the poor. thank you very much. >> thank you next speaker. >> good morning supervisors. i am a senior from district five. i wanted to speak on behalf of expanding the rent stabilization program. especially seniors and people with disabilities, our one health emergency or job emergency away from homelessness. we live on a very fixed income. we have no options. if san francisco wants to prevent people living on the streets, or in their cars, it is imperative that we keep people in their homes. we need expanded rent stabilization programs. without it, one missed rent program, payment, will mean eviction. in a city of uncontrolled speculation, feeling rising, and

impossible rents, ordinary people have no options. plea support and expansion of the rent stabilization programs. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning supervisors. i am with senior disability action and i am looking at the budget, and $200,000 for a senior aging in place, you've got to be kidding? 200,000 is a drop in a bucket when you figure one fourth of the city's seniors and people with disabilities. one fourth is our poor, and i was thinking, when we are talking about employment, i applied for a reserve which is to help seniors get jobs. that funding ran dry. we need more funding to place people, seniors, in employment. not to compete with youth. we can do both. we need more money than $200,000

for programming, come on. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. i am a resident. >> supervisor cohen: we need you to speak into the mic so we can hear you. >> i want to vote in favour, in support of the children and elderly being able to have 97 million allotted to us, because primarily, myself, i need only 65,000 to get my bonds in order to go to work.

i voted for a lot of you today, and i need to go to work. not to sit around and go unnoticed. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hello supervisors. i'm also with senior and disability action. and has already been spoken, we would like to, in particular, have an increase in rental subsidies for seniors and people with disabilities. up to an increase of an amount of four-point 5 million in the budget. we have seniors who come to our office and our meetings and they say they're rent was increased, maybe 20 or $30, or $50, but when they are on social security, that is impossible. and the other is the expansion of employment opportunities. at the reserve, the 200,000-dollar increase for the

reserve program. absolutely necessary for our seniors and people with disabilities. that again, in most cases are on social security. please, we are asking for those two in particular. thank you very much. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> i am her interpreter. >> supervisor cohen: okay [indiscernible] >> i am with senior and disability action [indiscernible] >> and i am a constituent of norman yee's district [indiscernible]

>> i will speak about rental subsidies for people with disabilities and as we've seen the last two weeks of this election, we do not have a monolithic city. [indiscernible] >> one of the biggest concerns of everybody is rents are skyrocketing. [indiscernible] >> and more than ever ,-guessed, people, homeless people are

people with disabilities and have one form of disability. [indiscernible] >> so please fund rental subsidies for people with disabilities and seniors. thank you very much. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning supervisors. i am the executive director of california lawrence for the arts. i am here to request you to support add back funding for our spotlight on the arts program which is the only workforce development program in san francisco providing training and immersion in all the arts disciplines for low income youth ages 14-17 throughout san francisco's disadvantaged neighbourhoods. established originally in connection with the school district, we have been doing this for 25 years, and we will

request that you support $160,000 in adds back funding which will enable us to serve 30 youth at minimum wage. last year, we were funded a hundred and 13,000 but that did not allow us to pay minimum wage. we ask you to expand the program to serve 50 youth for 260,000, but we would very much appreciate your support. thank you very much. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i am also from california lawyers for the arts. we know the board is deeply concerned about addressing gaps in services for youth that will result in these funding decisions in the 2018... they funded only two agencies

and art related workforce development and they focus exclusively on media arts. we serve youth city wide. interested in the literary arts and performing arts and they will no longer be served. in the summer of 2017, -- i will introduce to a parent you will speak on our behalf. >> supervisor cohen: the parent can have her own time. >> i'm sorry. >> supervisor cohen: what was the name of the program? >> we have served more than 50 youth in district ten in the last ten years. >> supervisor cohen: tear what -- thank you. the parent is welcome to speak. >> hi. my daughter participated in the spotlight program last pro -- last year and the continuation program. she is turning 16 this week and she is a rising junior and we live in the outer richmond. i am a single parent. i adopted her at four and a half

months from vietnam. the impact of this program on her has been immeasurable. she has changed, she has matured, she is a competent speaker. she manages deadlines and supervises relationships all on her own and this is all a direct result of this program. she has become focused and inquisitive. she took ap human geography this spring and is taking ethnic studies in the fall. all is the result of issues that she discovered through this program. as a single parent, i'm dependent on other adults to help her come into her own and help her become the adult we want her to be. and the director of the program has helped her immensely -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. i want to speak to the reserve program that is in place now.

it has been in place for a year. i want to talk about how that gives people like myself who are older, and somewhat disabled the ability to continue to be creative, to continue to find work, to continue to give the benefit of my experience to other organizations. it makes me feel more productive. it makes me feel better about contributing to the things where i have experienced and to be able to speak for others. it gives us a purpose and a meaning that you might not otherwise find if you are sitting around watching television. again, it is the reserve parameter. i want to encourage you to fund that, as you have and continue to listen to people like me, and know we are employable. we do have skills and we haven't lost our minds. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: in the reserve program, what organization is that with? >> that is maciel see. community living.

is there a specific budget after that, by the way ,-guessed? is there a dollar figure to your ask? >> we will speak about that. >> thank you. okay. next speaker. next speaker. the microphone is right there. got it. >> good morning supervisors. i have the honour of working with queer and trans and gender nonconforming use in the bay area. i think that i just want to speak to the city's dedication to youth homelessness and how that has to connect to supporting queer and trans young people at a younger age. so i am here to support and ask for you all to add funding for

the middle school cute groups with lyric. there is way too much evidence that says we cannot be supporting queer and young trans people at the middle school age. evidence shows from their work already that young people have improved in their ability to feel proud of who they are ,-guessed which can prevent high levels are of suicide, of violence, and -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. i've spoken to you last friday and wanted to speak up as a nonprofit here to make sure that we complete our budget ask you to keep up with the caseload increase to avoid keeping people in jail. at this point, the budget has given us an increase of

$1.2 million to keep up with the caseload. as you know, we need another $515,000, otherwise we will see at least never 300 days in jail for people that we cannot reach. the other i would like to make sure that we look at is to make sure the budget analyst doesn't in fact reduce the advanced -- amount. i have seen some documents in place. we need to make sure the allocation stays at $1.7 million, please. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor cohen: next speaker. >> good morning supervisors. i'm the executive director of the bayview opera house. i want to express my gratitude to you for your support you have given us or the whole length of your term. and the additional budget you have allocated to us in this current budget proposal. also an extensive extension of our building, we are able to

properly present artists in our arts program so that they are respected as the artists said they are and building pride in them. we have started a tech internship program and teaching people to operate shows in our building and they are doing this and we are offering them employment. despite the radical changes, the community wants to provide access to community members with limited means and who are at risk of becoming invisible. our old building still has many maintenance needs and the money allocated in the current budget -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning supervisors. i live in the bayview. i wanted to support the proposed budget items for the bayview opera house brick i have been with the bayview opera hudson's

eyes fixed -- 15 years old which allowed me to learn a tremendous amount about art administrative work and bookkeeping. for the normal -- for the past for years i was able to build up a plethora of skills that i will be using for the rest of my life. i started as an intern in the summer of 2015 and i was hired as an assistant bookkeeper. these past three years i learned a lot about nonprofit bookkeeping and grants management. now that i am going off to college i expect to finance my education by working as a bookkeeper. that would not be possible if it was not for the bayview opera house. i think the additional funding will help inspire more people in our community by having more classes, events, internships which allow people to develop a deeper appreciation of the arts and culture. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank yo you. next speaker .-guessed please. >> good morning. i am here to speak in support of

the budget items for the bayview opera house. as a grad student, i was inspired by the bayview opera house at its position in the community. i reached out to the opera house and it opened its toys to me and supported me in the production of my thesis project. i have been researching programs in the area and the opera house has provided me for -- with mentorship, guidance and collaboration. their assistance in leadership as helped me expand those programs. this institution is dedicated to come shaping a cultural trajectory, and i am excited and proud that today's my fourth day at the director of programs at the bayview opera house. i say again, i support the budget items related to the opera house. they will have a profound effect on our program that will be felt throughout the community. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker .-guessed, please.

>> hello. good morning. thank you very much for the time to speak in front of you all. i am here to support the bayview opera house. and to talk about the difference that it has made within the community. there was a huge difference when the doors were closed and there is a huge difference now that the doors are open. so funding the programs and presenting a secure and safe space for our children to learn, to discover their greatness is essential. and rebuilding community pride. i want to thank you all for your continued support, and just make sure that we are looking at the signage in order to activate that remembering and the honour and the product of ruth williams within the community and to make sure that we are exposing all of our communities for the arts .-guessed within this area. thank you again i'm done. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning supervisors.

i'm in the san francisco domestic violence consortium. i'm here is one small but honoured representative of the community that works 24 hours a day to end domestic violence, sexual assault, stocking and trafficking in san francisco. there is a $1.2 million budget ask. it sounds like a lot ,-guessed but it is only 41,000 average per program. we are coming to the board of supervisors, to the board of supervisors to remind folks that even though it's not covered in the media, san francisco's most vulnerable are being battered, raped, shot, stock, harassed, and trafficked every day. they need our help and we need your help. thank you so much. [please standby for captioner switch]

>> supervisor cohen: just as a reminder, there are no signs in the chamber. please come down. next speaker. >> good morning. >> supervisor cohen: good morning. >> my name is chiang ten. [speaking native language] [through the interpreter] >> as a parent, it really helps us as parents, so i really appreciate their support. thank you. [end of translation] >> supervisor cohen: thank you.

next speaker. [speaking native language] [through the interpreter] >> good morning, everyone. my name is xiang ju. my family just come to u.s. not too very long time ago, but i'm real really unfamiliar with a lot of the things in san francisco, how to enroll our child in

public school. we are really lucky to know p.p.s. they give us some lectures and also give us some introductions and explanations and help us to know how to get the child enrolled into school. we really, really hope that p.p.f. can continue to exist to help more parents. thank you. [end of translation] >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. i'm a mother in san francisco.

if i don't know who to help, then we'll be past the resource i want to give our children, so i suffer the public school in san francisco. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. good morning, everyone. my name is olivia. i reside in the sunset district. i'm here to support ppsf. [speaking native language] [voice of interpreter] >> i really appreciate ppsf. because of ppsf, i can help get my daughter enrolled

successfully. because of this long perfect organization, they give us perfect organization that help a lot of asians, and i really hope that p.p.f. can continue to help a lot of parents in the future. [end of translation] >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning. i'm cece. [speaking native language] [voice of interpreter]

>> p.p.f. is very helpful to all parents. we really don't know how to help our children to get enrolled. it's really -- i really appreciate that p.p.f. can help us. they also provide one to one service. we really need p.p.f. and because of that, they can continue to help out parents to help more parents to help the children to get enrolled, something like that. thank you. [end of translation] >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker, come on down. >> good morning. >> supervisor cohen: good morning. >> my name is rafaela katai.

i've been with the organization for 11 years. the arts have impacted my life as a young person, which is why i continue to work for the organization. i am -- i believe in it strongly. not all high school students -- public school students have access to the arts, and we want to change that. we feel like it's pivotal. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> hello. my name is shana bowie. i am the program director for youth art exchange. youth art exchange has been providing access to the arts for san francisco public high school students for the past 15 years. with -- it has personally

impacted students. i've seen them grow as both leaders and innovators in the city. they've impacted their communities in many ways, and also it has helped us develop a network of teaching artists and keep them in the city, working and thriving. we are asking that you increase our budget and support from the city. we work closely with supervisor safai and supervisor yee, and we would like to see that support from the rest of the city, as well. >> supervisor cohen: how much do you currently get? >> currently, we are allotted around 100 -- less than $100,000 by dcyf. we also do grants, as well, to

supplement, and we have been looking both in the public and private sector to makeup budget deficits. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning. my name is lehe montano. usually when i'm here, i speak from my heart, but right now, i'm really, really upset and sad and angry that we get this cut. this is outreach city, and we did not continue to treat our people this way, and so i'm going to need the help of this. i'm here because they all ask is important, but i'm here representing seniors and people with disabilities, so i wanted

to emphasize the right rental subsidies for seniors and people with disabilities. she wants to talk. tell them what they have to do. tell them that they have to be fair, that they have to listen to us. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. can you, camilla. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is lauren. i'm from advancing justice asian law caucus, a member of a.p.i. council. 42% of a.p.i.'s in san francisco are living in poverty, and we're the oldest organization dedicated to a.p.i. especially those that are low-income and non-english speaking. this year, we're asking for our expiring programming for tenant outreach, council and eviction defense work.

specifically we're requesting assistance for my position. we run a culturally competent housing program in chinatown, and we are one of the very few legal organizations in the city who represent and defend the eviction of low-income chinese speakers in court. we hope that you will continue to support the asian law caucus and the a.p.i. tenant's request. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. what is your request? >> our request is 97,500 so we can continue. >> supervisor cohen: okay. thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is kathrin chiu. i'm a staff attorney at the asian law caucus. i'm here to echo lauren's request that you assist our staff in the amount of 97,500 so the folks that are on the ground day-to-day working with the folks in chinatown. as lauren said, 42% of the

a.p.i. population lives under the positive line. those are the tenants that we really try to help support through our bilingual eviction defense, tenant counseling, tenant clinics, and adviceory council. we ask that you extend our expiring program. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, board of supervisors. thank you for your time. i'm ken lombard, deputy sheriff's association president. i'm here to support our members and the sheriff's department request for station transfers. please consider funding this. there's several problems with the way it's currently done by the police department, and we have the solution, which is a station transfers unit. it would free up police officers to work the streets, sheriff's deputies would pick up arrestees from police book stations and transfer them to

sheriff district attorneys indication indications. with this pilot program, sheriff district attorneys deputies would be guarding arrestees at the hospital. department's access the same rao channel, we use enhanced security restrained equipment, so there is a possibility of having one deputy perarrestee of. this would save the city on costs. more police officers would be available for neighborhood foot patrol, on a -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. what exactly is the budget ask? how many. >> it's 1.8 million for the station transfers unit, and that's a pilot program. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. i am a member of the sheriff's association. i'm here to discuss the sheriff's budget request for

more vehicles. currently our vehicles are lacking modern equipment for safe transportation such as seat belts and air bags. we are trying to avoid tragic situations like the one in baltimore with mr. freddy frafra gray, and we want to continue our positive responses where the deputies arrived and show up. we have outdated emissions controls, causing pollution and -- causing air pollution. we asked for 18. we wanted to ask for 30. we only got nine from the mayor's office, but we'd like to ask for more vehicles, please. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor cohen: next speaker. >> good morning. my name is shannon mcdonald, i'm the director at conserv

conserveatory program. in 30 years, we have served more than half a million students as an institution of san francisco health curriculum. supported by supervisor sheehy, n we received funding from the city in fiscal 17 and 18 we has enabled us to serve thousands more youth each year. we serve more than 15,000 sfusd students and 84 shows at 53 schools. we need your support in order to keep bringing youth awareness messages of acceptance, nonvials, hiv/aids education and -- nonviolence, hiv/aids education and the importance of performances to san francisco's next generations. thank you. >> good morning. my name is kayla.

i'm a local actor and educator, and i work with the new conserveatory theater. when i was in 2010, i saw the teen play they produced. it was the very first play i had seen outside of the school program. a filipino beingtor was falling in and out of love on the stage, years later, i auditioned for the theater. eight years ago and now, the stories that the new conserveatory plays still resonate within the world and the city, especially in the world that we live in today, and it's crucial to the hearts and minds of the communities. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker.

>> good morning. my name is nicole mendez, and i work as the program director for the youth aware educational theater. as you may have heard, we have reached the hearts and minds of san francisco students for the past 35 years. by crafting original plays that reinforce the sfusd's k through 4508 youth and wellness curriculum, ween rich staffing and educators in making school campuses better and peaceful places. we empower students to reach out and care for others and their community as a whole. thank you for your service, and we hope that you will continue to support youth aware educational threater in order to ensure every san francisco child grows up with a vision of a healthier, kinder world.

thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for the opportunity to speak. my name is jennie low he had. i'm with the chinese culture center of san francisco in chinatown, also known as c.c.c. the c.c.c. is an active member of the a.p.i. council. as you know, 42% of a.p.i.'s live in poverty. chinatown is especially disadvantaged with most of our families living in single-family residence occupancies, s-r-o's. the art and culture connection for our community, our surveys show most of our families earn 40,000 or less annually. they have never been to the ballet or symphony, but do come to the c.c.c. to visit the innovative exhibitions and to enjoy world class performances at the chinatown festival and

dance on waverly. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you very much. next speaker. >> good morning. my name is talley wong on behalf of the asian pacific islander council of san francisco, we are asking that the board of supervisors put back the 18 expiring programs into the budget. these 18 expires programs come just under $1.5 million. these funded programs include needs around behavioral health, domestic violence, workforce development, youth services, tenant rights, neighborhood and cultural services, and immigrant services, so these programs collectively serve over 200,000 low-income residents. and our 18 members are here today and will be giving you more details about the expiring program. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: what was the figure? >> rounding up, it's

1.6 million, but it's just under that. >> supervisor cohen: okay. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is rahim naraj, and i run the banksupport.org. [inaudible] >> -- despite a 25% reduction in costs, increasing the program's scope without extra funding, millions of inkind donations and support from the p.t.a., housing authority and several community organizations, the program was cut from the baseline budget by h.s.a. to fund a program the mayor's office decided to fund.

while we sincerely believe this to be unintentional, this has put us in a very difficult position as we would have already moved substantial resources to enter the program -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. what is your budget ask? >> $250,000? >> supervisor cohen: over two years? >> peryear. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is louie gonzales. i volunteer for the coalition on homelessness, and i just want to travel you how embarrassing it is to travel to third world countries and find out there is more homeless people on the streets of san francisco. i implore you if you could use those funds for the homelessness, the youths, the future of this country. just because they're homeless does not make them disposable

people, and i think it would make me proud for you people to use the funds to help them out and i would -- want to die knowing that i lived at a time when i had very important and wise supervisors that made a change. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. my name is von chase cly. i'm speaking on behalf of the chinatown nmca. we're asking you for continued support of our s.r.o. program. in the last two years we've served after 128 families with a comprehensive support program that provides them with economic self-sufficiency, without one of their own, the ymca is their living room. our program includes services such as case management, community service hours, weekly dinners, workshops on topics including immigrant rights and tenant rights.

we're asking for funds to ask approximately 250 individuals to have access to this comprehensive program. we teach kids how to switch, do art, parents to support each other and themselves, and we want to ask -- >> supervisor cohen: what's the name of your organization again? >> chinatown ymca. >> and what's your budget ask? >> 100,000. >> supervisor cohen: okay. thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is richard frisbee. i want to express my support for the emergency and safety preparedness sections in the budget. if one doesn't have public safety, one doesn't have a brie brandt, open society. the freedom to walk our streets safety without a high level of anxiety of being accosted

verbally or physically, the peace of minds that parents have to let their children go out in the streets or use the playgrounds, the certainty of a response when the emergency does occur, these are the things that speak to the quality of life and the haulmarks of a functioning and vibrant city that all residents can enjoy, so we need a fully staffed fully funded police department with the appropriate resources. thank you very much. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, commissioners. david wu, of south of market community action network. i'm here urging you today to please restore funding to the united families program as part of the larger budget justice coalition ask. it is unacceptable that our most vulnerable residents are

constantly under funded. our united families program connects working class immigrant parents and grandparents to the resources they need in a culturally competent manner. please do not strip away these important services for san franciscans that need it the most. again, i urge you to support the funding ask of the budget justice coalition and a.p.i. council for a just budget. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: do you have a figure? >> for the youth program, it is 100,000 annually, and for the united families, program, 50,000 annually. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> thank you. >> supervisor cohen: next speaker. >> hi. good afternoon, supervisors. want to thank the budget committee for all their work on the budget so far, and also want to thank the board of supervisors for their unanimous support for supervisor ronen's

legislation. we're really excite today work with the different city departments in the city to do the work of preserving or neighborhoods and also stablizing our communities that make san francisco really unique. just saw the spending plan and we're glad to see that included in it is funding for the department do have staffing to work with the cultural district, but we'd like to ask that the board of supervisors continue their -- the funding to be able to maintain the operations of the cultural districts, 'cause we are the ones on the ground kind of doing the hard work. for soma filipinas, we're asking that the funding be continued this year and the next fiscal year, and that would really -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you. >> we have a powerpoint. good afternoon, supervisors. my name is rich will lasimosa.

filipinas are the faster growing population in california yes our numbers are dwindling in san francisco. since the 1900's, we've been fighting displacement. at the epicenter of development and displacement is san francisco, and in the soma district, particularly in the hot bed of the tech industry. your support will help us continue our work, help protect historical assets, cultural assets, affordable housing, seniors, families and children. your support for -- to budget for a community planner will put teeth behind the cultural district legislation that recently passed. we're asking for 150 k permohcd's over sight, and 100,000 for soma filipinas.

>> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. i'm with soma filipina. displacement over the last century, three waves of it has caused our population to drop 50%, down to 2500 individuals. we also experience some of the highest eviction rates, the highest rents and one of the highest average home prices in the south of market. coupled with that are economic challenges, including development, housing affordability, lack of real estate ownership and few filipinobusinesses. soma filipino is to help them access that, access affordable business and housing opportunities. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi. my name is drew, and i am a

senior at lincoln high school. i am a nontraditional student that deserves fully funded services in the city, especially my future school, ccsf. i plan ongoing to school forever to learn as much as possible and learn as many skills as possible. i deserve it, my friends deserve it, and all workers, including undocumented workers, too. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is darcy diloval. i am with soma filipinas. i am asking you to support the preservations of -- [inaudible] >> -- that recognize the contributions of the people who live, work and create in this

neighborhood. they established this fund to support cultural district. the city will be supporting the district diversity that san francisco is known for in the areas of affordable housing, community, facilities, residential services and open spaces and cultural preservations, health and living wages jobs. [inaudible] >> -- please put some fund for the infrastructure in a neighborhood like soma filipinas. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, supervisors. first, i want to thank you for including in your list a backfill of the ryan white care act cut in san francisco. that is $333,000. clearly, before we can expand capacity to address the city's goals around getting to zero, we need to make sure that our

safety net is covered. i also want to acknowledge the 500,000 that was put into expand eviction defense services in the city. the hspa ask is for 2 million. we believe that right now is a great time to achieve a right to counsel in san francisco, and housing is the biggest issue for people with hiv, so i want to speak in support of the $3 million in new funding for housing subsidies for seniors and adults with disabilities. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. >> hi. good morning. my name is april. >> supervisor cohen: pull the mic a little closer, as well. >> hi. my name is april, and i am a parent leader, parent voices in san francisco. and we just want to thank you, the voters, for passing proposition c. even though it's passed,

proposition c, it's not going to take effect until 2019. in the meantime, we have people, infants and toddlers who will lose their child care if we don't continue the million funding from last year, so we're just asking for that continuation. thanks. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> hi, everyone. mari villaluna, mommy to this two-year-old. i want to talk about child care. i just want to thank last year, you all provided 4 million for child care that was one time funding. so it makes me a little saddened to see the current funding for 200,000. that's a big shortfall. if we don't do at least $4 million this year, we will have people in this city that will have their child care cutoff?

some might be able to make it, some might not. i lost my dream career. since then, i've been unemployed, so i urge you, please do not do that to one parent in san francisco. please keep the funding way higher than $200,000 that you all are projecting right now. again, remember, you did $4 million last year -- >> supervisor cohen: next speaker. >> what's up. my name is june bug, born and raised here and a former san francisco youth commissioner. and i just want to say that i just want to back up what some of my coparent leaders said about making sure that we continue the investment that was made in 2017 to carrie that on because prop c will not be implemented until 2018. i also want to say that my daughter is disabled with cerebral palsy who attends bessie carmichael, and if we could just remember and include

our children with special needs. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker, come on down. >> hi. my name is becky gershon. and i work for the san francisco food bang. we are asking for funding to help meet one of the most basic needs for seniors and people with disabilities living on a low-income, and that's food. there are thousands of people on wait lists for home delivered groceries, home delivered meals, and on a daily basis, people are being turned around from hot meal sites. this is absolutely a solvable problem with appropriate funding, $8.3 million with all of these asks combined. we really appreciated budget that was allocate -- funding that is allocated by the budget funding this morning, but we also want to highlight those that weren't funded, for example congregate meal sites

and funded meals. we want to thank the supervisors for the programs that you funded over the last few years, and we ask that you take the critical steps -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is cindy lynn, as previously mentioned, currently 42% of a.p.i.'s in san francisco live in poverty. many of theme are families with children. many are unable to join the workforce due to their inability to afford child care. this year, we are asking for funding to the child care. every year, we send over 1,000 low-income children, and your support will ensure that our services continue and remain comprehensive for those that need it most. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you.

next speaker. [speaking native language] [voice of interpreter] >> hi, supervisors, i'm cheng lynn chiu. i would really encourage everyone to look at homelessness in a new perspective, no longer looking at it as a headache, as something we cannot resolve.

we need to look at it as we need to provide opportunities for people who are homeless to start a new life. homelessness in a challenge for us. it's something that all of us can do something about. it's definitely a challenge. this is not only a problem, it's about thousands of people,

their life, their quality of life. please fund our ask. thank you. [end of translation] >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker. [speaking native language] [voice of interpreter]

>> good morning, supervisors. my name is shal. i'm with the square dancing club in chinatown. i hope you will support chinatown cultural center's dance on waverly, and dance on chinatown. it has been healthy for our communities, and i hope you will support our ask for more activities like this in the community. we feel that the chinese culture center's dance on waverly and activities have made us very happy.

and it has been very happy and healthy for our group and community. thank you. [end of translation] >> thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. [speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> good morning, supervisors. my name is roger, and i'm one of the members of casa gusta. we're here to demonstrate the importance of youth programs, programs provide the support and resources youth need to grow as people and leaders. youth have the opportunity to understand what are the roots -- root causes of the problems and conditions we see in