these young people have shown their investment in us. i think it's time to show a long term commitment to them. this isn't a program that keeps the kids off the street, but it gives them the skills they need to build a future. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is daria and i'm a non profit worker. i work with the mentally ill and also with those with drug and alcohol issues. i've chosen this field because i believe in helping our fellow man and i believe people have a second chance. i've been doing this work for over 15 years and right now and also i'm a shop stewart at my work and i'm representing sciu, 10-1 and one thing i want to -- i just want to say that i'm a san francisco native. i grew up here and i grew up in the mission. what's happening to this city right

now is outrageous. i don't even recognize what's going on in this city anymore as far as everybody's moving out. nobody can afford to live here. it's ridiculous. my clients, i can't house my clients anymore. it's sad. they come into my program, we treat them for three months and they're right back on the streets and guess what, it recycles all over again back to general hospital, back to our program. it's a crazy vicious cycle that need to end. we got 1.5, that's great. we need the other 1.5. we're behind on what we need. it's imperative we get this. i want to stress -- i want to give a special shout out to the young kid that's have come out here to testify and speak their mind, awesome. i'm so proud of all of you guys. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is jason and i work

with progress foundation and i work with those with disabilities and children with severe emotionally disturbances and i think all the people that came out because i've worked indirectly with all of these agencies. we don't do this job on our own. it's a big web of people that help each other and that's why the funding is important because if one of these fall off the planet, that makes a hard job a lot harder. just an example of one of my coworkers left after two months of working -- she left to go to a cold youth factory that paid her more, you know. she was a great coworker, but i remember what one of the kids said, a kid barely 12 years old saying you don't give a [bleep] about us. you're going to leave in two months anyway. she was right. that's what they say. when hopefulness is seen at that young of an age, it makes everything

so hard. that's just an example of what happens and how important this funding is. i just hope we make awe the right decisions and that we have the ability to continue doing this work and helping the city out. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is erica maybam and i'm the coordinate of the advisory council. as a state mandated body for those in san francisco and to make recommendations, much of our capacities have been taken up with the state legislation, but our capacity to advocate for these budget does not reflect the need. there's exciting amendments for those fund and peace, but that does not address the needs of today. as of june 1, 53 percent of the children on -- it allows them to provide for their families and early

care and quality early care and education prepares children for lifelong success. c-pack is requesting $3 million for infant and toddler subsidies. the last of affordable, license facilities with adequate open space for -- in san francisco is jeopardizing the city to support working families. the city must invest in existing facilities in repair capital and developing vat gees for meeting the growing demand for childcare as the city expands and other developments. c-pack is requesting $500,000 for childcare business capacity and support. childcare centers and family childcare operators are apart of the city's fabric of small businesses. the city must invest in stroot gees to sustain our childcare businesses and support the pipeline of new

entrepreneur wanting to start a childcare business. finally, c-pack is requesting $150,000 for leadership development for early care and education work force. there are over 4,000 individuals in san francisco. the city organization program -- thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is maziac and i'm with sau coalition. since 2004, the typical kaiser premium rate for city funding has gone up 143 percent. the rent in san francisco has gone up by 79%. consumer inflation is up by 23%. and city funding for non profit is up by 11.9. a lot of people are coming up here and thanking the mayor for the 1.5.

i'm not going to do that. we should have gotten 5% for the last several years. we're trying to make up for the recession and i don't want to blame the entire recession. it's not like the recession is the only reason gaven didn't want to fund. every year we come in here and ask for money. not for money in our pockets but we ask for enough money to deal with the out of control cost of the living in san francisco. so we urge you guys to match the manager's 1.5 percent. this isn't a gift. this is necessary. we urge you to make sure this money gets passed onto the workers. what happens to non profits is when the workers don't get paid, they got to take other jobs and you can make the same amount caring for the mentally disabled as working for starbucks. why

wouldn't you work at starbucks. no stress, no emotional commitment. we urge you to close the loophole to exclude non profit. the next time you see us here, we're fight to go make things better and not asking to tread water because when non profit workers goes to the grocery store or to the gas station or pay the rent, they can't claim an exemption. the city cannot operate in that way. >> thank you, next speaker. >> hello, good afternoon, my name is [inaudible]. youth services director with neighborhood centers and unfortunately as we heard, as the city prospers with the income, equality is growing. low income

families need more services, housing, food, health, all the social services we've been hearing about. so as you go through this difficult job of delivering over the city's budget, please make the necessary decisions from a social justice perspective to respond in the directs of the need to the family. i urge you to invest in communities and support families in their community. it's an anchor institution under over 50 years providing from early childcare and senior services and we all see the identification that's happen nothing the mission district and the level of inequality that's happening in our community and so -- and the displacement of families and local bezs and of -- local

businesses and we see the services needed for families and we spoke with our supervisor campos in district 9 for support in additional service to meet the needs of families of the most underserved families and being able to do that in a community based program. thank you for your time. speaker: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm here from san francisco beautiful. i'm embarrassed to share with you these images of san francisco. i'm embarrassed that the mayor hasn't fully funded the clean safe and green budget that we asked for. and so i want to show you what san francisco looks like today. these are all images of san francisco. each one of

these has a picture of human feces and people urinating. there's one decision you can make that create new union jobs, that will keep our streets safe, that will increase community health and safety, and frankly improve and help civil pride. we're asking you to fund the clean and green safe budget proposal. we need streep sweeper and we need not public streets not full of minds not avoided. every single neighborhood, every single community will be enhanced by this act and it will be creating new jobs so please supervisors, votes for all san francisco and vote to keep our streets healthy and clean. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is

brian goldstein, i'm a policy analyst on juvenile justice non profit in san francisco. we have 14 direct service programs here in san francisco for formally incarcerated, justice involved individuals as well as those homeless and other populations. we offer policy analysis. they're working to develop a pilot employment program for incarcerated individuals and partnership with the sheriff's department. as a community based service provider here in the city, serving san francisco's most vulnerable populations, we have two request for you. we think it's essential for the city to increase the cost of giving business rate 2,3%, we hope the city will recognize that non profit needs adequate resources to fund programs and staffing considering san francisco is

one of the most expensive cities in the country. second, we request that you strengthen programs for formally incarcerated individuals. through the fair chance ordinance which was recently passed, which is san francisco's band the box ordinance, the city stance poise to provide its population with a second chance success. we ask you that invest in community based, employment and training programs, specifically $80,000 for funding through the sheriff's department. this represents an investment and an opportunity to best serve all of san franciscans. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisor. i'm jackie from hospitality and co-chair of the -- i want to

support all the budget justice coalitions budget priorities today. and especially the 1.5% cost of the doing business increase and the $11 million for the house proposal. as you know the need for homelessness prevention and subsidies is well documented. you've heard a lot about it today. there's daily stories of people being evicted or harassed out of their homes and people are sleeping in dangerous situations suppose as subway tunnels and shelters are full. our family waiting list is longer than ever, and five weeks street, in homeless hearings you've heard about the sub groups of homeless people who are struggling. we have met with you and talked about our proposal. it was researched and crafted by more than 20 organizations who are experts in preventing and solving homelessness. and mostly you

have agreed that the proposals make sense. so all that is left now is the political well to allocate the funds that we need in the budget to address the housing and homeless crisis. as you also and probably know the chamber of commerce in a recent poll found that housing was a top two issues in san francisco. yet only 2% of the city's budget is spent on these issues. you have come through for us in the past. we ask the mayor for the money that we needed and now we're coming to you for the rest, so as you know, the budget is a list of priorities and values and we are trusting in you to help us get there. thank you so much. >> thank you, mrs. jinx. next speaker.

>> hello, larry edmond. you know when i first [inaudible] migration in 2009, [inaudible]. today you can feel it. it's really live and being an lgbt person, there's another group of people who are looking for the homeless poor people because they ask them if they're male or female so they don't treat them correctly because they're unidentified gender. i think the budget what it says, i want to read this. it said, mary ed lee, we have a budget fiscal year 2015. it's not up to the board of supervisors to bring it to the finish line. he said his budget is built on three things. san francisco to

be safe, safe, and successful. those are good things that i know people like you all would be able to do this. this other thing, there's a huge opportunity by not invested in efforts to stop displacement. his office carried last year for the homeless prevention. it was almost $1 million displacement creating existing out of the homeless. what it says is basically you all have to do the part for the replacement and then stop -- this is a horrible thing is to tell the two cities that everyday the residents here, they let the weekend come and tourist visit here, they do not bother the tourist but

monday through friday, people are suffering. it's best for you to balance the budget. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, my name is benson nadel and i'm the program director of the long term budget program and i'm a member of the long term coordinating council. i'm here to talk about the need and crisis in long term care and institutions in san francisco. every time there is a closure, they have to get involved to monitor the closure. i've been going to universal mound three days a week to see if there's trauma. individuals living there are scared. they don't know where they're going. back in february, a program went into the mission bay which closed and everyone had to be removed from other counties and family members were

traumatized. it's now an empty hole. everyone had to move out. we're having a crisis in long term care. most of us don't think about it until our relatives or ourselves need it. the future has many different readings, optimism, we need to have them involved in a long term integrated planning and policy services for everyone so they don't have to leave home. i'm asking you to expand the living fund to make sure that individuals aging in place in san francisco are not going to be displaced out of county. this is an imperative, it's a category imperative, we need to look to the future for our children, our

elderly and i employ you to consider the need for this kind of policy around integrating long term care services. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. nadel. next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is reo, and i'm a coordinator. organization is one of the co-developers and the public housing conversions. we're excited about this opportunity to deepen our relationship with the residents in our neighborhood. and by all appearances, it looks like this approach can be beneficial to the residents and neighbors. but i'm here to say the advantage thf program are real, but there are only obtainable if we make resident engagement. all parties involves with taking this serious. public housing and the mayor, and the board of supervisor have all asserted the community involvement throughout this process because we know

what happens when changes in public housing happen without the involvement of the residents. we have seen these mistakes and there's no excuse for failing to learn from them. everyone has lived up to their commitment to support real community engagement and we've seen support from the supervisors, particularly mr. campos. and the public housing residents that we work with like our close ali and we've been reaching out to neighbors in the neighborhood and we tend to bring them into the process and make sure the rat conversion is a strengthening process for the whole community. everything seems to indicate this time of around, we may be able to make -- it's early and although the intentions are good, good intentions are not enough. we must make programs and the funding that makes them substantial and we ask that you're generous

towards the program and keep in mind we can succeed if we have the resources for those mostly impacted. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors avalos. my name is gracy dosy and i have been apart of the movement for the past five years. i've been apart of the community center going on nine years this august. during my years with moon men and they focus on working on youth so the teens can be funded because without the foundation of these programs and the protection and support the youth gets from these programs, there's no hope for the youth. the voices of the youth need to be heard. it needs to be heart and when they open up to people in the community center about the programs going on in

their life, it's a cry for help. so continue funding the movement programs and programs like moon men to better our youth for a chance for winning the fight tomorrow. and i would want to -- i would like to read a statement on behalf of one of our youth. she wrote, moon men gave me an opportunity to speak, and organize especially for those who voices are not loud enough to be heard. moon mens contribute to my level of rights in ways that i can never repay. to this day, i'm a moon men youth because if it were not for this program, i would be dead, in the literal sense. and dead in my sxhaert in my mind, i know i am not the only one who feels so passionate about the moon men and i believe moon men has had what is needed to help the

youth grow in loving our community and not hurting them. please consider my story but the future of stories of youth who will one day take care of you. thank you and that was a statement on behalf of violet. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi, good afternoon. my name is travon smith and i'm an intern and apart of the movement. as a youth, growing up under non profit organizations such as movements in moon men, i noticed the bond between non profit and those who go to them is beneficial. our youth deserve to have the access to these programs. thank you so

much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. hi, supervisor avalos, although you're in conversation. my name is nicky. i ask that you support our movements program and all youth programs because these program kreez -- these programs create opportunities for youth. as a former participate of the movement programs, i know how important movement is mainly because of the intervention is. i came back and i'm the assistant coordinate and i hope i get that opportunity. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is, led and i work at the birmingham heights center. you've heard from our youth

program and i ask that you prioritize and public safety work. it's super important. as well as transitional age youth programs but i'm here on behalf of all the seniors. we have -- i have here over 200 signature and statements. we serve home bound and fragile seniors and it's super important that we take care of them. they're our parents, grarnd parents and we'll soon be seniors one day and that's something we should take care of. i do want to read one of the letters that has been written by one of our seniors. dear board of supervisors, i'm concerned about the budget for the city of san francisco. many people like myself and my community

including youth, disabled adults, seniors and the underserved families with low income, the home bound and others who are dependent on the program and services that bhnc offer at [inaudible] height. we want it to be culture responses for seniors. we go to these locations for these programs but we come from visitation valleys. so please consider that. i also would like to say we have a lot of work to do. this is a hard task for you all, but we trust that you make a great decision in the changing face of this community. thank you for your time. >> thank you. next speaker. >> my name is robert chamber and i live in san francisco. and i've been helped by the people of the tenderloin community and

also hospitality house and many other non profit and volunteer groups. and i'm here to encourage you to fund local programs like these made up of people like all the people here because they help me to transition out of homelessness and so i know that these programs work, and i just that support to continue and to grow. and thank you all very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is jillian neman and i'm here today because there's three things i want to address. one, we have a problem. two, there's a solution. and three, we need accountability. what i'm seeing in this city being a san

francisco housing authority, semi resident and i put it semi resident for this reason, i've seen the issue was public housing and they are far outweighing the benefit. and with that said, i waited 13 years for my housing assistance and that is too long. nobody in this city that is a single parent should be waiting 13 years for housing assistance nor should they go without housing, and that goes for anyone. it should not be based upon a race. it should be based upon humanity. we are human beings and we need housing. we need food. we need the basic necessities to live in this city. unfortunately a lot of people are met with great adversity and challenges and have found it impossible to obtain these

things. personally i believe that we don't need to write a blank check, but we do need to write a check. you need to write a check with the condition that these issues will be taken care of and put a date next to those issues. also, i want to point out something with san francisco housing that is kind of alarming to me. they require the residents under the new lease to pay for things that are required under california state law that the landlord pays for. the people on low income that obtain services through san francisco housing cannot afford to pay for these things. can you please look at that lease and make sure the tenants are taken care of there. the other thing that i would like to address which i don't think i have time to, but i want to thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisor,

kim obispo services. i'm here to speak with you particularly on two wishes today. first, i'm urging you to recognize that the contract which the human services agency is offering acs to continue our shelter work where we provide shelter to 534 people every night and everyday is about $760,000 short of services. ecs can make up $300,000 through private fundraising, but it's essential we cover the remaining $460,000 gap in order to continue providing safe and dignified shelter for folks. so far hsa is unable to do so and opieu local 3 and