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's going to happen.

what needs to happen is there needs to be equity because all these teachers and the homeless families that are on the street. it's hard to be able to tell my daughter, i don't know where we're going to go in 30 days because we're going to be out of a shelter. thank you for your time, and i'm glad i was able to get that off my chest. thank you. >> hello. my name is sophia thibideaux. i am a volunteer at the coalition, and i work as a shelter monitor. let's just grow the pie. there's enough to do both. i'm currently a homeless parent of two teenagers. i also suffer with my own mental issues. i don't understand why there is an issue with the funding of the unhoused people like me. i don't say the word homeless because that's not cool.

>> let's just do it, like nike, we need stablity, we need to grow the pie. why are the other groups getting fully funded, and we all have to stick with just 45 million? that doesn't make sense if we want to change the problem -- fix the problem. basically just we need it done. we need this rainy day fund so we can have a day of sunshine. that's it. >> good afternoon. my name is olivia glowacki. i'm a member of district one, a

member of district on homelessness, and i'm here to support our city coalition. it's deck pickable that families are force -- despicable that families are forced to live in their car and that there are over 3,000 homeless children in our school system, but what is even worse than these situations occurring in the first place is we have the ability to remedy these situations, and we don't. it is clear none of us want to be pitted against each other, but it seems we're vying for a slice of this $15 million --

$50 million pie. [please stand by]. >> given that the problem c dollars are on hold indefinitely, the eraf funds with the perfect fusion of community resources to provide desperately needed access to those needed it most. we urge you to direct at least

25% of funds to address our cities growing mental health and addiction crisis. -- it's unrealistic to expect someone to maintain treatment gains or stay connected to ongoing services when discharged back to the streets. spending the eraf dollars under the plan will allow us to stop churning people through the system as their mental health conditions worsen. intensive care can be offered wherever anyone needs it, be it drop in facilities, tent

encampments, or medical facilities. our system must offer predictable access to health care including addiction and behavioral health systems to improve the efficacy of care, otherwise, our work is done in vain. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is malia chavez, and i'm the deputy director at the homeless prenatal program, and i'm also the cochair of hespa, which is the homeless providers emergency association. i really wanted to just talk about advocating more for homelessness families and

children. families with dealing with housing insecurity issues and needing more support. as someone who experienced housing insecurity as a child here in san francisco, i'm disheartened to see that families are still experiencing homelessness and that this is the reality for over 2,000 students, according to the san francisco unified school district. resources for homeless youth, families, and children are needed and should not be forgeten when allocating the -- forgotten when allocating the eraf funding and allocation of rainy day funds. i respectfully ask that you all grow the pot and support both teachers and housing development because it's needed. thank you. >> good morning. my name is denise garcia. i live in san francisco, and i work at the homeless prenatal program. like malia mentioned, of the 4,000 families who walk-through our doors last year, 3,016

clients identified as homeless. of these clients, 1,480 identified as living in the streets, cars, and other places not meant for habitation. because of city funding and other sources of funding, we have been able to how's 314 families. that's 563 children, 436 adults, for a total of 999 individuals, but that's only one-third of our client population who are homeless. we're asking -- we're asking you to use -- to expand -- to expand funding so that we're able to how's tuse the remaini% of our clients or who are housing insecure. that's 2,000-plus individuals and more than 800 children if you expand -- if you expand -- if you expand this funding.

it's incredibly difficult for children in unstable housing to focus on school. if you don't know whether you can stay at the -- yes, at the shelter, you can't focus on school. so on behalf of the people who serve, i'm asking you to allocate funding for homelessness and teachers. we can do both. supporting teachers is successful for a critical education system. children need stable housing to learn and thrive in school. when you support homeless families, you also support teachers so that they can focus on teaching and teaching well instead of just -- instead of -- instead of being teachers and case managers. >> good afternoon, supervisors, and thank you for listening to all of us. i'm here representing homeless prenatal but also all the

families that we see every day. it's really, really hard to go home and know that i have not been able to place someone in a house, and we see that every day at homeless prenatal. we see families with their children that are really struggling every day. i believe we have a big path -- and to really have higher education so they can do better in their life. thank you so much. >> hello, supervisors. basin basing with the q --

brian basing with the q foundation. we are here standing in solidarity with not only the our city, our home coalition but all of our community needs. we just need more pie, and leadership grows the pie. i'm starting to see a disturbing pattern in recent years trying to pit kids against housing and homelessness, and it's cynical, and now, it's happened twice. do it again, and it's just boring, which is the biggest sin of all. 30% of the homeless population are lgbt, and what you all are going to soon see is that there appears to be structural barriers for accessing services to lgbt peoples and some studies suggest we have the lowest rate of access of any groups in this city. that's not an accident. given the realities and this knowledge, we also need to start looking into targeted services for lgbt people

because the data is showing we're not getting access to -- in mainstream services, so i ask all of you all when you're making budget decisions, to keep that in mind, especially because lgbt has the highest rate of homelessness in san francisco. 20% of the population is homeless. this -- 25% of the population is homeless. this idea that our communities is going to be taken care of by the may i approach stream funding is not supported by the data. i hope that you drill down and look at this importantly. and then also, in these proposals, we notice that rent subsidies are not provided for. mayor was quoted in the press as highlighting the effectiveness of the senior and disabled subsidy programs, and so i just want to highlight that it's all part of this

discussion. >> hello, supervisors. my name is emil miracle, and three years ago, when i was on the verge of being evicted, when i had nowhere to turn, q foundation helped me with subsidy. i don't know withhoho else to to or who could have helped me. so i just want to thank q foundation and brian and rent subsidy. i really appreciate it. it was life saving. thank you so much. >> supervisors, thank you for

listening. my name is credalder lorenz. i work at st. anthony's dining room. while we do not take city, state, or federal funding, we understand the importance of funding for homeless and housing services. as you know in november, san franciscans made a bold and compassionate statement with prop c, st. anthony's is a member of our city, our home coalition, a diverse collection of organizations supporting populations experiencing homelessness in san francisco. collectively, we ask the board of supervisors especially those on the san francisco budget and finance committee to use some of the $185 million eraf funding for housing and homelessness until prop c is decided. we believe that the solution to homelessness is simple: housing. rapid rehousing is an

intervention designed to quickly connect people to housing and services, and we believe that funding these solutions is in all of our interests. to be clear, we understand the need for and support funding for education and teachers. we have spoken to retired teachers who volunteer in our programs and encourage our teachers to allocate eraf funding for homelessness and education. personally, my mom was a teacher and my father was a social worker, so i embrace the solidarity in this room, and i hope you all will, as well. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you very much for being here and hearing us today. my name is mary kate buckelew. i work at larkin street youth services where i'm director of funding as well as hespa. i'm here today in solidarity

with the people who are advocating for san francisco's most vulnerable, the young people. i'm here to ask you for your leadership and your voice in supportive youth today, to prioritize youth today for the homelessness allocation, the funding interventions in housing and homeless and health and to allocate 20% of that for youth, realizing that chronic homelessness is not an acceptable f acceptable future for our young people. thank you very much. >> my name is krista, and i'm with larkin street youth services. unfortunately, the young leaders that i brought with us today, as they are the experts of their own experience were

not able to get in. they did wait for two hours, and i did offer and my staff offered to replace myself with them, so just a point of process, i don't think that's too cool. they can tell you a lot better than i can about their issues of homelessness? however, when we see from them every day in our programs is that youth are not able to get their lives together fully until we have housing. they are -- they have housing. they're not able to take care of their mental health needs, their education and employment goals until they're off the streets. we know that housing first works. we know from the experts and hearing and seeing them every day that this is very important also because we know that 50% of homeless adults encountered and began experiencing homelessness under the age of 25. we see and feel directly the extreme and vital impact of mental health support services to help our young people get off the street and stay off the

street. i think that you all probably understand these things already, and you're doing your best. thank you for meeting with us when we come to meet with you, for hearing the young people and for having us to have a better city in the future by bringing our young citizens up as they need to be brought up. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is mary lavalle, and i want to thank you for all being here and listening to us. i am a proud parent in this city representing 1600 of us. i'm a san francisco native born, raised, and now pushed out of this city. and what's the most hurtful i think is that i'm here alone because my children, who are grown and have children couldn't afford to stay here. so i can't even see my

children, and they want to be in this city, but they're not here. so i want to go onto just say that homelessness and education are hand in hand. half of our kids are coming out of either being homeless or abusive situations. their living situations are horrible, so we can't pit us against each other because we are one and the same. parents are one paycheck away from being homeless ourselves. during the summer, we don't get unemployment. we don't get paid year-round. i know there are other paras who have to go into their retirement. my retirement has dwindled because i don't have any money coming in during the summer. i'm looking out here and i'm seeing people that have been in the fight a long time for education. you either have children in the district or you have

grandchildren now or you do have children now. what do you want for your children? think about that when you think about what we need for these children because all children are our children. they're your children, too. thank you. >> hi. my name is ina, and i'm from chinatown. and i've worked in -- >> chair fewer: excuse me. could you please speak into the microphone? thank you. >> i've worked in the field of education for over 30 years, and i've always found that educators have been underpaid and that it's very hard to keep them in the field. in order to keep them -- to keep them in the field and provide quality care for our young children, and we ask 30 million to incompetent crease their compensation.

thanks. >> hello, supervisors. my name is tim huang, and i work with delores street community services. i'm here today in support with everyone here. i agree that we shouldn't definitely have more of the pie, and it's not fair that we have to be here because certain special interest groups are challenging whether we can use the money in court. i'm going to speak on what i know and what i experienced throughout my work on the grounds in the s.r.o.s. so families who live in s.r.o.s are technically considered homeless. and i want to speak to one in particular, on 1941 mission street, which i call the grand southern hotel, they haven't had hot water for three weeks.

i would challenge you to go home and shower without hot water and see how that feels. it's being sent to directors here through d.b.i., but in the meantime, there are families living in a that hoe -- in that hotel who don't have hot water. i think s.r.o. acquisition and many that could go into prevention homeless would be great in not only preventing the people who are -- or helping people who are visibly homeless but also those who are on the cusp of being homeless. happy new year, lunar new year, and all i want for new year is red envelopes with the money for these issues, so thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm reginald meadows. want a share of the pie. i'm from the tenderloin representing district six, and

the eviction community and glide for many men, women, boys and i recagirls. the displacement has led to this problem along with the high cost of living here today. homes for homeless people are needed, but -- but very decent shelters in place also so they can develop a better way of life for themselves. next, we need very decent income for our teachers who are teaching the children. i sigh decent, as many of you are living well on very decent salaries. and also, we have to think about the schools and their children. the children need good teachers, and all the people in town because you guys are too weird about the money whereas they cannot survive properly as human beings, and the rent

should be flapped across the city so thoent who left, they can feel they can come back here and live because indeed, these were their homes. we have the pie, and it is already baking. let's do the right thing and finish baking it and then serve it out. the money is not for you guys to sit down and see how well you are, it's for the benefit of all of us. we have to do the right thing, people. politics kill it. do what's right, help people. we have boys, girls, mothers, and fathers on the street -- [inaudible] >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please.

everyone has to have the same amount of time. your two minutes are expired. [inaudible] >> good afternoon. my name is rudy gonzales of the san francisco labor council. i just wanted to 'em if a ice we can't have -- 'em if a ice we can't have a conversation with the services before we have a conversation about the structure of services, whether you're going to curry or, you know, any number of senior or health centers, those are staffed by workers that you employ, and those workers are suffering disproportionately, and we have to think about the people who deliver services. and that extends to our allies in the community withen senior

action disability network. [please stand by]

>> next speaker, please. >> hello supervisors. my name is toy page. i'm here with glide. also, i want to let you know i am also actively homeless right now. the reason why i come today is to talk about the needs of the people who are homeless with disabilities and with people who are sick and people who suffer from mental illness and

substance abuse. we need to expand services for serving people who are homeless as far as more shelters. as far as branching out and our mental health system. creating more services for people with substance abuse problems. because the huge issues because we have a lot of people dying out there right now. last year over 200 people died. i attended the vigil last year. died on the street because someone didn't have a place to go.

i'm asking to you remember those who are sick out there. thank you. >> thank you, supervisors and thank you to everyone who spoke. i am ben and i also work at the glide foundation. i'm here in solidarity with all the people who come here to speak about the pressing issues and i'm here to talk about urgency. the urgency that our friend was just mentioning. which is that people without housing die. the time we have until a proxy funding comes through is crucial. the difference between $45 million and the $171 million is the difference between dozens of people being able to stay with us. i know that some of us came to the memorial that tony was

talking about. these are the banners that we had. they're over 200 of them. they had people's names written on them and they were all people we knew and loved. i don't want to be dramatic, i just want to be real. this is an opportunity that we have and we can't waste it. so if we expand the pot and use all the rainy day funding and if we make agreements about future funding, then we can expand it enough to fund all of the ground ready to produce shelters, homelessness, supportive housing and mental health services we really need. thank you so much for your time. >> good afternoon. my name is donny fowler and i live for 18 years in the neighborhood between the castro and the mission. i have two young daughters. one of whom goes to harvey milk and the other will go to harvey milk. my wife and i are committed to san francisco public schools. we only ask that you, as board

members, provide an equal commitment to our public schools. we need at least $60 million of the eraf funding to provide predictability our teachers need to make plans for their future. after all eraf means education. the money should be dedicated to that purpose. for supervisors fewer, yee and peskin, you are known as problem solvers and you have the expertise and knowledge to provide this stability for our teachers and to show you have their backs. for supervisors brown, mandelman, stefani please include public schools on your list as you make decisions. for supervisors mar, walton, haney and ronen, keep up the support. e means education.

thank you. >> i am here as the mother of a first grader. as a family doctor at southeast center i'm here to speak on behalf of the students at flynn elementary school which is particularly identified as a pitch school. also, i'm probably more importantly for my patients at bay view and they deserve high-quality schools and teachers who will stay to from the mother of linda antwan who has been fighting for years in san francisco better. i talked to teachers of my students on a regular basis because they're not only

teaching our students, they're taking and carrying for them. their physical, emotional, social needs everyday. they're working overtime to do it. our children need stable housing and they need stable schools. please fund our schools to the level requested by superintendent malt use. >> good afternoon, my name is beverly. i am the director of located across the street one on the city building and one in the state building. i'm here in support of funding $3 million of the money that is available for early care and education because our children cannot wait. we're not in opposition to the other requests that are coming fourth from sfusd and also

homeless programs. we have to start with the youngest children if we want to make this equation work. i believe that together, all of us but you all providing the leadership, can figure these things out in terms of innovation and what will really speak to the future of our city. thank you. >> my name is matt and i'm here as a representative for district 4. i'm also here representing as a parent of public schools, as a former k-12 student in sfusd and as an after school provider within the city. i've heard a lot today and i have to agree with most of all of it. it feels very much like we're functioning in austerity times despite we're the wealthiest city in the wealthiest state in

the wealthiest country that's ever existed. >> it isn't ok to put homelessness against children. i know the city can step up to that so the ask from cpac is again a mere $30 million for early care and education so that the earliest time we have to educate students is used well so they can enter k-12 prepared and ready to go. but, we have been fighting for years for parity with uesf and sfusd teachers and they're the lowest paid educators in the bay area. if they are also needing $60 million just to make their lives work and make it happen, we need that too. this will also help prevent teachers, our staff and early care education and our staff in after school from being added to the homeless population as well as their students. they do not get their education back. this is the one time they have to have it happen. please, support all of these efforts. please help prevent homelessness in the city. build more housing.

please pay our teachers a decent living wage. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is margaret baron and i'm a member of the dignity fund coalition and i am here not to ask for particular money for a particular group. i'm here today just to speak on behalf of seniors and people with disabilities which includes our vets, lgbt, h.i.v., aids sur vice viversurvivors. we want to make sure that the money that goes for homelessness, housing, behavior health, et cetera, that our populations are included as to be served by those services and the money that will be going to them. at this point in time, seniors and people with disabilities in san francisco are between 25 and

30% of the population. they are 20% of the homeless population with the 85 and older group, which is growing the most fast in terms of the homeless population we were told. we with appreciate to make sure that as the funds are used for this, that these populations are really included in benefiting from it. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is sandy maury and i'm here representing the dignity fund coalition which is a coalition with 40 non-profit c.b.o.s in the communities providing services to seniors and adults with disabilities. my only point to you is as you look at the issues of affordable housing, the behavior health and homelessness, you include seniors and adults with disabilities in all these areas.

we have many people who are veterans, who are people with h.i.v.-aids and who are homeless and in low income minority communities. thank you very much. i know it's been a long hearing for you but we appreciate the fact that you are here listening to everything. thank you. >> hi, i'm here with care 3 touch institute which is an organization that does holistic services for people isolated by age, income or illness. i'm here to stand in solidarity with all the other agencies that are here representing the need for more fund to go go into homelessness and housing. as a bay area native, i have seen things go to a place that i never thought i would see them go to. it's disheartening. the other day i helped with the homeless count and one of the things that was the biggest takeaway was how many people are living out of their cars. we see a lot of people on the streets. i work in the tenderloin and i

walk by everyday and see a situation that seems to be getting worse not better. also, having this realization of the fact that i counted more people in cars than i did on the streets during that night was a big wake-up call to the fact that the numbers that we're actually calculating are probably much lower than the reality of what is occurring. so, i stand in solidarity with teachers as well knowing many of my friends are teachers and also struggling. i think it's important to give teachers a raise and at the same time if there's funds leftover, i do ask that we all work together to try to find some solutions to this crisis that is really hard to be around. thank you for listening and thank you for taking this time with us all. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is kevin carole i'm the president of the hotel council of san francisco. i also serve on the board of sf

travel and the chamber of commerce. i know as you look at the issues today, both education and homelessness in the services for that, obviously those are all very, very important. i'm a resident of district 7. i work downtown. i'm the son of a schoolteacher as well. as you work on the priorities and as you work through this, i'm here to advocate and ensure the funding for homelessness, for housing, the funding that will help with those that are mentally ill that that is prioritizes as you look at the funding that's within these proposals that are before you. i thank you for your time and i thank you for your efforts and making this happen. i appreciate it. >> hello, david smith a district 5 resident. i work in district 5 at a high school. a continuation high school that serves the needs of students who

are not making it in the regular high schools. there's a lot of teachers all over the district who are working hard to make sure our students are doing good. when a raise came in because of prop g at the beginning of the year, there was an energy shift amongst a lot of teachers. amongst some of the young teachers who are just arriving and some of the older teachers and they're feeling ok, we're now starting to make a living and being able to afford to live in san francisco. people were -- there really was a certain happiness and people were feeling like we were being taken care of. now with this possibility of us losing it, particularly the new teachers, some of them are just devastated with the thought that they might have to take a cut and the new teachers are barely making it at this raise we got

at this time. so, i ask you put money towards education and of course we are also supporting all the services for homeless as well. a lot of our students are unfortunately come from homeless families. thank you, very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name andy stone and i'm a proud resident of district 9 and i'm here with the san francisco aids foundation. i'd love to share with you why you think fund to go address the urgency of the homeless crisis. it's so crucial to our efforts to ending the h.i.v. epidemic. san francisco is committed to an ambitious plan of getting to zero h.i.v. transmissions from aids and stigma. none of these ambitious goals is possible without permanent support of housing and services for the most vulnerable people

living with h.i.v. and those at risk of transmission. homelessness and h.i.v. are tightly linked. people who are homeless experience higher rates of h.i.v. transmission, have a more difficult time staying in h.i.v. care and adhering to their medications and experience worse healtworseoutcomes. with 7500 homeless people in san francisco and 3800 people who are unsheltered, the impact of h.i.v. on our city's homeless population is evident a year after year. new h.i.v. trance commissions in the city are among people who are homeless. in 2017, over 14% of new h.i.v. diagnosises in the city were among people experiencing homelessness. similarly, we know that the health outcomes for people living with h.i.v. are tied to housing status. increasing viral suppression rates improves the health of the people living with h.i.v. and prevents onward transmission. 32 people are suppressed with 85 people and virally suppressed.

homelessness is a contributing factor leading to death with people living with h.i.v. rental subsidiaries to prevent displacement for long-term survivors are substance use and mental health services with harm reduction philosophies are similarly crucial. >> i have a grass -- every two years the city controller -- would you stop your time to get sf gov. >> you have a presentation on the presentation deck, please. >> it's just one picture.

sorry guys. i didn't know it would take like this. i can just sort of -- so the city controller does a survey every two years of residents of san francisco and asks them how they think different parts of the different departments are doing. whether they're doing well or not. there is also a free response question asking what is the number one issue? it's free response many of this is not a list of things, please rank. people write in. the results are so stunning that is what i'm trying to show, there's a bar graph. the number one issue is -- here we go. you can kind of see it. great. so the number one issue is homelessness, 33%, the second issue 31% housing, the third issue cost of living and displacement 15%.

those three are the same issue. so the top three issues are the same thing, which is housing, cost of housing, feeling like you are going to be displaced. the need for affordable housing and the need for housing security. 33 plus 31 plus 15 is 78%. which is stunning, right. i think from your point of view, it seems like san franciscans are divided because you get advocates coming to you and people are telling all different things. san franciscans are actually stunningly united. 78% of san franciscans say that housing, cost of housing, homelessness and related issues are their number one issue. so, i support the mayor's priorities for how to spend the eraf funding, all of it on housing and shelter and homelessness prevention but at least 78% of it should go to the issues that 78% of san franciscans all agree are number

one. thank you. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is kimberley hill brown. i am the secretary of the san francisco public housing tentative association. i represent all family development under public housing through out the city. i was born and raised in san francisco. mostly living in district 10, 5 and 9. we represent. our board has been to the town hall meetings of district 6. we support all of our residents throughout this city. i say that to say that equity will not suffer wrong to be without a remedy. if hud only funds public housing, at 70% of the budget. we need to step in and make sure

our portrayal in sunnyvale gets some of this pie that everybody is talking about. let's all sit down as flesh and blood, human beings, who have a legacy to leave in this city of saint francis. we are all people. let's eat together. let's make sure that we clean up our streets. if i was the 18-year-old kimberley, i would be standing here fighting for our teachers. for education. fighting for our young people in public housing. because those public housing students go to the san francisco union fight school district. we need to sit down and eat together. let's figure this thing out as adults for the future generations. thank you.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm the treasurer for the public housing tenant association. this organization advocates for the residents of public housing and all of san francisco. if anyone calls on us for help. we amp la fie the power of our residents and provide safe and decent housing for low income households. we encourage community facility and advancing racial economic inclusion in equity. i support mayor london breed on the funding, as she is so willing to invest. this will make a difference in the lives of hundreds of families thriving those developments. thank you, mayor brown, mayor breed, for allowing sunny dale

to be part of the 181 million-dollar funding. this gives the community hope. this is a responsible investment. we'll make an impact in helping our public housing population. i hope all of you supervisors, along with mayor breed, and supervisor walton, support this. thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. my name is alita fisher. i'm a parent of four students within sfusd. one is a graduate of mission high school. we're in our 13th year in the school district. i'm also the chair of the community advisory committee for special education and i sit on the task force. and i'm here to talk to you today about the power of our schools as intervention.

the foundation released a study a few years. it's called early warning. students not reading at grade level bit end of third grade are four times less likely to graduate from high school. for students from low income families, not reading at grade level by the end of third grade increases the rate to six times less likely to graduate. my personal story, i'd love to share with you all. my husband and i are former foster parents, we're adoptive parents and that recent high school graduate i talked about, she started measure a loma elementary school in first grade as a foster kid who was through multiple foster homes and a lot of trauma and had attachment disorder. where we got our support was actually through our school. our school social worker was the one who connected my daughter with the girl scout troop that helped her bond with her fellow students. and make lifelong friends.

ms. pandolfy did the check in and check out to help her integrate into her day. i mentioned that graduate is a freshmen in college. studying political science. so hopefully we'll see her here in a few years. it doesn't have to be either or. our schools are really part of the solution in preventing homelessness so please fund them as such. thank you. >> hi, my name is margareeta.

>> i am allocating for older families to handle the services they need but also stable housing. she is a mom and she really wants all the children to do better.

>> she's doing volunteer work at the homeless coalition and she's really asking for us to have services for families for kids to have their own space where they can play. >> we're asking for your support just like we support you. we're asking you to support us so you can build more housing. thank you. >> good afternoon, my name is jason agar and i'm a resident of the district 11.

i'm also the parent of two young sfusd students. i have traveled, in my work, doing presentations in classrooms all over the city. i've seen teachers working very, very hard in every school that i've been at. my wife would likely be here as well, however, she is a public schoolteacher and this is her 21st year teaching second grade. i see how hard she works as well. the impact that teachers have is tremendous for children and allowing them to be successful in the world to fill in the gaps where maybe their parents or their family or community are not able to. they're essential. i don't envy you. however, i am proud that you are here to solve the current problem that we are facing with

funding. because these issues are connected. of course i want to advocate for 60 million for funding to educators, however, i want to recognize that if you are hungry or you don't have a place to sleep, it can be very hard to learn. it's a whole package deal. i hope that you can craft the best solution possible for us. i'm sure that you will do your best. thank you. >> hello, my name is jackie fielder. i'm a d4 resident. i teach in the college of ethic studies at sf state. i get really infuriated when coming into here seeing how many dozens of people are here for those great causes. at least a thousand hours as gone into just preparing for this hearing and just throwing people out and giving people

information. it's really sad to see in the richest, one of the richest cities in the country, people having to fight for scraps when we have 43 billionaires in this city. it's just unacceptable. it's on all you all to make sure that the pie isn't so constrained where we are having to talk in the same room and take days off of work and it's just -- i see a lot of my classmates skipping around. i went to stanford and skipping around on scooters like everything is fine and you have dozens of people in city hall packing and trying to tell their life stories and talking about death and it's just really infuriating to see that this pie and this pot is so small. so what seems obvious to me is you just grow the pie. i don't know what it will take to tap into the rainy day fund

but it's like raining and pouring. right now the budget doesn't include anything for community-based mental health interventions so support the proposition that instead of the beds we fund to help. its up to you to tax the rich and make sure those 43 billionaires are contributing their fair share so this pie is not a as small. hi, my name is sasha. i live in district 10. i'm here to support the our city and our home propose a i urge you to spend $171 million as our city our home bridge funding and grow the pot using our rainy day funds so we can also pledge $60 million for sfusd salaries. as the sf chronicle in 2016 reported san francisco's teacher pay is 500th in the state

despite our highest cost of living. spending $171 million not just on housing and homeless services but as funding our city and our home specifically is critical. prop c was approved by voters and includes critical funding for mental health services while other proposals do not. it will be reimbursed to the city when our city, our home passes through the court. please don't let business who don't want to pay their fair share of taxes, who make over $500 million a year in revenue, hold up the will of the voters by delaying the implementation of our city our home. the people dying on our streets today can't wait and neither can our teachers. this bridge funding is critical. thank you. >> joe wilson. hospitality house. just want to urge us to remind

ourselves that they don't have to be any winners or losers in this discussion only champions. that's why we're here today. i'm actually thrilled to see so many compelling voices coming out and speaking on issues that are important to the community. as a point of a historical reference, the reason there is not eraf fund to begin with is that it's properly tax money that was stolen from the countries 25 years ago and resulted in billions of cuts to community service and human services. we're trying to set some of that right today. we can do that in advance to avoid pitting one class of people against another. poor peoag