arrests. >> thank you. next speaker is ken. and then we'll hear from abigail. i'm not an attorney, not an advocate, i am however, accompanied by a belief that is adequate to support my position. there are 20,000-30,000 undocumented citizens, the total of whom are subject to local immigration hearings. these are individuals who by your minimum wage legislation might be subject to registered tax return, going to the united states. sorry the united states and mexico requirement. these may be related to protocol conventions and agreements by lateral tax accords which may be attached to treaties which the

united states may be signator. again, i'm not a lawyer, so this is what i believe. i'm not stating the law as a fact. i'm beginning to wonder when the embassy and consulate of mexico began outsourcing professional legal services for her own citizens, mexico. it's 15th largest economy in the world. it's a wealthy nation. and it has i believe engaged in cross border population transfer through unlawful continuation. israel has moved 10% of her population into palestinian nation in the state of palestine. >> next speaker. >> good morning, my name is abigail, i'm the director of legal services for children,

right around the corner serving san francisco children and youth. we represent unaccompanied children who are terrified because one of the things administration are doing, going after sponsors family members who have taken these children in their home. we represent daca and we represent people in foster care and guardianship proceedings, we're getting crazy calls about setting up guardianships for the children of fantastic parents who are terrified what will happen to their children if they're deported. last week i spoke to the parents at a daycare center because the director is finding that, especially after a bad day of rumors, half her students don't show up. she asked me to come and speak

and try to reassure her parents. these are unprecedented time. what the city is doing by supporting, it truly is what it means to protect. i am so deeply grateful to our supervisors and to mayor farrell and that the mayor office of housing for creating this wall and taking care of san franciscans. i'm very proud to be a san franciscan today, thank you. >> the next speaker is christine. >> hi, name an attorney at the center or gender and refugee studies. we're a member of the san francisco immigrant legal defense collaborative and we're

support of the budget supplemental. we're committed to supporting due process rights and refugees who form a large part of the san francisco immigrant community. our role is a technical assistance organization, providing mentorship, training and developing resources such as practice advisories to attorneys working and representing these asylum-seekers facing deportation. through our work we know that immigrants who have become enforcement priorities under the current administration have claims to protection against deportation to central america, the middle east, africa, asia and other regions of the world, but the donald trump has been deported many of these individuals and placing them in risk of torture, and even death.

every time an immigrant returns to court to present a case for relief from deportation, a government attorney stands in court against her to represent the interests of the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement. ice. it's an injustice for individuals and particularly those held in prison-like conditions. often traumatized by their detention with little understanding of english or the law to defend themselves against an ice attorney. we request that the supervisors support the supplemental. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you, next speaker. good morning. i'm with the african network and for some time now i got used to introducing myself as not being

from norway. i think that you're listening to some people, it seems like we're not from norway, you're not welcome here. i'm here to speak on behalf of those we don't see. the voiceless and the faceless. and we remember that community which is under attack. last week i heard that ice was going to be put out of california and that california would be running after the federal government, begging for ice to come back. it's like when the immigrants here, i was saying we are neighbors. we are coworkers, friends. and sometimes we are members of extended families.

what you're doing here, i think it deserves a great think. and thank you for being so including. and thank you for working on every level and making sure immigrants are taken care of and the statistics are there. this is work that needs to be continued and i think that you know, it's a great thing to fight hate, evil and racism. and again, i can speak on behalf of the community, all the people have been working in the back, we're not going to let you down, we're going to work with you. it's not over until it's over. thank you again, and god bless you. >> supervisor cohen: jennifer? followed by emma.

lorraina. anna. >> my name is jennifer and i am now an immigration attorney at the defender office. i have been involved in the movement for universal representation for immigrants dating back to 2013 in new york city where i was enormously honor and privileged to be part of the movement in new york city where we were able to establish universal representation for detained noncitizens there. and between 2013 to 2017, i was able to see the enormous impact that universal representation afforded the noncitizen community of new york city. and i joined the public defender's office to continue that work and continue expanding our definition of -- and our understanding of what public defense includes, to include the defense of immigrants, particularly those who are

detained. and we desperately need universal representation here in san francisco and northern california throughout california, especially at this moment in time. detained immigrants are the most vulnerable of an already vulnerable group in the immigrant community. and in particular, at this unprecedented moment in history, where we have all of the trump aggressions that service ronen mentioned, we have earlier this week, there was devastating decision from the supreme court, basically striking dunn noncitizens rights to a bond hearing after six months. i'm looking forward to working together with non-profits and community based groups here in san francisco, local government and the community to resist together and answer the calls that we're getting from detention every day to step up and provide that representation. people like a man who was recently featured in magazine

article that i'm going to be passing down. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good morning, i'm a member of --.

i would like this thank the city for supporting our immigrant communities, now more than ever to fund with the supplementary our programs of outreach, education and the public defender, now more than ever, every single one of those programs is important and crucial to getting how to defend our communities.

thanks to the support of the community, we've been able to connect community members with legal support. a woman that i met on the street she didn't know about the new visa, she got informed, we were able to connect her with support and she was able to get her new visa after suffering a violent situation.

and a while ago i saw her and she told me that she wanted to thank all of us because we supported her. and that now she is able to reunite to her children. [speaking spanish]

>> translator: now more than ever this in this time where we're going through so much, we need your support and help so that -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. jordan davis. miguel fernandez. gloria. >> this is lorraina. thank you so much for the opportunity to speak on this. i'm the director of safe and action. we represent 60 congregations in san francisco and have been doing work on human dignity for the past 40 years in the city.

we have always been accompanying people who are incarcerated, whether it's prison or detention centers. in these moments more than ever we have seen the fear and anxiety that families are experiencing. normally have experienced, going to panic. in the communities. but we have done as a community respond to connect those who are not directly affected to put their bodies on the line and start working to reweave the fabric of the city of our society. we are the ones that trained responders to be able to respond immediately. rumors of a ice ring. we're working with them on that. and we're accompanying people who are in detention, who have a court date, who have to go for

ice check in. just now, the federal government decided to appeal the bond. we had to post bond $2,000 today to get him out. the beautiful thing, the people in my community are rich and poor, but in an hour we raised $2,000 to get him out. there is somebody now going to post bail. that's what we can do as a community. now it's time for the city to do the rest. and having -- [bell ringing] >> good morning. my name is anna, i'm the managing attorney at community services. we are part of several collaboratives, including the san francisco immigrant network, free sf.

and i named them all because here in san francisco we are so proud to live in a city where all the service providers work together, collaboratively on the ground. so it's over 20 organizations that together, have built this huge machine to stand up to ice and we've been doing this for years and there is a lot of trust in the community and it starts from the beginning, from when someone calls our 24-7 rapid hot line, because they're afraid that ice is there. and we dispatch community members to verify if there is someone there, know your rights education presentations to if someone is detained here in san francisco. we dispatch attorneys immediately to respond and work to represent them so they're not deported or once they're in front of a judge, and a

prosecutor by themselves, either us or the public defender's office can represent them. what i'm trying to say, it's a huge operation, it's a comprehensive system that the organization on the ground has built and a lifeline to our community members. and i want to thank you all for your support that the city is backing up the system and holding it up so the service providers can get the support they need to continue to do this in these unprecedented times. it's a huge effort and sometimes it be messy, but it's a beautiful coordinated mess we built the last year and years before this. we get calls from all over the country how to replicate this model. we're a leader in immigrant rights. thank you for this [bell ringing]. >> i have jordan, miguel, gloria.

a lot of our community is in panic right now. and very much so for good reason. the recent decision by the supreme court shows us where the priorities are by the federal government. we want to thank you for giving the money so we can continue to work in the immigrant rights community, but i want advocates to push further as organization that believes in black and brown, we want to keep pushing anti-criminalization work as it was mentioned before, a lot of the black brothers, brown brothers and sisters are in the prison systems. if we want to be a sanctuary community, we have to include the black community because this is not a sanctuary city unless it's for both the black and brown working class community. thank you fort money. please keep it coming. if you all really want to be a sanctuary city, not just on paper, but in action.

[speaking spanish] >> translator: good morning, my name is gloria. just like an immigrant here in san francisco, our community is constantly under attack by several administrations. >> but the worst thing of all is the separation of families and the terror that the children are experiencing.

and today i want to thank all those people who are here advocating for universal representation. first of all, i just want to also thank all the people who have stood in solidarity with our pain and enough is enough. and like they say in my country, they've given us a bullet with their finger. and there is thousands and thousands of immigrants living this awful situation mere in san francisco. -- here in san francisco.

even if you give funding to the public defender, an we'll probably reach the 25% of universal representation, even then the issue is much, much larger. >> i am a community organizer at

heart. and our community is standing up and we are more than available to advocate for representation for all of our community members. and -- we want action not just words. and just being a sanctuary city is not enough, we must stand together and fight. thank you and my apologies with speak with such truth, but i

can't hold back, thank you. my community is suffering so much and the children are just being terrorized. thank you. ro >> i'm a leader in the richmond district and the daughter of an immigrant. i want to thank you all for the opportunity to speak, but also for your courage. we know by coming 0 to our aid, you are putting yourself at risk in the fire of trump and his allies and we want to thank you for your courage. i'm sick and worried every day about my dad, my family and my immigrant brothers and sisters.

i haven't seen my dad for over a year because he lives overseas. i'm terrified that he will get to the airport and we won't be able to talk to him again. it's a constant worry my entire life, but with the trump agenda, i would prefer he stays where he is and being able to talk to him via facebook or phone is enough for me versus depriving the opportunity to ever be able to speak to him. the trump administration is dividing families, tearing americans from their home and depriving them of their human rights. you are leading the resistance and i thank you and i stand with you. >> supervisor cohen: next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors, my name is leavia, i'm a codirector at community united against violence, it's lgbt anti-violence organization here in san francisco, we've been around for 38 years.

we support survivors of domestic violence, we depend on this collaboration so much because often times survivors of domestic violence are not only threatened by their abusive partner, but also are often criminalized when asking for help. and so the amount of dual arrests are -- happen to often that -- so often that we need support from the public defender's office to help survivors not be further criminalized and stay longer amount of time in jail. and so not only us as an individual organization depends on this collaboration, but also

the domestic violence consortium. we receive know your rights training from this organization, so it's crucial for the collaboration to continue being funded because we know they're busy and we need this to happen. thank you so much for leading this, thank you for your support and supporting survivors of abuse. >> [speaking spanish] it is very

important because in the past, before i was able to have legal documentation, i had to be silent about the violence and abuse that i suffered. i am here today for the people who have been silenced, who did not have a voice. i am here to ask you to support this proposal, this initiative to give legal representation to everybody regardless of their color, or their race. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: next speaker. >> good morning, everyone. supervisors of san francisco, very powerful people. i'm here before you this morning because i want to mention the awareness and the fear that has

brought upon my skin color still until today. i'm worried that not just me, but many people are being deported just because of their skin color. i'm here to share that i've been working myself with my own issues with the united against violence, learning about what it is to be a criminalized. sometimes and most of the time, and still today, many police are mistreating our people. and that shouldn't be happening because there has been a lot of investment, there has been a lot of work that we have put into make better life for ourselves. for us to give back.

go back an get traumatized again and go back to the violence we don't want to be in. i work so much, so many years, to do the change i wanted to see. for me to now go back, just like people who have -- for doing so and such. however, you guys have the power to stop these from happening. because you have a human kind. you know about it. you've been through a lot and you should know what is the need that is happening right now. [bell ringing] >> supervisor cohen: thank you. audrey? francisco?

is audrey here? nope. that was audrey. thank you. francisco? >> good morning, supervisors, my name is francisco and i'm manager of the immigration unit at the san francisco public defender's office. i am very proud to be here today with this community representing this city and resisting this racist administration that is perpetrating crimes against humanity every single day in the city of san francisco. people are picked up, hearded into detention facility, without a lawyer, separated from their families and communities, 95% of people without an attorney do not win their case. since we started our unit, at the public defenders' office, we

represented people and have been successful in half of those cases. there is a difference between individual representation and collective representation, because what we can do as a team is far greater than as individual attorneys. we can coordinate agendas, we can coordinate appeals. we can demand times, demand access, demand telephone access. and our power as a team going after certain practices is tremendously more powerful than coming at this individually. i'd also just like to say, that supervisor ronen talked about this as a racial justice issue and indeed it is. while many of the people detained from central america, these are not only central america immigrants, cambodia, middle east immigrants are under attack. yesterday i was representing an iraqi national who was in jail for eight months with no court

hearing set except for his bond hearing. who is a refugee. who escaped iraq after the girs gulf war and -- first gulf war and was tortured. [bell ringing] >> supervisor cohen: thank you. if there is any other member of the public who wants to speak after, come up and get in the queue. >> the reason i'm here today we see support groups, multilingual spanish speaking people and the reason is lack of media. people are afraid to go to the groups which is empowerment group. if we don't have the media and

the information, which is the government, or the city and county of san francisco, that's what we are suffering. we're seeing decrease in when it comes to the support group which is the heart of san francisco foundation, so on and so on. the ways we can have direct link in approach between the government agencies, and this organizations and supporting groups. we need people to come from the government and tell us what is going on, especially the people that are spanish speaking. i want to say though i feel very proud, yesterday i saw that acting mayor write to us, to me

that speaks humongous to see the san francisco -- >> thank you to everyone who came for public comment. >> public comment is closed at this time. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: i want to say i am honored as elected officials we have opportunity to provide our immigrant community during this unprecedented time, with a lifeline, a lifeline to freedom, human and civil rights. i'm incredibly proud of our city putting our money where our values are and we possess the courage to do so. with that, i have amendments that i believe i would like to make a motion to accept. and so i move the amendments that i originally proposed. >> supervisor cohen: ok. catherine stephanie seconded the motion.

>> supervisor stefani: i agree that supplementals should only be used in dire situations, but i can't agree more that the fear is dire an urgent. these are unprecedented times. stories of families being broken apart. people with no criminal records being targeted. families living in fear. separating mothers and fathers from children is heartbreaking. i'm asking the state to fund us and i'm grateful for those who are worked on the issue and come to agreement on the supplemental. supervisor ronen said when she was an aide, that supervisor farrell was supportive of another supplemental. i was his aide at that time. i went to immigration court.

i saw what was happening in the immigration court. you can't unsee that. you can't unsee that fare. you can't unsee that stress. and you can't -- this is -- these are people that are suffering and i'm happy we were able to come to agreement on the supplemental and i'm happy to support it. >> this is exciting time and very proud to cast this vote. this is going to be unanimous measure as amended without objection, this motion passes. [applause] chair cohen, i request this is moved out of committee and be heard at the board meeting next tuesday, march 6th, instead of 13th. >> clerk: this item is not scheduled as committee report item and it has exceeded 11 deadline, so it has to be heard on the march 13th meeting. >> thank you very much. sorry.

>> supervisor cohen: housekeeping. i need to take a motion to rescind the vote for item 3. there is language that i need to move out. i'd like to take a -- make a motion to rescind item 3? without objection? item 3 is rescinded. i'd like to entertain a motion for item 3 to delete the nighttime permit fee, it's a none substantive change to the legislation. without objection, this motion as amended passes unanimously. all right, thank you. item 6. >> item 6, . this is another supplemental request that has come to us by

supervisor kim. we have moses to speak on the item. thank you, the floor is yours. >> moses from supervisor kim's office. i'd like to offer background on the item. according to the six-month budget status report from the controller's office, the city has a $2.5 million surplus. in simple terms, we found some pocket change in the couch. and so these are existing funds that have already been budgeted but not used. and the supervisor and staff from dpw worked together to find a way to maximize some of the impact with the funds available. why are we putting this item forward? this office has seen a huge increase in street cleaning requests. our streets are dirty. it's unhealthy for the city of san francisco. and emergency cleaning on a

case-by-case basis when conditions get extreme is inefficient and should not be allowed. if you take a look at what happened recently in san diego, they had a state of emergency for hepatitis outbreak. we just in san francisco cant let that happen here. it shouldn't be allowed to continue. although, supervisor kim introduced this supplemental, the problem is just as real outside of her district. this is a city-wide solution to a city-wide problem and most of the neighborhoods to not have a community benefit district that will help with this, but this supplemental will. the problem has increased disproportionately to population increases throughout the city. and the citizens of san francisco, using this pocket change we found in the couch, will see a positive increase of 8% of the manual street cleaning crews out on the streets. these are actual jobs.

and they are union jobs. so hands up for the 9916 brothers and sisters who are doing the work. this will assess many of our commercial corridors throughout the city. there is one piece which includes $230,000 to assist exiting organization to extend the level of service to include cleaning on weekends. while the overwhelming majority of the supplemental is for mon wall cleaning, it does pride for the purchase of -- provide for the purchase of state-of-the-art machines. and we have folks here that if needed can talk about those machines. if you're to think of these as vacuum cleaners, they're the best filter you can get. this supplemental is temporary, but we're making this a level of

service. this will benefit our citizens, tourism and offset a growing reputation for san francisco as unfortunately one of the dirtiest cities in the nation. this is something we should no longer tolerate. >> thank you for the brief presentation. i want to recognize the colleague supervisor kim is here, give her an opportunity to say a few remarks. >> supervisor kim: thank you, chair cohen, i rushed over from mission bay where we broke ground on 100% affordable housing project that our late mayor pushed, 119 units of affordable housing for low-income families and our veterans, so incredibly exciting. i want to thank the members of the budget committee today for hearing on this item. moses said it and no one needs to hear the stories of data. we know that our city, for whatever reason, has been getting dirtier every year.

in 2016, we had 40,000 calls for services asking for additional street cleaning pickup. a third of the requests were in district 6. last year, 2017, it almost doubled 80,000 calls, again a third of the requests in district 6. we have increased need. our citizens who are using 3-1-1 apps and other programs, we know and we can see that our streets are getting dirtier as well and we need to give more funds to the street cleaners. these are real jobs for residents that can help grow our working class here in san francisco. so i want to thank moses for that presentation. and colleagues, i hope to have your support. the $2.5 million comes from unspent dollars in the first six months of the 2017-2018 fiscal year.

so these were dollars that were previously allocated to other line items, but were not spent down. i think if there are any additional dollars in the city budget, it should be dedicated to ensuring that the streets are cleans for residents, families, seniors and look forward to hearing from the members of the public in support of this measure. thank you again to chair cohen and supervisor stephanie and fewer. >> supervisor cohen: i believe this should be a priority for the city during the budget season, as we heard earlier, we're in the midst of a transition to do more transparent and public process. in identifying the budget priorities. excuse me, that was item 1. about a more transparent budget

process. the bla, the budget legislative analyst is currently surveying each office to understand the top issues that our cities are facing and what the district supervisors would like to see as a budgetary priority and i understand there may be a gap in funding. so my office we agree with supervisor kim and that street cleaning is a budget priority. i believe that our streets need to be identified top priority in this committee. the priority hearing throughout april that i mentioned earlier at the top of the meeting, are designed to signal to the mayor's budget office what the issues are, and also to instruct them on how they should be allocating funds and to what level. and that was a where request for immediate release of funds to help ensure there is legal representation for the population of folks that are being unlawfully detained.

and to identify a full dollar amount to ensure that our streets in san francisco are fully cleaned to the standards that our residents would expect us to deserve. i'm also told that the mayor is going to make this a priority and put this inside his budget. this is two fold. what i'm proposing is that we wait to hear that this item is fully funded and in the mayor's budget. if it is not we will hear the supplemental item in the committee and take the item outside of the binl process. i -- budget process. i hope that is clear. this request is asking for money that we can allocate through the budget process. as a safety to supervisor kim and to preserve the integrity of the process, again, i'm asking

that we let the bla do their analysis and that we table this item to the call of the chair in anticipation of the mayor's budget. if he does not put it in the budget, we will deal with it here for sure. i just wanted to clearly communicate that to not only supervisor kim, but the larger public and the women on the committee. supervisor kim i see your name on the roster. >> supervisor kim: i wanted to respond to that. i'm excited that mayor mark farrell will be prioritizing allocation of street cleaning dollars in the 2018-19 budget and we have talked about that, he said he'll make it a priority. this is an allocation for additional street cleaners today. so they would start before july 1s, it doesn't start to october of the following year. we had $2.5 million unspent in

the first six months of this year. so the purpose is addressing the fact that we have a crisis of dirty streets and needles and human feces and i don't think our residents can wait until october to see additional street cleaners. if we allocate these dollars now, it will allow us in two months to ensure there are additional street cleaning services on the ground. i talked to the director, who doesn't have sa position on, this but he said he'll work as quickly as possible to ensure that contracts are going out and we're able to hire additional street cleaners before july 1st. we are going out of the budget process because it is such a crisis. when i mentioned that calls for a service on street cleaning had doubled between 2015-17, this fiscal year in the first six months, we already had 50,000 calls for services. which means we're on track to hit 100,000 by june 30th.

so i don't think the residents can wait. i'm asking that this committee push this out to the full board. i'd love to get this money going as quickly as possible. i don't want our residents to wait until september, october to see additional street cleaners. this allows us to do it before the next fiscal year and that's why i'm asking for the supplemental appropriation today. >> supervisor cohen: i have a couple of names, public comment, jane, eileen, marjorie. >> hello, supervisors, supervisor stefani and i worked on the board.

my name is janend i live on mission street between 7th and 8th in the center of the city. as empty nesters it made sense to move from clean to a beautiful new condo downtown, walking distance to everything, public transportation to everywhere. little did i know i was walking into a hell hole. i had no idea that the city policy was to create poverty, drug abuse, mental illness into a small area so that residents in the rest of the city don't have to see it and deal with it. mid market from 6th to 9th is a nightmare and continues to get worse. we're in crisis now. we can't wait. these funds are available and we need them thousand. the recent observation by the professor that our streets are dirtier than a third world country is real. we walk through poop, vomit and

syringes daily. people are openly injected and passed out with piles of trash. they work and the sfpd is trying to bust the drug dealers, but as long as we tolerate this street behavior, they can't hold back the tide. somehow the idea of concentrating services near the addicts has become policy. the safe injection site is 6th street and the halfway house for people in the prison system. the sobering respite center has expanded and building for homeless who are not from the neighborhood is being built. the dysfunction is further concentrated. logic follows that the poor souls who need help would go to another part of the city if the services were offered there, but constituents in those -- [bell ringing] >> supervisor kim: thank you very much.

>> hello, i've been a 48-year resident of south of market. off of 4th street. and i want to say that the situation is extremely bad. not only are we stuck with the central subway construction that doesn't get cleaned on our sidewalks or streets, but we have 400-bet homeless shelter on 6th street, which is filthy with urine, needles, filthy can filthy, filthy, and i started to get a number of businesses in the area to support this and everyone is supportive and says we need it now, we need it now. in a walk i had at california, at cpmc two weeks ago, it's

wonderful. it's clean. it's pristine. yet we live in filth because we support homeless. we support people who have less. but we get less. thank you. >> next speaker, please. majoritiry. rjorie. >> good afternoon, thank you, jane kim for supporting this proposal. district 6 is a very, very big and complicated district getting more complicated every single day as ms. jane kim knows, there is so much variety in this district. it needs extra support, more than any other district in san francisco. it's the last vestige of development by the way, folks. get ready.

so, please, please, make sure that you give the money to cleaning up district 6 streets. all together it will help not only our district which is huge with many different people living in it, but also we have people that visit san francisco and they walk around the district 6 because the san francisco giants play there. and they love to be there. but if they're going to walk around and find dirty streets, they're not going to come back to san francisco.

-- the numbers that supervisor kim have shared around this issue are staggering but i want to share additional ones not in the city stats and those are the ones that we collect on a monthly basis. between 1,700 and 2,500 every 30 days and 30,000 pounds of garbage and that's what we collect and on these 30 blocks it's more populated by children than any other neighborhood in san francisco. and how many children is too few on a block to not address the issue? i do thank you very much for hearing this and we're committed to working with the city as we do, seven days a week. lastly i want to just say that these jobs really do have the opportunity to change lives.

the dirty streets is definitely a symptom of growing problems, bigger, complex problems, but they can also work to address those problems. we need to make a dent from this before we can tackle the complex issues. thank you very much. >> chair cohen: thank you very much. jen may and neil patell. >> hello, my name is jenny maymont and i'm a parent to a 3-year-old with another child on the way. i am a parent in western soma and there are a lot of us and my son at 3 years old knows how to avoid the gauntlet of trash, needles and feces that it takes to walk to our local breakfast place and our local park. and not all parents are comfortable with our kids going through the streets. i have a neighbor who doesn't let her kid walk through the

streets. many of the mothers on my message board have recently spoken up about how fed up they are with the level of trash. they are even threatening to leave this city. and we need our children in san francisco, they are our future, and i'm asking that this money be spent right away to make our streets safer and cleaner for our children. thank you very much. >> chair cohen: thank you very much, neil patell, thanks. >> my name is neil patell with the district. and i want to add additional numbers and express the need for additional services from the city to pick up trash and make our streets cleaner. we pick up last year 300,000 pounds of trash and this is off of the street. and 365 days a year we have men and women out there picking up trash on their own without a service request. so even i think that the existence of a community benefit

district speaks to the fact that the city can't keep up with the need out there on the streets. so we're trying to do our part but we definitely would love the city to devote more resources in this area. >> chair cohen: thank you very much, other public speakers? >> hi, we work for united players and the soma youth collaborative and we want to say in one voice that clean streets are so important for our youth and our children and we are in support of this measure because it has reached the level of an emergency and it has to be acted on now. >> yeah, it's definitely a priority and it's not okay that our kids walk in the streets and are used to seeing needles and landmines of feces that are not from dogs every day and so we thank you, supervisor kim for prioritizing this. >> if you need more information can you connect with the fix it team and she's seen the level of crises and how it is across multiple neighborhoods so she can address this issue now and in the future.

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