transformative for me. most of my students never had a black math teacher and i am reminded of my experience as a 10-year-old kid in miss cork's classroom. for the first time i am blessed to teach students of multiple races, religions and national origins. i ask that you support us. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is bailey robinson-harris. i'm an early education teacher working with young children in san francisco for over 44 years. in every neighborhood with children that were toddlers to 12 year olds, private, for-profit and non-profit and finally here in san francisco unified school district

celebrating 30 years of working. i tend to view life and life's situations from a perspective of the children that i teach. which bodes down to equity and equality. as we are here this past celebrating the life and times of martin luther king, we think a lot about equality. so i'd like to just remind the supervisors that the eraf funds should be distributed equally, and 60, 60, and to those in more need. and also step back and say as an early childhood education teacher, educator, that the equity lives is also present which means that young children and the teachers and the educators that work with them really need to be given more consideration. we teach children and provide

for them a solid foundation for the rest of their lives and promote the thirst for learning. i'd like to share with you a situation that's happened with me about a year ago. one of my peer educators in my school said to me, miss betty, i want to thank you. she said for the first time in 38 years i'm finally earning a little over $20 an hour. and with that i'd like to say that the prop g funds have hel helped... >> good morning, supervisors. i'm sarah hicks, with the early education educators of san francisco and i want to echo many of the things that came before me because i know that i don't have the time at the mike to say everything that i'd like

to say. but i want to say that my partner is a baker and we love to bake large pies and i do want to speak to the pie that i heard talked about here before and the ingredients that should go into it so that it bakes well. growing the pie i think speaks really to there are people out here that are all speaking to issues that are very dear to my heart. and the need for growing that pie is obvious. i want to make sure that the ingredients include a really clear ask of $30 million for early care e educators. our ask for this year's budget was $60 million and there was a city-wide plan agreed to, i believe in 2015, that early care educators, a piece of that was that early care educators would move up in salary comparable to san francisco unified school district educators. san francisco unified school district educators, as you have

been hearing, have trouble living in san francisco on the wages. thethat is already too low. but we'd love to move it up and keep struggling with them for wages that allow us to commit to this important field. i wanted to also speak to early care and education. pay equity is looked as a dollar-for-dollar amount for equal, comparable work. but early care and education help those who have dependents to stay in the workforce and that impacts largely women. without early care education women are taken out of the workforce and their lifetime earnings are even more dramatically than the comparisons we make on pay equity. so early care education is absolutely a fundamental community system that is needed to support... >> good morning. my name is leann lakes and i am a resident of the sunset and a

parent of two children at alice fong alternative school. i'm also the president of the parent association. we all know that homelessness is a problem in san francisco and as our prior speakers have spoken about, education and homelessness are really aligned with each other. homhomelessness is not just aboa shortage of housing. it's also about education. and consider the fact that those who are housing insecure are less likely to graduate. and those with less than a high school degree are at higher risk of homelessness. and those with a less than high school degree have higher rates of unemployment and lower earning potential. we cannot succeed in education without many of our amazing teachers here today. so i urge the board and the committee to fund education. our teachers cannot afford to live and work in san francisco. which is reflected in the high turnover rates.

lastly, i urge all of you to actually to come to a classroom and to see what these teachers do. witness their patience, their dedication, their commitment. you know, go to alice fong, and i'm happy to give you a tour or any of the other schools, and see what these teacher does. because i don't think that you fully understand the impact they have on our children. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. ladi tidi, the vice president of the commission board. i am here to ask you and to urge you to support the hope s.f. initiative for sunnydale public housing unit and the patrol hill housing unit. they too deserve a piece of that pie, a hefty piece, because you will be changing lives, not just for children and families, but also for seniors and disabled.

it's very important that this process move right along. so i urge you to support it and to fund it. thank you so much. >> good morning, board of supervisors. my name is sabrina leah-poga and i'm in district 10. for over 11 years i have dealt with the living conditions in sunnydale, worsened by mold, repair issues. we also have limited access to opportunities and resources. so i urge you to fund for sunnydale, s.f.f. and patrol hill. we need it especially for our kids. thank you. >> hello, i'm rihanna fryerson and i as well as many other

residents with sunnydale and patrol hill are here to ask you to not forget about us. i have been living in sunnydale for over 15 years of my life and i have been living with mold for that time and live broken water heaters and feces coming up through drains in my house through that time. this money is going to go towards amazingness. healthy living places for our children. healthy living places for our seniors. and healthy living places for me and my family. as a college graduate i was told that, you know, you graduate college and you get to come home to amazingness. i was not afforded that opportunity. i spent four years out of state to come home to the same things. i spent four years out of state still hoping that my neighborhood would change. and, yes, $9 million is amazing and it's a wonderful amount, but what about the rest of the money? why are we limited to this pocket of money?

why are we limited to what we have now? i'm asking you to really think about the people in these neighborhoods. and think about the homes that you go home to and think what i'm going home to. take that into consideration as you are debating on what to do with this money and where it should go, take it into consideration where i live. take it into consideration where the children in these schools live. it starts at home and if i'm not living in a healthy environment then, guess what, i'm not succeeding anywhere. so it starts where they live. thank you. >> good morning, board of supervisors. my name is jonah ecidos and i'm here representing 350 children and families that are served in our birth to 5 programs that are providing early care and education and family support. as well as 100 educators that i have at my site. unfortunately, we can't pull

those teachers out of the classroom because we know that there's a shortage of teachers in the city. and i urge you to consider investing $30 million from that money towards early care and education. we know that there's a crisis of homelessness, but there's -- there's a connection between e.c.e. and homelessness and what we do in early care and education is provide a stable and a safe environment for those children while their parents work on getting -- becoming more stable in terms of their housing. we can't compete for these resources. we all need these resources in order to continue to support children, families and our educators. we cannot educate our young children on the backs of our teachers who can't even make enough money to live in the city or even get out of public benefits. that's a crisis. and we need to continue to invest. and i urge you to do that. thank you so much for everythi

everything. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): my name is mia, and i'm representing the innovate public schools. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): i have four children who studied in san francisco public schools and now one left in visitation valley. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): i came here to support the teachers because i know that if they have a better salary and a better housing that our children will also benefit. >> [speaking spanish]

(voice of translator): and specifically i want to support the pitch schools which are the schools that have the lowest -- the lowest outcomes so we can support the most struggling schools. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): and we're a group of mostly latino and african american low-income families and we know that our communities need the most support. thank you. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): good morning, supervisors.

i am cynthia. and i have a daughter in lowell high school and also a parent volunteer with innovate public schools. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): as a mother i feel that it would be very beneficial to receive some of the funds of the extra e.r.f. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): especially if they will be focused on schools that are at the highest need and lowest level of academics. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): and we really support teachers benefitting from this money. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): another parent who was also a volunteer for a long time in san francisco public schools told me... >> [speaking spanish]

(voice of translator): she realized, obviously, where there was the highest need in the schools. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): there's an unending need of things -- of problems that we face in schools, like a need for smaller class sizes. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): and giving teachers more resources so they can provide the best education to our kids. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): because our children are the future of this city and if they don't receive an education now they could contribute to the homelessness problem later.

gracias. thank you. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): good morning, my name is lucetto munoz. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): before anything i want to say thank you for your great work in this government. >> [speaking spanish] (voice of translator): and i want to ask for your support on education as a mother because i didn't have the opportunity to study but i really need our children to have this opportunity to get a better education. >> [speaking spanish]

(voice of translator): thank you so much for all of your work and have a good day. >> good morning, my name is deborah summers and i'm a long-time san francisco resident, a parent, a parent volunteer, and an employee of san francisco unified school district. my daughter attends harvey mill civil rights academy. and i'm also speaking as a member of innovate public schools. we ask you, the supervisors, to honor the will of the voters and to support san francisco unified school district parents, teachers, volunteers, children, to allocate the $60 million of educational revenue augmentation fund back to san francisco unified school district.

thank you. >> hi, my name is virginia chong and i live in district 10. i also work for wui children's services. we are the largest headstart provider in san francisco which means that our families are at the federal poverty level. but we also have an array of services that help to support low-income and immigrant families in san francisco. i'm here to say that we need to support this issue on both ends. it's not one or the other. we're facing a workforce crisis. there are not enough teachers, it's slowed down to a trickle. people are not entering the field. we have volunteers who come to us and say their passion was to go into teaching but they became a lawyer or a doctor instead. nobody is going into teaching anymore. our kids are struggling.

our centers are struggling to fill -- to be able to fill their classrooms with kids, even though we have the infrastructure. we don't have the teachers to be able to serve the kids. it's not one or the other. we serve homeless families. we serve foster parents. we serve single mothers. we serve the highest need families in san francisco. we need to address this from both ends. 0-5 is the most -- it's the most -- the -- where our -- the children's brains develops the most is 0 to 5. if we want to prevent homelessness and mental health incarceration, we have to provide a safe place for our children to learn and grow. every child missed in this generation is another shelter bed for the next.

we're losing an entire generation because we don't have enough teachers to teach them. please support early childhood teachers, sfufd teachers and homelessness. >> hello, supervisors, i am jessica campos. i work the as a preschool teacher and i stand here in support of our 0-5 teachers, but as well all teachers. our education system is really hurting right now. we're losing teachers and me myself going back to school i see the interest in becoming a teacher diminishing. we need to put funding into education. there will always be children. that's our next generation. but if we're not focusing in educating our children our future generations will fall into systemic issues that we

really need to address now. the importance of building relationships and the children being engaged in education is very, very important. so, please, we ask you to give a portion to -- $30 million to our e.c.e. and a big chunk for our education system in san francisco. thank you. >> hi, good morning. and it's still morning -- just. my name -- well, my name is carey gray and it's good to see you all. i am a public school parent and i'm president of the second district of the california state parent-teacher association. here in san francisco we have 64 units which means that we have about 8,000, 9,000 members in the city of san francisco. and while you have heard some really compelling testimony and experiences from teachers and

from other parents, i want you to know that there are thousands of parents -- and thousands of residents -- who voted to support prop g and prop little c and prop big c. and the second district is a membership organization and we voted to support prop g because we know how critical it is to support our teachers in our community schools. and we voted to support prop little c because we know how critical early childhood education is for our students. so all i'm asking is that you support the will of the voters and the families and the residents, many of whom you have met here today, who really support these issues. you have an opportunity to support the will of the voters in a real tangible way right now when you allocate this funding. and i appreciate your continued support for public education. thank you.

>> hi. my name is allison eddie-brodman and i'm a resident of district 5. i understand that there's been a compromise, and i appreciate that, but i'm going to make this comment anyway because i'm really, really irritated that we even had to have this fight. i'm a parent of a fifth grader at tenderloin community school just up the street and she has been there since pre-k. t.c.s. has a 20% homeless student population. we're kind of a perfect example of how awful this budget fight is because we need the specialized services and staff that prop g was designed to fund. it is our family liaison, our social worker, who identify and

work with our homeless students. but, obviously, those at-risk kids also desperately need the housing funds. t.c.s. is also a popular spot for photo-ops because of its proximity to city hall. last fall our classes were disrupted by a photo-op for our now state superintendent of public instruction who decided to have a photo-op there before classes were over. he disrupted our school day. your meetings are held at t.c.s. and i don't know how many of you have been there during our school day though. we need you to do right by our kids and to give equitable funding now and in the future to all of these services. thank you.

>> good morning, supervisors. my name is tanika moss and i'm the c.e.o. of hamilton families and also a member of the human services network. and i wanted to come out today to thank you all for your leadership on this work. it is dismaying to me that we are having a debate around do you favor teachers or do you favor homelessness? we have a responsibility as a community to favor everyone and recognize that the priorities of the people who are most in need is urgent. we have 2,000 students in our school district every day who experience homelessness. so when you talk about the families who need quality educators, they also need housing. and we also know that you cannot actually learn effectively as a student in the district if you do not have a place to live. and so the debate is -- i stand in solidarity with our teachers and i stand in solidarity with

our families who every single day have an urgent humanitarian crisis on their hands about making the hard choices around being housed and working and living in their city or moving outside of their city for opportunity. so i encourage you to prioritize homelessness and housing support with these dollars. and if you're thinking about the future investments that you think about an equitable share of those investments. so if you're thinking about making investments in teacher salaries over time i encourage you to think about that same equitable share for homelessness and housing services in the future. thank you. >> good morning or afternoon. my name is megan graber and this is my 12th year and i'm a school social worker. and the last nine years at everett school and mr. mandelman district. and my husband is a veteran

teacher on special assignments. (please stand by)

>> please think about those teachers at everett, think about those teachers right now. they're trying to make our city a better place. please support fair share for public ed. thank you. >> hello. my name is liz katie, and i've worked with the homeless, particularly the homeless mentally ill for the past ten years, the past five in san francisco. it's been so wonderful to hear

from the people in education, saying that they want to stay in this district but they are being pushed out. we are experiencing the same thing in the community of mental health. how sad as the richest city in america, we are here, some of the most in-need communities arguing who should get the money when it's very clear we are all in need of it. i'm here today to encourage you to grow the pot and think about the prop c and the prop g funding that's been held up in these lawsuits and to look at if there's not enough money to go around, certainly not funding anything that's not reimbursable especially when there are lower cost services. there are a lot of people here in san francisco who want to help who are called to our schools, who are called to work with our homeless populations, and that's really beautiful.

and we're being priced out. we can't afford to be here. and one cause is not more important than the other. they're both important causes, and it would be wrong of me to say don't fund the schools because they work in homelessness. we need to find a way to fund both. thank you. >> hi. my name is june bug, and i'm with san francisco parent voices chapter. i'm also born and raised here in the city. i'm also a mom with two minor children who depend and dependent on the child care system. i'm also a formerly homeless child myself, and all the causes here today that we're advocating for with all good causes -- are all good causes, but how money gets delegated is important to make sure it's an equitiable process. we shouldn't be pitted against each other. we all need help, and it's all connected. i struggled for my son to get

full-time child care and result index co-pays that i couldn't afford, even with subsidies and scholarships. i struggled with my daughter who is special he had that couldn't find development. there's about 3,000 children on that wait list that are waiting for child care, and that is not okay. i'm asking that from the windfall funding that we can put 60 million into child care, into early childhood education. i know it sometimes gets lumped in with child education, but we need to be very specific on how we delegate that funding. prop c for child care in june was passed by the voters, and it's an atrocity that had hasn't been implemented back. if we're stratjiek with how we place the money, everybody walks out of here in a win-win

situation, because homelessness and child care are connected. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors, and i know you've been sitting there so attendtientative for e comments. i teach over at c-5 children's center over in the state building across the street, and i'm also the proud parent of a recent graduate from the ruth r. salas school of the arts. i thank you for investing in that k-12 education. i'm here because as early childhood educators, we are

often invisible. people don't even think about us, and yet, we build the brains that go into your k-12 education. when a child is born, their brain is one-quarter of the size of an adult's, and every second, 1 million neurons are connected when they're in our care. more than will ever happen in their lifetimes. we know through science that this happens through a process called epigenersis, it happens in response to their environment, it happens in response to lover caregivers, and it happens in response to a stable, consistent caregiver. so if we don't have that, those children's brains will not be in the top optimal form for when they go through kindergarten through 12th grade. so i thank you. i know we're making a clear ask for $30 million, which is like

half a slice of pie. but i thank you for your time and attention. thank you. >> sir, you can go ahead. >> okay. good afternoon. my name is liuis castillo, andi live in the tenderloin. i'm a volunteer for the boys and girls park, and i live in b bodega park. it's beautiful to see the children and have somewhere to go. and i also think that the money should go for everything -- should be for education for the children. but i also -- you know, i go -- i live in the tenderloin. i also do community organizing, and i have to go onto the

sidewalks on the streets, and i see the problem of homelessness. and they also need help, and they need real assistance because there's a lot of drug addiction. and i thank you for all your work, and i'll keep it short and simple. thank you. >> hi. i know you've been listen being to a lot of folk -- listening to a lot of folks, and i appreciate your attention. i am flo kelley, and i live in district nine. this really feels like a decision, like sophie's choice. please release the rainy day funds. in san francisco for 18 years, i worked in the world of child care and early childhood education in a variety of jobs. and then, for 15 years, i was a

special ed public schoolteacher. and after retirement, i am now a day-to-day sub. and i could have worn my uesf t-shirt today, but i didn't. i know that there are unsung heros in early childhood education and in public school. i have seen them, i have -- they're my friends. and now, i volunteer for the coalition on homelessness because in my professional life, i saw the devastating results of children and families without secure housing and how it affects those children and continues to affect those children as teenagers and even when they become adults. i think housing first is the basic foundation of a child's life. clearly, we need to expand eraf

through the $52 million in rainy day reserve funds to benefit early childhood education, public schoolteachers, and people experiencing homelessness. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is bill hirsch. i'm the director of the aids legal referral panel in san francisco, and i serve as a cochair of the hiv/aids provider network. there is no greater issue than people living -- issue for people living with hiv than housing. we are committed to getting to zero new hiv infections and zero new hiv-related deaths. in order to advance those goals, we have to address the crisis of homelessness for

people living with hiv and aids. we can do more in preventing homelessness by funding housing subsidies for seniors and adults with disabilities, and it is clear that the mental health system in san francisco is failing the community. we need additional resources to address the mental health needs of the community. we need intensive levels of support for people with very acute mental illness living on the streets. thank you. [speaking spanish language] >> good afternoon, supervisor. my name is jacqueline reyes, and i'm a mother of two, a

one-year-old and a five-year-old. i'm here because all the children need child care, and quality child care. i need to work. i know that when you -- i'm right now in the waiting list, and i'm trying to go back to work, but i'm also worrying and stressed out, and when you're worried and stressed out, you cannot take care of your family. please invest the $60 million

in child care and also in support of the children. thank you very much for listening. [end of translation] >> hi, supervisors. my name is lourdes garcia, and i'm just here to make sure that you know the difference between general education and early schoolhood and childhood education. i know that everybody's here saying let's invest in education, youth to 18, but there is a difference. it's an opportunity for the parents to make a difference in the lives of our children, but

there's also a difference between early child care and education. i want to thank the supervisor ronen because she's been very active in the community and in opening a shelter at hora horace mann. but i also want you to know that we are the community and we're trying to work together. so please do not support education only, but early childhood and education. there's 3,000 children on that list. please give them your support. thank you. >> hello. my name is elia fernandez, and i'm the grandmother of six g d grand kids, and one of my daughter, she's a stay-at-home mom because she doesn't have child care. she has to study on-line, but she went back to school

on-line. and right now she's doing good, but she needs child care for more time to study. they're always bothering her when she gets home, so she can't study or nothing. and support the $60 million in early childhood education, and also support our education in schools. and we need all the help. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is maria lustor. i'm the organizer of parents with voices innisk san francisco. we have the opportunity to bridge the funding and end poverty, and educators poverty and homelessness. [inaudible] >> then, my parents came to visit, and offered to take the children with them to the

philippines. i had no choice but to let my children go. i know a lot of parents who have to send their children to china, to have to send their children abroad because that's the only choice they have. some families leave san francisco altogether, and we cannot let that happen. you heard the parent say we have 3,000 on the waiting list. we are disappointing that after celebrating the baby prop c and housing prop c and prop g, that there seems to be no relief for -- for hundreds of families, waiting for housing, for child care for our teachers. we don't want to be pitted together against each other. we want there to be an equitiable distribution of funding. i know we're talking about the windfall right now, but this is a rich city. i hope that all these voter-approved propositions and funding will all be approved, and when the lawsuits are passed or approved in our favor, the money will get all

that money back. so please, we're asking for 60 million for child care bridge funding. thank you. >> hi. good afternoon, supervisors. i'd just like to start off by thanking you for your commitment to trying to make the city a better place. i know there's many epidemics here. like, we do have our housing crisis, we obviously have our teacher shortages. we have issues with public transportation. i just applaud you for coming into this position and trying to make a difference. i'm here to advocate today for early childhood education, and we are asking for $30 million today. there's been a lot of talk about teachers retention and staff shortages. i'm currently a site supervisor in hayes valley, and i'm currently a constituent in district five. so i guess today -- i don't want to repeat what everyone else has said, but just some

personal experiences that i've had with child care, and some experiences that i want to tie it altogether for you? i've been working with the withhold social justice as well as in early childhood education and i've seen one of the earliest drawbacks and helping people get back on their feet is early child care. they're not able to find child care, they're not able to afford it. there are a lot of wonderful councils that are willing to fund this, but we just don't have the staffing to keep the children in the care that they are in or just bring in more families as the need is growing greater. so i think it would be beneficial to increase the amount of money going to childhood education so we can give our teachers livable salaries and we're not chasing them out of the city. it's important. if all of the families are leaving with their children, who's going to be here to take care of the city once they're all gone, so it's something to keep in mind.

we also have -- have our own stories. one of the teachers dealt with domestic violence? she separated from the offender, and now she is -- essentially got chased out of the city because she can't -- [inaudible] >> hello. my name is markie. i work for faces s.f. as a teacher. i was a business owner for past -- i'm still a business owner, but i left my business to become a teacher, to follow my passion. i'm a mother of three kids, four, eight, and 13, and my husband works full time, two

double shifts sometimes to -- just to help us out and -- because i get paid so little as a teacher. and i just want you to know that we need support to help the children in san francisco as well as teachers, early childhood educators and k-12 and also the family. so we can unite together and make a better community. thank you. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. excuse me. i think we have a parent with a baby that is in line to speak. if you could like to come up first, please feel free. i'm sorry. if you don't mind, people in line. we just heard a baby crying, we said geez. and as mothers, we said gee -- you're a father, too? yeah, thank you, dad. come up and let your baby's voice be here. >> thank you. i really appreciate that, and

so does she. i was -- my name is megan, and i'm here with a piece of the future, my 14 week old twins, mckenna and montgomery. i also have a ten-year-old son named maxwell. when he was born at san francisco general, i was new to this city. i was white knuckling recovery from a cocaine addiction, and i didn't have any support or resources like most families in that situation in this city, i have found myself in an organization called the homeless prenatal program. five years later, i joined the staff of that program. now it's ten years later, and i'm a member of the board of directors and also a licensed attorney. i'm here today to urge you to remember the plight of homeless families in san francisco. while homeless children and their parents are not the most visible in the homeless population, we know their

thousands of childrens sleeping in cars, on floors, in closets, and even some on the streets. these kid does face challenges and hardships that no kid should have to face, and they disproportionately suffer from risks of health. the good news is i believe we know how to help these children and their parents. we know that by focusing on long-term programs focused on families, we can help save generations of kids. i challenging to think in the longer term to address the homelessness upstream by focusing on families and homelessness. along with your kids and mine, homeless kids with the future of this city. unless we -- thanks, dad. so along with your kids and mine, homeless children with

the future of this city. unless we invest in prevention, we're compromising our future and the future of all of san francisco. thank you. >> chair fewer: and thank you, dad. >> perfect segue. we have 600 children every day in san francisco, infant toddlers and precoolers in san francisco. i thank you, supervisor fewer, and president yee, for standing on the steps of city hall every year to walk around the block for our children. i hope you'll walk not just around the block but around the city to support early childhood education. it's a promise made, and i hope it's a promise kept. this is a windfall, but i hope it continues. i welcome the new supervisors to get involved in the new early childhood education space. we've been fighting this for a

long time, a very long time. so when it rains, it's time to fuel the youngest population, support the teachers. my youngest student came up here, and i'm surprised we were able to do this because we have a staffing shortage. thankfully, they're here on their lunch break, and they haven't eaten yet. i i'm going to take them out to lunch. i know you're going to be behind this to support all the things that we do. thank you. >> good afternoon, everybody. my name is john w. smith, and i'm a president of the potrero hill tenants association. born -- you get all tied up here. i'm a san francisco native, and i hear the word windfall. for us, it's a must. we must have it because you've

got places in here where i live that people who live with mold, infestation, bad electricity. i know you hear a lot of problems here, which is justified, but i am offering you a b&b, to come and spend the night if you dare, in some of these places, and then, you can see i'm not playing. i'm serious. i've been very fortunate, and i'd like the other people to be just as fortunate as i am. and like the teachers here, if a child is exposed to all these things. you don't have no foundation. cleanup the act, and these teachers will be able to teach the children or my children's children. i thank you. you know, as san franciscans, we like to go back in hiding.

>> hi. good afternoon. my name is comelia johnson. i'm a resident, and i work in sunnydale housing development. i'm here to speak on the behalf of the funding that's being implemented in sunnydale, and i know, i've been a resident fosh eight years, and the road -- for eight years, and the roads are eshorrible, the conditions are horrible. last month, i put in a request for the roads on sunnydale and hahn, because there's potholes so deep, you can bust your tires, and nothing's been done. i know if the hole causes a hazardous something, it's, like, 72 hours before it should be fixed, but it's not. if my toilet and my sink and my

tub is plugged up, all three, i have to wait 30 days, okay? if my heater blows up, i have to wait 30 days. that's ridiculous. i believe that the city -- this is way overdue. these units weren't built for families to live on. it's going to 80 years these units have been here, and i just implore you guys to put your money where your mouth is, like, really do the good work, and i appreciate it, but you have families and teachers and educators and people who have degrees that live there and should not be treated differently because of your socioeconomic background or your demographic. but it's saddening to say that because it's predominantly black and brown people that live there, they're ignored. the structures in bernal -- play structures in bernal heights are good, but the play

structures in sunnydale -- have you been there? they're horrible. they're disgusting. so i commend you guys for doing the right thing, and i thank you for this opportunity. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i have some eye problems, so respectfully, i can't take these off. i'm here today as the president -- the very proud president of the public housing tenant association citywide for all the family developments. we are here to support the $9 million that is so sorely needed to bring some of the problems that this young lady talked about and the gentleman, to get some of that repaired. there's going to be a long time for the rebuild, and in the meantime, we need to have clean, safe, and decent housing. housing that's -- but with the funding needed given out 100% to repair, but we get 75%, it's never going to mend. so we need this while we're

waiting for r.a.d. and the home-sf sites can be rebuilt. i want to thank my partners. we've been here since 8:30. i don't know how we got apart from each other, but i'm here to speak for us. if you need any assistance from the public housing tenant association, don't hesitate to call on us. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. this is my comrade, maurice, and i am megan johnson. i am a san francisco native, i work at the san francisco coalition for homelessness, and i have two children.

this should not be an education versus homeless issue. i'm here to remind the board of supervisors that growing the pie and investing 171.4 million of efar funding to permanently housing homeless families, youth, and children, would be a life changer. for so many of the homeless population, including myself, i have experienced homelessness since 17, when i was still attending school through the san francisco unified school district. i am now 25. there are over 3,000 homeless children in schools managed by san francisco unified school district. that is one in 25 children in our public schools without a

home. experiencing child homelessness impacts their learning development and health. moving on, 70% of the homeless population now drills on numbers before they became homeless. this -- [inaudible] >> all services being ignored are desperately needed for homeless prevention, please, i urge you to remember how many men, women, and children will go to sleep tonight outside, in the cold, in the elements, when they don't have to. [inaudible]

>> chair fewer: excuse me, if you wouldn't mind, there was a lady at the end of the line. she was waiting for the end of her line, but the sheriff has asked me not to call cards, and she has to leave. do you mind? two minutes. at the end -- yeah, and she has to go. she's been here since 10:00. my apologies, i'm sorry. i'm sorry. thank you very much for your patience. i really appreciate it. thank you. two minutes, please. >> thank you. my name is patricia smith, and i live in district five midtown park apartments. i'm sure you've heard of us before. i'm here on behalf of midtown so much, although that is an issue that should be brought up constantly until it's solved. i'm here as a parent, a grandparent, a foster parent, for 33 years, as any kind of parent you want to say -- adoptive parent of four children, special needs. and i, too, want to say that

education is a very important thing right now. we need to educate our children so they don't become the next homeless people. it's very important that you fund the teachers. i have -- the with the children that i take from the foster care i've adopted, and -- they're all special needs. if you don't support our special need teachers, they wind up going out of the city. then, it's going to cost san francisco a lot more to educate them than it already has. somewhere from 25,000 to 100,000 or more per child. how -- how is that going to affect the teachers? i want you to think about it. we're trying to deal with our situation at midtown. thank you. >> chair fewer: and again, thank you so much, next

speaker. >> my name is tracey nixon, and i'm a peer organizer for the homeless. i've been waiting here to get my point across to you guys. we need the equity in between the teachers because i deal with homeless families every single day. i'm in a family shelter, and i look at these other kids, and i know that they're struggling. fortunately, my daughter's not struggling that much because i'm trying to seem as normal, seem as comfortable for her. there's not enough being done to keep people housed, and then, once we do get subsidies and everything, we get pushed out of san francisco. i'm a san francisco native. i'm born and raised. i'm trying to raise my child in the same district that i grew up in, district five. unfortunately, it doesn't look like that'so