we look forward to giving the city solution we can vote on in november. our next speaker is from nob hill. [speaking foreign language] i will translate that. >> thank you. >> i have my associate from the nob hill association. i'd like to introduce them. steve patten, vice president. jim wall, treasurer. john deramus, director. we're here today, representing

the nob hill association. as we can all expect, we at the nob hill association as every other citizen of this city loves this city. we all want to do what we can to help improve this city. we're not here today to ask for anything from the city. we're here to say that in our neighborhood we have a wealth of talent that we would like to make available to help the city make some of its difficult decisions. our objectives are, a, to reduce the cost of operations for the city. and b, where we can to increase the revenue the to the city through what we might do in our neighborhood. we suggest that every neighborhood association in san

francisco has a much better understanding of their own neighborhood than this board of supervisors have bus we are right next to it, and we are prepared to offer and help and bring along things that will help the budget by reducing costs and increasing revenue. >> thank you very much. >> that's my message for today. thank you. >> thank you. i also want to thank all the members of the nob hill association who are here. thank you for your leadership in our neighborhood. next speaker, please. >> hi. hello. [speaking foreign language]

>> my name is jade wu, a p.r. organizer. i want to first thank you, the mayor, and the supervisors for caring a lot about the welfare of the families. we wanted to tell everybody about the families in chinatown. currently we're in contact with over 400 families in chinatown who live in a s.r. room with children under 18 years old. there are about 550 children 17 and younger in s.r.o.'s. 95% of our families cannot qualify for applying to affordable housing because of the income limitation of the there's no affordable family housing. couldn't even apply to public housing. only very few families can apply for a rental subsidy programs in the city, because their monthly income is around $1,000, and that's how much it takes to rent

a one-bedroom apartment in the city. so we're asking the city to support real affordable housing for families in the city of san francisco. thank you. >> so why don't ask our next speaker to please step up. >> good afternoon. my name is michael stager, a representative of a political action committee. though i sympathizize with everyone here at the panel, i've found the meetings over the last couple of years in san francisco and other places totally depressing. the budget cuts are absolutely and totally unnecessary. you have a fraud of an economic model, that this economic crisis is based on. the wall street financial institutions, the housing bubble, the dot-com bubble, the derivative speculation was a fraud, known as a fraud. an economist said it was a fraud long before it even started. and the question today is, are people going to september budget

cuts as -- september the budget cuts as necessary which kill are are we going to say stop the fraud? what does that mean? there's a bill in congress right now, which i think the city supervisors should pass an emergency resolution endorsing. it's called h.r. 1489. there's an ancient chinese saying, all things under the heaven are for the people. that's what it is. it says screw the bankers who created this crisis and defend the people. that's the choice government has. of course the city of san francisco can't pass it, but they can take the responsibility for their constituents and citizens and tell the federal government to get their -- >> thank you very much. >> -- and pass this resolution. if you can comment on it, we'd like an emergency resolution. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon, mayor lee, supervisor chu. thank you for coming to our neighborhood, our community. i realize that the city staff has done a tremendous job -- >> could you pull that up? >> oh, i'm sorry. -- of addressing cuts. i'm joined with my multilingual team. some speak more than four languages. we help new and recent immigrants who are monolingual how to be effective, caring parents, keep their children safe and healthy, how to provide -- get access to public and private services to ensure families and most importantly their children's success. h.s.a. has recently adopted a research-based visitation model called safe care to ensure they're using state-of-the-art practices for families and practice. we applaud their expensive to federal funding and the call to

be accountable for outcomes, but for all the research that's been done it's been research only in english, and newly in spanish, and will leave these case managers and our community out. each staff speaks english. we're asking to be given the chance to participate in the model and adapt a safe care method to our clients. we've been told efficiently that other arrangements will be made for our almost 200 clients that we serve. we've not been told where the resources will come or how it will be handled. this needs to be addressed otherwise many will be left in the gap. this is my question of h.s.a. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. i will communicate that that him on monday when he get back from san francisco. >> why don't we hear from our next speaker, if you could please step up.

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>> thank you very much. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you very much. [applause] >> good afternoon. i'm the president of the large tenant-based organization of over 1,000 members, all low-income senior tenants. we have over 40 members present today, and we would like to express our concerns regarding social servicesçy to the san francisco chinese population, chinatown is the main hub for their daily routines, where they receive the majority of their services they need. therefore the demand for services is great, and definitely exceeds the social services available right now. we hope that the city will not balance the budget deficit on the backs of the low-income vulnerable community. we need to expand the capacity for more services and resources

for chinatown and not the opposite. also, we hope the mayor can adjust needs for affordable housing as well, especially in economic hard times. if cannot find affordable housing, they may have to relocate out of the city. lastly, i want to thank mayor lee and other department representatives for coming to chinatown and i hope there's more opportunity for meetings such as these in the future so you can all hear from the residents in san francisco. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much for that question. i also want to thank the members from c.t.a. the mayor would like to address the last comments. >> there's a lot of concern here from people who need and want more affordable housing. i agree with that. it's very complicated, because as you know federal government has decreased their funding, and so the city has to come up with

it. we will try to work hard as our economy improves. we will try to make decisions that will increase the supply of affordable housing. we know that there are many families who are kind of jammed into s.r.o.'s that are very limited, and we don't like that either. we will do our best to fund community-based programs that will produce more affordable housing. we have ones that are about to begin, particularly the broadway street. there's a project we're working with the community development center to get that started. we know that's going to increase, but clearly that's not enough. we'll continue looking for other opportunities as our budget allows us to. thank you. >> thank you. next question. [speaking foreign language]

>> hi, everyone. i'm an organize at the families collaborative. our families live in a tiny living space and there's no place for the children to play. there's not even a beacon center in downtown. there's no way for the children to go.

also recently there are many fire incidents in chinatown. so it's important to prevent fires, but imagine whenever there's a fire, a low-income person faces tremendous difficulties without a place to live. it also increases the burden on the city to relocate them. so i'm asking the city government to provide more childcare and more places for our children to play and more fire prevention for our chinatown buildings. thank you. >> i want to address that for a moment, specifically with regards to fires. in my time in office, i have probably taken part, along with my aide in responding to half a dozen major fires in the district. this has been a very serious situation. i do want to thank many of the departments that are here, particularly our human services agency, rec and park, the police department, the fire department for their response in helping us deal with the aftermath of these fires. all that being said, we as a city need to do more to invest

to make sure our buildings are safe, that these fires don't happen in the first place, the neighborhoods that are in the northeast part of the city are the densest neighborhoods in san francisco. with that density we need to do everything we can to make sure our buildings are not susceptible to fire. next question.

>> hi. i'm also a peer organization at the families collaborative. when we go talk to the families a lot of them tell us we're unemployed. industries and businesses have been leaving the city. it's hard for us to find a job. without training and jobs that can -- that we can for without a lot of english, community organizations always tell us that we need to learn english in order to have a job, but what about making a living before i learned english? what can i do? so the jobs now will program in the past doesn't really help people without a lot of english. we're hoping -- we're asking the city that next round of job

now's, please have a plan and have some money to help people who doesn't speak a lot of english. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, everybody. thank you for your presence in chinatown, district 3. the thing i want to say definitely it's about concentrating on the youth inávd district 3, because many youth in district 3 are monolingual speakers, and don't have places to hang out. there's the parks and rec in chinatown, but because it's under construction, they have limited space to go to. in the evening time, they have limited space to go to, so the park they go to, they have improper lighting. so it creates a dangerous situation. there's a lack of staffing from the rec and park into creating

those programs for the youth hanging out on the street, you know, creating an issue, because they do have to deal with gang affiliation issues, alcohol abuse and marijuana. we've experienced that in a lot in the past two or three years, an increase in our community. i've been working with captain cashman on how to create more programs, collaborations with our people to make sure the police officer are out walking in the area, just hold them accountable. i think that's great, but we definitely need more funding for jobs, because the mayor's employment and educational program, it's very important, because just now there's 40 slots. we need more of that. i'll finish up real quick. please take the offer from the nob hill association to get the

help to put more money -- you know, not just in the chinatown, but in the bayview, in the mission, because they have the money, they have the resources. please do that to help people find jobs. and affordable housing, just real quick, there's four young people living in one unit. all right? they cannot function that way. >> thank you very much. >> i appreciate all the work that you guys are doing. >> great, than. thank you. let's hear from the next speaker. by the way, department representatives are taking questions, and closer to the end we'll hear answers and feedback from our city heads. next speaker. >> my name is mitch bonner. i'm with the laotian community. the last few years they've done a festival for the l ao

community. in 2010, they wanted almost $8,000. this year they wanted $12,500 for nonprofit organization for a one-day basic fee, which is too much for the lao community to afford. we were lucky this year to be able to rent u.n. plaza instead, still only $750, but we don't what it will be in the future. there are a lot of small organizations in san francisco that don't have big budgets. and they will probably be driven out of the city because they can't afford the very expensive fees imposed on sites and other

things like that. >> i know there have been a couple questions that have built up. the last question that was asked had to do with some of the employment opportunities for young people. this is something i've discussed with the mayor, as well as with dcyf. i'd like the mayor to provide a perspective on that. >> with respect to the summer youth employment program, that was another program that we heard all through the rest of the city. i want to -- in cooperation, and also, of course, supervisor david chu has been talking about this for some time, asking our officers to take reconsideration of the cuts. so we've been working very closely with our director of the children, youth and family, and tonight we just want to announce that we are moving an additional $500,000 to the youth, summer youth program, and there will be 300 more slots made. we'll be able to divide that to

make sure that chinatown gets enough slots for the summer youth program. you'll definitely have more. we're making those decisions as of today. you'll hear more details about it. there will definitely be more summer youth slots will aimed at both chinatown and all the other districts for the summer. >> mr. bonner, just in response to fees, the rec and park department does charge for special events. the rates actually for nonprofit organizations are 50% or half of what we would charge commercial organizations. over the last -- we actually haven't raised fees in a number of years, but what's happened is we've been gradually implementing some fee increases that went into effect a number of years ago. how much a particular event costs certainly depends on the type of event and the nature of the event, but i think our permits and reservation staff is very focused on working with

organizations to -- you know, to accommodate their financial realities and try to find the right location for the right type of event. i would, you know, very much welcome the opportunity or welcome a conversation with you and our permits and reservations staff to see if we can work together more closely next year to accommodate the event. and just by way of example, youp know, portsmouth square, we would charge $500 for an event there, for a commercial organization, but only $250 for a nonprofit. >> why don't we hear from our next speaker. [speaking foreign language]

>> thank you ver thank you very. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you very much. [speaking foreign language]

>> thank you very much. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon. mostly households are immigrant families and seniors, low-income. we're here to urge the mayor and supervisors, city officials, to provide services to low-income residents as well as we are still in a recession, working class, people worried about getting laid off, and seniors who depend on s.s.i. are having that cut. the senior meal program help

seniors to spend money on other needs. these services are fundamental to low-income seniors like me. we rely heavily on these services to improve our quality of life. we urge for a fair and humane budget that reflect the needs of those who are the most vulnerable. also one more concern is please keep regular clean services at the development. like mrs. lee said, cleaning the common area once or twice a year to pass a h.u.d. inspection is unacceptable and unfair. thank you. >> thank you. i want to thank you for your leadership on these issues in the community as well. next speaker, please.

>> hello. i'm an organizer with a political action committee. like my colleague, i wanted to really hammer home this idea that the -- that the government of san francisco should fight with the congress to get this resolution passed. it's a bill actually in the congress now. you have eight congressional members of the congress who are behind. the question that many people are asking, are we in an economic recovery? the answer from any honest thinking patriot of the united states is absolutely not. we are right now in the greatest global economic breakdown probably in recorded history. and if we don't declare the united states independent from this bankrupt bankingsy