behalf of the board of directors, our volunteers and the members who benefit from their participation in next village san francisco, and quite honestly if our members account could drive themselves here and park and wait in the chambers to testify they probably wouldn't be our members. this is a national movement to provide alternatives to seniors as they want to age in place and we're one of five villages in the country and there are 20 in progress. we are located in district 3 with some of the highest density of population of seniors in the city and we try to provide them with the confidence to live safely and happily in their homes. we pride ourselves as a model and

we meet those needs before we vet them out to a provider and we provide transportation, medical appointments and assistance with shopping and carrying groceries in and minor home repairs. things of daily living that is a challenge to them as they age. our work is preventive in nature and we work on isolation of members and we're a great alternative to people that will put demand on city services and we respectfully request that you continue the funding that you gave to us this past year so we can add new members, grow our volunteer base and respond to the needs in this changing demographic landscape. also i brought about 150 postcards with me to share with you too. thank you.

>> good afternoon. my name is laura poppy. i'm a resident of san francisco and officer at the new conservatory center which i am proud to represent and advocate on behalf of today. it's bay's area for lgbt art institution. we offer programs and since 1986 has used theater to address many of the current issues of today. for the past three decades youth aware brought anti-bullying education and messages of non violence to thousands of students across san francisco public schools, community centers and social

service facilities. through youth aware we are building a safer and equitable community for us all. we're are supporting supervisor campos and the mayor's antilgbt bullying efforts and to demonstrate this i want to share a letter written by a san francisco middle school student who saw "out spoken" a play that we did and explores issues. i am sylvia and in the eighth grade and my hair is purple and half is saved off. i have been having issues and sexually oriented issues and after seeing "out spoken" i appreciate today so much. i could connect to many of the

things in it. it didn't dissolve my problems or find solutions but opened my eyes. everyone has problems including me. i just needed a hand. so many other it is out there do too. keep doing what you're doing. in closing i want to say that every person has the inherent right to be who they are without the fear of isolation and we can support the lgbt violence prevention efforts, reinforce the district's implementation of restorative practices and build a safer community for us all. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is lori and the development director for asian development design a 40 year old

architecture and green construction training non nonprofit. we are part of a broad base coalition of dozens of work force providers here in the city advocating for a more coordinated work force development system for people with barriers with employment. we appreciate the efforts of the mayor and rhonda simpsons and others to support our work and our coalition is requesting 1.2 million of support for basic skills development to people with barriers so that they can develop the skills they need to obtain and maintain job and employment. we respectfully ask for your support for this important request. since 1978 asian neighborhood design has trained over 2600 at risk lo income individuals from under served communities in green

construction training, corpently, and cabinet tree and solar panel installation. we service many residents every year and they gain skills in sustainable building, life skills, ged preparation and wrap around services. we are the de facto job provider for the green train academy. it cost $6,500 a year to train these at risk youth in our program versus hundreds of thousands of dollars to incarcerate one of them. we recently celebrated our 40th year serving communities of risk here in san francisco and without your funding our program is in danger of closing our doors. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please.

>> good afternoon budget and finance. clear the decks. light the city lights. we got nothing to hit but the budget highs. you will be great. you will be swell. everything's coming up roses for the city garden. it was good to see chris daly. good to see chris daly. we can't going to take this anymore. we ain't going to take this, all the money took so long to make it. we ain't going to take it. we're going to rake it in. we're going to take the money that they get and we're going to surely rake it. we're going to make it and we're going to take it some more. yes, and don't forget one last thing -- don't forget please the budget,

the budget. downtown where all the budget lights are bright. downtown the budget is waiting for you tonight. downtown and the budget money is waiting for you. downtown we're going to have more downtown and it's going to be budget all around. think budget downtown. . [cheers and applause] >> all right. thanks. i'm going to ask everyone we have protocol in these board chambers not to be clapping after speakers. you can waive your hand in support otherwise we will never get out of here so next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is ben and i run the

code enforcement outreach program also known as [inaudible] and housing clinic. we are funded by the department of building inspection. we are designated in various neighborhoods and my coverage area is primary tenderloin and south of market. we work with landlords and tenants to remedy issues and make sure housing is up to code. the program is for tenants and the landlord to address the issues and abate the violations instead of an inspector come out and we do workshops and training to the community. we provide mediation between landlords and tenants mitigating cases before forwarding them. the reason i am here today is ask for more support and resources for the program along with my other partners. with the extra funding we can expand in the hope of increasing staff and

language capacity for management of case loads and providing outreach since i am the only one staff person. within the last three years of working here i see more families moving into the tenderloin and south of market so it would be great to have funding to support us. there are still a lot of tenants in the community that need our services and landlords who are not aware of this program and that both parties will benefit in the long run so thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is patty and organizing director [inaudible] and oversee the program and i am here just to ask for additional funding to support the program to expand it. i have been working in the tenderloin and south of market for the last four years and seen increasing number of families

moving into the neighborhood and we want to basically use the extra funding to support and outreach more families in the neighborhood. i am also a member of seiu 1021 and i am asking for your support for getting cost of doing business for raises for all nonprofit workers in the city. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> how are you doing? my name is donald l boyd and organizer at the mission collaborative and i am here on behalf of this group. i think cop need more funding because dan works by himself. he needs more work and i think all the nonprofits need more money and mission and chinatown. i also think that we shouldn't be using city funds for billionaire's yachts and we should be using the money for a

new shelter, expanding the shelter system, and the over night drop in center. since i have been in san antonio i was homeless -- speaking out for the home silence my number one issue and we need funding for the homeless also. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. i am josh and i work for the mission collaborative on dolores street and have been for the past five years. i support everything i have heard so far. i feel like there has been -- you know in years past my heart has been broken by listening to the community -- so many good community programs come and fight over the left over crumbs and i am more hopeful with the state of our budget and i am hopeful that the board of supervisors will pass a

principled budget that preflekts our values and really looks out for some of the low income communities here in san francisco. i talk about low income communities because i hear folks talks about sro's as affordable housing and that's something i don't subscribe to and i am trying to change the way i speak about it. housing is not affordable and it's $800 and your income is 932 a month. affordable housing when you 8910 room and basically paying $10 per square foot plus. that's not affordable housing but regardless it's the housing that is available for a chunk of people in san francisco, and our goals are to improve that housing and to build community within those communities of people. we have been doing a lot of work in the mission sro collaborative, in all of the

neighborhoods where the collaboratives work, and there are basically two things happen. we are seeing increase need that we need to respond to and we're seeing our funding stay the same so we need to make hard choices. in the past when we had the tobacco free money and other sources we were able to work on the city's 311 system, setting up a complaint system and tenants could place complaints with the city and this we cannot do without additional funding. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is jeb and i'm the outreach coordinator at the woman's clinic. we ask for support for our request for funding to do outreach in public housing in the western and mission district. we are also a member of the mission sro collaborative. with only a shoe string budget identification of

the mission and increased need it's difficult to provide direct services that we offer. as a western addition based health center we are in a prime position to orient the health field that is holistic, community inclusive and accessible than some of the traditional programs based at larger institutions. with this funding we can provide jobs for community members. focus on providing health information to residents -- [inaudible] by residents and focus around health access and insurance expansion eligibility. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. laura guzman and director of the mission resource center and chair of the local homeless board that represents them. i

have been here 18 years as a nonprofit worker in the city. i will still poor. i have have debt and i can't afford to live in san francisco and i don't care about that anymore and please honor the request for the 4% increase for the workers. i am also here to support our initiatives. we are a member of hesba and grant the 3.8 million to make sure that we have enough homeless prevention to help our families and single adults to find housing. as a board member i can tell you we have a long way to go to have affordable housing and ensure safe and dignified shelter and finally i want you to also please support an initiative by supervisor david campos that i know you have heard already which is support $500,000 and ensure

that san franciscans after health care reform don't have a way to get health care, particularly immigrants and people that don't qualify for reform have a safety net in san francisco. thank you for what you do and a pleasure to meet supervisor farrell and supervisor breed. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. brenda story the director of mission neighborhood health center and we have been in the mission and excessior districts since 1967 serving immigrant community and i am here for the request for the funds and the care of the remaining uninsured and many as you know will be the undocumented and our families that come to the health center they work very, very hard. some of them work two jobs and this job -- they work to support san

francisco. they support the infrastructure of the city and we need to keep them healthy so they provide for us. we need to provide for them. mission neighborhood health center provides care to about 4,000 to 5,000 immigrants who will continue to be uninsured. the city of san francisco is estimating that about 20,000 uninsured will remain. about 25% of the families will continue to come to the health center so we need the city's support in helping us do this work and keeping our communities healthy. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is mark alton and the father of an 11 year old, a teacher at betty carmichael school and a soma resident. i appreciate the opportunity to provide public comment. i have been a student of san francisco

for most of my life, something about this area has always fascinated me. as you craft a budget now please remember what makes the city so great. in addition to the scenery and tourist teakzs it's us, the individuals and families that form its human landscape. as we celebrate our economy and marvel at renewed investment and growth let's insure the budget helps those that want to call san francisco their home. please prioritize the following budget items as you move forward. education and youth development. there's no better way to invest in the future. continue to partner with the schools and organizations that seek to nourish and enrich the lives of our young citizens. affordable housing. in order to maintain diversity in san francisco we must retain a stock of homes with mixed incomes and earning less than six figures. as we

provide incentives for hi tech and medical research let's go the extra mile to have economic and work force development initiatives to support small businesses in the out lying areas like hunter point and the richmond district and the excessior and let's have safe transit. let's increase this area and we need a vision to have a landscape that encourages healthy safe participation. thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is anna martinez and the program director at lyric. we have a handful of our beautiful youth behind me, some of speak afterwards. i want to thanks

supervisors for their support and creating safe schools for youth and the press conference that we are recently. we are here because we need $150,000 to do this initiative. the mayor is giving 75k to focus on these sites. we request the rest from the board of supervisors and ensure that the work at the high school and ground work for the successful model. as some of you know we have 34 hundred gai -- lgbt students and have tracked many issues with these students and this crisis is long standing under addressed affects all youth and requires a greater response. three years ago we launched a ambitious program for climate and developing students and engaging family and staff.

our work creates communities where all students can thrive and our program has been adopted at various schools in the area. we have youth to share about the importance of lgbt programming in our schools. thank you. >> hello. my name is rexy preferred pronoun -- gender neutral. i am 16 years old and in coming junior at mission high school and lyric initiative [inaudible] and lyric. i am here to ask -- i am here today to ask to you please make sure that lyric school initiative does not leave our schools. before the lyric seminar my schoolee climate was very home phobic. anti-gay slurs were common. i was bullied and

judged and gay events were not included in class subjects. i wasn't happy with being gay because raised in a catholic latino community i was taught it was abomination and a sickness and a sin. in my eighth grade year lyric showed up and taught assembly and workshops that taught students how to be an ally and sensitive to lgbt people. since the environment of the school changed it went from being gay [inaudible] to gay utopia. it afs awesome to see and i felt safe enough to come out at school during the pride assembly. the students and the school became very friendly place towards gay people. one more thing. if it

wasn't for lyric i don't think i would have continued alive. it saved my life and i am sure it has saved other people's lives. it's become one of the biggest part of my life and i am asking you to please fund lyric. >> hi everyone especially all of you over there. i am eddy and i identify as queer, gender queer, . i'm an emerging activist and transfeminist. i came in front of you all to talk about and emphasize the ideas of lyric's school base program which kind of like i wish their school based program was in my school because they teach a lot of. sm's and how to combat them and

racism and sexual and all of those and transphobia. they try to find a way to empower youth and make them better independent individual and i want to ask that lyric -- just say it gets better and lyric makes it better for all youth, especially queer youth and if you want to think about funding lyric is not just for queer youth but youth of different identities, race, color, class, like abilities, anything you name it. lyric will support you with that. thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is dan david. i am the deputy director of lyric and i want you to know for 20 years our program has provided safe and welcoming home for this youth. this program provides the critical access point for

the city's marginalized people who have been disconnected and face violence in their homes and schools and communities. each year 200 youth access this program and it's their first entry point to housing and jobs and importantly to friends. without support from the board of supervisors for this youth programming this program will not be able to continue. i encourage you to listen to the voices of the young people today. there are a generation of leaders. we are incredibly proud of them and they can tell their story why programs like this are important. >> hello board of supervisors i am ferdinand and i identify as a young laila teeno and talk about the importance of why lyric should stay funded. the first time i got there was july 2011 and the first time i went into a community building space and i

felt safe and not get attacked for who i was or my identity, so when i started off i kept going to the community building groups and became an intern and now a queer educator and i facilitate one of the groups and from the first day i went there i felt the warmth and giving and welcoming space. identifying as a lgbt person so that's what i want to give back and also for the fact that lyric provide so many services for youth and maybe housing, finding jobs, finding your niche in society and i believe the safety and success of the lgbt youth is in your hands. thank you. >> hi. my name is pablo rodriquez, so two years ago my mom kicked me out of the house when i told her i was gay and

lyric was there for me and why i am standing today and they supported me before, so and it's a little bit of my story and there are a lot of stories out there from youth that come to these groups. although marg margannized in society. lyric is making progress and now that is gay pride month i feel very gay actually, and it's so so funny outside there is a. >> >> statute of harvey milk and talking about hope. finding lyric is hope and progress. thank you. >> we love lyric!

>> next speaker. >> hi good afternoon. i'm natalie with local three and we are here to talk about the 4% cost of doing business increase. we have had a 1.9% increase in the past five years which we are thankful for but it is not enough. >> my name is james fowl. i work at [inaudible] and part of the episcopal community service. i'm a case manager and i work with the homeless seniors which is one of the most vulnerable populations here in san francisco. i'm concerned that

we workers have been left behind in budget deliberations. it seems that we who work with the low income populations are not worth our vital or not worth anything for the vital services that we provide, and there seems to be a connection between anyone associated with the poor community whether worker or consumer, and just don't matter. i urge you to remain the city that once was known as the sanctuary city because san francisco is vastly becoming the