future. >> good afternoon. i'm a grandmother of two kids. my daughter she's stays home right now with them. and she needs childcare to get her education. she's a high school graduate so she needs to go to college and without childcare she can't do that so i urge you to support more funding for childcare. thank you (clapping) >> i ask you to horn the 2 had the $7 million asset especially for the child subsidies.

i was poor and homeless when my child was in school. he's with an a high school graduate with a 3 had the 6-grade average. i ask you to please violation of the law in early childhood education especially for the subsidies. good afternoon board of supervisors thank you for your listening to us. i'm here today speaking on behalf of parents. i remember 10 years ago when my son was 10 years ago he said i want every child to have child exercise. - care. every child should have preschool. but it shouldn't be just

preschool. it should include after school care. i was lucky enough when my children were growing up i had subsidies. but when i first started working actually, my first paycheck went to pay for childcare. and about 90 percent of parents paychecks would go to childcare. but subsidize childcare would allow the parents to work so we support the sea pack for childcare but we want to thank you for adding the 2 point $2.7 million add back.

we want to emphasize the 2 hundred and 8 hundred thousand families can get the childcare >> i'm here on behalf of the parents voices i'm here in support of my sister chapter to thank you for your prior tiger's to help to subsidies other programs for the counties (clapping) >> hello supervisors i'm dennis. i don't know what it says about san francisco with a 7 $7.

billion budget and people asking for little little. i'm here to oppose a program. first, i want to thank supervisor avalos for the opposition for the fee yes, he did. e yesterday and reminding everyone why the sunset is in the ordinance. i want to thank supervisor breed for working hard on our collective meddles to the lease. i ask you to cut out a revision in the lease and where the lease grabs the budget authority and creates a policy of by passing the general fund. the lease should be denied and

continued for boarder public conversation before it's proofed. and yesterday, i want to talk about the prefee attendance. the attendance study was commissions that bought the botanical garden in - it was said to be unreliable but it was reliable for the entry fee forgotten gate park. in 2010 the attendance numbers were convenient don't ignore it and don't ignore the fact that since 2010 the fee has encompassed a drop in 35 percent of -

>> supervisors my name is david. i'm here to oppose the fees at the botanical garden. i've been opted to the fees for the last four years and then went into to collect fees for the non resident. i decided one day i woke up and stood there with a sign and i stood in silence i wanted to inform people. the response was overwhelmsing. as a in fact, 6 thousand people signed this petition. this is not a click line on here petition. there's been a discussion a

continuing discussion on the credibility and status of a world-class garden francisco only be established for a fee. many of the gardens are private gardens. they're free in portland and boston to name a few. the fees have been reduce for residents and non-residents is this a metric for a world-class garden. it must pay. the resources are there it's a matter of will and choice thank you. >> good afternoon. supervisors what a marathon my

heart is just practically breaking. hearing it like that. obviously a top priority is services for families, for homeless. the thing that are supposed democracy is supposed to provide for the people. i'm here to talk about the project. people homeless families; right? they're going to be turned away. it should be free for everyone. and it should come from parks and rec. there was proposition n you know, i was a single mother i

was glad to have a rent control apartment. at 75 i'm lucky to have a room there. my income wouldn't even pay for a - social security and the 3 hundred $327 pension from the library. you have is a really good opportunity as public servants to serve the public. keep the parks public. keep the project free. thank you (clapping) >> supervisors the project fee may seem a minor issue who compared over the last several hours but it's a bigger issue

that impacts all of us in san francisco. when the fee was adopted it was adopted in the face of a severe shorthand and most of the peripheries that voted in favor of the fee didn't want to do it but because of the severe budget they had to but now luckily we have a - it bring into the department 2 hundred and 50 $250,000 a year is a magnitude that allows us to find relief from this. several years ago we had a major policy that has not been discussed by the board of supervisors navigate the board of supervisors has been completely left out of the

policy decision and that policy donation was to convert our department dpoopz fees and privatization. i ask you to take a look at that policy and see if you want to take our recreation and park department completely out of my tax support and have it become something that's an exclusive place to operator. reverse that policy and i'm sure the public won't support (clapping) >> i'm ms. anyway's. i'm helping to raise a third generation. the fee is not about money.

it's designed from the beginning to exclusive people. not everybody just the successful e - poor people. our >> i pledge pd has referred to as a charge on tourist but it executives lots of other people who workup the street and used to have lunch there and for whom $7 is not significant. people working elsewhere in the city and people whose children are being treated maybe in the family house not local residents. it excludes disabled people out of town who did not enjoy for free the pathways.

it excludes all those people it divides families because other receipts you have family members all over the place. if you're family member comes you have to pay for them and if two more comes that's $14. so this is what happens when you hand over a public garden to a sobriety that thinks it the a museum and do not care about the public. please get rid of the fee (clapping) good afternoon prevention park. the proposed fees are part of the larger picture. our recreational department is trying to - golden gate park

has suffered from this policy. it was established over 40 years ago for the relief of stress. leading us through forest and alongside parks and meadows. just 2 years ago the recreation and park department was giving up the location for administrative salaries. they want to pave over 7 acres of artifical tomb and add 1 hundred and 50,000 watts of lights. this will ruin species of birds

and the beach experiences for families to sit by the beach or gaze at the stars. for those listening you can find more information on line. this is part of the way to turn golden gate park for paved troiktsz to remind us all this used to be a wood park free stop this now and eliminate the fees. thank you (clapping) and a hello supervisors and public you're lucky i lost my notes. i want to reiterate what folks have said. a couple years ago when we were fighting against the fees i

came to the park and one of the residents came up to me and said something i thought she was going to say something different but she said something in favor of me she said this is a pr nightmare. thank you >> good afternoon supervisors i'm gloria. i'm here, no opposition to entry fees to the lease all the time. i oppose the lease due to its conclusion of the fees. i want to applaud supervisor mar for the parks being open and free for everyone. with the changes we learned of just yesterday we heard is that

other botanical gardens charge admission. whatever slafrts or difference saying that one fee is a legitimate fee for another fee it's okay to charge everywhere. the higher and higher fees with fewer and fewer areas to all based on levels of income. just as affordable housing becomes less available i public spaces for enjoying nature are impossessing. it would be better in the garden can be free well, it can be. it's a question of priorities and values. if the mayor can give the super

bowl a cart blank check then surely we can keep is garden free. it remained free until940. i ask the committee members to please regret the fees and support the budget back to two hundred and $250,000 the pub garden keep it free (clapping) >> good afternoon. i'm hoping supervisor farrell will be watching this. i've been a wreaking member since 1971. please feel free to call me. i'm here to speak on the

undocumented children for the cancer center who come here with nothing and can't pay that dollars. the low budget travelers who don't come here. the - is there anyone here that feel that the san franciscans have to have their id to entry the park please stand up. to put in place a $7 fee and we have to show an id to proveer we're there and if i bring a guest they will threaten and call the police.

behind closed doors those committees meets and decides with two falls fields in the back - and bond money and public fund is apparently using for this we have not paying for utilities. we need to have a process where the community can interstate with the communities this is our green space why are we using this franchise. the wealthy want it for themselves it's wrong (clapping)

>> next speaker >> hi i'm here with the alliance for girls ex-which is a girl's organization 40 of which are headquartered here in san francisco. it's shocking to me that girls were not considered a vulnerable population in d c w f recently funding. girls are a vulnerable population and if you don't know that we're one of the top 3 cities in the nation for sexually exploited girls. we have dating violence much heroin higher than for boys.

girls are under enrolled in technology classes. i'm shocked they're not in the fund. they horrify most organizations got doubled their grant size and seven hundred thldz was lost. while $8 million was spent on others programs. your sending the city a message that girls are not a priority and that's not on okay messages to send. we met with the director and she were incredibly receptive. she alleged that we can work together in the next grant

cycle and i'm grateful for that but girls can't wait that long >> thank you. next speaker, please >> hi i'm jessica. as i heard from the imperials alliance the needs for girls programs is dire. oasis has been partnered with other organizations. however, we received a 24 percent kit which is about 50 $50,000 out of our crack. we're been working with maria sue and we're grateful.

however, our partners have not been that fortunate. thank you >> hi i'm 15-year-old and i joined oasis and it changed my life. ail the love from this program made me the person i am. i've learned so many things in this program including eating healthy and i want every girl to have the chance to join irritations like this >> hello, i'm a new comer who came here 8 months ago from china. oasis teaches us how to be against radish. it teaches me about culture and

highway to make friends and helps improve my that language. i'm here to support oasis i want more and more people to learn. so, please support of the girl's programs >> the clerk (clapping) >> hi everyone. born in raised in the western edition of the filing more district. i've been with the oasis for girls. it's helped us to benefit emotionally and file number. physically. so, please help support women's organizations. thank you (clapping)

>> good afternoon. i'm the executive director of the foster family service agency. we've been in existence 24 years now in san francisco. i'm a proud member of the alliance for girls. we visited over the d c wifi. this program is set up specifically for high at risk girls. our agency we have several emancipated girls in transition that are basically in a situation where they are falling into the safety net. this program is set up to teach self-sufficient and community partnerships people to provide a comprehensive sober and

mental health services and through job placements and job individual one-on-1 case management. those services are so those particular girls would end up with the best tools available. i want to industries to you that our girls are being targeted for sexual comploipgs and those girls within a small period of time emancipated from 17 to 21 they end up in situations date rape. they've been targeted to be sexually exploited as well as homeless on the street. so in terms of d c wifi we're a

high-risk and we need - >> thank you. next speaker, please >> good afternoon. i'm the executive director of the center for young women's development. i'm a proud member of the girl's alliance. here in the district 6. we work with the incarcerated young women. we've been providing jobs for girls almost 20 years now and we loss our entire contract this year. we definitely have been working with the department and got some support back but we provided support services for this very vulnerable population which we were told that voushl pops maybe we should be

considered somewhere else. we're trying to work to get young women off the streets and into higher education. it's crucial for this population i urge you to support this >> thank you (clapping) >> hi i'm executive director of the san francisco mental health board and mental health education fund and a proud member of the girl's alliance. i've watched girls program to struggle to get a handful of dollars and their program is the first to be cut. to you ask you to do what you can do. thank you thank you very much. the next group of speakers

>> hi my name is stephanie and i'm the communication director. first of all, i want to thank you for your leadership. your support is the example that we need to lead the nation in the fight for hiv. we ask you to continue to lead even when the feds don't. i want to be clear we're not asking for additional resources we're asking for our aids system intact. hiv programs will lose 1 hundred $195 edify the next 2 fiscal y.