids, and they did an amazing job. After looking for help for more

than five organizations that we have in san francisco, the day

that I came to open door legal,

I obviously had no hope, but I

had it in my mind that maybe I

was not going to be turned away

like the other organizations,

but open door legal did not do that. They took my situation and they helped me, and they were very, very effective on everything that they did. I'm a witness that they worked

overnight to have a -- you know, to win my case.

And not only that, they changed my whole career.

They helped me get my house

back, helped me get my kids back, which is really important in my whole life. I would like to say it would be

a really big blessing if you guys keep supporting and funding this organization that

has been so much help for bayview. I've been living in bayview for more than 18 years and have never seen a group that works like that with that passion,

and it's young people that they really want to do good with the community. Thank you so much.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker.

Bless you. >> hi. My name islene

lina, and I'm here on behalf of open door legal, as well.

I'm a former client, as well, and I cannot express to you the

great service that open door

legal has provided for me and my family. Beyond just me and my family, I've also seen the work that they've done within the community.

And if I tell you -- I've lived in san francisco all my life,

and there has been multiple

opportunities that I have given to the legal system in my case of families court as well as dealing with unfairness, being a tenant within san francisco's judicial system.

And I most definitely believe that they come from more than just a legal background, they come from a heart of justice. They believe in advocating and doing things for people that no one else in this community does. No one else in san francisco even tries to take the

opportunity to put themselves

and place themes in the shoes of their -- and place themselves in the shoes of their client. I am asking you guys to please, please, please fund them because their so many people that have -- there are so many people that have cases like me

and claudia and have gone

unnoticed. And I'm advocating for, and I'm telling you with my whole heart, I am r -- I believe in them with my whole heart, more than I can tell you in two minutes. But please believe that these people are genuinely involved in truth and justice for all.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker, please. >> well, good afternoon. My name's adrian. I'm the executive director and cofounder at open door legal.

We are an award winning

nonprofit pioneering the truth

that everybody is more access

if you're able to access the law.

When we opened in 2013, homelessness declined 56% -- or 65%. We've documented a 21:1 social return on investment and returned millions of dollars in cancelled debt and damages to

very low-income individuals in district 10.

Other research has demonstrated

that each legal aid attorney

has eight times the influence on reducing property crimes as

one police officer, and that

statistically, legal aid is the only intervention that reduces domestic violence in a community.

And, you know, we know there is a lot of budget asks, and funding is very limited. That's why I think it's very important that the board fund

interventions based on

comprehensive outcome-based data.

And the data shows, if you

really dig into it, that legal aid is the most effective way to reduce poverty in san francisco.

So this year, we're asking for

funding to help us expand in the western and northern neighborhoods, and hopefully

we'll make san francisco the

first country ity in the country with access to universal legal access.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker, please. >> my name is jodi, and I am

the director of walk san francisco. We are the only pedestrian organization working to make san francisco more pedestrian friendly and safer walking streets. Walk san francisco was instrumental in 2014 in getting

our city to adopt vision zero, the policy goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2024. I'm here today to ask you for financial support to help because we are in a public health crisis.

With only six months into the

year, we have already had 18 fatalities.

Out of those, 10 have been pedestrians, and one was a senior. 50% have been people of color. These crashes have happened in

every corner of the city in

every district. Walk san francisco has made vision zero our organizational career goal.

We run the senior and people with disabilities subgroup of that will cooition as well as

the -- coalition as well as the bay area families for safe streets. These are the people that we have lost due to street violence, and it's going to

take help to get to vision

zero, and this is where we need funding, education, fund raising, and really let people know firsthand what it's like

to live with traffic violence

and the impact of that, and we're asking for your help with this work. I really know and I'm hopeful

that all of you remain as committed to vision zero in

reducing the number of seniors,

immigrants, children, and

people of color impacted by this the moment. Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. My name is gerald miller and

I'm here to ask you for help

with the ddap program at juvenile hall.

There's an ask on the table for $300,000. I would like to show my support

for the panel attorneys at juvenile hall, which we work very closely with, and I would ask for your support and full

funding for them, as well.

Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, everybody, and it's a miracle I made it through this. My name is jordan davis.

I'm a district 6 resident, and despite what some haters think, I am actually speaking for myself right now.

I come to you today because I'm

on an extended hunger strike for rent relief for supportive housing tenants. Let's just say for a number of

days or years, it would have reached adult hood.

Yep, 18 days, and I'm still up and walking around. I am one of the tenants in my

neighborhood who are rent burdened.

director kosinski predicted that $8 million will be able to

cure this by lowering our rents

to 30%. I'm willing to address it all, and shame on you for not addressing it in the budget. This is a long-standing issue, 20 years that needs to be addressed.

While I know this is an uphill

battle, we need some relief. And we can't get it all here, there are some supervisors with

big visionary plans to address this. Finally, I want to say if this is the last time I speak before

you ever, know that you have a responsibility to close this

gap and make this right.

Find some ways to fund nonlife affirming programs.

Grow the pie because unlike my

slum lord randy shaw, I don't

pit organizations against each other.

Grow the fucking pie. Peace out.

>> Chair Fewer:   next speaker, please. >> hello, guys.

I'm nicholas parise, and I'm coming at you because I was homeless when I was 15 because my mom went to prison.

I spent 20 years on the streets and then ten years in if prosecute -- in prison. And I used these programs

starting to go to school and getting a job.

Now I'm a case manager for hospitality house. I've got a job, and if it

wasn't for all the great, like, support that you guys give, like, I wouldn't have a chance,

but I have a chance now, and I want to thank you guys. I just want to show you that the system works.

Just need more money. Thanks.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much.

Next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name miguel cabrera. So like I say last week, so I

come today so you guys asking

for support for budget.

We're requesting $14 million

for 2019-2020.

So we requesting $84 million for money.

For this money, we're

requesting 60 section 8

vouchers for family, and for

families doubled up and families homelessness staying in shelters.

So I opposing to you guys

spending so much money to

keeping the lives of homeless

persons, 20.7 million. It's not really cool.

We can use this money to

putting people in housing and solving the problems, and yeah. So the other thing I want to mention, too, so we have a more in 300 -- 200,000 homeless children in san francisco school district. We need to invest in more childrens, we need to invest in more families to ending the homeless. Thank you so much, and I believe you can take it in consideration. Thank you so much. Bye.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you so much. Next speaker, please. >> hi.

my name is jonna, and I'm here

to encourage the board of

supervisors to fully fund the

hspa and our city our community budget ask? This is why this holistic

approach to ending homelessness

and addressing it in many of those aspects is so important and it needs to be fully funded

and not just pick and choose

which parts need to be funded

because homelessness looked different, so we need funding to address those specific issues at their roots. Thank you so much for your attention, and we really appreciate your hard work.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much.

Next speaker, please.

>> my name is chi, and I'm here

on behalf of the coalition for homelessness. Beyond your status as

supervisors, I urge you as compassion

compassionate and sensible

people to support the housing

coalition and hspa budgets. They have been developed by

unhoused and formerly unhoused

organizers in deep connection with community. We know what we need, and it's not more funding for criminalizations for quality of life citation or four temporary housing fixes to keep families

in unconscionable living conditions and turn people

out -- back out on the streets

in a matter of months.

These conditions affect so many different communities across

backgrounds and identities.

All that's left for you to do

is show up for us, your neighbors, as only you can. thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much. Next speaker. >> hello, supervisors.

Brian basinger with q

foundation. I'm here to support on behalf of hspa, the budget justice and the q community network. I'm deeply touched by mayor

breed's and your support for first step to organizing lgbt budget asks.

As the recent soji hearing

showed, the city still has a

way to go in achieving equity for lgbt people. You know, we'd like to all believe that lgbt folks are being served by the broader system of care, but I think

that that's still a little bit of wishful thinking, so we have more work to do that. So 10 was founded to help the city address these equity issues, and we started 10 to be

trans forward so that the transgender community got the first bite at the apple, and I'm really thankful to the

mayor for adding the $1 million

a year to the first transgender

rental subsidies. San francisco also has the highest rate of homelessness of people with H.I.V. In the nation.

We are four times as high as

new york or los angeles, and

people are H.I.V. Also have the fourth highest rate of homelessness of any group in

the city, and so I appreciate

support to finally expand some

rental subsidies for H.I.V.

Positive people. Many of us, all of our peers got wiped out in the aids

epidemic, and developing new relationships is complicated. Family rejection, etc., so supporting that is very helpful, and I appreciate your time.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much, brian. Next speaker, please. >> hello.

My name is tiffany jackson. I'm the employment program manager at hospitality house.

Our program serves about 3

300 to 400 individuals a year, providing low threshold job services.

We have two to three people a week looking to fill positions in their companies.

My team is out on the streets,

pulling people from the street

corner, going into homeless

shelters and S.R.O.S, giving them an opportunity at employment to change their lives.

We ask you to put money aside

to assist with supportive and affordable housing, and when I

say affordable housing, I mean really affordable housing.

Just imagine going to your job eight hours a day and then

having to find a safe place to

stay in a doorway to stay

because you missed curfew at the shelter. We see this every day, and we

know you guys see this every day going into city hall or going on your lunch breaks. You, the supervisors, have the

power and resources to help san francisco housing crisis, so don't turn a blind eye. Do something about it.

Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you.

>> I'm darren, employment case manager at hospitality house, and I'm speaking on behalf of

the homeless job seekers, and the problems that we have.

So we urge you to invest in housing for the job seekers and bring up people in san francisco because everybody deserves a second chance and to be treated like an asset rather than a liability. You've got the biggest problem

is the clients leaving after # 90

days, most of them lose out on

big job opportunities because of not having a place to stay,

so I would urge you to invest more money in helping to find

housing.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. >> good afternoon.

My name is bobbie jones, and I'm also with hospitality house.

I'd like to thank you guys for

staying this long day and listening to us, allowing us to have a voice. If you see me on the B.A.R.T. Or on the street, you have no idea where I was. 65 days, I was released from federal prison.

25 days, I gained employment at hospitality house, and in 25

days, I'm going to be homeless. With the 2018 first step act

that was passed by congress, my

release from my halfway house

changed from July 16 to August 19. And this is both good news and bad news.

It means that I paid my debt to society, and I'm also on crunch time.

I've got to find housing, and there's a tremendous shortage. i do not use drugs.

I have no mental health issues, and I have full-time employment with a really great employer, but on July 19, I will be homeless, and I'm -- and I work with an organization that helps people who don't have housing. That's just to give you an idea

how critical and how much of a crisis we're currently in when it it comes to housing shortages. I'm saying this because I want you to understand that we are

doing everything that we can on our end. We are the front line for you

guys, and sometimes there's a disconnect when you're at the

top level, trying to allocate funds down. But what we're here to let you know is we're on the front lines to do the things and the

work that needs to be done, but

we need the funds to do it, so I implore you and I urge you to

step up and not turn a tabloid eye like many of my colleagues have stated so we can continue to help more people. Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much. Next speaker, please. >> hello. My name is delbert hayes, and I'm also from the hospitality house.

I'm a substitute peer advocate. What I was to talk about is --

what I want to talk about is really housing because in san francisco, you walk down the

street and you see all these

people in these tents, it's not very nice, especially for us having one of the best cities in the world.

so we need funding for housing because people like me, who love san francisco, we don't

want to have to move to

sacramento or way out somewhere.

And so we really do need housing because we'll also be

helping a lot of people at the hospitality house. And I'm one of them.

I used to be a client, and

I'm -- I'm going to be 68 years old next month, and they gave me a second chance, and -- and

I like it, and I love working there.

And we just need funding for

housing, we need -- especially for the -- well, of course, especially for the hospitality house.

I work there, but people need housing. If you don't have no housing, you can't work. You really can't work. When you see people come out of them tents and really start

working, then you know that's a great thing to see.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. >> hi.

My name is tony jackson. I'm a peer advocate at the hospitality house. I've been there almost a year there. I've worked with multiple hundreds and thousands of people coming into our facility daily looking for housing and don't have the proper income, and we're turning people down left and right due to the funding.

I mean, we don't have anywhere to send people.

A lot of -- thousands of people for clothes. they can help a couple of hundred, but thousands. We can't let them in our services because the hygiene

that they're carrying. These people need housing, they

need I.D.S.

If you can take 30 minutes to

come sit in your our facility to see

what we go through trying to

assist these people on a daily

basis, you would understand. So please feel free to make your way to the hospitality house.

I'm one of the nicest ladies in the front. I'll guide you through what we

do and how we do it, and

hopefully, you can feel us that we all as a community need this. Thank you so much for taking the time out to listen. Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you.

>> you can judge a society but

how it treats those accused of criminal wrongdoing.

We love to say that we live in

a place that has the best justice system in the world, but our justice system is far from perfect. Far too many minorities find themselves in there, people disadvantaged economically and socially.

I'm a person who lives in the city.

I live in district 2.

I'm a prosecutor, and I worked in the homicide unit for two years. I handle cases of young people in juvenile court. However, the pay hasn't gone up, and it's become more and more expensive to live in the city.

I've since gotten married, I have a child and frankly it's

made it harder and harder for me to take these kinds of cases and continue to live here. I believe the quality of representation that we give

people will depend on whether we increase this pay. I really strongly urge you to consider that. It's a huge and an essential part of our criminal justice system, and it's important. Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. Julie tron from the bar association, and I'm really here to thank you for your support because you have been supportive. I hope that you have felt supported by the kind of outpouring that you have heard

from constituents, from lawyers, from judges, from police officers, from clients, from community service providers, and from statewide organizations like the california attorneys for

criminal justice, the california public defender's association.

Nothing short of access to

justice is what is at stake here.

Couple of the lawyers talked

about how important this work is, and if you have represents

somebody, and I am a former member of our homicide panel. So I've served on this panel and I've served in the most critical cases.

I know what it feels like to take on that responsibility,

but I also think we need to remember what it feels like when you're coming out of that holding cell, and the judge is about to appoint a lawyer for you, and you have no idea who this person is, and you have no say in who this person is. So our quality control is very high.

As you heard one of the attorneys say, it took her more than a year to get on this panel.

We don't want it to be anything

less, and thank you for helping

us achieve some parity with our

public defender and district attorney.

Only 17% of the dollars spent

on indigent defense goes to our panel.

Somebody else mentioned go see the last black man in san

francisco, and you can see the

young man who plays kofi was one of the young men accused of

murder and acquitted at trial, represented by our lawyers. So had that not happened, he

wouldn't be in that movie, and

I know he fully supports this, as well. So thank you so much.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you. Next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is sammy, and I live in the mission.

I work for the bar association

of san francisco's court appointments program. I believe all people facing

criminal charges regardless of their financial situation should be represented by high quality counsel.

My job is to schedule lawyers

to appear every day to accept

cases where the public defender

has a conflict in criminal or delinquency cases.

It is getting increasingly

difficult to schedule important

attorneys as people leave the

panel due to illness, retirement, and now with

greater frequency, to work for more pay elsewhere. We need to have funding to encourage attorneys to join the panel.

I contacted my supervisor, and thankfully, supervisor ronen

supports the indigent defense, and I hope the supervisors here, you join her in fully funding the superior court's budget request. Thank you.

>> carl kramer, san francisco living wage coalition. I have two requests, but they're very interrelated in fighting for one of the most critical issues in san francisco and across the

country is facing, and that is

growing income inequality. For the past ten years, working

people in this country have

seen their wages, living conditions tag conditions conditions stagnant. That's mostly because of legislative initiatives across

the country raising the minimum wage or here in san francisco last October, the action you

took to raise the minimum

compensation ordinance, and

that's had a ripple effect throughout the economy, and

it's had an effect of raising

wages in the economy. Providing more funding can help

push up those wages and help -- help reverse income inequality.

The second ask is for the red

stone labor temple building. We -- the living wage

coalition, a number of other social and economic justice coalitions support establishing a center for social and economic justice in that building.

Now meta is very close to acquiring that building, but

they have a $7 million gap.

There are short-term lenders

that will provide them the building if the city can

provide them $500,000.

If the city can provide that to

them, these lenders will provide the short-term loans

that will help meta obtain the building. Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much. Next speaker. >> thank you very much, supervisors.

My name is alex, and I'm here on behalf of the S.F. Living wage coalition.

Today, I wanted to come along with my colleague to advocate for the saving of the red stone labor temple. It is a cornerstone of the san francisco community. It's active as a home for

different labor unions, it's active as a home for nonprofits, artists, and any other variety of community member that you can find here in S.F. And to not safe -- save

something like this would be to

lose a valuable relic in the san francisco community. So saving this and filling the funding gop that we're

looking -- gap that we're

looking for would alleviate

other situations in our community.

We would ask that you also take into earnest consideration the other requests that you have received here today. Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much.

Next speaker, please.

>> my name is ann janes.

I'm a member of covenant presbyterian church, and I speak for the church women united, a coalition of women's church groups. We have always supported the living wage group that -- that

helps low wage workers in this

city, and we urge you to

completely fund the minimum compensation ordinance.

And I also must say, I'm very

fond of this red stone building and its beautiful murals

inside, and I hope it can be saved as a labor temple.

Thank you.

>> Chair Fewer:   thank you very much. Next speaker, please. >> hi. Good evening. My name is james, and I work at the hospitality house right in the heart of the tenderloin.

I, too, like my co-worker was formerly incarcerated. I was serving a life sentence, and now I'm free.

So I'm speaking in behalf -- not only personally but for the people in the tenderloin area,

the voices that aren't here to speak.

And we're asking that you

urgently support the $14

million that haspa is proposing, the $84 million that eraf is proposing.

san francisco has $11 billion and less than 3% of that budget

is spent on homelessness even though it is a number -- a number one issue in san francisco. [Please stand by]

Be used in mental health

area could be used in housing

families. It could be used in substance abuse programs. It can

be used in employment services,

that is what we are asking.

Thank you.

>> my name is jesse desantis. In

2008 I lost my place where I used to live, and have been

homeless for almost 4 years.

From police and people that

doesn't understand a transgender

woman. Now we are here with all

of these issues of housing.

[Inaudible] What we need is that

you guys provide us rental subsidies for transgender community and to ensure we have

a house. Thank you for supporting-

[Inaudible] Thank you very much.

>> thank you. >> good afternoon. I want to

say, we are not the only ones,

and we are probably not the most

deserving, but I say this

because I think that every

single agency, every single advocate that comes here deserves-not just to be

listened, but to actually be funded. [Laughter] It is funny that we

come every year, and we have the

same issues. Almost the same. We

have children that deserve more

health funding. We have young

adults. We have seniors and people with disabilities. We

don't have enough of that. They

left one or two for each of you.

I hope you can put this heart next to yours. You can make it

possible to find more funding for everything, because

everybody is important to him. But, you know, we have to think

about our seniors, and there is

proposition, budget asked from

supervisor g, senior operating

subsidy. Which we need that-

>> thank you very much. Next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. San francisco senior and disability action. Many people

have spoken today about the

needs we do fully support the budget justice coalition. And so far as the housing needs of

seniors and concerns we are

seeing that need every day in our advocacy work. We want to

see as part of this budget

subsidies that will keep people housed. Namely seniors, because that is who we work with. We

know that the need is a wide.

However, subsidies to key people already housed house. And then

also we are sending out an sos,

the senior operating subsidy

which we fully support, to

illustrate there are nearly

75,000 people, 75,000 people who

do not fall within the income requirements to qualify for

affordable senior housing. These numbers to the left, of this

redline, or this wall, if you

will, about 75,000 people are left out of affordable senior

housing. We need to knock it

down through senior operating

subsidy. We have a petition here which is about a mile long signed by seniors throughout the neighborhoods, in san francisco

that are in support of this

help, of this senior operating

subsidy. Again, seniors with disabilities, the need is wide.

this is an illustration of that

support. We ask that you do

likewise the responsible thing,

supervisors. And key. --- thank you. >> I was the assistant on that

one area along with tony at

senior disability action. Again,

we believe in supporting the budget justice coalition and

there are so many need, it has been heartbreaking just listening, I cannot imagine what you're going through. It is to

say that we have a lots of needs

in the city. What are the possibilities? That is something we really need to look at. Some

of us are very clear on what our

asks are. Actually we are all

here representing everyone in the city and wanting everyone to

have the feeling of being secure

in their homes, of having meals.

Of having people around them. Of

really being cared for. Especially people who have cared

and done so much for others.

Again, yes I am opposed to speak

on behalf of disability action.

Yes indeed I am supporting the sos, though subsidies, and as tony said also keeping people in

their homes, those rental subs these are good we need to be

sure to do that so that we do

not have more people entering

homelessness entire families,

and our grandparents, parents on the street. Let's do all that we can, and please support our ask

area thank you so much.

>> good afternoon supervisors. I

am cochair for the service writer working group and with

the dc why f oversight company. I am here today to support and

provide voice for many of our

service writers in support of

the minimum compensation ordinance funding increases, including the $3.3 million currently in the proposed budget

as well as the proposed 23.6 million in add back fund as well

as the budget justice coalition. We recognize within our field, while this is incredibly

important ordinance, that this disproportionately impacts many of our youth providers. In some

cases where youth are going to

be working at $16.50 per hour for the adults supporting them

receiving a dollar more than the

student they support. In addition we understand that many of our programs and the out of

school time field are funded at reimbursement rates that are

federal or state standards rated as we know in san francisco, these standards are significantly higher. In order to continue to provide the hike

holiday service that we do in

san francisco, we ask that the

supervisors do fully commit to supporting the increase. And finally as a service writer

working group, we are is

socially, especially, encouraging the board of supervisors to continue to look at the inter-compartmental dollars that are sure to support young people and to ensure when

dollars are transferred and used between departments that proper oversight, and efficiency

standards are upheld. And that

this sharing of money does not

create undue barriers that prevent access and equity from

many of our young evil. Thank you so much for your continued

support of children youth and families. >> hello. I'm here today on

behalf of boys and girls club of san francisco no. Boys and girls club's of san francisco serves

youth and families of 14

locations insist -- in six districts across the country. It

has been an institution for kids and families since then. I'm

reading this on behalf of one of our staff members who cannot be

here today, because he is busy

serving over 2050 kids at this

very moment. I've been an educator and you dependent for

nearly 25 years. I do not regret a single day. I have worked for boys and girls club's at a

record level for the past 10

years yet however living in the bay area and in particular san francisco, I've had to accept

there are certain dream will never accomplish. I own a home,

have children, have a car, and possibly retire at 65. As a clubhouse director, I have what

I believe is a good salary. The

cost of living in san francisco

belies that belief. I am lucky

to live in a rent-controlled apartment. I fall into a love and hate relationship because of the also owning a car is around the cost of renting a second

room. I would need a partner making close to twice my salary

before even thinking about

starting a family. I applaud the organization trying to keep up with the cost of living. However, the cost of living in

san francisco is an oozing at a rate or at some point the organization will not be able to raise enough money to pay people

to work and live here in the city. Our organization are

committed to spending significant resources. The city needs to come fit to paying true

livable wages for staff and nonprofits provide crucial services on behalf of the city

and county services of san francisco. We are grateful for

the things of the 3% cost increase. Our frontlines half need more than that to survive.

Thank you for your time.

>>> hello my name is madison, I

am here today on behalf of boys

and girls club of san francisco. I'm going to read the following

excerpt on behalf of one of our club members. Nine years old, coming home from school, headed

to the boys and girls club, shots ring out. Let's build on

the concrete. The street riddled

with shell casings. I ran to the boys and girls club. I burst at the doors and landed in the arms

of rebecca. The behavioral health specialist to get that night the club stayed open. By

the time I left it was dark. The streets were blocked off. 42

shell casings were marked with

evidence others. The club was always my refuge. The excerpt I just shared is not an isolated incident. Our behavioral health

socialist did not ask if this pump number had a diagnosed mental health condition before providing services. The time she

spent with her was not considered billable client hours. In the immediate support she was able to provide was only possible due to the embedded behavioral health model that the

boys and girls club divides. Much of the current behavioral

health funding that the city

provides is extremely

descriptive and limiting. Providing embedded culturally competent trauma informed and easily accessible mental health

services for youth and their families get this includes early intervention and prevention work

which is a fundamental part of our youth development strategy. The city needs to provide increased flexibility with behavioral health dollars and a

shift of focus to include more

funding for tentative services area thank you.

>> my name is david ruiz, I'm 16 years old. I am here today on

behalf of the boys and girl love of san francisco. I have attended the excelsior clubhouse in district 11 or four years and I have been a member of our

presidential advisory council for two years. I was really surprised to hear that the boys

anger level only has one city contract to serve teens. The contract is very specialized and

only reaches 125 teens. The club

goes far beyond this contract

the club serves about 2500 teens per year. With 12 locations across districts five, six,

eight, nine, 10 and 11. Comprehensive team programming

at the boys and girls club is extremely important to me because I have been able to participate in team leadership programs like keystone. Mpower to create events on projects

that address relevant issues like homelessness. Not only at

excelsior, but the greater san francisco community as well. The club has given me many opportunities and experiences I will carry with me into

adulthood. My favorite memory

was my first trip to chicago. It

was my first time traveling. The

club's current city contract does not cover the full scope of work they do with teens like me. In order to continue this critical work we need more

funding for comprehensive team programming. It is essential to invest in the youth because we

are the leaders of tomorrow. Thank you.

>> thank you very much. Next

speaker, please. >> hello, I am terrel jones, I

am 17 years old. I am here today

on behalf of of boys and girls

of san francisco. I have been a member of the [Inaudible] I am part of the advisory council which has shown

me how I can make an impact on the boys and girl love with my

opinions and ideas you'd last

year 378 teens were connected to

jobs throughout the club. 100%

of core seniors graduated from

high school, working 49500 hours

of services area -- services. [Inaudible] Comprehensive team programming at the boys and girls club is extremely

important to me because the clubhouse except all youth. It has help me accept myself as a

black person and part of the lgbt community. My favorite part

of the club is going on college tours because I was able to ask arians going to sacramento

state, and university of nevada.

I can figure out what I want to do with my career. In order to continue to do this critical

work, the boys and girls love of

san francisco needs funding. Thank you.

>> thank you very much.

>> good afternoon, board of supervisors. I just want to say

thank you for taking the time to really listen to all of the

needs of the city's most vulnerable resident. As you can

hear from the youth that came up here to advocate for themselves and also for myself to advocate for all of the youth and families that could not come

today. We are in our second week of summer program and we are

serving over 200 youth today.

Even our high school youth are working and volunteering to make sure that they have internship

opportunities for college. I'm

here taking as a number of api

counsel to support the act, but

also to support the ask to support services for mental

health and our academic enrichment program. To promote higher education particularly for filipino immigrants youth. Our program, we have a youth

program and a college prep program. Although we focus

mainly on academics we have found in our program is that

there is a high need for mental health. We've had to do a number of suicide aviation's every

year. Filipino youth, in

sentences, have the highest

prevalence of depression. One in for of our youth seek services

for depression, self-harm,

suicide, and their families as

well need support. Many of them live in srl, do not have basic right I do not have adequate housing or job. I am sure many

of you know that can have a toll

on them being able to focus on school, and get those services. I'm really here to advocate to

make sure you can help support our services for our youth and families, to make sure they can

get mental health support and we can provide higher education

support to all of them. Thank you.

>> thank you very much.

>> good afternoon. My name is

harry, the program director of family support services. I am here to talk to you about

programs and services that we

provide family support services for family resource center for families experiencing personal

violence, family violence, community violence and also our youth who are in this home that

do not have opportunities youth

around. I am here to ask for

your support. As well as support

our program for youth area thank you.

>> I am jack, and I work at the

family resource center. We were able to survey 100 youth and do

a focus group. I wanted to relay

the message to you guys so in this valley, they don't feel like they have a place to go to

to do things and learn. And also

they feel and safe in the neighborhood. Often times they

just stay home and feel

isolated. It was tested that you

guys can allocate funding for

our youth to woody. Thank you.

>> thank you very much.

>> good afternoon board of supervisors had my name is

lorena, I am the family support specialist for the program,

which is part of the frc's. It

is home of heart and caring. Our

program is home to many of our latino and immigrant families get in their children. We offer

families a safe and nurturing these-sorry-safe and

nurturing space in which they

can be a stronger and healthier family. Child interactive groups, parenting classes,

cultural and family event with wellness support to

conventional, traditional and alternative ways to get we are

requesting that you please continue supporting us, and consider including additional

funding to sub worked the infrastructure. And more intensive needs of families and there are many. We need for our

families to be empowered, feel

supported, and hopeful in order

to thrive despite our current

harsh little on social climate. Thank you. >>

[Inaudible] I am here to ask for

your support for the city, we

are resource center in the city, for the more vulnerable families

of the city. We all know the

situation are extreme right now.

The housing crisis is a total crisis our families are

surviving those families with small children. Sometimes they don't have a place to go, they don't know where to find

resources to find even food or

support. To get the health services, etc. We are vital for these families right now and

that is why we would like to

look at those is something very

valuable for the city. [Inaudible] Continue supporting

the funding and also looking into increasing funding because

we are really there for the families, and the families need

us to exist for the them to get the services and support they

need to have healthy families area thank you.

>> hello. I came here on behalf of mary elizabeth was founded

and has a history of porting

women since 1914. This is a long

history of contribution towards

equality. And protection of

vulnerable individuals. Since

2009, providing safe housing to victims of domestic violence.

Which my mom and sisters were.

Since 2009, mary elizabeth also provide supportive services to

critical homeless victims which

my mom would be today, if we

would not her as our children. But thanks to cash programs we

have been able to keep this safe

haven running. However, due to problems with budget and

underfunded programs, the city

keeps our unit rental rate, at

one $85 per unit. That is way

below the 1100 that sros have

been charging upon programs like that. Such low amount compromises our mission and

prevents our population from

having basic needs an example

being the news program which was

discontinued in 2017 after more

than a decade inviting

breakfast, lunch and dinner for

women, with access teaching are limited. Please don't reduce our

funding. Taking care of the most

vulnerable as we exercise our civility. Thank you.

>> good afternoon supervisors he had my name is maggie, and I am the district 3 appointee of the youth commission. I am here

today to urge you to consider our budget priority asked that we presented earlier in the

year. We have six parities which

include 16-17-year-olds, the

board of hazarding -- housing

for traditional youth. Services

for children with incarcerated parent and mandatory trauma and youth cognitive development training. We have been working

on these budget priorities for our entire term. Please take

this into consideration. Thank you.

>> my name is doris mom here and support of the community

connectors graham, excuse me. Of the sf community housing

organization as the other women whose talk about this, if deals

trivial in the face of many of these organizations. Fortunately

our ask is also fairly trivial. What the community connectors

do, right now, I merely and

these were not gotten district is provided methods and means

for seniors to remain in their

homes as we age. I am a recent exile from the world of work,

and it has not been an easy transition. Having others to

discuss loss of opportunity,

loss of nervous, lost a friend

has been essential. The heart that each of you has back in

your office that we delivered

earlier today were admitted by seniors who went to a knitting

class read it seems trivial. That also got people who would

otherwise be sitting alone in their home in solitude out communicating with their neighbors, watching one another,

making sure we get out and we

get size, we get mental exercise

and we take care of one another.

I hope that helps you to see why

it is important for this small

amount of funding to not only

keep going in the church payment -basements that are costing

twice as much but also expanded to other neighborhoods get this is very close neighborhood focus

group. Thank you very much. >>> hello my name is tim

gallegos we had asking the board to consider ballot initiative since the training for those

working within our for the homeless community. Particularly the mental illness or learning disabilities. Mandatory training for all employees is a must read

working within or for the

homeless immunity. The shelter

monitor community will step up

and patrol do a little more patrolling and we have to police

our shoulders a little bit better, that would ensure the

homeless are treated with dignity follow up with complaint

establish a universal code of conduct or guidelines for staff

working directly with the homeless ovulation.

Commercializing mandatory sensitivity training similar to that of a guard card boosting

funding to pay workers a better wage and ensure better treatment

to the clients of the shelters and more available funding. I'm

proud member of the lgbt q

community, currently at the navigation center. Currently homeless and currently

incarcerated. Thank you for your time.

>> hello. My name is elma davis.

I am a mother of seven. We come

from florida, we have been here

in the area almost 2 years. When

I send my son to special cool,

he comes back with problem- child protective services situation removed from

california to florida I we are

look for any legal help for my

son. He is 12 years old, and we

just moved to san francisco so

he can get a better chance, and

make it out of the domestic

violence problem that we have.

Right now we are homeless, we

have been in a bunch of

different offices, the V.A. Is

our last stop. We hope that sentences go is an opportunity

for us, as a family to shake

domestic violence problems. Thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. Thank you for your time this afternoon. My name is bill hirsch and I'm the director of

the referral panel in san francisco. I want to make a

couple of points. First of all, sometimes advocates are often accused of being self-serving in

these hearings. I think it is important to remember that sometimes the communities that

we are speaking on behalf of do

not have a voice in the budget process. That is reflected unfortunately in the document that we see this year. Time and

time again we do not see the priorities identified by community members reflected in the budget documents. I just

want to point out 2 compelling need that were not addressed in

the mayor's budget proposal. The

first is full funding for

implementing prop f, the civil right to counsel. People do not

anticipate the need for an attorney. Once they get an eviction notice I can assure you that becomes a compelling need.

We did not see any additional funding to implement the measure

how we ask your support of the proposal. The other item I would

like to draw attention to is the

very compelling mental health

needs of long term hiv survivors

there are many studies which

document mental health needs of this community. There have been

many public forms in san francisco which have tried to draw attention to this

compelling need. We are asking

for $500,000 in order to continue an initiative that the

supervisors into the budget this

past year. $500,000 to continue services that have just initiated in this current fiscal

year. It would be terrible for us to do continue services which have just been launched. Thank

you for your time, and your consideration.

>> thank you very much.

>> I am caesar, when I was a

youth, and I was homeless. The

larkins was there for me serving

younger than 18 up to 24. This

shelter was healthy and safe. I

am here because many of my

friends are will in shelters, navigation center. Unfortunately, they are not

white as safe and healthy as the

larkins shelter was also, the

navigation centers, the intake assessed is a bit of a barrier, just to get into the navigation

center. I think that is somewhat discriminatory. I said aren't funding doctrines services for

people living in an able housing

unit they must also fund sex

worker services a lot of work

has been introduced, I support

that. Want to see the graham expanded citywide. As an hiv

positive person I was fortunate

enough to nullify for hiv

transitional housing.

Transitional housing should be available to all san francisco

regardless of the hiv status. As I said, the adult shelter has a

huge waitlist and it is not safe and can deteriorate a person's health. I'm also supporting

funding inspections of the health center and conflict

resolution training for staff that are working population. I

am forever thankful to the department of san francisco labor standards enforcement as well as many nonprofits like st.

James infirmary, larkins become a positive resource center for helping me become housed and to

stay housed area it takes

public, private and nonprofit investment to solve homelessness area speaking of public

investment, we cannot wait for the public bank-we needed to launch this year. It has to

happen. With the public bank we

can invest in offering rental security deposit.

>> thank you very much. Next speaker, please area >> good afternoon. Thank you for

the opportunity to address you

today. I represent the nonprofit supply bank.Org which is one of the san francisco budget coalition in the city of sanford

cisco for the last nine years I

am here to reiterate my request your support to restore funding

for the kid to college program. This program was funded by the

city for more than eight years

and has served 13,000 low income students. This includes hundreds of low income rodents in

district 8, and district to and thousands of low income students

and three, nine, 10 and 11. As noted in the material shared, an investment of $300,000 per year

from the city would provide school and hygiene applies valued at more than $800,000

every year because of the food

bank model and well established supply chain. We need your support and leadership to continue the progress we have

made with this grant and for the thousands of children's and families that have depended on it throughout the city for years

the thank you for your time and

could generation. --- and

consideration.

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is jacqueline jones, the executive director of next village san francisco which is

an organization that helps seniors and district 2 and three

age in place with the help of

volunteers to get we also combat social isolation by having events for them. We are also a

member of the budget justice coalition and this year we

requested $50,000 to help us continue our work. We have, for

example, a member in district 2 named marianne who weighs 67

pounds on his two week to get to the store. She did not qualify for help from the city even

though she is on limited income and she hired a personal caregiver to take care of that

responsibility for her. Unfortunately it was $51 to have the caregiver bring her the

groceries each week, the total

cost of the groceries was $22. So a neighbor told her about next village and we are providing her with two volunteers who take care of

those task for her, and also she now has companionship that she

did not have before she had it. There is hundreds of examples of

that kind of work that is being provided. This is a new piece of a continued of long-term care

and I hope gov. Newsom can can

use it in his master plan. You so much.

>> thank you very much. >> thank you for giving me the

opportunity to eat. I'm the

business manager [Inaudible] We are advocating

for the violence against women funding. I can't help to think

as I sit here and listen for the

last two hours, that all of the

need tier on the city-I don't

think we are anymore than anyone

else. It's not just about money.

It's really about heart that is

left in the city. Because, all

of these people represent that

heart. Are we going to fund it

or not? Can we keep it? I know

at our agent, 75% of our budget

goes to these people who are living at wages where they

cannot afford to live in the city. Another 15% for occupancy.

What is really left? I know we are not alone. All the agencies you collaborate with, all of the

agents as you have heard the car facing the same thing. In your

overall budget, are you going to focus on heart? This is the heart that you are seeing today.

Thank you for your time.

>> thank you for your time. >> good evening, supervisors are

you my name is jesse stout I

live in district 6. I am here with part of the budget justice coalition. We have just heard

for several hours that the city has many unfounded budget needs

social services that are

important to us including mental health, housing. You as the supervisors in the budget

committee have made-an important decision to make.

Where will the money come from?

Well, we are here to propose

that we can close agency bryant,

cj for houses and people every day. The city administrator says

it needs to close by this year in order to prevent those

hundreds of people from dying in our next earth. The city jail population overall in san

francisco is 25% traditional aged youth that is young people

in the jail. 30% use jail mental

health care services area people

that need better provide for out here in the community. 40%

homeless at the time of arrest. 2 in five people were arrested

when they were homeless area

perhaps most appallingly, 52% of our gel population is african-american, I would also

like to note that 82% of san

francisco's jail population today is pretrial. Less than 1/5 of the people in our gel have been convicted of a crime for

what they are there for. Most people in san francisco's jail

are there because they are too

poor to afford their bail bond.

If san francisco can provide

housing, healthcare, education, mental health services for

people so they did not end up in

our gel, that we could save $24 million a year. $3 million on

the sheriff over time at 850

bryant. I would ask you to please county jail 4 instead of failing to find any of these

important services. Thank you.

>> good evening, supervisors get

peter papadopoulos with the mission academic development agency. I'm going to highlight

one item and to ask acts of it

that you have in your budget

proposal here and then I want to urge them overall action. We know in communities like

commission and others we have

been advocating strongly for more affordable housing and particularly-not particularly making headway on our senior affordable housing which is

critical. We also know and are very aware and you have heard

from folks that this is not necessarily housing that seniors

can afford. Many of them as it

currently stands, so we would

very much urge you to some part

of the proposal, because we think it is going to be necessary to make a structural

and longer-term change to the

base of the power looking at this affordable housing as we go forward, what is that groundwork

that we are looking at is it over a longer term so we know we

have that playing field to look at. At the same time we do think

we are going to continue to need

to expand these elements of tenant-based subsidies so that

we look at what the overall framework of a company house of

functioning, and how will we be make sure that those seniors who need deeply affordable housing are going to be able to sustain those units over the longer

term. Lastly, we have heard so

many folks today speak passionately, and eloquently

about these needs we are facing.

At united save the mission, and other groups would continue to

encourage you, and the city, to

grow what would really be a city

equity framework. How do we move from a planning stage, like the

office we have for a new commission?

>> thank you very much area

>> debbie lerman, human services network with a budget services

coalition. I'm here to talk about nonprofit workers this body has passed legislation to

raise the minimum wage for city

contract employees, 1650 --

$16.50 if the city doesn't fund the cost the mandatory increase will create an unsustainable

situation that will destabilize nonprofit service writers,

threatening job, and program. Nonprofit need to provide

consistent raises for all of

their workers you responded by creating working group to address wage compression and

wage equity, and also by passing

a resolution saying this is a

priority. After analyzing the data, the working group

recommended an allocation of $27 million for the mco. Enough to

provide a modest one dollar per

hour rate to all san francisco workers at city funded nonprofit

making up to $30 per hour. We appreciate that the mayor funded

$3.3 million per year, and that the board is considering more.

That is only 1/8 of the need. That is enough for workers

making up to $20 per hour,

$42,000 a year. Median rent on a

one bedroom apartment is $44,000

year. Nonprofits to cover the

cost of the necessary and reasonable vertical wage structure and to pay employees who do not happen to be paid with city general fund dollars

to get I challenge you, supervisors, how can sentences go depend on the nonprofit

sector to provide frontline

services in limit of growing recruitment and retention

crisis? When will the city get

serious about breaking the funding model that does not cover the cost of professional

service contract? Why is it okay

to pay desperate wages to city

employees and nonprofit workers doing the same job?

>> thank you very much.

>> good evening, supervisors. I live and work is when the

mission neighborhood. I wish for

the mission economic development

agency. The san francisco latino parity and coalition. I'm here

to urge you to support our collect of budget priorities

areas typically, the expansion of integrated community model,

to the proper neighborhoods

which will serve 1900 students.

We provide a comprehensive

integrated framework of cradle to career wraparound services our model works because we

actively with schools and early learning centers. Your support

of our proposal will provide mental health consultation

support services to use, pre-k-k transition services family case

management, transition to

college and career, retention and reentry services get thank you, and we value your partnership.

>> thank you very much. >> thank you, supervisors, what

is now a very, very long day. I am jordan decker. The executive director of trans hartline. We

are located on the campus of san francisco's theological

sanctuary. We are a safe post op

recovery house folks having

gender affirmation surgery. It

is a very needed service area we

would just like a place at the table. Were not even ask for

money today. Coming up under the guise of the cherokee nation, the chief that I grew up under said the government will give us the money, and about 20 years

they will take it away. His idea is when they take it away, we should not live on their terms,

we should live on our terms. We

are collaborating with the bar center, we are collaborating

with the center for domestic descent nonprofits and the

seminary which is now becoming

redmond university and also

extrafood.Org. We are a

nonprofit helping other nonprofits. Thank you.

>> thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you for your patience, and

your listing, and we are all

tired and we are almost in

homestretch. Emily lee with san francisco rising. We represent

low income communities of color sentences. Many of whom benefit from the benefits and programs that you heard from today. They

rely on them. If these programs are not funded, literally will go homeless and not get the care

they need or be able to provide

for their families we are part

of the budget justice coalition and urge whatever you can do

with the mayor to make these

asks a priority. We know as our representatives inside city hall

you all are working hard to make

it stretch and to find every fund available so we can make

sure our families are able to say in san francisco. You heard a lot of people testify today, a lot of young people talking

about homelessness, not being

able to have a safe ways to

sleep at night. One of the folks we organize with san francisco

are college students on all three campuses get most people

are surprised to find out what

time college students are also homeless. They are either couch

surfing or living in their cars. [Inaudible] This is an epidemic

on the campus as well.

Homelessness affects our far-reaching all across the

city. People who are full time

employed, and even students. As we are working in the population to know you're doing your best to meet the needs, we are doing

our best as advocates on folks in the community. We are excited

to be going into this next week with you all strategizing and

brainstorming how we can really cover everybody who deserves to

be covered. Thank you so much. >> good afternoon supervisors.

My name is emberley cross, the

coordinating attorney at the restraining order clinic. I want

to thank you for always being

supportive of the V.A. W programs that provide-I also

want to thank you for this, for

setting aside an entire day to hear from your community, and to hear from your community for hours and hours on end area that

is not easy for you. Thank you. I know you have already heard

from many of the 39 programs that we funded. I know you have always heard about domestic violence is a common thread in the lives of many of the of her

own liberal communities who have spoken to you today. You arty know about the connections

between domestic violence on

homelessness, domestic violence and child care. Domestic

violence, sexual assault and stalking, cut across all

communities and our languages, all districts, all genders, all

sexual orientations, all

religions, all races of it densities, everybody. Again, I know you arty know that. I just want to say again, thank you for

your time and thank you for always being there for domestic violence sexual assault and stalking survivors.

>> thank you very much. >> my name is stephanie, I am supervising attorney at the

justice and diversity fund bar association of san francisco.

Our agency is a member of the domestic violence consortium and

we are trying for funded. One of

the things that we-that is important to our funding is is

important to our dv agencies.

Working incredibly hard, we are working incredibly hard

together. About 22,000 phone calls are made, from the san

franciscans, to the community on an annual basis. For each call, that doesn't mean that they are getting one service. For

instance, I represent clients in family law matter, when it's

related to domestic violence. I can't do my job without the

shelters, the 24 hour hotline, the supportive services. My clients cannot fight for custody of her children if she doesn't

have a place to bring her

children home. Finding all of us is incredibly important. I know

we are asking for something that sounds like a lot. It is over 39

programs and over 27 agencies. Each dollar means a huge world

of difference to our clients.

Thank you for your support in

the past. You guys have been incredibly supportive of our

domestic violence community.

Thank you for that.

>> good evening. My name is

gloria. Executive director. I'm

here collectively, also one of

the agencies funded under violence against women and the

department of status of women. We do get funding to support housing. Through the housing

grant we are able to ensure that

at least 16 asian immigrant women who are survivors of human

trafficking and domestic violence are able to ensure that

they have a stable and safe

housing for at least two years.

Ants, we've heard many stories about how housing can be

difficult in the city of san francisco. For all of these women to make sure that they have safe housing, many of them

have been able to move forward with getting education trying to find part-time jobs, and also

have, as a result, the support,

we also have many stories that

we can share. Most recent, in

May, survivor of human

trafficking, she graduated in a

degree. It's just an inspiring

story that continues to inspire myself, my staff, depending on

what we do, and also thank you for giving us this opportunity to be able to continue this

work. I would like to collectively ask you to fund

$1.3 million that we are asking

for. Thank you. >>> good evening.

[Inaudible] I'm asking you to support the full budget, because

it represents the needs of

everyone in attendance, who are in need of counseling and

support, but to look in the community in san francisco is

underserved and under resourced and lacking support. The overall

number of filipinos the time by

nearly 10% from 2,000-2013 and continue to decline. Sustained

work in the community, we see most latinos are being forced out of their longtime homes

because of market rate

developments causing evictions buying out landlord estimates

and security issues due to neglect. [Inaudible] Several housing

issues faced by filipinos in the

city. The city has 10,000 limited english speaking residents over one in four

filipinos has limited english

capacity. Since 2014, the

filipino language has been a

requested language for the city.

Interpretations and translations

are easily accessible. [Inaudible] Our filipino community needs more language

accessible counselors. Now we

only have one filipino counselor.

>> thank you very much. >> good evening supervisors. Thank you for staying here

tonight. My name is gabriel

medina. The coordinator for the san francisco parity coalition. I want to thank you for taking the time to listen to community

about all of the different needs. Several leads, our

coalition formed in 2016 to

respond a two-pronged threat,

hardship that has befallen the

community-filipino community in san francisco to displacement and the refugee crisis we have

is a great century city here in

california. Currently our organizations we represent over

21, serving 900 employees and

80,000 constituent served per year. Just asking that you support our prioritize

collective impact budget. In

this budget you will see, san

francisco has done a great job

funding legal defense for our

asylum-seekers, california has an 820,000 case backlog. We have dph has seen an increase in

refugees that are going to the emergency room getting medical

care through insurance. We've

also seen asylum-seekers of the

california border doubled from

2,017-2018. When these asylum-seekers are looking for services and waiting for their

cases, looking for justice. They need these essential social

services area we also have an

education ask that helps us to

support newly arrived youth. We also have sustaining-which is under threat which has been commercial free regarded

worldwide as one of the most cultural events. Please support

our ask at our sustainability for our buildings-

>> thank you very much. Next speaker. >> good evening, supervisors. I

know it has been a long day. I came here earlier and cannot get answer I went back to work in return. I feel it is important

for me to tell you how we feel,

how I feel as an executive director of the homeless

prenatal program. The importance

of passing the budget justice budgets. I am also here to speak

on behalf of family resource

centers. 30 years ago when I

founded the homeless prenatal program, families were the fastest growing subset of the

population. They continue to

grow today. More and more

families are coming in to family resource centers seeking services. Through the 26th

family resource centers, we

serve 15,000 children, youth and caregivers annually. As you all

know, studies have shown, the early years are critical to

children's cognitive brain development and call-and

poverty can have a long-term adverse effect. Ranging from

decreased rates of high school completion to increased rates in

chronic diseases like heart

disease. Family resources provide early intervention to

families struggling with poverty and homelessness thus making it a lasting impact on the public

health, and well-being of our community. Given the wealth and disparities in in san francisco,

as well as the political

climate, family resource centers divide a critical service. Family resource centers are

embedded in the community. They

are trusted, valued places for people to go. They understand family needs, and challenges, as

well as their strength and

resilience. In order to break this intergenerational cycle of

poverty, and family homelessness

we must go upstream. Invest in

pregnant moms and families with young children.

>> thank you very much.

>> good afternoon, supervisors.

My name is lorenzo, I am a community organizer [Inaudible] I have been

organizing for the past 10

years. I am also a resident of tenderloin. Things I would urge

for you to support, one is like

the 24 hour pitstop. We know it

is so important for us to have this in our neighborhood like in

the tenderloins how to market. We have thousands of homeless

neighbors, and 60% of them are

found in the street. We know

they would be like seven

pitstops that would be set up.

Only one would be actually 24 hours. We know that it's not enough. We hope that you can

find for more 24 hour pitstop. This is what we need for help,

and you know, human dignity. I

have been organizing and fighting, [Inaudible] We were able to

successfully prevent them from being affected from the housing.

The only sustainable thing to do

is to convert that into nonprofit ownerships. It should

be owned and no big part of the nonprofit housing. I hope you

will be able to support like

funding more for acquisition of

rent control bidding and market areas.

>> thank you very much.

>> good evening. I am sarah short. Community housing

partnership is a housing

provider. We support the budget

justice coalition asked, and

this is why. Our residents are folks in poverty and people

trying to get up out of poverty.

We do a lot of work to support

them to get there. All of these budget items, as requested by

these community groups do that work helping people to address

their pressing issues, and

needs. Hopefully rise up out of

poverty and be self sufficient

members of our community.

Behavioral health services, treatment services, all of the

housing programs that we very much support and not only do our

residents a benefit from the low income san franciscans across the board benefit from. Particularly, we are also a

member of the treatment on

demand coalition, and within the

e raff funding there are specific asks around increasing

treatment programs. We very much

support that. We are also a

nonprofit, and we are trying to make sure that our workers, too, are provided with the same types of support so they are not left

out of the picture. As a member of the supportive housing

network providers, as well as the human service network. They

are also very concerned about the minimum compensation

ordinance. We do not see it as a nonprofit issue.

>> thank you, sarah. Thank you

very much. Next speaker, please. >> hello, supervisors. I am here

on behalf of san francisco pretrial diversion project. My

request is based on a pending

decision by federal judge. Initially they were going to eliminate the bell schedule. once they realized they illuminate the bell schedule, they discovered that people that

normally would have been able to bail out would not have been

able to build out. As a result requiring the city and county to process releases within eight

hours. Our agency is going to be

in a position where we have to

go from our current operations

from 6 am until 4 pm. A 24/7 operation of process and

releases so we can meet federal requirements to get people out of jail as quickly as possible.

It is a great outcome in many ways, because increasing days

and means more work on our end.

An increase of processing incident reports. We are all going to have to connect and

meet this requirement as

judgment is passed on. Meet this requirement, and having us

staffing so we can operate 24/7 to process bookings as they come into county jail. Thank you.

>> thank you very much.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. My name is andrew, I am a member

of the budget justice coalition.

I am asking for your full support of the asks as they represent the needs of everyone, such as tenants living in rent

control buildings. As we celebrate with your leadership,

or we should thank you, we are need holding up the capacity of

neighborhoods, districts to be able to compete and purchase rent control buildings and take them out of the hands of

speculators and profit driven vultures. Though we already have

a few nonprofits doing said

acquisitions, we still need more so that neighborhoods and

districts are equipped with this kind of work. Dealing with landlords selling their buildings takes a lot of labor.

We need to be able to respond.

With that, I urge you to support capacity building for project manager dedicated to the stock

market so we can build our neighborhood services. We hope to be able to develop and

provide this for all of these

for in the future. Thank you for your time, and please support the full budget coalition asked.

>> any other public comment? Seeing none further comment. Now closed. I want to thank the public that came out and waited their turn to speak, to share with us their opinion about how

our public money should be spent. I think today, I think I

can speak for my colleagues that

we all learned a lot today. Some

of the testimony we heard was heartbreaking. What we did here,

overall, is that the community has many needs. Anyway, thank

you very much we will continue this until wednesday. Wednesday's meeting of the budget and finance committee.

Any comments or questions?

Seeing none. Make your motions

to continue this? Do we have any

other-thank you very much. Thank you very much to the

budget department on the controller. And also, especially, thank you so much to the clerk's office and all of

your staff for having this go so smoothly. We could not have done

it without you. Do we have

anything else? >> no other items.