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 humane.

i would underscore our certain that c pmc is not including the type type of health needs. we're concerned about the elimination of the psych mental health in the hospital >> we have 5 more speakers so if your name was called. it's a little bit more confusing there's a lot of seniors that are not in the room by it's important to know that $9 million was fund for 19 labs

all over the city for seniors and persons with a disability and that resources has been given to the city of san francisco and now it's up to the city of san francisco to maintain the commuters and if the commuter fwlaeksz the senior center there will be no fund to correct this. just envision user without any technology because the seniors of the tenderloin their technology is in the senior center. thank you >> your name was called next speaker. >> i'm the director of the community services better known

as the center for outcome reach. we might be ground zero for the substance year but year after frigging year i come to fight for our services. those services are support by general opportunity dollars and every year i have to fight to get those funds restored. the increases to health care for my staff i've cut two positions in the last 3 years at the same time the total number of clients that are active right now i have fewer statistical to see fewer people i'm going too fast those same cuts this year and i'll

have to eliminate two more positions. i need those services. anything who knows that the tenderloin needs fewer services needs to come down and avail themselves. >> i'd like to personally invite supervisor kim to come down and see our program. every year we get outstanding service recognition. i'm getting too old for this. thank you >> i'm amber i'm representing the agency of the services.

also representing of which we're a part and i'd like to invite everyone up from can services. i'm going to handicap to over because i would like you to hear from some of the people who use your services >> in 2345079 i was homes and sanctuary for 2 hundred and 80 days and i heard from services how wonderful they were. when i got there there was a whole lot more to a community center there's a host of the people from all walks of life and it is a community. where they get together and

their daung and partying together to be selfish the commuter lab is wonderful i don't want to see that cut. years ago there was 7 males a week then 6 males a week and now 5 males a week so, please don't cut it anymore. >> good evening. i'm tony one of the first places i respect was to the cbs food program. i'd like the mayor's office to increase funds for them. i'm going to be unselfish.

>> actually your two minutes are up. thank you so much for everyone to come we're almost at the end of our program we have two more speakers rocky and reverend woods. greetings i'm master woods from the church and i'm chairman of the new african folks. it gives me great pleasure and pride to introduce the new african - housing or job

sdrimgsz the new african-american congress dedicates itself. we pledge to help the the new african-american congress is here to serve and stay. we are a collaborative of 15 different agencies to dub patch to the mission to the western addition to lake view side. today you will hear us and we hope you'll become pro-active with the people.

we endorse some of the greater programs and we here geej the supervisor in the one stop center in the western edition to help the people find meaningful employment to the african-american congress is here. >> rocky? >> excuse me. how you doing london? i grew up with london bridge and out of the control project and it's such a pleasure to see her

come so far to take part in the cities and counties government. i'm a life skills facilityor and a proud member of the new african-american congress. i've worked with homes population over 10 years and i've worked with young adults to help them get back into society. i'm an original member of get out of control gang members it was an operation called operation contact. when the program lost it's funding the three to four years it took to get new funding we

group. i'm not saying this program would have stopped did rise of gangs but i started selling drugs because i had nothing else to do and everybody else around me was doing the same thing. i know with a program that tracks kids from 8 to 18 that helps studying and gives them something to do after school it will improve countless lives. san francisco, california prove to are - to be a model program. this will show immediate results

and i hope the new african-american congress can help with the financial so for the but in the meantime, i ask the san francisco city to continue to fund it. thank you so much. >> well, that concludes the public comment portion thought i want to thank everybody on the street and in the overflow room and out in the hall it effects everybody from the poorest to the richest and we have to advocate for those things we need. again if you were not called and you filled out a call the supervisors will be getting those comment cards and i'm going to hand it over to

supervisor farrell. >> thank you, thank you all for coming out tonight. your comments are going to be take a look at. i want to go over the budget process. basically, we're down to the last 2 1/2 months so our budget director are going to be putting together the budgets to the board of supervisors. it will be submitted during the month of june the board of supervisors will be debating about the budget and feel free to join us. and weerlg to have a flet backed budget by the end of june to be

voted on in july. if you want to be heard please come on wednesday and 10 o'clock and 1 o'clock. >> thank you as supervisor farrell said this is not the last opportunity london dot breed my aids are here and you know talk to them apparently i want to hear from the commitments in my districts. this short time period is a sample of the larger issues we have in the city and i want to know about them. please end us an e-mail or call

us. we're going to be making some serious budget decisions and i want to make sure your voices are heard. i want to emphasize public housing is to me and it's great to see him here. we grew up and i want to thank the mayor for making housing that's priority in the city. so thank you so much for being here and actress i want to thank everyone for coming out. just in the youth cards alone we had 60. i'm really proud i tried to pick from board categories we have a lot of seniors and youths and

from a board range of cuts from mental health to hiv and we've heard about homeless and i shelters and dropping programs. but i did look through all the cards i got a real good sense of who came out tonight. i hold office hours twice a month please continue to come over the next month. thank you. (clapping) >> okay we're not going to close out the budget until we've read every single card.

i'm going to make sure our staff look at every one of those for the time you gave us tonight. i want to thank the mayor's office to put this ail together and christen thank you very much. tonight you've seen the cameras so those of you who had the opportunity to speak thank you for behaving. we've got a lot of work to do we're going to work for you to make sure this budget and this very, very city becomes and stays successful for every one of you. appreciate our time.

>> i tried to think about this room as the dream room, where we dream and bring some of those dreams to life. i feel very blessed that i have been able to spend the last 31

years of my life doing it my way, thinking about things better interesting to me, and then pursuing them. there are a lot of different artists that come here to work, mostly doing aerial work. kindred spirits, so to speak. there is a circus company that i have been fortunate enough to work with the last couple of years. i use elements of dance and choreography and combine that with theater techniques. a lot of the work is content- based, has a strong narrative. the dancers have more of a theatrical feel. i think we are best known for our specific work. in the last 15 years, spending a lot of time focusing on issues that affect us and are related

to the african-american experience, here in the united states. i had heard of marcus shelby and had been in join his work but never had the opportunity to meet him. we were brought together by the equal justice society specifically for this project. we were charged with beginning work. marquez and i spent a lot of time addressing our own position on the death penalty, our experiences with people who had been incarcerated, family members, friends of friends. pulling our information. beyond that, we did our own research. to create a picture that resonated with humanity.

it is the shape of a house. in this context, it is also small and acts like a cell. i thought that was an interesting play on how these people make these adjustments, half to create home. what is home for these people? the home is their cell. people talk a lot about noise -- very noisy in prisons. that is interesting to me. looking at the communication level, the rise of frustration of being caged, wondering, where does redemption fit into the equation here? [singing]

i think both of us really believe the death penalty is wrong, and is flawed for many reasons. the list is as long as my arm -- about several others. we feel this is important for both of us, personally, to participate in the debate of this issue in a way that we can help people frame it for a conversation.

>> good afternoon and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors land use and economic development committee. i am scott wiener, the chairman of the committee. to my left is supervisor david chiu, a member of the committee and supervisor zane jane will be joining us jortly. i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting today's hearing and our clerk ms. miller.

ms. miller, are there any announcements? >> yes. please silence all electronic items and please submit cards for public comment to the clerk. >> thank you. i want to note that supervisor cohen has joined us. can you please call item one. >> item one is a public utilites commission for the pacific gas & electric company of the watershed lands lands for $2,200. >> so this item is the sale of puc land andisement rights to pg&e. it's in unincorporated san mateo county county. it facilitates gas repairs pg&e is making in the area to install a valve. the purchase price is

2200 for the easement rights to be conveyed to them. the puc commission approved this on april 9. it has a general plan referral dated may 7 showing conformity to the general plan. it has a categorical exemption from ceqa and i am happy to answer any questions about this. >> any questions? okay. i will open it up for public comment. is there any public comment for item one? seeing none public comment is closed. could we have a motion to forward this to the board with recommendation. >> so moved. >> okay. can we take this without objection? that is the order. item two. >> item two is an ordinance to

provide bottle filling stations. >> supervisor chiu is the author of this item. >> thank you mr. chair. i am proud to announce the first of its kind program of clean free drinking water. during my time on the board of supervisors i have been a strong advocate for reducing our addiction to plastic bottled water and i have educated residents about the economic, environmental and health benefits of drinking tap water in san francisco and given our pristine hetch hetchy tap water. people drink enough bottles to go around the world end to end and we have a billion water bottles in the trash takes up valuable space and leaks toxins into the water. all of the bottles take a thousand

years to biodegrade. the ordinance would let drink tap stations be installed where a drinking fountain is required. they can be paired with a combination unit . these drink tap stations would mean more access to the hetch hetchy water and less bottle waste and our tap water is among the economic and healthier drinks available. i want to thank the san francisco puc and the environment of environment and building inspection who have worked with me on the legislation and will support the implementation of this legislation for the contractors and developers. i want to thank staff for their input and i am currently drafting additional legislation to limit the sale of water bottles on businesses

that operate on city facilities and property. this will be coupled with a commitment to access in drinking water throughout the city in public locations. i would like to at this time ask a couple of representatives from city departments to say a few words about the legislation. first i would like to invite up veronica fox from the puc. >> good afternoon supervisors. ms. fox with the sf puc and i wanted to thank supervisor chiu and we have an implementing responsibility specifically to conduct outreach to developers, contractors, building owner bs this legislation and support them in being compliant by making information available about vendors and related information so we're happy to play that role should the board pass this

ordinance. we also are just really excited about this ordinance because we think that it would implement in policy what we have been trying to do programmaticically at the puc for a number of years. it's a real priority for us at the agency to really help all residents and visitors of san francisco to let them know where their water comes from and how it's some of the cleanest water in the nation that we have and also to promote access so in 2010 we launched the global tap initiative which created these bottle filling stations in public spaces and in 2011 we began a partnership with the school district and with the department of public health to put these drink tap stations in schools. it's been a very successful program. supervisor chiu joined us for the launch of one of those in chinatown. we have done that in eight schools

so far. we have another 30 that will be making available so it's tremendously success, excited that the policy will scale that kind of work and i think you received communication about this but our citizen's advisory committee support this is ordinance as well. >> thank you ms. fox and i neglected to mention as was mentioned the fact is we already have drink tap stations right now in a number of our highly trafficked parks. if you go to terminal three at sfo and the international terminal you will find taps there. if you go to the swrool, the academy of the sciences and a number of our cutting edge schools these drink taps exist. we're asking as new buildings are created we will put these into those buildings and i would like to acknowledge mr. rodriquez from the department of the environment to