thank you. >> thank you next speaker please >> [speaking spanish] hi my name is careena, i went to lavos latina fist time 6 years ago. i was without a job and i found out that lavos latina they were able to support me with a stipend. unfortunately help like the stipend have gone

first reducing and now all most disappearing in programs like lavos latina. of course you xoe it is part of the economic help that they can give is what they have available so the economic support is very short and limited to the funds that are available. but, also givelen these circumstances lavos latina never gave up. they were there every day, kept the doors open gives us all the support they could. and so i

hope you will consider our appeal and you know the tenderloin neighborhood very well and you know their needs. thank you for listening to us and may god bless you >> thank you, next speaker please >> mr. chair i would thrike tanote we have a quaurm of the board present >> thank you >> my name is [inaudible] and i'm the childcare and after school program manager at [inaudible] i think first i want to thank you for listening today and hearing all the public comment because we definitely appreciate your support ovall. i'm here to specifically ask that you support the c pack budget priorities particularly the sustaining grants. they definitely help us to provide childcare and after school services for many families you

heard speak here today from the tenderloin and we provide those services all year long for free for them. there is a significant amount of fund raising that has to be done for continue to provide quality care and services for fmlies in the tenderloin as well as insureing that we are able to hire quality staff and pay the salaries that are compatible so i ask that you continue to support that and really consider not cutting sustaining grants >> thank you next speaker please >> hi, thank frz this opportunity. i'm here to speak in support of the program you heard a lot about lavos latina. they have been a long standing presence in the tenderloin and have programs focused on leadership development, community advocase and immigration right. they accomplished very very much with very very little. currently i serve as the

executive director of tenderloin safe pass chck and work with lavos to create a culture of safety in the neighborhood. or organization, would not exist if it had not been for lavos litina. the idea for safe passage was sparked from members of lavos who reached out to the community and advocate td there be a program like safe passage and they continued to be a integral part of our organization. the mu jrt of the volunteers come through lavos latina and they are committed responsibility passionate and bravetiment isn't easy to stand on the corner of turk and leaven worth for a hour every after school but the volunteers through lavos do it saerfb a ever day and with a friendly smile. we at safe passage rely on their

leadership program to improve safety so i'm here for you to ask to invist in lavos this budget cycle. you are not only helping residence but other organizations as well and this program has a huge impact on many peoples lives. thank you >> thank you next speaker please >> good morning board of supervoizers my name is frank lenered junior and first i want to thank you for your time and want to say thank you for your collaborative effort toward keeping the city running smoothly and know it isn't a easy job. i'm sure your desk are piled high with comment and suggestions from individuals all over the city for how they think it can be done better so thaupg for what you have done, but there is much much more that needs to be done. i'm here truly to support the hes

sp proposal and request of any other proposals presented by the organizations here to insure the safety, sanity and long term wellbeing of not only the housealize fmlies and individuals of the tenderloin community but every community in san francisco. i couldn't have progressed in the cities challenging shelter system without the support and resources provided by some of the resource centers like hospitalty house, [inaudible] saint vincent de paul and saint antany. it is beautiful city and i pray it stays that way, but these are some very important and critical things that have to be addressed when considering the aalarming amount of homelessness that

there is here in the city and the amount of money this city generates. i urge your sympathy deciding on the new budget and we new housing and less harassment. thank you very much for your time >> thank you. next speaker please >> hi supervisors my name is [inaudible] advocase coordinator at saent anteany foundation rchlt saent saint aenthany provides food, access to technology, clothing u social work service, drug and alcohol treatment and we do so without government funding. that said, we are leer in support today of our-the communities ask related to budget justice and the hes p proposal as well as the food security task force. all

services that comprise all the groups weerks all work together in a continuum to assist folks trying to transition into stability and without each other having robust services we all as individuals can't do our jobs as well. on a pernt note i want to say that i am a victim of violent crime. recently i was robbed at gun point walking home from work a. the time i worked 2 jobs. i don't have a car so walking home at night was something i had to do a lot and i was robbed at gun point and want to say as a person of a violent crime, i was robbed twice, from my perspective what make as community safer is community

based programs that help to alleviate the inequality, poverty that create the social disorder that creates a unsafe staif so i want to put that out there as someone who has been robbed at gun point to say i support the community [inaudible] >> good morning supervisor, happy friday. stefany athly and executive director of saint james infurmety and [inaudible] at one point i stafed member of the board of supervisor on the budget process so have a great deal of sympathy for thumount of work you have all put into the process. but i'm here today as a younger women standing in support with my transgender sister who are excluded from housing and employment and health

opportunity in san francisco and all too often subject to violence. transgender women in the city are criminalized for being tranlz gender often by the police department that this board is considering director more resources towards and then when they are incarcerated they are discriminated and excluded from are entry service because they are transjendser. when my friend [inaudible] was murdered at the start of the year the community rallied on the steps of the building and in the board chambers and lurd many make commitments to investing in life supporting and life saving services for transgender women of colorment now is your opportunity to make good on that commitment. i urge you to use this budget process to support the critical work of organizations run by transwem ochb cull ursuch as tgiap and

the transgender activist for justing and accountability. these organizations are undersupported and underfundsed and instead of directing more resources into the system that criminalize the transgender community i urge you to support [inaudible] it is pride month and hope we can have a budget with pride in it. thank you. >> thank you next speaker please >> my name is [inaudible] i'm a senior who lives in [inaudible] senior facility. i'm here to request you keep in the budget or add in the budget money for training for seniors in computer training so seniors can really be part of the community and the world in todays world of computerized world. thank you >> thank you next speaker

please >> good morning all for taking the time to hear us. my name is [inaudible] program manager at lavendered youth recreation and information center. here to ask for support for expanded services for lgbt [inaudible] youth. we are asking for 530 thousand dollars to create a safer environment for queer and transyouth color in san francisco through case management, work force development, leadership development opportunity that are paid as well as access to housing resources. this is another critical virmt as part of a overall proposal through the budget justing coalition. i mentioned this 530 thousand dollar ask in contribution to that would be aortyouth advocate to the program so we can serve additional 30 to 40 queer and transyouth to the

program as well as employ 5 transition age youth through our leadership development program. they would be become queer educators and lead other young folks in harnessing and beeling leadership. in addition to that i also wanted toachyo comment that sefany made regard thg tasha coalition and tg [inaudible] some of my friend work at those organization squz i urge you all to support these organizations that are providing critical resources to transwomen of color. additionally, one of our youth who accessed services this year at lyric committed suicide. she was a transgender woman of color and there was so much violence that transwomen are facing in san francisco and i feel like i have been to many event at city hall and other places where people try to

share their story and what is going on and [inaudible] >> thank you very much >> my name is barb raw [inaudible] and here representing folks with community connects specifically in the outer mission asking you to keep funding us because we are making a lot of progress and it is well spent money for everything we get from the city and every speaker we have coming in. we probably have 5 times as many people volunteering. if you were in my neighborhood on std you can come for a pot luck and be in the healthy training [inaudible] next month we are having a [inaudible] and a decluttering lecture that will follow a garage sale. it is grass roots organization. people spend a lot of time and a lot oof seniors get out of the house, thank you >> thank you next speaker

please >> good morning rks my name is jim steven and lichb in north beach and a tutor and was a lab manager at aquatic park for the computer lab that deal specifically with seniors. i would like to thank supervisor chew get thg money released for the program to go forward and also like to thank real atech who does the services of our computers. [inaudible] who did a supurb job supporting us. this group for their hope in putting in tutors and trainers for teaching seniors how to use these computers. 30 percent of seniors do not have computers or understand them of what they

can do or the power of them. we had-personally i helped a mother find her adopted son. a chineees speaker find glazes for his ceramic work which was supurb. the plan that noded to order prescriptions over the internet through kaiser. it goes on and on and on and we need more support and more money, a lot more money in keeping these machines going and training. please increase the funding for training and for hiring people to tutor. tutors spend 400 thousand dollars that they donate in time and money. if you paid them minimum wage, so please

put in additional money for more tutors. thank you >> thank you next speaker please >> my name is [inaudible] and i'm here with the coalition on homelessness to support the hes pa ask spinge specific to ask for exist out of homelessness for the next coming year 2016 because the housing authority has told us that they are good eing to be mow longer housing families for the year 2016 because of rehabilitation and also there are no desinginating exists out of homelessness through the pipeline. we see this as a massive problem because lost subsidize are the best exist out of homelessness for fmlies. as a formerly homeless mother who moved into

a bmr unit that also received a grant i tell most of the affordable housing constructed isn't affordable especially to single mothers which make up 75 percent of the homeless family population and most of the families we work with are homeless mothers who can't access the affordable housing being constructed so we are here to urge you today to please find the 70 lost subsidize we are requesting for the year 2016. >> thank you next speaker please >> good noon afternoon supervisors. my name is thomas [inaudible] first let me comp lment chair farrell for the new and improve public comment for for thhearings this year. it is nice to not have to see seniors disaiblted and children standing in line for 5 or 6

hours to give 120 seconds of their wisdom. with that being said it would be impossible to discuss all the city departments that are under consideration right now so i'll just focus on my highest priority and that would be to fund televising the sun hp shine task force so that members of the public the electorate can see which city agencies departments and elected officials are complying with the cities open meeting laws and request for public records. thank you >> thank you very much. are there any members of the public who wish to speak on items 1 or 2? anybody else? okay, seeing none public comment on item 1 and 2 are closed. i want to thank you for being out today and coming to public comment today. i appreciate comment

and concerns and look forward to the continuing discus u cushion. with that colleagues would like to take a motion to continue items number 1 and 2 through our next meeting on monday. do we have a motion by supervisor mar and second by supervisor tang and take that without objection. colleagues unless no other comment madam clerk do we have business in front of us? >> no other business. thank you everybody, we are adjourned.

>> i love teaching. it is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. >> this really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. this is very enriching as an artist. a lot of folks take these

classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. >> there are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. that is a really big draw. >> this is a signature piece. this is the bill largest darkroom in the u.s.. >> there are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. >> i think it is the heart of this place. you feel it when you come in. >> the people who just started taking pictures so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also

everyone who works here is working in photography. >> we get to build the community here. this is different. first of all, this is a great location. it is in a less-populated area. >> of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. it is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. the people have a lot, they can

really come together and share a love and a passion. >> we offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. we offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. we offer classes basically in the shooting ton the town at night, treasure island. there is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. >> hello, my name is jennifer. >> my name is simone. we are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill.

>> c'mon, c'mon, c'mon. >> actually, i have been here a lot. i have never looked closely enough to see everything. now, i get to take pictures. >> we want to try to get them to be more creative with it. we let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. >> you can focus in here. >> that was cool. >> if you see that? >> behind the city behind the houses, behind those hills. the see any more hills? >> these kids are wonderful.

they get to explore, they get to see different things. >> we let them explore a little bit. they get their best. if their parents ever ask, we can learn -- they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. some of the things they come up with are fantastic. that is what we're trying to encourage. these kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. >> a lot of people come into my classes and they don't feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them

some tips and ideas. >> this is kind of the best kept secret. you should come on and take a class. we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills? the harvey milk photo center focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes.