us from kindergarten through fifth grade. i want to thank you. the opportunity hope i will restore our program. thank you >> i'm the founder of inner city youth. over our tenure we have seen many of our folks lose their lives to prison. this forces inner city youth on a mall program to a one stop. in 2013 and 2016 d c y inner city youth receives a 55 cut to

our program. it's our opinion that a reduction in our program would have a disproportion at. most of our folks are drop outs from school live with their grandparent. the most significant population we serve is they are very likely to be incriminating crime. this helps us to reengage our clients education and careers were receive coaching from professionals and since march we have focused on motivation to

excellent achievement. we try to help other young black man's. it's a strategy we have in response to gang violation. a reduction in this program will interrupt our ability to help folks >> thank you, very much. i'm going to call more names. (calling names). please come forward we're running a little bit definitely late here so the next meeting will be delayed.

>> i been in this program for a year. funding for this program is important to me it gave me many opportunities. i started out with volunteering every thursdays and soon i got involved in this program. i made many friends from different schools and a different grades. i started to billed envy confidence and i'm more open like about understanding my community and also i'm very proud of adjoining this program. everyday is a day i look forward to spending my time with them. i hope i fund our program >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. we back again with the inner city youth we're talking about

create save streets for our children. we're trying to do violence intervention. without intervention we wouldn't were going to help kids get out of trouble we need the invention intervention programs. we want some of the youth to say - >> my name is i didn't. we clean up around the neighborhood and that's basically, it. we've got studio time

>> i'm michael and for the past 3 years we clean up in the community and meet imply people. there are times i met people i never thought i could go. i thank the program for being here >> thank you >> i'm with the center for the wellness. i'm here to support the family and urge you to restore the funding for the girls. bay view hunters family has provided a safe haven for girls to be future leaders in the

community. they - we need the reextortion of fund because they're the most at risk through the trauma in their homes and community. once in a while i urge you to restore the program to the past level. thank you >> thank you very much next speaker please and good morning i come here today speaking on behalf of the legacy program by african-american folks. those advocate for the community change and believe that no child

should be left behind >>. and saw the needs of the black and brown child. i stand here a product that works. and continuing to - excuse me. carrying and a dynamic staff at the center. i stand here today representing a 80 kids who have been kicked out of the school. kids that need more than a pickup from school they also need save passage home. and parents who need - they can't arrive late to pick up

their kids. youth first is that help. the youth first program has met every workshop and passed every site visit and completed every survey. i stand here today asking you to make a change to that decision to help me give voice to the youbtd at risk in our community. we want our future save first now. >> let me call some more speakers. those are the last ones i have. if there's monthly who wants to

speak please feel free to join the speaker line >> good afternoon. on may 16th the board of supervisors presented an award to this teacher. she was recognized on behalf of the youth of san francisco for piloting outreach programs and projects involving parents and students. the board acknowledged how the students have benefited as the first, he elementary school council. it included for we're grateful for the service. two of her most consecutive pie and we'd and feed were started in her own neighborhood and has served as a foundation for the

annoy youth first and after school program until here death last year she continued to support which was defunded last year. if my mother were here today she'd be standing here necklaces to me representing 4 generations. she helped to enrich the lives of the children and parents of san francisco. so today, i'm asking for a small birthday present and asking d c y f to reconsider the defunding of the i did not get first program. thank you >> thank you. >> good afternoon i'm heather

frank. we have an program that's been funded by d cf so i was surprised on friday we would no longer be ref the fund. we serve hundreds of kids from all over san francisco. this is coming hard on the heels of the cuts to transportation to after school programs. we've spent $100,000 this year without the programs we've reached outs to the washington community center so we could transport their kids, too.

so i hope that the d c y f reconsiders thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi i'm kimberly i'm currently a senior i'm the president of the adopt an alleyway i have been in the youth program for had years. i've had a lot of use physical workshop. some of them helped me to learn a lot more about colleges. i've learned a lot about the chinatown community. in the adopt an alleyway when we

bring seniors to different places we help. we did alleyway clean up and put things to work better. i helped planned events. this is really important to me i learned a lot of new skills. even though i'm graduating this year i hope the funds will continue. i have grown so much in the program. thank you >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm with the china development center. for over 20 years we've been developing leaders.

our goal is to foster the social responsibility of our youth that the youth helped design. our youth leadership program began with 8 youth who saw a better need for the alleyways. sing then argue i did not recollect program has grown under the adopt an ailing program and you just heard from our leaders. and we're extremely proud of them and the work we do to build our youth leader. we support lots of folks in

chinatown into 0 programs for kids living there and a oergs. we provided intensive support to build the leadership skills and they new turn recruit volunteer youth to help more than 5 hundred low income residents. many of our youth alumni come back to help. but the youth program while it continues to grow we've been receiving city cuts for the past 5 years. for the past 5 years >> thank you. >> and now we urge you reconsider restoring our

funding. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon. as most of you know that the youths don't receive the funding pr the point to thank you specifies and want to recognize the young people and parents who have come out to speak. including the amounts requested and previously fund program and jirnd, neighborhood and district. three years ago, the controller raefsz a report it did an analysis of the agency we we

want a broad analysis of how young people are impacted by those decisions. >> good afternoon. i'm from the the youth single program. in chinatown including bridging the generation grasp and providing the kline town to bring the seniors and safety awareness and also providing an opportunity for youth and training especially the youth from low income family and immigrants. as an only child i really appreciate that the city has supported me to become nor o more brave for myself and at any

point to be more confident of myself. as a group we have applied for different grants. and in chinatown we try to lead programs signatures programs that provide seniors to learn new technology. we start this youth program i would have spent my time at home and not get involved in the community issues pardon i hope i who don't have much in leadership that you will come together and improve the community together to have more youth benefits >> thank you i was the

president of the youbt of single occupancy. i'm a bilingual youth and i've been in this program. the reason i stay in the program for 4 years it provides resources for college information and job opportunities. i love how people become successful to go to the college they want to go. i am in the program because i have learned the courage to be here. i worked from fema we're doing the bilingual independence workshop to first names in

chinatown. and i'm glad i had the chance to show my public speaking skill. i hope you can restore the funding and help youths like me >> thank you very much any other members of the public wish to commit? i want our city attorney supervisor alluded to it and i appreciate everybody citing we saw a lot of them at the counsel u town hall the other night but we do have legal restrictions rewarding city departments what cb os to fund.

so we will understand how it works >> john deputy city attorney the charter provides that they can't interfere with the separation of powers they have the ability to make decisions about how to award the fund but the board makes the policy decisions about what the priorities is of the department will be. so it is appropriate for the board to look at how different communities are being served and allocate funding and priorities to serve at the different community in the cities but the

board can't cut the funding for particular entities. >> thank you, mr. city attorney. colleagues any more comments? seeing none? can we continue this to those the call of the chair? >> i have a request after the school that some folks are coming forward - >> this rfp what direction for youth and leadership empowerment. the next one will be violence intervention. we just pled the distribution o.

thank you so much >> colleagues if there's no other complilts can i have a motion to assign the college here? mr. clerk call item number one. >> appropriating 5 hundred and 39 million to over time and 39 thousand million consisting of permanent salaries and in benefits in the fire department's operating budget in order to support the firefighters over time requests. >> let's hear from the fire

department. >> good afternoon. today as you know we're here to request a reallocation of our budget. as a result of the legislation that was passed in 2011 we have to come before you. within its own budget as now as i said we here to formerly request the offer time fund. technically it's considered - it's simple a transfer thought of of funds from salary due the overtime. just a little bit of a background of your offer time. it's used to meet our mandatory

staffing requirement and it is filled with regularly scheduled he individuals and salaries or offer minded. over time has been used for its fiscal and operation efficiency. the department is a consulted with the. the way to reduce overtime would be to hire additional personnel into the field we did have 18 hundred members now we have lost 4 hundred positions and obviously we've had to rely on

overtime. the department budgets for over all staffing level using a combination of regular saliva depending upon the staffing level it can be seasonal. we have as i said seen a high-level of overtime including this year based on our staffing level. we have 4 additional personnel per day and that added to our staffing. we've seen lower staffing which requires more high u