you will allocate the add back that we provided it could be cutting back across all programs as opposed to just the funding. this is the first time i have seen this presentation. >> had to circle back on the comments made, on the same token, i think the natural reaction is clearly the priority of the board to have added those services back. i understand the department's point of view. holly issued a competitive process. how do we not hold true to the competitive process?

i think the but could be constructive, if there are certain unrecognized needs, given the significant cuts that we were assuming we're going to be carried by other areas of the city, who is there inappropriateness to reevaluating some of those priorities. it could be perhaps a constructive conversation to have. i just wanted to know if you cannot elaborate a bit. a lot of the conversation was around the summer programs because i think there was a conversation around summer school and not having it available. there is a big response to say, what can we do to augment and provide activities for youth to do in the summertime? i wonder if that is why some of the funding is driven towards

violence prevention and youth leadership. is that why some of that was driven that way? >> maybe i will take the violence prevention question first. it will be to restore a 11% cut. we decided to make a 30% cut. we did that with all of the prevention providers in the room. we gave them several options and we all landed at this particular option. it shows the $1.5 million to a violence prevention. that is to restore the a 11% cut that we made to each of the providers. that is what it looks like. for the programs, because of the

general fund production, a lot of these programs went to the supervisors and requested a restoration of funds. supervisor chiu: is that the extent of your conversation? supervisor wiener: just following up on the comments and being more specific to what i said before, i know my predecessor was very supportive of insuring funding there. and so on by.

in my district, not only do we have a lot of youth in need, but we end up, when you don't have anywhere to go for things to do, we have problems in the neighborhood and conflict that result in an unrealistic law- enforcement expectations or unnecessary conflict. one of the reasons why i think supervisor dufty and myself as well feel concern about the cuts. it must've been an unaware the program and it was just some supervisor's pet project. i just want to make sure for

everyone involved, to dispel that. these are very important programs. >> i don't believe that these programs are unworthy. i believe that they are really great programs. to our community partners, if we had more money or the dollars, at the end of the day, there is always a number that we have to reach. it is very unfortunate. i hear you loud and clear. given the economic situation, there has to >> you have not made any dishes inject about whether this is the 10% contingency that you would be accepting. -- you have not made any

decisions yet about whether this is the 10%. >> we have not made any decisions about what portion of the proposals we will have to accept in order to balance. as we have discussed, we are in a process of talking to a lot of people including members of the committee about priorities and thoughts on these proposals. some of the ideas we have heard over just this discussion are some of the things we have had conversations about. we are going through the process led by the mayor's office that is parallel to processes that have been led by the department and the advisory committees to actually have some discussions

with the providers and take a look at the program rationale for the proposals and get some feedback on those proposals. there is quite a bit of decision making to do as we look at the trade-offs that we need to do before we look at decisions that will be in the mayor's office. we hope we will have your feedback as well. >> if that concludes the presentation and we don't have any current questions, i would like to open this up for public comment.

>> i am here to speak about the services for lgbt youth. we did apply. the contract represented what we received for the lgbt youth. the traditional services were not available for funding.

it is not that our services were not valued, not that we did not get great scores, it is because we were not eligible to apply for funding. it is important to note that the only recourse we had was to go to the board of supervisors. currently, that is completely eliminated in the budget. we are back at a 73% reduction in services. a complete elimination of our traditional route services.

357 cuts and our center services. to put this in context, -- has seen in 8% reduction in the funds. there is a disproportionate impact on lgbt youth. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i would like to elaborate more about the impact that this complete elimination on the traditional services will have on our program. by eliminating this program, approximately 300 homeless youth will lose access to critical services increasing their susceptibility to dependency,

increase risk of violence, suicide, s t d infection. all due to the erosion of the safety net services. i would like to thank supervisor wiener for talking about the impact that this would have to. the fact that lgbt young people come to this area seeking to realize their gender identity. san francisco is a very challenging place for them to find housing and jobs. many have ended up on the streets, about 40%. it is difficult for us to provide it the different services. we have come together to form a

network that is dedicated to providing critical service for this population. the other reductions will have an impact on this population. i have prepared some points about the efficacy of our program. i would love to share that with you and i am open to any questions you may have. >> next speaker, please. >> i am a youth worker san francisco lgbt youth center. we are pacing -- facing a

population with negative outcomes and higher rates of truancy which will negatively impact of the school district as well. our services provided through the center, we provide safe spaces for our people in the schools and we increase four confidence and provide training for teachers. one of the problems with our budget cuts is that will negatively impact our ability to provide the safety services. i am really at the cashier to

ask you to work with us to preserve some of the services and make sure that our young people can graduate schools and be academically successful in our city. thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, supervisors and president. i am here represent a partnership for lgbt youth. services in support for have been the prioritized in various funding cycles. much of the 750,000 annual investment to close critical service gaps by the city back in 2006 reference to earlier by

supervisor wiener has already been cut. the community partnership formed in 2005 has worked hard to build and continuing -- for young people. this faces a 70% reduction in city funding when analyzed over three years. the needs of marginalized you start increasing. close to 300,000 funding support workforce development and case management. this is currently at risk. we request that the board of supervisors take a stand to preserve the last of the city's

investment to support marginalize used. in particular, funding to make sure that they have access to jobs and as a result, self- sufficiency. support for effective work for services. with the aforementioned reductions, we need a minimum of 150,000 to maintain the program through our training program. with focus investment now, the city is able to recognize the failure to support the use -- youth. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am 22 years old. i am member of the clear youth community.

-- queer youth community. i have gained abundant support a through use at the city -- through youth advocacy. we have been doing out reach, a fed planning, designing, with other youth. lyric has provided me with moral support and a safety net. we hope that you will stand an advocate for rest. thank you. -- we hope that you will stand and advocate for us. >> good afternoon, supervisors.

when early care and education dollars were shifted through the general fund, each share was reduced to 7% of the children's fund down to the original 20%. we were strong in advocating for child care. when the economy was good, a lot of the dollars invested in child care came from the general fund. when the plan was first created, -- share was 24%. now this is down to 7%. if you see the biggest number of populations of young children, this is -- get the investment is disproportionate.

it is critical that we save the child care from hemorrhaging and many of you have heard from yesterday's of that that we're getting a lot of cuts from the state. -- from yesterday's event that we are getting a lot of cuts from the state. we heard that the children's fund might be getting an increase this year and we urge you to strongly consider putting more into child care to put equity into the fund because they are what this fund is for. thank you. >> thank you. >> i am here representing asian women's shelter. they're finding supports one of the most vulnerable segments of the population. the children survivors of and witnesses to domestic violence.

this finding is one of the few sources of funding specifically designated for our children's program. while other government grants specifically grant from this city, that supports this work that is also in danger. this also serves the needs of adult survivors. we crated their programs to prioritize and recognize the unique needs of children exposed to violence. we understand they are healing and recovering from trauma and they require support specifically tailored to their developmental needs. we served children ranging from newborns to teenagers and 13 different teenagers. we help one child who live in such fear in his home that when he arrived, he did not speak to

anyone. it took a long time to gain his trust and show him and his mother that they were truly safe. the day that he first left the shelter, his mother cried. we had another child, she was only too happy to be given the opportunity to be a kid and she lit up the entire shelter during her stay. we had another child who began to exhibit signs of regression and needed an immediate intervention. all three children have moved on with their mothers and they are thriving in their new lives. these children can rebuild -- i want to end by saying that these transformations that we witnessed every day in the shelter cannot be possible without the support of -- and without the board of supervisors continued advocacy.

we hope that you'll continue to recognize our population as and underserved population. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the president of the boys and girls club of san francisco. i wanted to speak for just the second. there was questions that were coming about. to me, all of these are not equal. the idea of going along and saying that they will all go out has been set a lot. this is been going into the budget with a butcher's knife and not a scalpel. -- lost 62% of their funding last year. it wound up coming back through john avalos's advocacy.

this is a bad idea to go and cut in this way. if you look closely at some of these items, i don't know how they will look at their 20% reduction. if you look at our contract and then did the add back, the boys and girls clubs are looking at a 40% reduction from the city where we are seeing more and more kids every day. looking at them as one universal cut is a bad idea. >> i am the clubhouse director for the treasure island club house which is one of nine

clubhouses. the clubhouse is that we are and are in low income communities and the boys and girls club is a huge hub. this will dramatically impact us. i am on treasure island and we're the only program for school-age children. we have about 400 members a year. families really of -- rely on us for home health, a healthy lifestyle, and helping them, even our teenagers use the vocational services. we really tried to provide a program for our parents because they rely on us. we will be cutting back on opening our programs, reducing how many kids we can surf.

in the summer, we serve about 1600 members. we will have to cap these and what will do to our communities. i will ask that you think about these cutbacks. that is what we're talking about, the youth and families, they are the future. >> thank you. >> i am the director in the western mission. specifically, i want to talk about what type of impact, how this will affect us directly. this would essentially mean that we would have to cut primarily like ours. this would provide for a lot. we had to cut the program that was in half. the way that we thought was that it was using some of the funding

that we got this year to provide the children to our teams that are high risk teenagers. it has been a very successful program. we have been averaging over 10 a week. they are really starting to turn their lives around and show some academic success. we are really trying to do our best to try to take the hit and try to keep doing what we're supposed to be doing at the local level and we really appreciate it. we're looking for ways to lessen the impact or the hits we have to take at the local level. >> thank you. >> we are here with a mission learning center.

we are here because there was cut propose to after-school programs that were added back and they threatened to close our program and might even threaten our entire organization. despite the fact that we were added back, we were a program that has been a huge help to children in san francisco. i want to tell you about why it is important that we stay. our students come to us reading up to three or four years behind the grade level in school. these are still does that have been left further and further behind by the regular classes. at the mission learning center, they began to succeed. we are here today to ask you to please find progressive ways to

raise revenue instead of balancing our budget by taking from those who need them most. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. -- it is a really wonderful place. when it was my first date, i did not know my reading and i had really bad grades. i started to get better grades a. i really needed help with my reading. one day, i will be a teacher. >> thank you. that was very good. >> i'm going to translate. i'm not the best translator. please be patient.

that afternoon, and -- good afternoon, my name is -- i come to represent the nation community. -- the mission community. the reason i'm here is to ask you to continue to support our program. this is really good help for my child with her reading. this is the only program in the area of the mission. we don't want that it should close. we hope that you help us not only in our program but