so you can come to them. look at how many people are out here today so this is not the only place so come and speak at the board on wednesday >> the chief has asked everyone to stand who's sitting here. so what i'm going to do is call the first 5 names. if i've called your names come up and get ready. but so the first name is:

(calling names) please come up and line up. if you came with a group your group can come and stand with you not everyone will have a chance to speak just the person called. >> good evening everyone thank you for this opportunity. we all >> can't hear you. >> good evening everyone. thank you so much for this opportunity. it's great to see all our city officials we all love san francisco isn't that right? i'm representing the african-american congress which

is a group in the san francisco to organize our issues in the western division. i came back from a national conference on the domestic violence. how many minutes? 2? one? the bottom line is we need funding for the women who have lost their children in violence and we need more funds for the other program we noticed in philadelphia the da's office, police department, public defender, the investigator for the police department the person who does it in the homicide division were meeting on a weekly basis to adjust the

murders that were happening and it gives us the opportunity that they've be a united effort to get the community involved to solve some of those murders. we're all citizens and we not all of our children to be safety. we have an issue around children in the sex trade and they're going to the high schools and recruit our children and we need to protect our babies. thank you (clapping) >> hi everybody i'm a resident of treasure island i've been involved in my community.

my feat is infrastructure so our infrastructure structures what about resolved to support of the variety of businesses and the government entities that san francisco is able to support and i didn't treasure island is a part of san francisco. there are a number of issues one is cell phone reception. there are a number of places that we can't get cell phone reception. when reporting crime it puts us at risk and we're prone to outages we still have black outs and disruption in service. besides being inventory this

increases our damages to our equipment. our i didn't f doesn't work very well. we have low income folks who could benefit from this. if we're going to be out there for another 10 years we need this repaired. there's so much more i could say but i'm out of time. thank you >> (clapping) >> hi good evening first, i'm a parents. i want to acknowledge the staff and families that are here in our communities that in districts 6. >> hello, i'm keith i'm a

parents of a michael who participants in the after school programs. i recently found out the budget was going to be cut and for those of you who are not familiar with this program it's the only filipino after hours activity group. i've had my son in this program we've fought every year to keep the funding and deepening the staff that has represented those young people i want to ask you to take a serious look at the program and consider restoring the final side that have been

cut (clapping) >> hello mayor. thank you guys i i want to start off i'm in representing the youth commission. i want to talk about summer jobs plus and how it would effect our city as the 6 thousand position that are available for our youth and if implemented correctly it would impact the city i know i need a job going to school. and i'm personally feeling about the justification around the whole city please encourage to

get more funding into the housing industry. and i'm telling the youth to come to our meeting we're i did not get that are trying to among a different and we'll support you. (clapping) >> thank you so much don is he close. i'm to a call a few more names you can line up in the front (calling names) if you can line up in the front.

>> good evening guys i'm sorry i mean sir. i mean good evening. i'm adrian williams i'm the executive director of the village project and i'm going to read this to get it all in. but for the past 8 years the project has supported business or so of the western edition and the city of san francisco. we support the children in subsidized housing we have provided services over our 89 years most of the support of collaboration and with the help of divorce. additionally we have helped to

feed the communities hungry and trying to strive in our communities we also provide 5 families activities every year a and a senior promise for the 50 plus and a bash can you to kickoff the summer. though the funding was small it allowed us to give over 45 children activities including literacy and math sessions we tapped we do african dancing the babies ornament think field trips and though we have survived 8 years without funding

is sure did feel good you guys took it back so i'm asking you guys to give it back so we can have one more year of funding. i love you guys i love you. >> i'm randall evans. my family go back 1 hundred and fourteen years but to get started here it should have been a special order of the day around the state of emergency for the black people of san francisco. it's a real serious error we're dealing with and the black folks are not being represented and when you get a shot in the arm and the mayor fires someone in the commissioner level it's time for us for black folks to go

into the room and speak. our folks are a little bit behind. you can put 19 of us in a room and we don't start talking that's serious. there should be a economy that has to do with the people's voice. this is far and deeper than the homeless problem. i put all my brothers where i used to live in good housing sometimes in shelters, you know, there's no crime in that but the problem is you're not listening to us right now the black people in san francisco are in the state of emergency because we

have to good black leadership. that's not to say the people - the sad thing is you've got so many of us who get into office and want to be a consultant. we need to talk about what's going on the ground you have to listen to the people's voice. that's important (clapping) >> thank you. i want to remind everyone that even if our card is not called your cards are going to make it to the supervisors and the mayors is taking notes. and the people that we're calling when you filled in our commitment card you wrote districts 5 and districts 6 on

your card. >> i'm a volunteer organizer and i'm a resident of districts 5 we're here with representatives of mental illness board among others. we're here to ask the mayor if i could. speak to the medical reboard their knowledge a one hundred 20 bid hospital, however, they're still no mention of any mental health beds not a single psych bed. and we're very concerned about that. we understand what it means for the people in our community for fire and please and other

personnel. the non profit gets 1 hundred and something thousands of dollars that we don't get they're the most provenl hospital in the state and that's money that we are spending for care on city workers who get to go to c pmc. we thank our supervisor and if the mayor and staff and public health could please speak to that >> we have two doctors that made it to the overflow room but one-hundred million dollars is a lot of money when that patient it being dumped in the community if the mayor could speak to

that. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> i want to speak up for one of the doctors. >> hi good afternoon. it's a privilege to be able to stand here before you i work with the program that addresses the specific needs of the every growing population in the latino population in the tenderloin. and keith williams. it's a great program that just starred started in november. all the schools in the interpreted lion are bused out

everyday. they have high school students that live next door they don't know. so the program is very wonderful, however, you know, we're a very understaffed it's a program of one me. it's different when you have a bunch of great youth who want to do everything to fund-raise and leadership development and we do imminent service the kids are out there ever month cleaning and not just might have united players and the youth leadership and the ymca the boils and girls clubs are unfortunately very under furntd. also this year we know that

nobody in the districts 6 nobody got the youth empowerment grant and it could be very helpful that he need more summer youth programming. we don't have money to pay for childcare we still have to go to work even though the kids are not in school. thank you for your time >> hello dear family and friends of the y mshlgs c a. we want the youth and parents in tenderloin 6 we need our support. we reach out to the youth in our district and the surrounding

neighborhood to give them the tools for being productive. we provided programs in sports, art, homework assistance, music and environmental studies and youth leaderships outside activities and experiences for healthy living. we teach them their our future leaders. many of the youth that attended come from shelter and underprivileged homes. sometimes we're the avenue for their self-expression and their self-improvements if our music program they can edit their own work and learn the ins and outs.

we teach them to prepare males and they learn healthy eating. just recently, we lost our summer program that menus the youth won't have a place to go for the summer. our attention average attention last summer was 60 youth per day that menus 60 youth will not have a place to go to spend their time over the summer. thank you >> next speaker if you want to come, come this way.

>> good evening everybody. my colleague just spoke of our program we're primarily work with latino communities and i wanted some of our moms to talk to you about their experiences. >> (speaking spanish). >> can't hear you. >> good evening we're here to please ask you don't cut fund from our youths community.

>> i'm a long time tenderloin resident and i'm here on behalf of the neighborhood we need all the programs from 18 and beyond. >> good evening i have 3 young men who i've raised in the tenderloin and it's important that you not cut any programs.

thank you (clapping) >> hi i'm 15 and i'm here to represent oasis for girls. we're a youth service program and oasis impacted me by helping me liability myself from systems of oppression. girls get oppressed everyday by media. this helped me find myself and all those ladies here we're all a family. await this program i wouldn't

ever have girlfriends because girls can be so mean. this is a safe place for girls to support each other and build skills to realize dreams. we learn a lot of things like healthy things to help us like save sex and safe relationships and we learn self-defense two to be a stronger woman (clapping) >> another person in line?

there are some seats here in the front i think some of the folks have left. i'm going to call the next 5 people and this will be the last 5 group but amber carol from district 5 - i think i missed the name here sorry. (calling names) so i'm sorry. (calling names) and again, you you haven't filled out a comment card those comments will make to to the

supervisors in the department head your comments will still b.

>> if we could mayor the dot comeers to cover and train our seniors and i think there's a big group in the back thank you for your time and hard work. >> glg mayor lee and supervisors. >> let's be respectful of the gentleman speaking right now. thank you >> thank you (speaking spanish)

supervisor kim and (speaking spanish) please keep us

connected we need the money desperately thank you. >> san francisco network ministries i've been working in the tenderloin. we operate the tenderloin technology lab with the foundation. and i want to speak on behalf of the keep us connected campaign. we're very aware of the disabled

elderly in the tenderloin but throughout the city. this would help them reduce their isolation and help them to find the resources they need to stay i healthy. i want to speak about a increase in funding for the abuse programs. they have run a residential safe house for women trying to get out of prostitution. we're concerned about the substance abuse treatments for those woman's. to reduce those programs of mental health and substance abuse promise is not