worth of cuts in less than one year. obviously, this is a crisis for us. these are draconian cuts. we cannot stand for them. we know that san francisco has built a model of service. often, the nation looks to us for the model of service we have created, which is a blend of primary care and support of services. we are looking forward to lowe working with the department heads and the supervisors with you as we continue the dialogue and move forward on the services to make sure that people living with hiv aids can live a quality life. a lot of our organizations are significantly tighed. i have contracts with most everybody up here. sfra, ewd, i know they are

facing cuts. i've been working with kate and having conversations with you. a lot of those support of housing projects that are out there and for the jri workforce development providers better in those redevelopment project areas, it's important that we keep those work force development programs going. when you are making a cut would organization, know that you are also making the cut to an organization that provides a vast array of services to a vast array of clients who are here in the city and county of in san francisco -- county of san francisco. i appreciate san francisco's participation and their constant quest for knowledge and advocacy. thank you for having another year of community dialogue. the budget process is always difficult. i know you have to make difficult decisions. because of tonight, they will be informed decisions.

thank you very much for that. [applause] >> thanks, brett. bill from dbi is also here. excellent. [applause] wellcome. the next beaker from district 8 is rebecca from the lgbt center. there you are. thank you. as >> in the executive director of the center. i really want to thank supervisor wiener, supervisor campos, camposchu, and mayor lee. the center, we are 10 years old this year. we are excited spending 10 years connecting the lgbt individuals in the community the opportunity to build a stronger and healthier community.

we really work across the full spectrum of the lgbt community's needs. we have very little data about the lgbt community. we are not fully counted in the census. there's very little hard data that's really known about the economic status about the lgbt community, where we live, and how we live. there's a myth of gay affluence, that we are a community of great affluence. the other myth is that in san francisco there are not problems with discrimination. i want to be clear that those are both myths. we largely reflecting world around us. we do face the civic pockets of marseillaise agent based on our lgbt -- pockets of marginal as asiaization. many lgbt folks moved here from

other places of the country seeking sanctuary and a place to be ourselves. we came from places where we face significant challenges. i think some of the other challenges we face are discrimination and barriers, even in san francisco in terms of employment, housing, education, and many of the other systems that serve each of us as residents, employees, and folks who live in work in san francisco are challenged by. tolit's important for us to hold that this is one of the most fabulous places in the world for the lgbt community to live. there is still significant pockets of marginal as ization. i want to speak about youth, seniors, and the transgendered community. we see significant challenges in areas for seniors. many come economic challenges,

based on a lifetime of income disparities, low rates of home ownership, lack of access to economic support for marriage equality, and are facing, as seniors, sort of going back into the closet, facing challenges for health care and many things that this older adults. youth, very significant challenges. 5000 to 7000 disconnected youth living in san francisco. 40% of them identified as lgbt for questioning. it's a tremendously high number, a hugely disproportionate to our population of young folks living on the streets. they're really facing significant and multiple barriers. we do not have enough housing. we do not have enough employment programs. we do not have enough medical care. we are facing very significant shortages. i really want to thank the mayor

and maria for taking on the initiative. i am really excited about that as a new possibility and new attention to this very challenged population. lastly, i want to speak briefly to the needs of the transgendered community. in san francisco, we have rates of 70% to 75% unemployment and underemployment for the transgendered community. receiving enormously huge economic challenges for the transgendered community, we at the center of the first in the world employment program designed to provide sustainable employment for transgendered folks through the human services agency. we are really pleased. we're in our fourth year of that. we really need to be looking at very significant support for not

just sigh load programs, but how to open up access to all of the employment programs, all of the programs so transgendered folks have access to services. 70 percent unemployment is in spite of the fact that san francisco as a model laws on discrimination challenges for the transgendered communities. a few of the key issues facing the community. i look forward to the opportunity to work with all of you. s tthanks to our incredible leadership. [applause] >> thank you, rebecca. thank you for speaking on behalf of the constituents in district 8 and district 9. from the department of adult and aging services -- just showed up. great. excellent. many of the department and agencies are here.

now the most important part of the program, the open mic, is coming up. before the start that, i wanted to review a few rules. we have a limit of two minutes per speaker. please make sure you are able to express yourself in a distinct wasuccint way. i have a set of names i will be calling out. please be ready to line up. we will be putting you on a timer. i apologize in advance that i might have to cut some of you off. we want to get to as many people as possible. again, it is important that everybody puts their thoughts and ideas on paper and submits it to the desk where they checked in. these ideas and thoughts will be compiled by the supervisors' offices, hopefully in order to be involved and engaged in the budget process. again, this is just the beginning of the budget process.

on your seats, you will probably find this brochure with a schedule of the upcoming town halls and other ways you can get involved in planning for the city's budget. without further ado, and going to call the first set of names. i apologize if i mispronounced your name. destiny, apolpablo, anna martin, and luis. please step up to the microphone in the center there. address our guests here. >> good afternoon, everybody. my name is stephanie. i'm 17 years old. i'm a senior at george washington high school. i'm here on behalf of the lavender youth center.

i am a queer educator. i lead and facilitate a transgendered/gender barrier community group offered to youth ages 18 to 24. it's rare to find queer organizations that cater to youth. as a queer lgbtq transgendered latino youth, lyric has been life altering for me. without it, i would not be making any money. i would not have begun saving money to go to college next year. i just really think lgbtqu -- considering how many queeer use

are in the city and how few organizations that there are in the city that cater to such a young age youth -- and one of the things that has been affected at lyric -- we have not been able to have drop-in spaces. it's basically a safe space where you can hang out. it's rare to have that at lyric. it was great to see. we have so many youth coming in. now that it's not there anymore, we have less and less youth. without lyrics, i would probably still be iseverely and tight social at my school and would not be the president of the alliance or even be here today. i ask that everybody considered queer youth programs such as lyric when they are balancing

the budgets. thank you. [applause] >> i am with boys and girls of san francisco. we're going to do a brief group presentation. i am the area director in the mission district. we have been in the mission district for over 100 years. we have been here since 1891. we have two clubhouses in the community. the mission clubhouse is the first clubhouse that was the boys' and girls' club facility built west of the mississippi in 1929. currently, we served over 4,000 youth. currently, 460 kids per day. through the support of the agencies, we been able to do great work from the funding. the point of tonight is to make sure that we can keep that in focus as a priority within the budget.

we received funding for the after-school program. we also receive funding for violence prevention. that is our case management working with the mission station and other communities. also, the other piece -- youth workforce development for our teens. i want to have the youth, up and have them share what that means. thank you. >> i >> i am is senior leadership high-school, participant in college prep programs. through this program, have been able to get support on paying my college applications and go to college. recently, i came from visiting st. mary's college, sacramento state, and university of reno, nevada. i plan on enrolling at uc santa

cruz, majoring in criminal justice and sociology, and i am here representing all high- school students who have found support at boys and girls clubs. i am youth of the year% and cisco and will be competing in sacramento later this month for the state honor. thank you for your time and for organizations like boys and girls club. ozzie >> good evening, everyone. first off, i would like to thank everyone for giving us the opportunity to speak tonight on behalf of the boys' club of san francisco. i am is senior at el camino high school. leadership is a trade that we really admire -- a trait that we

really admire, but the street i never really had until i was chosen with a program. the program taught me time management, hardware, and humility. being part of the program helped me change my pattern of worked where i did not do anything and got below a 2.0 and help me get a 3.0 average when i was struggling. [applause] >> hello, everybody. through the boys and girls club program, i got into the keystone group, and i am president of this group. it focuses mainly on career academics and community exploration. that is all. thank you. [applause] and thank you again for your time, and please come up to one of our clubs at your convenience. [applause]

>> again, just a reminder for folks, we have a limited number of time for the open mike, so if we could please have just one person per organization speaking, we would really appreciate it. i know everyone has a lot of ideas and thoughts they want to share, but please be respectful to the amount of time we have. thank you. >> i am en second-generation clear -- queer latina who grew up in the mission. for the past year, we have been piling a seminar for middle schools. they initiate projects to promote visibility of inclusion of the lgbt key community -- lgbtq community. this averts are complemented by training for school staff. the type of work is imperative at the middle and high school level because they are hungry to

be represented and affirmed in a school community. we had a latino if greater you've got himself in front of the entire school community and be embraced -- a latino youth out himself. last year, my class began with just one out middle schoolers, but by the end of my class, half of my students have come out. this-attending our trains are emerging as strong advocates, not just button-wearing allies, and feel more confident supporting queer students. this speaks to the importance of this type of formalized consistent partnership between a community organization and a school community. as a mission native and as a queer latina, it is important to me that the city supports cross community partnerships, representing -- understanding that there are many youth that

is across cultural identities. [applause] >> thanks. [reading names] >> good evening, supervisors. thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. i am the community organizer for the jamestown community center. jamestown community center actually does the after-school program in your. these are a couple of students from buena vista. we are also part of a coalition that is working on creating free muni for all use, and that is what i wanted to speak to tonight -- for all youth.

last night, we were at the mta commission hearing trying to figure out this issue, and we are here today to urge mayor lee to please support the proposal. i know you have been doing a lot of work, and i want to recognize that. you and supervisor campos have had a lot of conversations about this. we are in the last push. specifically, three of the reasons that we want is one, because they are cutting the yellow school buses. the new state budget, as it is right now, is cutting 100% of transportation funds to all cities, so that will impact the ability of students to get to school. we want it to be freed for that reason. second, we are committed to making this a family-friendly city. it is a very expensive city. housing, food costs, transportation costs -- all those things add up. this would be a great step and a small investment to families

like hector and his brother and city -- sister and mom who are here, to make san francisco family friendly. the only we will be able to do that is to make me any free for all youth. another important reason is because we want this to be a chance the city first. 60% of travel in the city still is done by car. we need to change that, and the only way we will change that is if we get an investment from youth, a cross-section of the city, across social demographics, not just low- income but all youth. the only way we will do that as it we really make muni free for all youth. as one to come up and say that. >> i said that. my name is desmond miller from larkin street services. san francisco is taking a $4

million cut the services. in addition, due to the change, and the serving women, infants, children, and yet, we know said in cisco is taking a cut to services or positive youth -- we know san francisco. we reduce medical care and mental health care to and that of gravity services. we are asking the mayor and board of supervisors to help mitigate the effects of these cuts, and the positive youth especially. again, i am the management of hiv testing and prevention, and you would be eliminating my position as well as those of my staff and our ability to get too

specific, targeted a chevy testing in california to our youth, who are sometimes the most vulnerable. thank you. [applause] >> i am here for stonewall. it has been a big part of my life for the past year-and-a- half. it is the only low threshold place for gay men or men who have sex with men, bisexual men, can go to to access mental health, substance abuse, and a chevy-related issues. i'm happy to say you're sorry hiv negative today, and completely drug free to date -- i am hiv - today and completely drug free. they put me in the driver's seat of my own vehicle, and they were on my team the whole way through, and they still are to this day. it is something that needs to be supported. it cannot be cut. $200,000 -- that is it the

people that will be cut out of complete services. there's already 75 to 100 people on the waiting list. i cannot even refer people to the services any more because there's just no room for them. this is huge for the community. this has been a huge part of my life, and i needed to please not cut these. maybe in the next conversation we have, it will be up in the budget because these are services we need. i started using drugs on a daily basis, and now i am volunteering and putting out into the community, making it possible for other people to have the opportunity i have been given. i beg of you -- please do not cut this. thank you. [applause] >> i was just curious, would you give us a little extra time to account for translation? >> sure. and thank you. >> [speaking spanish]

>> mr. mayer, supervisors, collaborators with the mayor -- mr. mayor, supervisors, collaborators with the mayor, i would have loved to have spoken to you in english. unfortunately, i was not able to learn english, so i will talk to you in spanish. i'd like to ask, particularly

on holy week, for a miracle, and we hope this merkel will be able to help us all fix the problems that we have. so i am speaking today in particular in support of this program. la raza has been able to help me

with many of my problems, legal and social, and where would i go, basically, that they are not able to provide that service to me. i am sorry, i just had a brain blank. this problem is not only unique to me. it is unique to other seniors, modeling will as well as other latino seniors. without their help, where would all the other seniors go?

i realize that there are these problems outside of the city, and it is particular to san francisco. i am in shock of all of the issues i have heard today as well. i thank you for your attention, and i have great pride in being able to speak in front of you. [applause] >> thank you. the last two speakers, if you

could please line up. [reading names] >> i will go first. mayor lee, this is the first time i have seen you in person. i am a volunteer in the mission district. we have been passing liars to inform people about possible new legislation later in the year for improvements in the community jobs program. participants in this community jobs program are people of color, in particular, single mothers, so we feel like there needs to be a genuine, new work training program for participants to be able to work

in non-profit communities, such as in the mission district, and also in the future, given the training for service jobs. so it will definitely need funding as well as having an advisory committee to oversee this program. we feel like it has not been overseen. we think it is about time for people of color to gain the right training and a possible better future for themselves and their families. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. ok, those were actually the last two speakers that i will call on because we are now at the time when we want to hear from our esteemed mayor, a supervisor, with their thoughts are, some reactions, some t