using child psychology on adults. for example, you board of supervisors, you are employees that work for the city of san francisco, and attorney d.a. is also paying payroll taxes. when you get your check, you have payroll taxes deducted from your check. the 10 companies that i'm talking about here is not paying taxes. twitter is a high-tech company that skirted $34 million in payroll taxes last year, thanks to the controversial senate program called the twitter tax. it costs san francisco $130

million. supervisor peskin would like to see the budget shortfall as an opportunity to claw back $34 million annually from twitter. housing is profiting $198 million. this means about $20 million a year. twitter is getting this tax break for six years. my point is, these organizations coming up here pleading for fees and companies not getting tax breaks, getting all these -- >> supervisor cohen: all right, folks. we have some challenges here before us. i've got cards here. and i'm going to be calling people as they filled out their cards. we need to disoccurring the

jumping of the line. the youth commission is scheduled to present at 4:30. so -- but also, in line with the presentations for today are 5 minutes, not 20, so i need the youth commission to be prepared to streamline their presentation down to 5 minutes. i'm going to need to make a decision here. i'm going to suspend public comment. and allow the youth commissioners an opportunity to come in and make their presentation and then we'll go back into public comment for the previous items that we heard. also, the youth commission will make the same presentations that you heard from the departments. they will speak from their vantage point about the budget priorities, okay? at this time, would i like to gavel down for the special order. it's 4:36. please recognize supervisor yee and supervisor sheehy are in the

chamber. >> clerk: identify the youth commission budget priorities for fiscal year 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 and requesting the youth commission to report. >> supervisor cohen: welcome, commissioners. >> supervisor cohen: are you ready? >> i suppose so. good afternoon, budget and finance committee. i'm mary claramavley, chair for

housing and city services committee. it's here as part of our charter duties to present our priorities for the next fiscal year. here's a budget of the summary policies we'll present to you today. i'm not sure if we can do this under 10 minutes, but we'll try. >> supervisor cohen: i said 5. >> 5 minutes. >> priority number one, continue to extend alternatives to incarceration. we see that there's a problem with too many young people being incarcerated. and getting to recommend dogses, we would like to thank president breed for holding a hearing around alternate incarceration for young people. we would like to encourage the

sup supervisors and the mayor to increase funding for specific services. we would urge the d.a. to restructure how it charges young people for nonviolent felonies. we would encourage the completion of the tay housing plan. and to give an update around that. we know that the housing developments gave out a grant to work with young adult court to have better access to housing. we would urge the judge to create a walking calendar. and would urge them to reject financing debts or other certificates to remove -- to

renovate existing jails and to include tay in the juvenile and jail provision services. thank you. >> hello. i'm kristin tim, district 7 youth commissioner. priority two, implement education for san francisco youth. it's so important to make sure that our youth know how to sort their waste and why it's so important to. and so we're urging the department of youth, children and families to connect with the department of the environment to bring the education presentations to the department of youth, children and families. and to urge those recipients to host the department of the environment presentations to increase environmental education. we'd like to do it for the middle school and high schools, but as many teachers don't have that much time to have presentations, that's why we're asking the department of youth,

children and family who fund 55% of the high school youth. >> priority 3 is to redesign open space to meet the needs of youth. the first was in the downtown plan of 1985 and since then has only catered to office workers. we've want them to cater not just for office workers but to children, youth and families are. south of market there are more. the youth commission urges the planning department to increase the number of public parks and open space in south of market and chinatown and increase funding for maintenance and programming in south of market and chinatown. the city and county of san francisco to include children, youth and families in the decision for new popos. and that there are standards that focus on the needs of

children, youth and families. funding to pay a specific staffperson for guidelines of popos and before the -- >> supervisor cohen: you have a lot of budget asks. have you identified sources of where this revenue has come from? >> no. we have not gotten there yet. >> supervisor cohen: continue. >> and before the final consideration, it must come before the commission for recommendation. priority 4 is to protect and prioritize community access to sunlight and open space. in 1984, voters passed proposition k. this was something that was on our list last year. we don't see proposition k come into play. in this picture, we see the

parks that it will shadow. it was approved in 2016. in april, 2018, we met with the planning department, where they give us two presentations. and in this commission or hearing, 20 youth from cddc express the frustration of choosing between sunlight and parks and housing for community. so the youth commission urges that the board hold a hearing on the implementation of proposition k and sunlight and explore opportunities to expand outdoor recreation access. the city and county of san francisco to stop pinning issues against shadows and that the planning department to include stronger lang thatting a-- language. priority 5, pedestrian and night safety for children, youth and

families. so district 6 has some of the highest pedestrian rates. 70% of our accidents are on 12% of our streets. south of market has five or more freeway entrances and exits. i watch cars zoom by residential alleys, and it only gets worse as the sun goes down. youth from south of market have expressed feeling unsafe and so unsafe 1/3 have to walk in groups to go home. after numerous community discussions and workshops in the soma, a campaign was created to advocate for the switch to l.e.d. lamp posts and pedestrians over cars. we can go to recommendations. youth commission urges that l.e.d. lights are replaced,

perform monthly maintenance on light fixtures. and increase the size of sidewalks, more mid-block crossings. and we also want the board to hold a hearing on the impact of pedestrian and night safety and focus on areas affected by fatalities and loitering. >> priority 6, with all the shootings, we know that the youth are more engaged. along with that, the youth commission has done a lot of work in the last two years. and this year we've been trying to work with border education on making preregistration forms

available. so with our recommendations, we would urge dcyf to require their -- the option of preregistration and to support a state proposition that would lower the voting age from 18 to 17. we would urge the board of supervisors in dcyf to make sure that the required policies pass to allow preregistration. >> supervisor cohen: getting back to your number two recommendation. supporting the lowering age of 18 to 17. we did that here in san francisco. it didn't manifest anything. we took it to voters and it failed. >> talking about proposition f,

which is -- >> supervisor cohen: go ahead. >> i think you are talking about proposition f, which was two years ago, november, 2016, it was on the ballot. this is different. that was in the state. the last one was supporting the department of elections. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. there it is, yes, prop f. priority 7? >> as josh mentioned, it was on the 2016 ballot and only lost by 2%. right now, there's a huge amount of young people who are outraged and the self-labeled mass shooting generation are all people that want to be able to hold their elected officials accountable but may not be able to do so because of their age and because they're not able to

vote. so this has -- right now, sacramento is running through their vote but also all across the country. youth commission would like to recommend there's a meeting where we can talk about this in more detail and to sponsor the voting efforts and vote in favor of placing prop f on the 2020 ballot. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> priority 8, during the youth commissions preregistration, we found that many young people were not able to register to vote because they didn't have access to social security numbers and california i.d.

cards. we know that providing youth with fee waivers will alleviate the barrier. the youth commission is asking the city and county of san francisco and the department of children youth and families to work together to allocate $60,000 to california ids for years and the department of elections meet with members of the san francisco youth commissions civic engagement and recreation committee to implement this change. >> supervisor cohen: why is this a budget priority? how does it fare against homelessness and unemployment and affordable housing? >> thank you. we believe that young people -- all of these issues can be solved with young people being involved in our democracy and

people holding people like you and elected officials accountable. thank you. >> priority 9 is to continue to protect undocumented families to deportation. the federal government has not been very friendly to our immigrant population of the youth commission would lake to thank you because we think that as much as possible, san francisco has been doing a pretty good job of taking care of our populations. specifically for the resolutions you've written -- >> supervisor cohen: and money we've allocated >> and the money allocated, like for the public defender's office that does so much help for dock documents immigrants in court. thank you very much.

>> supervisor cohen: you just want us to continue to support them? >> yes. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. priority 10? >> hello. priority 10 is increasing emergency shelter options and permanent exits for homeless. these are the findings from the may 17 hearing on homelessness and they found that only 6% of the investments in homeless e exits was for use. it required construction for a transitional youth navigation center. only 118 of the 400 units were provided exits for homelessness.

also, we need a location. so we recommend growth fund investment. the youth commission urges that the completion of the housing plan be a priority for the city and county of san francisco and that the city and county of san francisco recommit to the housing plan by establishing the housing goal. as well as address the need for transitional youth and need for rehabilitation. >> we had a sick commissioner so, i'm filling in. alcohol is an issue around san francisco. our recommendations are to require an equity analysis of any alcohol-related impacts as

part of any new alcohol-related policies and consider the impacts that here for youth 18 to 24, particularly communities of color and low-income. we ask that you move the report on the add -- administrative costs to a public hearing and also to partner with the below-mentioned partners to develop a regulatory framework. this is the same, exact budget and policy for this issue that we recommended last year as well. any questions or comments? we know it was a little over 5 minutes. we appreciate your time. and know that there are young people in the room. so thank you for being here as well. so any questions that we can answer for you all? >> supervisor cohen: i just want to acknowledge the leadership from the youth commission. thank you very much. i'm happy to see you all and

you've given a lot of thought, very thoughtful consideration in some of the budget priorities. you presented 11 budget priorities. by definition, priority means you have to prioritize here, so out of the 11, i'm curious to know how you would prioritize top three? and any commissioner can take a stab at it. or not. if it's not a priority -- we've heard about incarceration, several with tay youth, popos, privately owned public space, pedestrian safety at night. that's just an example. >> right, right. i think where, you know, our term, we're given a year to

determine out of all the issues impacting young people.

that further compounds the budget act. when there are multiple entities asking for the same thing, it comes to the bubble as a priority when different entities say seniors, young people say safety is a problem. when you have got the municipal transportation system saying this is a priority of our agency. that is a tool to help us figure out where the priorities will be. >> i agree with you in the fact of so thank you for spearheading the regulations solution on homelessness and in particular putting the emphasis on there this past week and supervisor yee for pedestrian safety.

if there is room to collaborate that we would love to be included in the conversations as well. we don't want to reinvent the wheel. a lot of partners are working on the similar issues. when we cannot work in sile lows. that is where we want to be part of the issues being worked on by you and the community members and audience. >> this was very helpful and enlightening. i want to go to supervisor yee. >> i want to thank the youth commissioners for coming today, and really giving, obviously, you have given a lot of thought to your priorities. i guess i am taking it differently the presentation, not department per se or asking something for the department. i am taking it as a voice from the youth that these would be priorities from the youths'

perspective. i would take these into consideration when i think about the different issues that other departments are presenting, such as pedestrian safety issues so i appreciate everything that has been presented. even the environmental piece of this. if you can bring it up some of the things you brought up, if you didn't bring it up, i may not think about it. as i go through my thought process what i want to support on the different issues, your voice is going to be considered. >> thank you very much for the recommendations. i want to mention that the voting thing i wrote the resolution for the san francisco unified school district. they can pre-register. they have a program now.

i think an evaluation of that program you might request that from sfufc board members to request a hearing so you can get an update how many have they registered, how is it implemented in the program and how effective has it been? i am interested in 24-year-olds. many of the recommendations are very, very good. i want to mention that i heard from pg&e they are replacing all lights with led lights. that would be helpful in the endeavor about pedestrian safety. i want to say what i was surprised i didn't see is youth employment because in the past i have spoken to many youth and they mentioned youth employment especially during this time where there is a wealth gap that

many of the youth want to supplement their own parents' incomes. i was surprised not to see anything on youth employment. i would urge because we have covered a lot about protections and sanctuary cities look at expanding backca opportunity -- daca opportunities. i think id is important. to get a job, employment, those things you need an id. i would just recommend that maybe since we are -- the city has done wraparound services around our sanctuary city to protect undocumented folks we might center on the youth eligible for daca and expanding opportunities to have those fees waved for daca applicants.

i. >> i want to say we are in the process of the youth employment for next year. the background we didn't have enough to have it in this year. we have a commissioner spearheading it next year for sure. we are in the process and in particular trying to create a youth employment council. you will see that coming next year down the pipeline. >> oewd gave a presentation on youth employment. >> thank you for that. >> thank you commissioners, i appreciate your presentation and your thoughtfulness. we will go to public comment. if there is any member of the public, please line up and we will take your public comment. then to the general public here for the item in the early in the morning we will get back to you

as well. public comment is two minutes. come on up. >> i am tiff chang. i work in district 8 for transgender nonconforming youth, maybe the first in the country. when i was 10, i wanted an ipod. i started measuring the cost of things in ipods. let's take a moment to measure the budget in houses. back in april the medium cost of a house in san francisco was estimated at $1.6 million. the services for lgbt communities is $1.2 million, less than one house. lgbt communities one house.

youth leadership 300,000 that is a room in the house. supervisor cohen that is a room in one house for youth leadership. that is for services for seniors and disables me, my grandma and friends belong to is 3 point $2 million for two houses. finally what if you were to measure in terms of sales force towers. homelessness with one of the highest rates of income inequality $45.3 million. 2.5 floors for housing and homelessness. thank you. >> this is for item two. youth commission that we are taking public comment for. i am not sure if those comments

are for that. >> i thought it was a hearing on special projects. >> this is a special hearing that started at 4:30 p.m. for the youth commission. i suspended the public comment for item one. this is public comment for item two the youth commission budget priorities. if you would like to talk on the youth commission budget priorities, i invite you to come up. youth commission budget priorities. >> i am going to close public comment. >> budget priorities. >> i appreciate you spending time on the youth priorities. i came for the jail commission because the youth commission consulted with us for priority one about the alternative to

incarceration. i appreciate the excellent recommendations. there are three we are excited about to highlight. first the idea that the board of supervisor in the city and county of superintendent should not build any new incarceration facilities. i agree that we can save money by not incarcerating more young people will be excellent. resources and fuel for funding the other priorities presented today. second, the restructuring charging for felony theft. if someone steals a cell phone there is no balance involved that could be a misdemeanor. that would save money. third the priority presented about having transitional issues between 18 and 24 on juvenile

jail and probation instead of adult system will sav save moned prevent unnecessary suffering of people young making a first mistake being put in the adult system. thank you very much. >> any other speakers for the youth commission budget priorities? welcome. >> i am ed son. i am 18. i have lived in south market since i moved here from the philippines when i was 7 years old. i am here to speak on behalf of the pedestrian safety campaign and why it is important to south market. there is a lot of things that we have to worry about when it comes to safety as pedestrians walking streets in day or night time. speeding cars and poverty and

crime going on in south market. we are worried about people and our safety from those dangerous people, and i am advocating for that campaign because, you know, as pedestrians we deserve to walk the streets safely in night tame or daytime. whether that is through brighter lights to replace old ones or providing ways where pedestrians such as myself and elderly people to cross safely from the streets is really, really important. i can only speak on behalf of the south market. i do hope this campaign can branch out throughout other neighborhoods such as the tenderloin and hunter's point. there is a lot of dangerous areas around there. iit would be been fish to focus -- beneficial to focus on this

campaign. >> next speaker. >> i am with yana. i would like to talk about pedestrian safety. to me it is important because in front of market there is lack of sufficient lights on our streets which makes it a big impact to me and everyone in here in the market area. because of this it leads to a deeper problem like stalkings. everyone here that experienced that already. in my program we some of our youth are going home around 8 and 7 due to they need help with homework and stuff like that, and i go around 7:00 or 8:00 at night and sometimes i have to take the longer way because i

don't feel safe taking shorter ways going home because of the homeless people and the lack of lights in the streets. i just want to talk about pedestrian and light safety and how we support it. thank you. >> next speaker. seeing none i am going to close public comment. public comment is closed on item two. >> i appreciate the last two speakers talking about is it the lights at south market. that is just to remind me self. i got hit by a car and almost died south market at nighttime. >> thank you for sharing that. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are going to take a motion to file this hearing as heard.

if i could take that without objection. please let the house reflect that supervisor fewer and yee are in the house. this is heard. at this point i would like to call back item one. i have still a stack of cards. at the top i have anna de la santos. mariamarie lata. you can't read the first name. castile. daisy, troy gas fire, please come on up to the podium so i know you are here. >> i am troy gas fire. i was homeless about a year ago.

thanks to doing volunteering at hospitality house, i am no longer homeless. i want to say tiffany jackson who got up here to speak as senior employment specialist at hospitality house. when i do the phone three out of four of the phone calls are for tiffany jackson. if we had 20 tiffany jacksons we would reduce the homeless people in the city. she works tirelessly every single day. i would urge the city to one day shadow her to see how you can get unemployment people that have been homeless for years into jobs and into a secure situation. tiffany jackson is a hero to me. i urge other people to follow her example. thank you. >> thank you, troy, that is very nice. thank you, tiffany jackson.

i called a couple people. are any of them in the chamber? daisy? i will keep going down the list. forgive me if i mispronounce the name. last name is allen. robin cookston, sang. lasimosa. dezi. paul, mario, chin chin, michael reskin, michelle quiz no, diana

markly, jillian an, andy burns. go ahead. >> i am jill yancey the program coordinate for the groceries program. we have had the opportunity to expand the partnership was social service and faith-based organizations to serve over 2000 this year. as we have grown we strive to be innovated in partnerships with what we form. we want equity for participants. in january we established a new partnership to serve the homeless veterans with disabilities for home delivery groceries. in the tenderloin we have served 70 with the partnership with the

hope community center. they make the deliveries by car. walking around making the deliveries on foot allow them to deliver more times. they do not have to find time to partltofind parking. our program extends beyond those we serve. we developed partnerships with recreation and rehabilitation center, the clients with disabilities are the volunteers who make the door-to-door deliveries are seniors. it has provided an opportunity for the client to engage in the community and develop job and life skills. our program expands across san francisco and serves residents of every district. if you want to see us in action we invite you to ride or walk along with our partners. >> greetings. i and andy burns program manager

for home delivery program. i want to thank you for the support fighting food and security in san francisco especially for the home delive delivered groceries. we serve 2000 every week. they get a bag of groceries. they have a hard time to get out to get groceries. that is a 10 fold increase in the last three years as a result of the support from you all. we have calculated based on the demographic info in the needs assessment there are probably 20,000 that qualify. we appreciate your support. thank you. >> next card is for daniel castro. >> michelle casanno. i am executive director of rich monds neighborhood center. we are asking the high school

youth in district one and the service we say can provide. as c bo concerned about youth struggling. we pride ourselves in the impact and out come of the work we do. we think the beacon expansion to middle school is great. payment with the middle school expansion, high school services are cut despite 20 years of proven outcomes as well as adapting to the strategies. i have our deputy director to tell you more about the impact of the cuts. >> thank you, a special thank you for supervisor fewer. we serve thousands of young people every year. the result of the shift is impacting the gorge washington high school and the employe bear

reducing money for other crams at high school. there is still what we see as 28 $7,000 net loss at our school. this significantly impacts the most under represented and vulnerable populations. our programs for the beacon serve everyone from black students at the black student union, latino, gender sexuality, inclusion for special needs to socialize with peers. these are important programs that are for young people from beacon. one of the things we recognize is that while there is a shift to middle school the services are important for the high

school students. at george washington we serve 2100 students. through the beacon we serve 1100 students each year. daily average we have gone from serving 29 students since we first opened in 1997 when people said that high schoolers won't come to after school to serving 100 to 150 students every day. we urge you to consider continuing to fund the robust programming that represents an investment of $6.5 million from the department of children youth and families. >> thank you. if i have called anyone's name please come up. seeing none, eli if you are here, come up. next is .

>> i think the cards are in reversesorder the youth are here since 1:00. i want them to speak. i got here like at 1:30 p.m. >> that might be true. i am bringing them as they come to me. if you heard your name, i have daniel castro, please come on down. >> the reason i am here is because we are providing services in san francisco jail for transwomen. we advocatorred for $300,000 in the last process and we applied but only half was funded for us. the funding was, you know, already there. i have half of a staff before it was two, now it is 1-a loan into the jail. i would like her to be accompanied by another counselor

to pro the services in the jail. that is why i am asking colleague goes to go before me. >> i see a bunch of youth cards after your name. start to line up. we will bring them up behind you. >> i would also like to highlight that the transact this year is a small portion of the budget. please take that into consideration when you review the ask and think fairly how resources are spread over the entire ask. i think we are disproportionately impacted. we are not getting the services we need and struggling to survive and get by. i am lucky to be in the place i am.

thank you. >> i have got carry grey, rose troop, jason, pope, tiff chang. any of you here? come up. >> hello, i am lathe allen pope. i am 18, i live work and grew up in district 8. i am working at receiving help as well as having received help from the lbgt center and children and youth services growing up. lyric is part of my life from educational support to a steady something for a first time in my life. i had a partner in high school who faced homelessness while in school.

she had to seek lgbq specific services. without the lyric services i don't know if she would be with us any more. i am here on behalf of her, my close friends who survived off the nonprofit services and on behalf of lyric who offer financial stability for people like me. thank you. >> if you heard your name, come on up. >> our name is rose troop. we work in the castro district 8. we work as a fellow at lyric and also a student at bcsf. we have been with lyric since january of this year. without a doubt, it is thanks to lyric our life is as stable now as it has ever been.

our living situation, work life and social life is healthier and more stable than in the 23 years we have been alive. we believe that the budget coalition request for $1.3 million for services and support for transgender, nonconforming and lgbq is deserved and will be used for the betterments of our city. thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> my name is mena helene. i am in district 8. i would like to bring up the committee the eviction prevention, housing and homelessness, services set by the budget coalition. on april 30th there were 150

calls to police because the homeless person was outside. i have seen community youth adults struggling to find and keep housing that will last longer than a few years without having to move because of increases. the services currently offered such as low income housing, lotteries, homeless shelters, have lists that are over 1,000 people. with no other options for folks that can't get into shelters and are without housing they are at risk for being ticketed and jailed. i want to pose to the committee that you all at min none honor the budget from the coalition providing a more accurate and safe care for those in the san

francisco community. >> thank you. carry grey, jason, kelsey, hold on. nina, moses and jo-jo. that exhausting the cards. >> i am kelsey. i live in district nine and work in district eight. i have lived here my life. i am here for the budget coalition priorities as a transperson and disabled person, when i need is housing, education services for disabled and bases for the transcommunity. i work and go to school full-time with no place to stay. i want to remind you all that this funding and programs are vital to the family and youth of san francisco, and i want to tell you this from experience

because i lived it all. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i am jo-jo. i work at lyric. i am based in district 8. i was born and raised in district 11. i am 18. i work at the school based initiative. as a san francisco native we are here to advocate for the city investment for lgbq students. there are seven q groups with over 34 youth enrolled. both of the groups see this as a critical support for the students of color and transgender and nonconforming. these are the only community based programming in the middle schools. supporting the lbgk students.

we are asking for $175,000 to support expansion of the middle school q groups for the model of the youth adequate for one-on-one men tell health support and resource languages. q groups are small as support gy specialize in art therapy, community member tell health and informed violence prevention. we focus on small group healing and create spaces in the face of barriers. these include bullying, physical violence and suicide. 34 youth enrolled in q groups over half are transgender nonconforming. 82 are students of color.

because of groups over half have come out to family, mends as lbgq and have connected with the support in their schools. >> next speaker. >> i am 20 years old. the fellowship is a paid position in the castro for nonbind errand year youth ages 18 to 25. we understand to pursue a paid position in the field of community health work and advocate for what the community needs to survive in the bay area. since i was born i react clearly against domestic violence and trauma and abuse. i have experienced homelessness,

domestic violence and trauma myself. to live a successfully flourishing average life, i would at least need knowledge of countless resources of which i have lacked knowledge of until recently which i was kicked out of my home by my abusive stepfather this past sunday. if it were not for my lyric families and staff members i would have been committed suicide by the end of wednesday evening. they have helped me not only find shelter but gain knowledge of and about housing opportunities and resources such as food and personal care products. if i had not had such a great team of leaders behind me, how would i have even defined the information of such resources. i have spent two years at treasure island job cores and

earned my office administration microsoft software, photo shop certificates. they cannot provide me the willing of resources that i need to fully move on and thrive as an independent adult. >> thank you. your time is up. >> we will get more people here. next speaker. all the names i called are not here. we will continue down the list. i have jill rosen. >> good afternoon. i am ely food and agriculture policy director at spur. something that came out in the food security task force and through the soda tax advisory committee about program that help children, seniors and low-income people in san

francisco to reduce hunger and improve health. vouchers you might have heard of a program currently operating. incentives are market match or double up food bucks. the committee and force have recommendations in the budget. you heard from the food security task force $1 million. it is about $1 million from the soda tax advisory committee. the way they overlap it totals 1.4. we can send more details where that comes. both groups included recommendations for these programs because they have seen that it works. we can provide more information. they are good at helping people receive food assistance. vouchers targeted people on ssi who are not receiving food assistance get more. i hope you invest. 1.4 is the total. you will see that from the two

committee in the coming budget. >> i am jill roy son from the california allowiers of the arts -- lawyers of the arts. i have some materials for you. >> as you get that together next is sandra davis, robbie h, spencer, john, william, patrick and eva gomez. start your time at the beginning. >> thank you very much. one of the questions raised earlier by the superintendent was whether or not the c yf, the r.f.p. was resolved that left gaps. that is a question. they said no gaps. however, we were funded california lawyers for the arts program which is an arts work

force development program is funded for nearly 25 years by the cyf and not funded in the next cycle. we are the only program in work force development in san francisco that focuses on all of the arts. there are two programs funded in media. we focus on performance arts, literary and visual arts. we provide opportunities in all of those areas. we think our youth are 100% are low income. 97% are youth of color, and we find that there is also in your packet some letters of support from the youth who have participated in our programs and talk about how essential the program was to their development and to their sense of self. i want to draw your attention to

one young person who described this program as a place of solace for their development. the program has an alumni program that continues to serve the youth who participated in the program. and who also provide opportunities for current youth to do job shadowing and provide mentorship to those folks. the program was founded in 1993. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> sandra davis, john, william, patrick, eva gomez, jackson. tiffany jackson,