i have a 14-year-old daughter and a 12-year-old boy and we are looking to apply for housing. >> and if you help us, our children will be... the way that you are. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please? >> good afternoon, supervisors, devra eddelman with the homeless providers association and i apologize for extending this long hearing by a couple more minutes. but just felt the need to come up after hearing about all of the stories and the situations, that so many families are facing today in san francisco. to remind you, that there are solutions and there is hope, and there is so many people joining together, with great ideas about how we can change

this situation, and in san francisco. and hespa has submitted a proposal to all of you, and we are discussing this proposal with the mayor's office and throughout the city to look at different solutions. these solutions include turning over san francisco housing authority units that are currently vacant and providing additional local operating subsidies to families. and providing housing subsidies that will make market rate housing affordable to families in san francisco. as well as throughout the bay area. and we need to be creative to look at solutions. there are many solutions out there such as shared housing, looking at longer term subsidies, and looking at different flexible policies that will support families in moving into their own permanent long-term housing. so, i am encouraging you to

look at our proposal and consider these solutions and if we do this, we can house 687 house holds at an average cost of $10,000 per household. we can bring the wait list for shelter, we believe to zero. but we need to come together and work together and look for solutions. thank you very much for listening to all of these concerns today and coming together with the whole... >> thank you very much. >> thank you supervisors for listening on this issue, first i want to give thanks again to the coalition. and jennifer as well as the director dufty and i would ask you humblely to reconsider shoe box units not a market rate, shoe box units at submarket rate and ear mark with a pilot project and as supervisor mar

mentioned knows of help and knows of rehabilitation throughout the different sectors of the city so that everybody does not have to come to the building on mission street downtown all of the time if you correct these along with the shoe box unit housing 50 square feet or whatever this will provide, the rapid, rehabilitation director dufty mentioned and it will support it and there are novel techniques for the building and coming out of europe and china and that can rebuild the units and 99 units in one part of town and the other part of town and there is an ugly ethnic issue as well as birth and childbearing and non-productivity and so with the... i did not want to give this away, so much was taken from me in singapore, with 3 d protein and a new manufacturing and work paradigm could be created in the city as opposed to a manufacturing structure where people have to go through like robots and leave.

please reconsider shoe box units 500 square feet for the housing for the suffering, and for the people and loads of it as well as resource or rehab efforts throughout the city. and so people don't have to keep coming downtown. >> thank you. >> if there are any other member of the public that wish to comment step forward and we will be closing public comment. >> good afternoon, supervisors and i would like to thank chairman farrell for having this item on the agenda for the important item and we all have heard very compelling stories from some of these families, and i think that when you appropriate moneys, homeless children, should be a number one priority, or should be the number one priority. and they are the most innocence of our homeless community, and

you are funding this year should reflect that. and i am a little troubled although, that we didn't hear any solutions opposed to them as to how to deal with a situation and so let me offer a couple of suggestions. and the idea of increasing the winter shelters is very doable. and the inner faith council of churches and more than one to expand the winter shelter program with the additional funding to ecs, which staffs the winter shelters. and when you expand the winter shelters, you should specifically ear mark one shelter for homeless families at a minimum and secondly, in terms of the affordable housing, again, i think that homeless children should have priority thank you.

>> thanks very much. >> next speaker. >> my name is nancy cross, and i am going to use the time limited time that i have here, to talk about some of the things that might maintain a new approach that could, and get us out of this myer that we are in and i could talk about... but i have suffered in this situation and to know the people but we have heard many people here very eloquent speaking on that and so i am going to let... and pardon me. specifically about some ideas that you have not already explored. and we have many processes for dealing with individuals. and maybe it is not adequate and several the housing is not adequate, but, when you have not really addressed what the

institutions or what like the ecs contract and the standards of the facilities that the city has control of that may effect the well-being and the welfare load of the city. and if we could reduce the welfare load of the city, we would have more money for housing. and some of these things are fairly easy to do. they don't need the housing as such, but we have a situation where, the city gets, like 87 cents or 85 cents, a pack cigarettes but we have not taken into account and according to the center for disease control in atlanta, that the welfare costs just for direct medical services, and lower productivity of the individual, amount to $7.18 a pack. and in other words, we take

with that benefit and try to adjust the maximum tax and use it appropriately, but try to decrease the use of tobacco to reduce the welfare costs and that could be done and is done in los angeles, i understand. >> thank you very much. >> any other members of the public that wish to comment on this item? >> yes. here i am. i guess one of the things that bothers me is that i want you to consider it is that for as much money you put into all of these services for the homeless, they can actually buy a house. i have seen houses go for 6 to 14, i even saw a house in hawaii for $37,000. but, the plan, it speaks about that you should be putting your

money into more housing, instead of more money into shelters. so, i think that i think that you should probably try to provide some more mental health services in the shelters that no more shelters just put that money into housing and i mean that i think that nobody really grew up with a dream of living in a homeless shelter. for the rest of their lives. >> i think that the other thing too, is let's here what the team and the workers have to say and i think that they are being, they are being forgotten and i guess that my other problem that i am having is, that you are talking about the domestic abuse and then, for me i feel like, the men should be some type of a program for the men where they can get help regarding those issues and how not to cause those problems. and the women, too, they are like, men are like, one or ten percent of being abused. and i am also very i am also

having a problem that where is the training for the living wage jobs? i mean, this is my version of what i have heard so far of the housing ladder. and we, can we get the screens in here? >> all right. all right, well it is not showing up. well, the housing ladder, it only has two rungs. and i mean, we have got a housing ladder. with two rungs and it is a supportive housing and no training for us. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> next speaker please. >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] my name is catalina kerera.

we are asking more homes and less jails. more rehab programs for the homeless families. allow six years in which i have been homeless with my daughters. >> i have seen a lot of the stories of latinos. we come to this country, and to learn the language is a barrier. there are a lot of workers that do not speak spanish. >> it is difficult to communicate our needs and the needs of our kids.

and i have a 6-year-old daughter. >> she is constantly asking, mom when are we going to have a house, when is it going to be ready? she is thinking of a big house. she is unaware of the reality that is happening these days. i am looking for an environment that is full of like child like images. i don't want her to be constantly and preoccupied about where we are going to be living. and she is still very young, she is only 6 years old.

she is very intelligent and she is my main motivation and the reason why i don't give up and she says hey, never give up. and she is always, asking for a home. and so i am asking that our voice is to be heard and not to be ignored. being a single mother is not an easy task. but it is on you future and our children's future. i am requesting you to open

section eight. and for those who do not have that kind of income. i will keep on asking god and i am asking god right now. i am aware that my god is all mighty. and give us the answers that we need. and all of us living in the streets. >> thank you very much and any other members wish to comment? >> hi, i'm laerry and i live at sro and this here today is examiner, and i am wondering

why we work with the president and expose in our habitat for humanity because you know that we have a house we are hungry and don't have violence and my connection here is that a lot of women are talking about the violence and violence where you stay at. and you have it where you stay at is not a home any more. make sure that there are no violence and make sure that we have too many buildings that are already and some of these buildings could be used to house people, and two or three years and we can do this and you know we are americans and the americans fight wars all over the world. we found the cure to aids and

they do a lot of things and in this country, i can't believe that we cannot come up, with saying that we will fight the wars and other places that we have war at home and people for living. any time that you live without a house you will have crime. and we should not make the jails the number one place in the country, it is time to step up and do the right thing, because nobody has to respect us when you don't care of your own. >> any other members of the public that wish to comment? >> okay. seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for being part of this and all of the presenters and the service providers and members of the public that spoke

as we dig into the subpopulation and we want to thank you, and we know that we need to have specific services. and look forward to having that discussion. and for the people, that continue to do that and we need to do more and having the familys all right. welcome back

everyone to the san francisco budget & finance committee for wednesday, may 14, 2014. my name is a mark farrell i'll continue to chair the committee and joined by the other supervisors we left off with item one so madam clerk call it

through 4 >> for the appropriation of estimated fees and expenditures for the city and county of san francisco as may first, 2014e. in 20015 and 16. item 3 the new positions in the appropriation ordinance wore the selective departments for city and county of san francisco for june 2016-2017 and 2015. for the international airport public library and public utilities commission and for the fiscal years 2014-2015, 2014 and

2016-2017 >> we have the airport slated first do you have your team here we can put you back further. >> good afternoon director martin is in a meeting with the mayor so if it's okay to call the port first he'll be here momentaryly. >> you're up. >> good afternoon. thank you for having the hearing i'm representing the port of san francisco and joined by our chief financial officer given we were here 2 or 3 weeks ago we're going to keep this is to numbers. so i wanted to start with the two year budgets bottom line which is that we are