>> good afternoon. the meeting will come to order the march upon 27, 20 torof budget and appropriation committee i'm supervisor connie chain chair i'm joined by supervisors melgar and walton. our clerk is brent jalipa. and i joined by rafael mandelman and i would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcast the meeting. mr. clerk? >> thank you, a reminder to those to make sure to silence all 7 phones and electronics. to prevent interruptions. should you have documents to be include as part of the file submitted to myself the clerk. public comment will be taken on

each item when public comment is called line up to speak on the west side to your right my left along the kurt anxiety not necessary to provide comment we invite to you fill out a card and leave them on the tray by the doors. if you wish to be recorded for the minutes. you may submit comment in writing e mile them to myself at brent. jalipa sfgov.org. and if you submit have an e mail tell be forwarded to the supervisors and part of the official time you may send comments via postal service to city hall at 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california and madam chair items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisor's agenda april second unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, mr. clerk.

before item 1 i'm i have received a memo from president peskin indicating he had a conflict for today's hearing and requested to be excused. and i see that vice chair mandelman has yet to arrive i would like to make the motion to excuse president supervisor peskin for the entire meeting and vice chair mandelman until the time he arrives. and a second? >> second by supervisor walton and roll call, please. >> we don't -- yes. >> very well. >> just president supervisor peskin. >> on this motion, vice chair chan seconded by member walton. takes member supervisor peskin from attending today's meeting. >> vice chair mandelman. >> aye.

>> member melgar. >> aye. >> member walton. >> aye >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have 4 aye's with member peskin excused. call item one. >> item number one, an ordinance appropriating 500,000 of general fund reserves to the san francisco puc. for inspect unless and research on sea level rise and groundwater impact fiscal 2023. to 2024. madam chair yoochl thank you and want to reminds the public this item was continue friday left meeting due to an amendment we changed the fiscal roar to the current year. and we had discussion about funding source buttil turn had over to supervisor walton to help us lead us through and indicating when he would like to do with this item today. and perhaps make the motion. and go to the public comments. >> thank you, chair chan. il be brief.

i want to appreciate the committee for the continuance in regards to the date change. and also to allow us time to have discussions about funding source. after further discussions overnight past week and after debriefing, it is still my thought process that the best way to allocate resources for this inspect research and study is through the general fund reserve. and so i would like to move this item forward with a positive recommendation. >> first. and i want to indicate that -- also have the received confirmation from the manager from the puc indicating that because of rate payor and because of restrictions, we are not able to tap in puc's reserve. for this purpose. and it is the reason why we now going back to tapping to general

fund. with that. gallon to public comment on the item. >> yes, we invite the public who is joining who wish to speak, now is your opportunity to approach and address the committee fer two minutes. >> hi. my card is over there. this is my first time hereby bear with me. i don't know, here. all right. i'm in support this and i checked out the video online sounds like everyoning is on board it was like who will pay for it. so i hope you go forth with the general fund reserves. i want to read a brief post cared was going to send to the mayor and this applies to all city leaders in the bay area at large. here we go a minute. >> doctor mayor breed, board of supervisors and the bay area at large i'm write to urge to you require a 100% clean up of

radioactive and toxic waste at the hunter's point ship yard sight with retesting and community oversight. sea levels and ground level rising due to climate change the navy's plan to leave to beingic and radio active waste capps at the site threatens the health of the residents and of the san francisco bay. rising sea levels and groundwater will flood the contamination to the neighborhoods and the bay. bayview residents suffer health impacts from pollution. and urge to you join the community in calling for full clean up and no capping of contamination. the time to end the toxic legacy of the ship yard is now. please stand with the bayview and the folks from the districts to call for full and complete clean up of the super fund site

to protect our health and the environment. thank you. with my 10 seconds i urge you no more lies, lagging and falsifying soil samples. on the powers that be that have let this atrosity persist. respectfully. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. sdwroo hello ann, san francisco gray panthers. i second everything that in person just said. and i don't have to waste my time talking about that seems like we would not be here today if we had a forward thinking executedive in the mayor's office. and we need an executive in san francisco who does not chose the well being who chose the well being of the community over the desire capitol. one does in the turn her back on

her own people. one who does not takes serious lite devastating and impacts of sea level rise as out lined in the grand jury report. so what this means we need a new executive in this city. and i hope we get one. thank you. >> thank you. and with that final call if you wish to address the committee regarding item one? >> if we have other speakers now is the opportunity lineup. thank you. much. >> thank you. >> i'm ronnie wilson. right in the microphone. >> i'm ronnie wilson thank you very much for letting me speak. i appreciate the board of supervisors unanimously in favor of initiating a scientisted shipyard site. recommended by the civil grand jury in 2022. thank you very much.

i was a nurse in the city for 18 years and i regularly saw young people with asthma who lived in the bayview district. it has been frustrating the navy and the city of san francisco have not taken the health and well being of our citizens in the bayview more seriously. residents had to deal with this for 70 years. i'm not a nurse anymore but attends meetings to advocate for the clean up. i wanted to recount the last 2 meetings i attended. on monday the navy presented its plan to clean toxins from the shipyard. the talk was so dense and incomp henceable that half audience left by the time the presentation was completed. i have a phd and needed help determining what the presenters were trying to convey. >> meanwhile, one community number stated that toxins flow

in the streets after heavy rains from atmospheric rivers. that's when needs to be addressed. the voice of the bayview community continue to not be heard. last week, in a zoom meeting who is a designer for the port of san francisco, discussed about sea level rise. the planned focus on building wall in the whatever embarcadero and mission bay that is where the wall would stop. no wall in the bayview area. he was talking to bayview audience. plus common sense has it if you build walls woornd portion of the city flooding will occur on the side that does not have walls. >> it is criminal this thinking continues in the city. >> your time has elapsed i have

to allow for equal time. next speaker, please. >> you can send it written public comment. >> hello what's my time limit. >> 2 minutes >> thank you. >> thank you supervisor walton for bringing this to the committee for approval. i'm art. i'm with the sf gray panthers and retire friday teamster's local 85. i want to thank you for the opportunity to comment. i'm here to bear witness stand with fellow san franciscans residents of the bayview hor impacted by source of pollution which institute environmental racism and injustice. the testing and clean up of the radio active and toxic contamination of the shipyard has been plagued with fraud and inadequate clean up.

people who live in bayview hunter's point are living on top of a next 2 radio active waste left by the u.s. navy. facters known to the public as well as to elected officials. health of bivow residents are at risk now due to the delay in addressing the problems, residents of other neighborhood in san francisco and the bay are also put at risk. i call on all leaders of government and all levels to do everything to have a clean up of all radio active and to beingic contamination of the ship yard with no capping of radio active and toxic waste. quoting from the sum row of the sf civil grand jury, >> 30 seconds. the bayview shipyard in the time climate change june 14, 2002,

the navy over seen by epa and the regulators has been cloning up radio active and chemical contaminations for over 30 years. jury recommends the city hire expert scientists to exam these risk. thank you supervisor wappin for helping to make that happen. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> i'm michael lion from the gray panthers. everything that has been said about the necessity of following in the grand jury recommendations is just painfully obvious. what else is painfully obvious the reason for the mayormenting to not do this not carry out the recommendations has to do with money and has to do with the

development of -- the shipyard area and bayview hunter's point. it is obscene this is held back. the upon grand jury's recommendations are held back. for reasons of profit. thank you. >> thank you. and if we have anymore speakers regarding item one now is your opportunity to step up. >> that completes our queue >> no more comment, it is now closed. >> i know that i want to note supervisor walton make the motion to move this item with recommendation. i will second that motion. with this a roll call >> and on this motion by member walton seconded by chair chan, to forward this to the board with positive recommendation. vice chair mandelman.

>> aye. >> member melgar. >> aye. >> member walton. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> aye. >> we have 4 aye's with member peskin excused >> motion passes. call item two. >> item 2 is a hear to identify the youth commission's budget priority for years 24/25 and 25/26. >> thank you. and today we have ouring youth commission here and grateful for you being here today and i'm going to thanked to you. and for you to introduce the commissioners and were lead us through your report today. thank you for being here >> thank you. as we get the slides up i will go through and introduce the fellow members with us. i'm e win chair the youth commission here with our vice chair, again d6 youth

commissioner. commissioner jason fong, as legislative affairs officer and represents d7. and also officer alster who represents d2. >> just a bit about the youth commission to get started we represent the needs of young people in city hall to our supervisors to the mayor. and you know regarding youth policy across the board. skwoo if we can go to the next slide. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> so. the youth commission is made of 17 members every supervisor appoints one member and mayor appoints 6 and the mayor's duty is to represent the commission relates the diversity of san francisco. and one of our main avenues is through our budget and policy priorities report. which is what we are presenting today. every year every budget cycle we

create a budget and priority report about the needs unmet needs of young people in san francisco that's why we're here to present that and begin our advocacy with you and the mayor's office as we go through the budget cycle to make surety needs of young san franciscans are met. >> i want to note we recognize we near a budget deficit year and not there are difficult commission catharsis needing to be made across the board in san francisco. our responsibility is to be the advocates for young people in this process. as well as to be visionary about the future of san francisco. a lot of things in here are long-term priorities of the youth commission is as we do budget and w with you all to make sure of the needs of young people are met i want to say we are keeping in mind the constraints the city has. >> this priority report really covers all issues that impact young people in our city.

from housing to safety to will environmental justice. so i'm proud of the work that our commissioners have done as well as the staff of the youth commission to support us. through this process. and i'm excited present this to and you happy to answer questions you have as well. with that i will pass it to our vice chair gab tow go over the structure of the youth commission and the structure of our budget and policy priorities report. >> good afternoon supervisors i'm again lastan at vice chair of the youth commission and d6 commissioner. we have dloe committee the housing recreation and transit. civic education and the transform justice committee. we have an executive committee we are all members that spchts the commission's work. and our budget and policy priorities are broken down in

the 3 areas. we have budget and policy priorities from youth and school safety to food insecurity and under our 3 issue based committee. >> i will pass it back to chair plumber. >> thank you. so >> thank you. so to begin we will dot civic engage am sxejz committee budget and policy priorities first. i'm a member of that committee i have been involved in drafth all of these budget and policy priorities. . first and foremost our main priority for you all in this year is to place charter amendment to the ballot in november. to lower the voting age in san francisco and expand our democracy. with all of the budget constraints we are faith the good news is that it costs nothing and a very positive thing you can do for young people in san francisco.

i than this is receptive we had a good reception from the board on this issue and look forward to continuing to work with each one of you to make this a reality. secondly is to provide over site and needed investment in school safety issues and infrastructure and policies. this includes providing oversight for the school district to have the conversations and there is acounselant and making sure this issues we seen from you know pa system not work to door looks are not updated. to make sure that those get addresses. we ask you to partner with the city to explore funding option from thes city and county itself but also to see if we can support the district in exploring funding options through state grant and federal grants. >> we want to make sure naeveryone is trained to deal with emergency situations. there have been issues raiseed

the commission from young people about a lack of awareness what to do in an emergency situation special lack of drills. we want to make sure we do this in a healthy, mental health conscious way. but that people have the training and resource needed to know what to do in the case of an emergency. on campus including the need for a look down employs >> we ask that we you work with the school district to create a public awareness campaign the reporting system. essential low this is a good system that allows young people in san francisco when go to sfusd to report if they or a friends or someone they know is having an issue whether a mental health issue or said they will do something dangerous to themselves or others temperature is an unanimous way to get adults aware of the issue and gets addressed in a timely manner it is an effective system

but a lot of young people in san francisco don't know about temperature we need to get that training happening and people are aware of the resource available. improving wellness center wait times help with the mental health crisis that young people face in san francisco and schools wait times have been long. we need to address those. and foible low to encourage schools across san francisco theuneified district and inspect schools to make sure that sending home information so this kids don't gain access to weapons in the first place. >> next, is to dpraepsz sexual harrassment in schools. this has been an issue in san francisco over 20 years there have been act voichl this issue. and we encourage you to see what the city can do to improve our

services to young people and victims of harassment and partnering with schools to address this issue. so, first we would like to you evaluate the effectiveness of current background checking system. there has been the issue where a teacher is fired or resigns from one school because of an issue of sexualing assault or harassment but move to another school that has not been reported. we need to make sure that is prevented and the systems are checking back are effective. we would like there to be improved training and curriculum on sexual harrassment and assault in schools training for educators and adults how to address and deal with the issue when is than i come up and force students to make sure we promote a culture of safety and respect between students. >> and the support the work of

the student advisory group they have been doing work on this issue. they will know more than i will. on this issue. at this point. i recommend working with them and supporting their w and research. and finally civic engagement and education request that you work to increase voter registration effort in san francisco. california is an amazing state but one ways is the fact we offer the ability for 16 and 17 year olds to preregister to vote when they turn 18 they will be able to vote and added to the voter roles we want to make sure people are aware of this. not enough young people take advantage. d. elections has done a lot of work and want to make sure it is strong and we can do this through a continuing funding for the department's youth voter out reach and through that offering more in school opportunity to

learn about preregistration. with that i gallon ahead and hand it off to housing recreation and transit member commissioner fong? >> good upon afternoon. i'm commissioner adare this is my second year housing, recreation and transit committee our committee drafted 7 priorities for commissionering fong and i to present today. first and foremost making [inaudible] the program has been around for 3 years now. it has been a god sends for many youth. middle schoolers, high schoolers getting to school and work and upon am we think it is essential that in this period of budget uncertainty and financial uncertainty that sfmta and the city make this part of the base funds budget to keep the program alive for the future. and to add-on to that. we. to make sure that there is

good data being collected on the success of the free muni for youth program. in the future and later on we can use that data and optimize the program to make sure it supports youth in the best way. i'm jason fong i'm the d7 appointee to the youth commission and excited to be here thank you for having us. the next policy priority in regards to housing recreation and transit is to improve quality of life on transit. sfmta does have the school trip are program which has upon 20 bus that support 50,000 youth and it helps them get to and from school and get to places, et cetera the problem is this it is not properly optimized. what happens is that schools like loyal high school and balboa have a lot of students that wait for bus after school that creates over crowding and

unsafer atmosphere on muni bus. second point to increase the safety on muni this is super critical to the experience of the experience young have on transand i d 7 council did a study on transit they surveyed youth and found what -- safety on muni and clean liness and over crowding were main concern this is young people have with the transit system and this takes me at this time third point the increase the reliability of muni t. is such a key resource for young people to navigate and important for them to have access to access all of the resources that san francisco has to offer. jarring next is to expand access to youth recreational space. first component is improving the youth local parks and play groundses essential resource for all san franciscans and especially youth.

we continuing is important city maintain increase investment in play groundses across the city in areas with fewer resources and less green space. so that youth can enjoy the space. we continuing is important to expand program hours at the mix. a program that is specific low targeted for middle and high schoolers. currently it hours are inadequate in the sumter is not open in the mornings. many youth are unable to take vvenlth sxrm get there and we think expanding hours would make a dmfrns making more successful for all. thirdly, we like to maintain the slow streets program. it started a few years ago such an important opportunity for youth and all san franciscans to get outside, to bike, walk, run, roll. and in district two we have

clay, lake street is near. two great spaces to get outside. and all across the city we continuing is essential to maintain these in the areas community support is popular to make sure we reduce traffic on the streets. so they can be the car free spaces we want to see going forward. next and this tie in expanding car free space golden gate park and jfk car free and across the city making sure we expand you know access for cyclists and pedestrians. every way to make that a priority inexpensive compared to other asks. and moving us toward transit first and pedestrian first policy. we would like to address the delay in golden gate and inner sunset on ninth avenue and mlk this . has been a concern to students who are going to school. and youth in general who live in

the sunset district. it is essential that we work with the sfmta to increase investment well to clear up problems and get input and improve the situation for all. >> our next housing recreation and transit policy priority is address vision zero. many of you know vision zero started in 20 it is 2024 and the plan was supposed to conclude with fatalities. the amount of traffic has remained stagnant overnight past 10 years, which is not i deal. the way that the you can people are per sighing we want a new action plan we have measurable actions and goals and new deadline where we hold ourselves accountable to make san francisco safer for young people and for people in general to navigate. i know you don't have direct

jurisdiction over speed limits but urge the sfmta to reduce speed limit in high dang are areas. there have been studies shown reducing speed limits makes a difference in life or death collision this is is important to address. and then the next point here is to move have more quick builds and less bureaucracy on bayshore well is a quick build that took 2 dwreers complatetrary to the name, quick built t. it is basically a project where they use very simple things like signage or faint to up the infrastructure to make it safer. so make sure we have more of those in the street in san francisco can make a difference special get us close torvision zero. the next policy here is no turn on red policy citywide. i know back in october of 2023 i believe supervisor preston made

a resolution in support of this. and it was passed by the board and san francisco youth commission also had a resolution to support a no turn on red policy. obviously it has amazing impacts on the number of fatalities. studies across the united states as well as within san francisco. that point to it being an effective tool. and the next one here, i say is a long-term goal to harass self driving technology we are talking about a 10 year plan i think it sundayable to you know i think the landscape for vehicles would be different 10 years down the lineful 94% of crashes due to human error. implementing and adopting our policy and infrastructure to facility integration of self driving vehicles it could impact in terms of how far we get with vision zer over. and the next point is a

long-term goal a congestion price being program. where i out line a section of the city and set a perimeter and you charge people to enter that perimeter. doing this, it is like a system you are able to control the number of vehicles that are within an area. when you control the vehicle in this area can you control the number of traffic fatalities. and the last point is to build closer together working with the planning department to shore up planning codes and housing codes, et cetera to make sure that people don't have to travel far to get to their local grocery store or get to their will school or their job. because if people are traveling less to get to every day things there is less of a chance they will get in an accident. vision zero is ambishsz we learned a lot i want to use the lessons we learnd and implement them to make san francisco safer

for everyone. >> our next prior is address san francisco's housing availability and affordability crisis. housing is a political issue in san fran. social issue as well. we have with limped space and high demand to live here it is expensive rents and property values. and lus that stretch back decade this is prevent people from build nothing many case. this is will a youth issue first because if you look at the graph, the youth live nothing san francisco decline in the decades. and this does come down family affordability and parents not able to move here not able to raise kids in san francisco because they cannot afford the larger apartments and houses that they need for children. leads to few are youth in san francisco few are youth taking

advantage of the city. increasing the housing stock in san francisco is an important priority. city is moving in the direction with the housing element. ambitious target 82,000 units. in addition to the plan we commit tonual building targets. ef gets to units by 2031 and the second point is to explore limits to the planning code last fall. the state government and supervisors worked to amend it to increase height limits. setback requirements and a lot of neighborhoods on the west side. richmonday and sunset and 19th

this is an important first step and additional limits to meet the goals we set. residents for the city. density is lower than on the east side and we are a space for more units. we believe the board should explore additional amendments where they make sense. next we believe that san francisco's policy of dr should be a minimum carefully scrutinized and e eliminated. because it was a policy enacted democracieds ago. san francisco is unique in the ability for residentses to slow down building compared to other cities. this is something this can prevent developers from building and slow down development.

it is why we permit houses. should look at whether this is a policy that benefits the city at large. finally. we would like to make sure the board of supervisor system prosecute meeting affordable housing development in addition to the previous points we made to make sure in addition to meeting the quantity of 82,000 by 2031, we are making sure enough are affordable that san francisco still remains a place low and middle income people settle and city workers. teachers, police officers. and sanitation workers. can live in the city where they work and serve. and a lot of that is closely linked to affordable housing. there are many policies that the city can enact and work with developers to make sure san francisco remains a worker friendly and youth friendly place and a place where people can live.

next we think our next priority is sppth youth in transitional age youth experiencing homelessness. homelessness the last democracied has rain to become san francisco's potentially most pressing social issue. this is something that the youth commission has been interested in a long time will because san francisco's steps to address homelessness have not always been youth friendly with transitional aged youth between 18 and 25 over represented among the homeless and the least sheltered compared to other demographics. the 3 points implement long-term solutions to homelessness without displacement. san francisco and department of homelessness and spicht housing worked hard to shelter youth and get people off the streets we think they should continue had work and make sure we are

respecting human rights of all homeless including youth making sure that they are rights are not violated and under taken by the city are not violating the human rights are keeping them safe and treat with dignity. second research navigation centers for youth. they are a resource for youth who are made potential low homeless for the first time and traveled here from other place e sfl they are marginalized the members of the lbgtq+ community and not welcomed in their home and arrive here. centers are essential places for them to get settleed get sxhp resources often times there is when we hear from community members and also community based organizations who are linked they don't feel the centers mean

meeting the needs of youth. the board should conduct additional research on the efficacy of the centers and make sure they serve youth properly. and we want increased targeting support for lbgtq+ and minority youth make up a share of san francisco's home little population and transificational aged youth homeless population. making sure we are designating shelter, resources and support officers for minority groups and lbgtq+ youth so needs are being met. opposed to all homeless service directed at the population at large. different groups have different need its is important to remember that. and our last budget and policy priority to improve climate resiliences the climate action plan does not have defensive measures for worsening weather

conscience it talks about how san francisco should get toward net zero walsh carbon by 2040. i think it is important this we work is this climate action plan to talk about how san francisco will shore up defenses with the upcoming going to worse and worse as time goes on. to just have those in the plan to make sure that -- we have a long-term goal with you want to seat city in the defense against worsening climate conscience the next point to check all tree in light of the rivers and with more to come it is important we do something about all of the calling trees that have been falling down. i go to local and between local and stones town there is the p and have been trees that have fallen on cars and on to the road. there arearc seszability and public safety issues. it is important this we have

some way to go about this in the future whether having a synergy with rec and park. they have a tree managing program but like under budgeted and than i don't have the resources to address that. there have been people injured by tree its is trnlt. and the left thing is invest in environmental resilience. sea level rise is billing surround everyou know in 50 years there will be a lot of sea water rise along the embarcadero and infrastructure improvements cost a lot of money. i encourage to you think about how we can develop a plan for the long-term to set aside money now to make sure well is enough later on down the line to make sure we have defense like sea wall or invest nothing our storm drains, et cetera to make sure that there is san francisco for

young people in the future. >> hello supervisors. we have 5 budget priorities for you today. the place is to reduce weapon access. youth gun violence a big issue in general and one way to mitt ghat is through reducing youth access to weapons. and our first recommendation is to support community based organizations and departments to provide youth violence prevention. united players here does work with youth violence prevention and rugs youth access. two is to trade eventses and 3 provide more information on firearm storage. asune times families those with firearms don't store them in the safe ways to keep them away from

youth and last accessible mental health services in scoots and improve services because once again the main reasons why youth gun violence happens due to unchecked health and providing accessible mental health service through schools or community organizations that is a way and young people with mental health and reduce young people usage of weapons. the next budget priority to implement fentanyl over dose in san francisco t. is a big crisis. and youth drug use in general the we noticed schools don't talk about fentanyl and how do use nar can.

this is important, because immigrants need access to city service and if immigrants don't have the intercepted material and service in order it access the service, it is not accessible for them this is true for immigrated youth who face the precious of translating for parentses and for their

families. as someone that come from an immigrant family i seen how ump pressure that causes for youth in an immigrant family to translate for family constantly or fill out forms. our recommendations are to one, provide increased financial support in foreign language programs. if we have more people learning languages especially languages that are less spoke then san francisco vietnamese or -- that brought in the ability to provide more services and translation services in the future. [speak very fast]. and through that we want to increase support for trinning and out reach for services in city departments. translation and interception

training. two ensure cbo language needs stay fund an example is association [inaudible] focuses on central american languages is not i language that is required to be have translapgz services by city departments that community organization does a lot of work with this community in san francisco. and we need to ensure they stay fundsed do that work and 3 is to increase transsxagz interception support for languages that have 5,000-10,000 speakers in san francisco as languages are recommend but not required have trans lagz services caution many people in san francisco do speak vietnamese to go unrecognized and not have support, which blocks the communities from having access to city services and left for this it is to make city translated and intercepted

materials more accessible when it come to telecommunication and digital materials often time its is out dated. when it come to telephonic automessages don't work make its hard for immigrant community for people who can't come in. physically to department tos access services. >> and the last 2 priorities we have one to take action and addressing the environmental affect in bayview shout out to supervisor walton for working on. and essential low the main theseis is accelerate. [speak very fast]. within bayview especially the naval shipyard. two accept and implement entirety of the 2021 civil grand jury report and support community initiatives. this is important many young people in bayview are still

faith the health effects of to beingic waste in the area. and that causes health issue this is can affect them in the future. and our last policy priority is to address food and nutritional insecurity. as food insecurity and related deaths are one of the leading kausz of death in san francisco this is an important issue. this is why our recommendations are as follows. one support community initiatives. includes farmer's markets and food banks and organizations like st. anthony free, warm, ready to eat meals to the community. two, increase out reach and food support programs ebt and food stamps for immigrant communities who don't know the programs are available. 3 focus on food policy and this it is recommendation that we got

from the food security task force. within city government focus policies to -- which is out line in the the budget and create a food policy office to work on food policy and addressing food insecurity. 4 is provide nutritious food in schools. we noticed that many -- many schools and family shelters don't provide food they don't have fund to do so. and 5 is to invest in neighborhoods impacted by food insecurities. the tenderloin and bayview which is a food desert according to u.s. department of -- usd a. because as i mentioned food insecurity causes health issue this is is heart disease or diabetes and addressing that through invest nothing neighborhoods than in the we be abling to mitigate the

insecurity related deaths. with that,il pass it become to chair plumber. thank you we go ahead and you know open up to questions. i will say we have been this is our over view of work we have been doing the past 4-5 months. when it come to making sure the needs of young people are addressed in the budget of i know that there is expertise here. so if you have questions now you would like to ask about the policy priorities we do have our contact information is also available. >> thank you. i grateful for the presentation today. and i also appreciate you chair, barker you mentioned opening remarks that you understand the

city is facing budget deficits. and but still. here we are we are laying out the priorities i think today if you as a commission has it is answer i would appreciate. i am curious to hear in knowing the numbers of budget both revenue and deficit this is we face, and assuming we have context around the city department upon spending and touch on the city departments that -- here you have housing and recreation and transit and so on.

can you help us rndz with this priority anding the reality of budget deficit combug want toed as a commission highlight for us and are there things that you can help us rethink in context to which budget deficit gap? i think prioritization is a there are 16 total we want to in our advocacy and what the prioritization is. just to name a couple. i think first is the vote 60 initiative placing a ballot measure to lower the voting age for november. school safety is an issue we

have been dealing watch ghaen is not so much sf budget i'm sure there is room for increased funding. and working with the school district to make sure they are able to find the funding source. our youth immigration and transit we know that the sfmta facing budget issue we had a presentation from the budget staff made clear on the staff end they don't want to cut it is an expense we want to be include. we did dot beens of the book the next months and the night of that final day.

one is language access the big issues and does face a significant better than on youth whoer speak english and that hen an issue we heard. and i think when it dmos reducing youth weapon access. in you know low income community and communities of color. so those are the once i would highlight out of this and i encourage you to meet with your youth commissioner every district has one and to hear from them as to which they think most impact your district.

as you go through the budget process. i hope this answers your question >> it does. thank you very much it helps us understand the youth commission's priorities. and giving the fact we have to taxying the budget deficits supervisor walton >> thank you and first i want to thank you for your patience at the beginning of the meeting with the first item. thank you for your presentation and professional sxichl leadership and i hope that your pierce are as proud of you as we are. i have -- one question talk about civic engage and want education. and the things you put on the slide around the school district is the youth commission participate negligent school consolidation closure confirmations. >> this has been brought up the youth commission you know about in general the city we don't have sort of direct over

sight school district that is a major concern. like lit irrelevant in the last few weeks the plans public and proposed. and i know sfusd is going through public comment process and we want to be involved in this and facilitating youth themselves to be involved in the conversations. i appreciate you bringing that up. i'm happy to compler that with you and staff as well. >> i wanted to -- i want to be aware that the conversations are happening and the information the youth commissionmented to

provide we want to hear from you as well. thank you >> thank you and supervisor melgar. all of the members of youth commission for this presentation which was thorough. specific, well researchd and delivered i'm proud of thank you is irrelevant great. and i do have questions about your policy priorities. and support you as a budget committee in reflecting priority when is we are departments and with the major's budget office.

i'm wondering how as we go through the like regular check ins to see what you know is prosecute posed and when we are doing to consistent. with the priorities and that you have articulated that is one thing that includes mt a and the things you have around housing and youth housing and affordable housing. there is the school district. what i heard a desire to a -- the folks at the district address the moment where we see a rise in fentanyl that is -- in the drugs that youth are experimenting with. and this is something the bar