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 as a point of a historical reference, the reason there is not eraf fund to begin with is that it's properly tax money that was stolen from the countries 25 years ago and resulted in billions of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 people against dispute

people against homeless people and our public schoolteachers. we do not need to do that. the question is simple. you're leaders. act like it. this is a opportunity to lift up the city and as previous speakers have noted, to throw down the gauntlet to the business community. this is how we're going to do business in this town. if you want to reap the benefits, you have to pay for them. because other people who don't have the opportunity to be billionaires, are paying with their lives as a previous speaker outlined, are dying on the streets. we don't need to have that in the city and county of san francisco. we're asking you to show us leadership. >> hello supervisors, debbie from the san francisco human services network. we have a momentous opportunity ahead of us today. i'm here to urge you to

prioritize housing, homelessness and behavioral health in your decision surrounding the eraf funding. over 60% of voters approve prop c in november and it's striking the mayor, the board, the business community and the other members of our community agreed we need to act now to address the needs of people who are under housed and who are on our streets. the human services network believes that we need to start implementing prop c solutions immediately and these funds will be important to bridge the gap so that everything is in place and ready to go when the legal challenges are resolved. the expenditures that are consistent with prop c will be reimbursable to the general fund should the city be successful in its lawsuits. this will create a second windfall for the general fund in the future. we urge you, along with other speakers, to grow the pot. for example, by allocating the

windfall one-time reserves. so that we can address the many other worthy and important goals that you have heard about today. it is not either-or, it is an and. but this is a rare and exceptional opportunity to address the crisis on our streets. and we ask you today, to prioritize housing, homelessness, health services. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors, my name is kevin bogus. i work at col man advocates for children youth as a political directorment i'm here to talk about the needs in education right now. our schools are in crisis. in these funds can help to alleviate some of that. so i hope that you are going to do the right thing and make sure that money gets to the school district so they are able to make sure children in our city are educated. i want to call on you to find

ways to bring more revenue into the city to make the pot bigger. our schools are in crisis and the amount of money beer talking about potentially giving to the school district is a drop in the bucket of what is really needed to make sure all children and families have faith that their schools and their neighborhoods and communities that you represent are really preparing them to be the next generation of leaders and businessmen and civil servants in the city of san francisco. so i'm here to ask you to do the right thing. to be champions for the people and find more money in dollars to bring into help address these structural issues that we have. thank you. >> thank you, supervisors for being here today. i trust that you are listening to the clients in the room and open minded about the conclusion of today's hearing. i work at the coal collision on homelessness and i'm asking you please fully fund the $171.4 million that the city home committee is asking for you and ensure this bridge funding

there is the structure of the measure we passed in november. please fund our educators. these two groups are two sides of the same coin that we know our city can afford to allocate in full. we're all struggling. it is heartbreaking. please let's bake a bigger pie that nourishs the people and ensure that they have a future in this city that we all call home. you are our star bakers and we are counting on you to bake this big, delicious equitable pie. thank you. >> hi, i'm diana martinez, the program manager of the mission s.r.o. collaborative. i ask you you use eraf to fund our city our homes program so we can include s.r.o. acquisition and prioritizing to live in affordable housing units. it's important because the rents

are skyrocketing. giving incentive for landlords to let the building disintegrate to tenants self-evict. i will use the utah hotel as an example. for years, the building has been infessed with pests. the manager harasses the tenants. the building is neglected and falling apart. a family in the utah reported leaks from the ceiling and the conduit unit in her room. this is a ghost ship fire situation about to erupt. the continues are so bad, tenants are forced to self-evict and units have been kept vacant even though there's a housing crisis. the utah is purposely not finding new tenants and stayed they're doing illegal construction to prep the building for affluent renters. the room vacancies in construction prove that they're putting tenants through hell so they leave and they can fix up the units to rent at a higher

rate. families are living in this condition. they're living in these buildings. and imagine the psychological impact it has on those children. which is why we also need to use the eraf funding to prioritize getting sro families no appropriate low income housing asap. this is not just happening at the utah hotel, it's happening all over san francisco and you have the power to put an end to this. use it to buy sros and prioritize families to live in safer places. show us this is hope and you won't condemn immigrant children to live in sca squalor in this sanctuary city. >> hello, my name is sam and i work at the coalition on homelessness and i'm born and raised in san francisco in the richmond district. i know it's been a long day so i want to say three main things. one, grow the pot and expand the

eraf funding like so many people have said before me. marginalize communities do not have to be pitted against each a we stand in solidarity and a budget is a moral document. in our office, we have people coming in soaked from the rain and are freezing to death. is this not enough to constitute an emergency and activate rainy day funds? i think that the answer is yes. two, asking to prioritize families and children currently in none of the budget proposals, even this one or the mayor's budget proposal includes funding for housing for homeless families, youth and children. we're asking that 20% go to youth and 25% go to families. currently it's only four single adults. the third ask is really to

prioritize community-based mental health interventions. right now, there's a big focus on hospitalization and we ask that community mental healthcare is also included in the proposal. it's the most humane and cost effective way to address mental health conditions for homeless populations. and there should be a balance in funding for hospital as well as community services. so we're proposing to keep the san francisco general hospital proposal and replace the saint mary's beds with community mental health services. the saint mary's buzz, which are locked hospital beds are not eligible for prop c funding and are non reimbursable. instead, we can fund more mental health solutions. >> hi, jennifer coalition on

homelessness. you know, i think we all know it's really cold out there. it's been wet. we know it's a coalition of two people that passed just on the last few nights. during that really precious transition that should be made as comfortable as possible for people, they experienced bone, wet, cold in their last moments. we're calling for full funding for the our city our homes proposal. we're not interested at all in being pitted against each other. our city our hope has not been funded in full. this is really a life and death issue. let me break it down. we started with the proposal from the mayor's office, which frankly was great. but it didn't have funding for prevention, it didn't have funding for families, it didn't have funding for youth, it didn't have funding for community behavioral health. but that pie did not grow. instead it shrunk. and not one of the community proposals got added back in. we have tremendous opportunities

we're passing up in these current proposals in front of you. we have an opportunity to prevent thousand of households from becoming homeless. the word is let them go. we have an opportunity to house 200 vets at treasure island that we can break ground immediately. we have an opportunity to expand community behavioral health. instead, we're funding something that cost 140k per bed per year, it's nothing more than a jail masmasqueraded as a hospital be. we have an opportunity to get youth and families off the streets. we know teachers want full funding. we also want to fund the homeless proposals in full. we can do this. we have to do this because every lost opportunity equals a human life. a life destroyed. a life lost, another person out there dying in their last

moments. thank you. >> any other public speakers? ok. really? seeing none. public comment is closed. just going to put that gavel down so that makes it official. i see on the roster president yee. >> thank you chair fewer. first of all, i want to thank the public for coming out and i've heard so many of you understanding all the different needs we have and expressing support all the way across. maybe there are a few people who advocate more for one thing than the other. no one i heard today saying there's no need for addressing the homelessness. there's no need to address the salaries, the salaries of our teachers whether they're in

public schools or early education. i thank you for that. i think we heard it. certainly it's something that all of us in this chamber as supervisors want to address. i want to thank the budget committee for working out a proposal that we're going to be talking about. i believe that the proposal presented today is a very fair and balanced proposal to try to address as much of these issues as possible. thank you supervisor fewer for that. when we look at the windfall for the general funds at this point, which is really what we're talking about, and beyond that also. so, what we do have is sort of a balance approach.

so, the main thing and issues that we have to deal with is whether or not or how, it's not whether or not, how do we support a third year of this funding to go to things that are in deed a third year of funding that would include not only the early educator salaries but also the school district, public school district salaries and some of the issues in homelessness and behavioral types of services that we need that are on going costs. that is what we're really talking about at the end of the day is how we continue our services. i think the proposal that we're going to move forward talks about this somewhat. i certainly will be one that will support any notion to

provide funding for a third year for all these services. now, is the pot growing? darn straight it's growing. i have no doubt the pot -- it's a pie, right. the pie is growing. the pie is growing. whether it's going to be the typical baseline increases in our programs, or whether there's another year of windfall, or whether the school district, for instance, can identify some funding that they have not identified yet. i believe they have that and sitting down with the administration not long ago, i helped them identify another $6 million. it could be used towards our objectives today. i believe, also, that whether it's the governor providing more

service or more dollars to early education feel that will increase the pie or grow the pie. whether the governor is going to make good with his word that we're going to have full-day kind arkindergarten, which we're already paying for it in our school district. any reimbursement to addition to what we're getting now is extra money that will grow the pie. i believe we'll hit all our goals and objectives. so, whatever language we put in there, chair fewer and the other committee members, i want to have language in there that reflects that we will fight for all these priorities whether it's the public schools, salaries, peace, early education

salary, and some of the homeless pieces that need to have on going costs. [ please stand by ]

>> i would like to frame our thinking around this funding. we realized that we are held in host stadge of a court case that

actually is against the will of the voters. the voters of san francisco overwhelmingly said that ab prop c to take people off the child care wait list to give a raise to our early child care educators was so necessary and that passed in june. we had prop g, educator money salary for the san francisco unified school district educators. that was also passed by the public. they believe we ha -- then we he big clarks c these moneys from homelessness and housing was so important. san franciscans agreed that this is a huge issue. they also voted for that. unfortunately, none of these initiatives got a two thirds

threshold. then the powers that be are now in court battle all three cases in a court battle and we don't know when that will be resolved. with this windfall of money, i i want to emphasize, this is a good thing to have. it is a good thing to have $185 million. our thinking was that we would separate some. you want to say that 185 will give us what we immediately can fund and need. it's not everything that we want. more funding is coming. ed to say that we wanted to make sure that the salaries for the raises, for the early childhood educators was in tact that the salaries for sfusd educators

were in tact. then also, that our housing and homeless projects that are in the pipeline could be immediately funded. the mayor introduced a budget that had 185ing this thousand $s requested for homeless and housing. we had a budget that also included salaries. there are only two pieces of legislation ordinances today you will see item 4, item 5, one includes teacher salaries. one does not. it was a balancing act quite frankly. we looked at -- we had many conversations with the school district. supervisor yee was in contact with cpac.

we talked to homeless coalition folks and we decided on a proposed budget that we are going to introduce today that actually includes raises for teachers, raises for early ed and housing and homeless services. is it a perfect budget? i would say, we are about $4 billion away from a perfect budget. dlot of thought and consideratin has gone in this budget. i have also worked with supervisor moore to grow the pot a little. he has some amendments actually that he would like also to introduce. i want to also say that we know that lot of our homeless

funding, we neild increase funding and focus on our people and families in particular -- in my district, our seniors and people with disabilities. colleagues, even though i have amendments today, supervisor mar have some amendments. i suggest we hear from supervisor first to get a full picture. colleagues, i believe all of you have a copy of the recent amendment that put forth. supervisor moore, the floor is yours. >> i wanted to start by thanking all the diverse community members that took time to come to city hall to speak out about the needs that should be addressed through the eraf funds especially child care, homelessness and housing.

also the interconnectedness of the issues. i thanks those who spoke to the need to expand the pie and per pursue new revenue and address these pressing communities needs. i want to assure i'm listening and as all my colleagues as we struggle individually and collectively over this challenging and important decision on allocation of this first pot of eraf funds. colleagues, announced yesterday that i authored an amendment to the eraf ordinance introduced by interview peskin. that's item 5 on the agenda. the intent of the amendment is to fully fund the gap in educator wage increases for both sfusd and earl educators. i want to thank supervisor if sr

and ronen for working with me on this amendment. $52 million from the unanticipated eraf onetime reserve will be ilindicate be as fund it will be allocated to sfusd for teacher salary increases for fiscal year 2020 to 2021. before i go into further detail, i have a statement of feedback from my constituent. i held a townhall in my district on eraf based on a single question. how should we invest $185 million. the excess eraf funds gave us an opportunity to have conversations about city's

priorities and the opportunity to seriously deliver on those priorities. through conversations, emails and townhall that drew over 100 diverse constituents, there are many priorities worth funding and any proposal should seek to reconcile that and offer balance for the diverse needs of our communities and city. adding this amendment will result in legislation that funds priorities of my constituents and many of your constituents. housing and homelessness, teacher salary, and early childhood education for at least two years through fiscal year 2022020 to 2021 using current ef funds. without this amendment educators will be left without community, our children and our future. loudly and clearly, i've heard from teachers and parents and students if the sunset and here at city hall. we need to ensure our teachers are paid fairly.

a parent in my district wrote to me saying, at the end of the last school year almost all of the upper grade teachers left my son's school. only one veteran teacher remained while all the other teachers left for other school districts can paid more. this was disheartening for the teachers who left. the remaining teachers and most importantly for the students. how is this revolving door of teachers fair for our students particularly my oldest son who has special needs. our students deserve better. we need to plan for whole communities alongside investing in housing and solving homelessness. we also need to invest in our schools. by designated dollars, we have now to educators, we can assure them that they are valued. with the teacher and early childhood educator rivier reserd the board of supervisorsly sustain wagers and sfusd teacher

and staff. if other city or sfusd revenue or legally available reserves are not sufficient to do so. this will close any funding gap for educator salary, estimated at $40 million to sfusd and $10 million to the office of early care and education. the purpose of the fund is to provide an advance, bridge the gap caused by legal battles with propositions g and c which lead funds educator salaries unavailable. when the legal issues for prop g and propc are resolved the funds spent shall be repaid. this is similar to eraf funding to homelessness it bridge the gap from november proposition c. to ensure that other priorities continue to be met, the fund will expire in june 2021 or

earlier. if the funds purpose is served through other sources such as future eraf allocation. funds from the same amount will be returned to one-time reserve. upon the funds expiration, unused money will also be returned to one-time reserve. our amendment serves to strike a balance between competing priorities in a fair manner providing bridge funding for housing and homelessness, teacher salaries and early childhood educator salary for at least two years. because we are funding advances that would rare future board approval, the fund is just a viable as fiscally responsible way to one reserve work for the people. members of the budge and finance

committee, i kindly request in you address my amendment so we can protect our educators and give them the stability that they deserve. thank you. >> thank you very much. i'm in support of your amendment. i'm happy to introduce them. in addition, we have some amendments to item number 5 and i would to call on the comptroller to read out the amendments. >> good afternoon supervisors. ben rosenfeld the comptroller. >> these are the amendments for item 5, which is -- >> got it. sorry. would you like me summarize the amendment? >> please. >> you have before you, they

incorporate the amendment that supervisor mar suggested as we well. i can run them by page if helpful. i can hit the high point. s. on page 33, these are the allocations of the library baseline funds bee. the amendments include $4.5 million for energy efficiency improvements at library facilities. national $4.98 million for other library facility improvements. on pages 4 and 5, there are more modest changes to the allocations of children's baseline between workforce development, which you see on page 4 and early childhood educator wages and capital projects on page 5.

flipping to page 13 is really the next significant amendment. on page 13, the estimated cost and the appropriation for the utility acquisition assessment that the proposed has been reduced to $4.5 million. the $10 million you see at the bottom for eastern part of the substation is now funded in the revised ordinance with proposition a revenue bond that were authorized by the voters last year. lastly, on page 14, you see the reserve that supervisor mar spoke to. $52 million would be placed into this reserve in this proposal. the language that governs that reserve is described on page 16 and supervisor mar did thorough

job with it section. below it, you see section 5, which is an additional intent that the board will be adopting if you adopt this ordinance to fund various ongoing homeless services that are not covered in the reserve above in both fiscal years 20, 21 and 22. using eraf allocation through the city. those are the highlights madam chair of the amendment. i'll be happy answer questions. >> supervisor fewer: i would like to add additional amendments. i believe the clerk just passed them out. page 16, line 5, add the sentence, before the controller should transfer, such appropriations should be departmenteadopted. page 16 line 14, add, behavioral health in between homeless and

services. colleagues do we have any questions for mr. ros rosenfeld? let's go on to comments from colleagues. supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you, i want to thank the public for coming out. trying to divide up any amount of money is insufficient to address the needs of those young people who deserve early child care, the educators who deserve a living wage and a living wage in the context of the cost of living in san francisco which is a whole lot more money that's needed in order to survive. of course, the tragedy that

we're seeing everyday on our streets with homelessness and the multiple interventions that need to happen in order to fix it system. unfortunately, as much as we try in san francisco to fill the gap and the failure of our federal government to provide sufficient funding for these basic human needs, we're never going to have enough money if our budgets to fill that gap. with such an incredible past few elections when the voters of san francisco said yes, we're going to step up and fill that gap as much as we can with baby c and big c and prop g. we're net going to stand what we're seeing in our streets and schools. now we're unfortunately, caught

up in courts and doing our best with it eraf money to fill those gaps. i wanted to speak little bit more to sort of what happened during this process. as usual, lots of the stuff happens behind closed doors and i think it's important that we understand what happened. for the most part, i think that this board of supervisors agreed. it's kind of miraculous and due in great part to the great work of our budget chair. the kind of nuts and bolts of this incredible appropriation that we agreed to. one area that we went back and forth on for quite a long time was the amount to appropriate and in this appropriation

ordinance to cover fiscal sala salaries in '20 and '21. there was disagreement. this entire board i have no doubt ta this board cares deeply about the public education system. wanted to promise to make that appropriation in the future. both the united educators, union, school district and some of the supervisors including myself, was little nervous about doing that. that nervousness come from past experience. i've been legislative aid or supervisor on this board for eight years. we've only ever promised to appropriate money in the future one time before, it was around giving a nonprofit cola in the future, in the range of about $6 million. we all made that promise.

when the time came to fulfill that promise, we didn't stick with it. again, it's never because of bad intentions, it's never because the board doesn't want to give the raises. what inevitably happens often times when promise is made and when we're supposed to make that promise, a million other crises come up that pull on our conscious and our heart strings. it really is a choice all the time when we make this budget promise. i was looking for something with little bit more teeth to make sure that we were able to keep that promise if the future. the reason for that is because we have been record vacancies in critical school district positions every single year for the past three years. in 2016, there were 190

vacancies at the beginning of the school year for teachers, nurses, social workers and library and speech therapists. 109 vacancies on that first day of school. by november of that year, almost half way through the school year, there was still atmosphe 3 vacancies. by november was up -- it continued to have 99 vacancies. in august of 2018, last year, we had 179 vacancies at the beginning of the year. by november it was at 111. more vacancies in november than we had in the prior two years. this is a major crises. why are we having so many vacancies? we have w. the lowest salaries in the surrounding counties. with the high cost of living,

plus the low salaries, our educators are leaving to surrounding counties. when my daughter's teacher and her teacher was here on tuesday, chancing and interrupting our board meeting, i cannot just give a promise that i'm not sure we're going to be able to keep. have to fight to continue to put teeth in the that promise to know that we could make it. so that the school district and the teachers could plan for next year, could know and feel confident and be able to make plans to keep those raises that are working. we hear it and we see it all the time. educators that planning on leaving the district are able now to stay because of this raise. i wanted to give some context to the small disagreement that we were having a i could not be

happier that we resolved. i want to thank supervisor gordon for working with chair fewer on this elegant solution. i think it's brilliant. i want to commend you and just really give you my sincere gratitude. i want to thank the legislative aids and edward wright who worked in supervisor mar's office who's been struggling over this language nonstop. they're incredible, they are extraordinary. i want to say that it's not everything that we all wanted. while i think that this is an incredible show of unity and an incredible result that we came to -- that we can proud of. i would ask the chair and the clerk to add me as a cosponsor to the appropriation today with the amendments and thanks again.

i will end by saying this, all these human needs that we have, healthcare, food, housing, energy, education, there's only one in this country that we have a right to. we only have a right to education k through 12. we have to constantly protect that right. it is constantly under attack. at the same time, we've got to fight hard to create a right to the other basic human needs that we have. a right to housing, right to food, right to healthcare, a right to energy and heat in our homes so we don't die of freezing cold weather. let's not forget that the charter school movement, with the defunding of public union, there is an effort in this country to undermine the one right that we have as americans to public education.

we cannot for one minute let down our guard and close our eyes to making sure that that remains a right in this country for decades and centuries to come. thank you. >> thank you chair fewer and thank you for allowing us all to be here. we can see how important this conversation is we're having all of the supervisors here other than i know supervisor peskin who's at another meeting. i want to echo the comments that -- i'm happy to see where we ended up. i want to thank you chair fewer and supervisor mar for developing this compromise. it's something that really takes care of lot of the questions and the concerns in the priorities that all of us have as a board.

what i saw today and what i seen over the last few weeks we've had this conversation is one of the more impressing displays of solidarity that i've seen in my entire career in public service and advocacy. we had had all of the folks with our city and home coalition, we had public housing tenants. early educators, public school family and public school teachers coming in and saying we stand together. we see the connections between what we fight for everyday. we don't want just what we do, we don't just for our organization. weapon want to make sure that everybody needs here are taken

care of. we want it see people in housing, we want to see people with education we want to see homeless families and children taken care of. i can say this, i represent the district where we have the largest number of people who are living on the streets. i'm also former school board member. i know that we have over 2000 homeless children in san francisco public schools. what i saw when people came in and said, we need it take care of both of these neds. ewe need to fight and stand together. thank you for taking that approach and for making it clear that we don't have to choose one or the other. yes, we have $185 million in this particular discretionary fund from the eraf, we have an $11 billion budget. we have more money as we've learned in our rainy day fund that we can draw on. we can fight for if we need to go back to the ballot on some of

these things. if we can prove and show it we can stand together and understand how they are connected, i think there's so much more that we can do together. i also a townhall and we about the same number of people there and four languages. i heard the same thing what supervisor mar said. which is that, homelessness is the most urgent crises people are literally dying. we need to invest in that crises and make sure that we get people immediately into shelter and housing. mental health was very high on the list. also understanding that we need to fund our schools and our teachers and our families. i'm very happy that we found a solution that loud us to grow the pie. i'm most frustrated and angry at the people who are suing to prevent us from accessing the resources no prop g, c. shame on those people.

what we heard today and those interests it's not just individuals, it's organized interests doing that. because of what they've done, we are prevented from spending the degree we need on these priorities. two other things i want to say, one is, in addition to understanding of the urgent need that our teachers have that our families have in public schools, it was also important for me since the beginning to understand what the source of these funds are. we keep saying, eraf, everybody understand that. the first word in that acronym is educational. these funds came back to the city because of a fundamental inequity in how our schools are funded. it has its source in prop 13. has its course in arbitrary silly formula that decide what share will go to the school district. it has its root in the wrong

determination by the state that our public schools have enough money here in san francisco. we know that is completely ridiculous. our schools are underfund. our families are undersupported. we need to also as we thank the people and businesses of san francisco for these property taxes and for the state for returning them, understand that they have their source and something that not okay and we need to continue to fight which is prop 13 and under funding of schools. we hope understand that as we continue to receive eraf funds that our schools do deserve, special consideration from these funds and also that we reject this notion that our schools are fully funded by the state. they are not. last thing, i agree with pulling from the one day rainy day fund is definitely raining as people

said here in their comments. when you have three propositions that have been voted on by the people of san francisco that are on hold that urgently require priority, we should be pulling from our one-time rainy day fund. these are freight from the -- these are separate from the rainy day fund that protect us from a recession. over $50 million is going to be put into this fund just because of this $450 million eraf that's coming to the city. it's full eraf that i need to be looking at and considering. this is part of. i want to thank you for putting that forward. as we move forward, i also would say, there's still $50 million in that one-time rainy day fund. that some of the things we heard about how we can urgently get people off the street that we should look moving forward at those funds and how we can prioritize those for that

purpose. we have a need around homelessness mental health and housing and this conversation about how prop c is bridged while we fight this lawsuit, we'll continue to be something that this board deals with with the future eraf funding and larger budget conversation that's beginning soon. again, i'm in support of this compromise. would like also add my name as cosponsor. thank you chair fewer, supervisor pest kin and mandelman and yee. it does allow us to grow the pot, to address these critical needs, to recognize the source of these funds as being eraf and understand that we have lot more work to do.

>> supervisor fewer: thank you, supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: i want to beginning by thanking you and your office. i think where we have landed is very good. it's a place that i think we as a board can get get behind. i think the broader community can get behind. i know it has not been for lack of pain and hearth ache and many conversations and lots of balancing. i also just -- this is my first go around on dealing with budget stuff with our city staff. i want to thank the mayor and her administration for -- even when they were not happy with the direction things were going in, their professionalism, they're willingness to engage with us. i want to tend extend that thanks in that direction. we are just so lucky in our

controller. our deputy city attorney and our comptroller has been extraordinarily helpful. lot thanks all around. i know we're not done yet. i've been very impressed to see this process play out over the last few weeks. i want to thank of course, the parents and teachers and early childhood educators and homeless service providers and homeless folks themselves and labor folks and folks just who may have come in who care about our city. all of whom want to see us do the right thing. thank you for holding us accountable and making your voices heard.

we had some fierce parents that i heard from, parents from many other schools in my district. i want to thank all of them for engaging with me and exchanging emails. i do think we're getting to relatively good place. with all that good will and happiness, i have a couple of comments or thoughts. it was many folks said, there seem to be great deal of agreement from the audience. this is easy. it's just the folks up here who can't figure this out. we can grow the pie, there's enough for both. i heard lot of that. i don't actually think it's easy. the problem is, there's even if we allocated the full $185 million to any of these priorities, we would be so far

short what is needed for our public school or early childhood educators or folks getting evicted from san francisco and need help from the city getting permanent affordable housing. it's hard to grow this pie. i want to thank coalition and the mayor and her state of the union for acknowledging when we take a dollar away from the mayor's proposal, we are reducing a thing that we can do for homeless folks now. i know many of my colleagues want to speak. i think before we vote, after we serve round of comments i like to hear what the money in this $185 million is going for? one of the things i heard from many of these parents was a real -- the numbers that are presented in the report, even 73 this look at them, are in broad categories. i know they are questions about

the st. mary and whether that makes sense. i like it drill down before we vote on some of the things and get more clarity around that. another thing that parent said that made me sad, they questioned or doubted san francisco's commitment to public schools. i want every single parent, every teacher and person who works in our schools to know that this city really does care. i think that's demonstrated in $100 million a year in general fund money that flows if our county over to the district. that's a commitment that no other county in california makeses to my knowledge. the state of california tremendously under fund their schools. we try. all of us supported prop c and campaigned for it, baby c in june. we are what this creation of

this special reserve that is specifically for early childhood salary and teacher salaries, what that demonstrates is our ongoing commitment for being with you. this is a first. that's remarkable. i want our families to know that we to care about our public schools. i hope this compromise shows that. today as i was running taking my morning run, i went along a path and the path was blocked. last night it was getting down to 40°. under 40°.

we have out of control real estate market that is crushing huge numbers of people in our city. as much as we can do for those kids, homeless kids when they are in school, what they need in addition to civil service and support, those kids need a