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, jacqueline jones. >> i am spencer with boys and girls club. i would like to read a letter.

deer chair. i write to urge the committee to support increased fund egfor the services in the 2018-19 budget. one of our cities largest and most influential youth organizations. the city's funding is far too low based on need and high cost of doing business in our city. as you know, the department of children youth and families recently competed competitive process for funding for services over the next five years. it is flawed in three main ways. one, not enough money allocated to out of school time funding. this is for both poor and working class families. two, the funding in several categories with no relationship with families especially public

housing. three, too little money to teenagers. the dollars targeted at teens are exclusively for youth's work force development. we believe in the development and provide a lot of services. there is more that teens need than just youth work force development. they have made the boys and girls club looking at a significant reduction in services across the city and one site closing. it has meant a lot of things to kids and families through comprehensive one stop programs and services, strong extended day learning, partnering with sf police department to provide positive engagement with youth. we support working families by providing nine week in the summertime. thank you.

beverly, shawn, kelly, tony and theresa land rich. >> good evening you called me earlier. i am the program director for the coalition. it is for justice and accountability. the coalition was founded in february of 2015 in response to the brutal murder of a transwoman in the bay area district of san francisco. basically take community mobilized and started an initiative to end the genocide against transgender women. a key part was to design media materials that will be distributed through the city. basically what we did is a media

campaign in november. it was 100 buses and it ran for 30-days in november, which is like for trans people in terms of public awareness. the 2015lgbq violence prevention provided the transgender women are seven times more likely to feel unsafe. lack of access of housing, basic health and safe space esto gather and socialize. our response is to have a program for financial support and providing stable housing for the transgender women as well as providing legal documentation clinic to provide 100 women access to transport and gender changes on their document.

we have this and i don't want to take that much time and hopefully i can send out a follow up. thank you. >> all right. thank you for staying so we can all speak about our asks. i am the executive director of next village we serve seniors and disabilities in the northeast part of the city. we use volunteers to help people age in place and host over 200 social culltural and educational activities for the seniors with disabilities. our ask is $50,000. it will allow us to add back services to 140 income challenged people who aren't able to pay a new annual membership fee that they are requiring of village members.

our village provides services using volunteers. if we can find a volunteer to help make someone's day better we would like to do that. >> next speaker, please. >> i am employment case manager at hospitality house. i want to thank you all for listening to us this evening. i would ask you prioritize employment services for homeless job seekers. you know, i work in employment and we used to help people, you know, get guard cards because most of our clients are homeless, but not all of them. this last month in april i helped place at least 17 people

in jobs, and two of them got housed. then before that, one of my clients was homeless with two jobs. then he stopped doing one job and got housed. he is housed now. when they get jobs we do everything. we don't only do employment. i tell them send me your check stub. they send it to me and i put them on the housing waiting list, in the lotteries, we do everything because the budget cuts, you know, we still help them with clipper cards, work clothes, thank you. >> so real quick. john are you here or not here?

william? patrick? eva gomez. tiffany jackson is gone. johnson is gone. beverly anne kelly and brooks. do you want to go first? >> i am speaking to you as the legislative director for the california lions for retired of americans. disabilities caucus of the party chair. i want to talk about you listening to people who truly need help to live in your city.

this is extremely important. for the past 10 years i have been working on legislation to make it possible for seniors and those with disabilities to live in their community. here in san francisco in their community. i am just going to talk about pedestrian safety. we have worked on three bills and we have gotten some things done. one is to get signs in senior neighborhoods for people to slow down to 25 miles per hour. the other we went and could not get the legislation so we went to caltrans and we got them to change all the rules about the timing on red lights so that you

could change that timing and do it in the city. we hope you can do that so we can get across the street. i do want to tell you the man who worked on all of these did not live to fruition of what he worked on. his name was david grant. he was a senior living in the city. he was on the board of cara. he worked on pedestrian safety. >> thank you. i have beverly upton, shawn brooks around tony and anyone else that needs to come down, you are more than welcome.

we are not leaving until everyone has a chance. >> good evening and thank you. pardon my voice i am getting over a cold. beverly upton, executive director of the domestic violence consortium. we gather all of the programs that receive funding in the violence against women grant pool. i am trying to represent them today. one of the reasons you don't see violence against women as anybody's priority is because every community says it doesn't happen. we don't have it here. we know that is not true. every community, my community and all of yours has it, and it is important. we heard a youth today talk about her experience, their experience with trauma and domestic violence. so many of our youth and immigrant families in san francisco are suffering from the

exposure to domestic violence as children and in their own homes. the san francisco domestic violence consortium is around since 1982. we do not receive funding. we are asking you prioritize the funding through the department of status on women through direct services not to department build. in this national political atmosphere, more and more people are coming to the community for their issues. 22000 called the crisis lines for domestic livens only that is not stalks or sexual assault. that is 50,000. how many went to the police department? 1500. to the special victims unit half. da's office half. 500 cases going through the

criminal justice system. that is super-pour because people -- superimportant because people's lives were at stake. thank you. shawn brooks and tony. come on. >> shawn brooks. good afternoon. i am the chief programs officer for the sf marin food bank and long time resident of san francisco. i believe hunger is able to be solved. it should not be a talk of life that parents and seniors skip meals to pay represent. not acceptable low income immigrants avoid the programs for fear of being deported and separated from families. the frail elders and adults with

disabilities don't have enough to eat because they can't access the food assistance programs. i would add my voice to end hunger by asking for support of farmers market file food pantries where they distribute the free pro dos every week. we need your help to ensure the grocery programs can deliver to isolated and vulnerable neighbors who cannot access the services. we are asking for funding to expand the congregate meals. we need you to speak out to ensure that all of your constituents are accessing the cal fresh program because they aren't and we can't end hunger without full utilization of that vital program. thank you for your support of the hunger program to improve the health and well-being of our

neighbors and save money by reducing the burden on costly services. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, i am okay trivia scott. with plow shares a veteran organization in the san francisco bay area. i am a former member of the collaborative. i am here to speak about an issue deer to myself. i am a post 9/11 veteran and iraqi freedom veteran. 80% of the veterans left the military without a job. two in five reported being homeless in the past year. more than half of the san francisco veterans are at risk of ptsd. 46% of those in san francisco were considered at risk of suicide.

reallocation of the funds for heck has had a direct impact on my program. i haven't had to make playoffs, i haven't been age to actually hire for two positions because of the funding. with my community partners in the san francisco area who had to make layoffs, those individuals were individuals who were doing outreach for us and individuals who were locating and identifying veteran on the streets for us. without their partnership we can't identify those at risk for homelessness or those who are at risk of ptsd and those other things. thank you very much for your time. >> next speaker. >> i am becky. i work at the san francisco food bank and member of the food security task force. i want to commend the board of

supervisors for commitment to end hunger by 2020. i also want to remind you one in four people in this county are still at risk of hunger. it is a huge number. our food bank does a missing meals study where we look at the gap of meals provided versus those missing. we estimate 29 million meals missing every year. we have a long way to go. i wouldn't express support for the food security task force funding request this year. especially i want to call out home delivered groceries funding. we are grateful to provide home delivered groceries to 5,000 folks right now there. are 7,000 more who need support. with your help we can get there. thank you for your support. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. alateen notice cultural -- latio

district. it is important to get the culture districts up and running. there are issues with displacements. some including lgbq, transgender, filipinos and others. this process was long. we hired a consultant, three meetings, focus groups with youth and nonprofits, interviews and reached out to 4,000. it is important that the support is there to properly assess the community to best serve the community long-term to make sure we keep san francisco diverse. thank you very much for your support. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am executive director of library users.

i want to thank those for being here to the better end. >> being hard core. >> here to the bitter end. with respect to priorities at the library they went to spend $3 million on implements a drive see threatening technology radio use frequency stamp sized inserts into every material, books and so on. they lay people open to having what they are reading be revealed by anyone with access to the technology. they also have a privacy threat which electronic frontier has called the tracking threat. i may want to know where you went or did you go to that suspicious location and if i know you have an i seem 12345, i

may not care what that is, what the title is, i don't need the libraries database. if i know you are associated. at the selectioned locations where i may be concerned with tracking who is going and coming. i can say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 that is one of you entering or leaving the place. the electronic frontier and aclu sent the city librarian a letter strongly opposing the implementation of r.f.p. from the budget which they improved in february with primitive or no recognition of privacy threats. thank you. >> any other members of the public to speak. public comment is closed.

colleagues, five hours in. supervisor yee, fewer. >> i want to comment the three of us. >> let's gavel down. >> the last speaker whose stuck it out. >> thank you. i want to recognize my legislative aids in your respective offices that support this committee. thank you. department heads and staff that committed to the slides, thank you for your presentation. it is the community that came out, controller, budget, city attorney and our clerk. with all of that said this hearing going to be filed. supervisor yee? >> did you want us to take one minute? >> sure, give your one minute summation. i would love to hear your thoughts. what is one more minute?

it is helpful to drafts the resolution. >> i will write it up. as i was listening to the presentations there are many departments. it might sound like a lot, in terms of what floated up to the top for me. here are some. i am interested in the group van ask. one of the first presentations i forgot who it was for the group vans to buy new ones so the paratransit. they are not getting around to bring people in isolation. employment i am interested in employment pathways for youth in general.

i also want to put something in there that there should be emphasis on helping seniors and people with disabilities if they want to be employed. make sure there is a pathway for them. i would be supporting increased food security, and that one i guess goal of sustainable funding to eliminate the wait list. i would be supportive in getting us closer. the pedestrian safety piece is always there to me. the neighborhood was mentioned several times to my surprise. i am supportive of trying to give funding to make sure this is implemented. the senior strategy campaign i would be supportive of that. families for safe streets, that

is important that it is hopefully supported. if it is not i see urge we continue to support their efforts. they are the voice we need for pedestrian safety. the last thing that floated up for me was joe wilson's group that mentioned employment for homeless 1.$4 million that was used for something else. i would be very supportive to see that happen. >> thank you very much. you can't remember what i heard a lot of it. but i just want to echo about the homeless employment collaborative and $1.4 million redirected to hsa. i am interested in all of the

work force stuff. how can we bring that to scale? they have good results. food security, of course, but i will send you a document in writing because right now i am getting everything mixed up with public testimony and what we heard today. i will send you that. off the top of my head, i think i am looking for pathways for people to have independence and bring them from dependency to independence. work force development is key on my list. thank you. >> thank you very much, colleagues. i will take that as a motion. >> is there a second to the motion to file? >> yes. there it is. we will file this hearing as heard. thank you. all right. any other business before this body? >> no further business. >> we are adjourned.

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