one voice to what gail said and to emphasize that non-profit employees in this city can't live here any longer we take care of the low folks with disability so the afternoon wage of the staff is $44,000. those are people who got out in the community and do amazing work serving the people. so i urge the board of supervisors to support the non profits in the city and support the employees who do the work it's the right thing to do thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker, please >> good morning supervisors i'm

april i'm here representing seniors. first of all, i want to take the opportunity to - your hard work is greatly appreciatesed. we have 8 centers and they're the only centers that provided chinese activities. we serve 1 thousand lunches and sometimes that's the only meal they

and a since the opening of the center we've seen thousands of job seekers and in the past 11 months we've had close to 8 thousand visits.

we have 5.2 percent unemployment rate in san francisco it doesn't include the long-term job seekers who have been out of work for two years. there are also job seekers who come through citywide looking for work and the challenge is some of them lack marketable skills. so the more skills they have - i urge you to continue our support of workforce programs so communities and neighborhood and san franciscans can thrive i

appreciate your support. thank you >> good morning supervisors. my family and alive in chinese town and at this time it's getting harder and harder to find housing. as family we face those problems. everyday i thank you for your continue support to s r o famili families. other things are difficult. i have the chance to come together with other families and we can improve our living conditions together. please fund family housing thank you. >> i think you look nothing

like ross. >> hello (speaking foreign languag

language). >> thank you. i'm a with the family living in chinatown. us people in s r o we often face a lot of problems in the building. if the building the roof leaks and i remember that they were really, really hot. my brother and i couldn't sleep in the room. we told the landlord about it

but he didn't do anything he said it's too hot to do anything now so i went to downtown cdc and i got help. i hope i will continue to support those kinds of programs to bring code enforcement to buildings like ourselves and continue to take care of our families and buildings >> thank you. >> good morning supervisors. i'm ms. chu from the community center. i would like to speak for our collaboratives. thanks for the funding we have been able to work with a lot of families. and the mission and tenderloin and south of market and chinato

chinatown. we're happy to know that a lot of us are working with residents inside the building and they became leaders in the building we have tenant leaders. i hope if there's funding possible we can expand the part where we can build up more lisp and we could do a lot of things for safety in case of disasters. it's coming and we don't know where were the next earthquake will be but we could do a firm foundation thank you.

. how do you evaluate without asking flesh and blood people are their needs being made yes. i know that will take a lot of work that's why they call it a job but you get paid for. i'll be knocking on your doors if you have a few minutes i'd appreciate it reverend drummer i have to get to in services and i wonder how i got into this disabled and elderly crowd but i did >> good morning supervisors. i'm part of the resource

collaborative i work with the mission and tenderloin. i'll hear to support that you support the housing and all our neighborhoods we work with a lot of low income families. we're not going to be able to help all the families. that's all bye bye >> good morning. supervisors and my name is dr. harold. i'm the pastor of a church. i've been there 17 years. i'm here as executive director and i want to press our appreciation to supervisor avalos. for the past three years the community center hat struggled

with a minimum budget and a skeleton staff just two half time staff we provided a multitude of services. we have 70 folks coming at the end of the month. we submitted a grant and we thought it was approved but not for the amount we requested and we requested $68,000. we're going to request the $20,000 to be added to the grant that we could continue to provide the services. they're not small services we continue to grow in service and those are not just folks who moved into san francisco.

those seniors have lived in the community for the past thirty and 40 years their school bus drivers and teachers and we ask please put $2,000 annually back into our budget so we can continue to provide the services to our community. thank you >> good morning. i'm gail i'm the coordinator of the senior program at the brooklyn community center. i'm not sure when i come to the center if the telephones don't ring i don't know in the phones got cut off. for example, i go to the computer and there's a computer problem

. we'll have a good strong base to continue our jobs >> we want to say we've appeared before the commissioners on aging and both support what we're asking for today. we're asking the supervisors to approve what they already support the $20,000 annual increase in the budget. >> hi good morning. i'm

jennifer i'm the executive director on homelessness. i want to thank san francisco. we are having an infusion that is pushing the heart and - san franciscans have lost their

homes and we must add more subsidies that it is assessable to thetox