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 home.

lastly, i want to put in little bit about concern of spending reserve is a real one. when the recession hits in the next few the conversation will be about spending additional money but which vulnerable population to leave behind. our ability to avoid that conversation and to continue to support those vulnerable populations in the future is dependent on having reserves we can tap into.

i think the priorities that have been identified by the coalition are extremely important. i think that's all i have to say. i will have more questions when we drill down little bit more on the actual proposal. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, i want to thank everybody for coming out. city here is listening to

everybody. supervisor mandelman said it's really difficult because we want to please all of you. we want to fix all your problems. that's really tough. it's hard responsibility for us. as you're sitting out there, i got to thinking about me. i've been out there on the other side in red shirt with something i care deeply about. i thought about times where the subject matter who i cared about didn't even matter to people. after sandy hook, when april of 2015 congress said, we don't need universal background check on gun sales. that was devastating to our gun violence movement. today, because speaker pelosi whipped everyone in shape and we took back the house, they're

having a hearing on universal background check. it takes that work. why i'm saying that is because it made me realize that here in san francisco, we care about every single thing that you talked about today. it's not an issue of subject matter. it's not an issue of go away we're not going to listen to you because we believe in the second amendment and wanting background checks is crazy. everything you said meant something to all of us. every single person on it board of supervisors cares about kids. we know that if we don't invest in 0 to 5, they'll have trouble in the future. we know that those teaching 0 to 5 need raises and they need affordable housing. if we don't have them, they can't teach. we know people need to get off the child care list so parents can work. we know all that. we know 3000 children, homeless children in our school system is

devastating. people from homeless prenatal program were talking and talking about how kids are homeless in shelters, it's devastating to hear that. we all care about that. we want to fix that. also, that our teachers do not get paid enough. i voted for prop g. our teachers do not get paid inform. we want them to stay in san francisco. we care about that. and dealing with addiction and which is a beast of disease. we all agree on all of these issues. i'm trying to get something positive about this. we don't always agree how to get

there. some of us want to go up the middle, some of want to do inside path. we have different ways to get there. at the very foundation of who we are san franciscans, every person on this board care about what you brought to us today. it's not an easy task. we want it make all you happy. with that said, i also held a community meeting in district two to talk about this. the same issues came up. some people they have to go to homelessness. some people said, just put it in reserves. i want to guarantee you that we are trying to come up with way we think is best. voters are clear, prop g, themed -- they want teachers to get salary increase. baby prop c, they want people to have opportunities for child care. november prop c, we needed to

deal with our homeless issue. we need invest in our resources that deals with good outcomes. i just want everybody to know that as these are altitude up in litigation, we get this windfall money, we're trying to really figure out how we can save lives, how we can keep teachers in the city. it's not an easy thing. there are issues to consider in terms of reserves and the recession coming and making sure a when we get windfall, we're not always investing in ongoing costs because we might not have that money coming in the future. i want to acknowledge that this is not an easy process. we care deeply about all the issues that you brought to us. it's not question of your issues don't matter. we heard you and every single usually you brought to us is so

extremely important and i'm just going to commit to everybody i will try my hardest to come up with a solution not just today but on the budgets and finance committee as we go forward. it's just -- lastly, i want to thank my colleagues too. supervisor fewer and everybody for putting forward something that i think we are all beginning it get behind. we are all on the same team. we might have different ways. we're going to do this together and thank my colleagues for their work on this. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. wall >> i want to thank everyone for coming out today. it's been a long day. we've heard lot of testimony.

as we look at educators who came up, as we look our folks who have been fighting our city, our home coalition. we've been fighting to eradicate and get rid of homelessness. i want to thank all of you for coming. what i really think we heard from all the groups that that spoke today is that, they want to see resources go to executing carry out the will of the voters in terms all the propositions that have passed. like chair fewer said, we've been put in an ignorant predicament to be challenged. we all want to decide to do in our own city with our own resources. it has been a blessing for us to

have someone els -- $185 millio. that has made that something that makes me even more excited about living in san francisco and administer excite -- more ee opportunities. i want to thank my colleges. this has not been an easy week coming to this splic place. one thing i wanted to say, because i want everyone to be clear, at least from my standpoint, every child in this city belongs to all of us. these are our children. there's no school district

children, there's no city and down of san francisco children, these are all our children and all of our responsibility. i'm always going to fight for that lens. we're in city with the least amount of children with the smallest child population particularly for urban cities in this country. it is our responsibility. we don't take that lightly. we'll continue to fight and focus on that. this is not the end. we have bigger budget as a city and county of san francisco. there are more resources that

are available for us to fight for the things that we need and the things we need to get done here in this city. we're going to continue to do that through the budget process. i know we're all committed to that. i'm not going to take up much more time. i know you've been here all day. i want to thank my colleagues. i want to thank the chair for her leadership on this and for corralling all of us and making sure that we push hard to come to a place where we can all be willing to move forward. i too would love to be added as a cosponsor with the amendments that have been presented today. i want to thank everyone for fight sog far for the priorities we have here in the city. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, now supervisor brown. >> i want to thank everybody who has come together. i know you're probably hungry and bathroom breaks like me.

but you're here. that's what's really important. all of my parents and constituents have reach out to me. i gotten hundreds of emails about our homeless crises and about our school district. if i haven't responded, we're still working on it. thank you for caring like you do. that's really impressive. as a community activist for years, i know how hard that is. i know how hard it is to take a day off away from your job, away from your family and come and sit here. to make sure that we hear your voice. i want to thank my colleagues. lot of times we don't agree on lot of things. when we do agree, we're usually -- we come together and we're a strong force. i think this is one of those times. we all agree.

couple of points. with the homeless crises, call it a crises, i can't walk in my district where i don't see someone in need. i'm always rattling the chain, saying we need more homeless shelters. we immediate mor -- we need more housing. we need services to help people that are struggling with the homeless situation. we also need to make sure our education and our teachers are strong. coming up, i grew up with housing instability where we were moving constantly. new friends, new teachers. it was really hard. one of the things i struggled in school, because nothing was ever

consistent. i'll be pulling out one school and go to another. it was really a struggle. the teachers a i had realized that and really grabbed on to me and said, i got to make sure that you're secure and you're educated. i owe them everything. i owe them why i'm sitting here is because of them. when i was a community activist, i actually was protesting when we were looking at closing schools. they closed john sweat. lot of you remember that. we protested and they wanted wanted to john muir. that was in my neighborhood. we protested, kept it open. i was one of the neighbors that started the first pta they had.

they haven't had a pta in 50 years. we felt was so important because, hundred years ago, even earlier than that, schools were community centres. i remember speaker said, you have a strong school, you have a strong neighborhood. i really believe in that. as we're looking, i know that we need to really support community school initiative also and i hope that the district really feels that's important because i didn't have a child in john muir. it was a school, three blocks away from me. i thought that was really important. we fundraised. i volunteered teaching art. it was really important a the school was successful. as an aid, i fought to get the community beacon in there. because it was so important for those kids to have after school

program. there was nowhere for them to go. i completely understand that. i thank every teacher and educator here and early child care teacher and educators so important. we all know that. i also was legislative aid when had the downturn. few of us were here. supervisors stefani and supervisor ronen was here legislative aid. it was excruciating. we were making choices that i think lot of us went home crying and exhausted. we have to make sure we're in position with this city that win we have a downturn, everyone going to be okay. we do need reserves. i want to say, thank you,

supervisor fewer. thank you very much. i think i need it take you for dinner, drinks, everything to say thank you. she has been an amazing power broker in this whole situation. i can't tell you how much easier that makes it for us to come together. i want to make sure that my name is on this as cosponsor as we move forward. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: now safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you supervisor fewer. truth is, --

i want to associate my comments with supervisor mandelman. i also received a single volume of small -- emails from the pars and teachers and educators in my district along with the leaders from s.f. community school. my district has -- i fight quite often with supervisor walton about who has the most children under the age of 1 18 in the entire city. depends on who's making the count and where the lane is drawn. if families want to be able to survive and live and feel comfortable and welcome in san francisco, they're surviving in our districts. mine and supervisor walton.

that doesn't exclude any other districtses that have children and families. we have the highest concentration. i hear from them every single day about what it means to be a working family and living if the city. we were presented with three really strong messages from the voters of san francisco. focus on educators and ensuring they have an ability to continue to grow and thrive. focus on early childhood educators. i want to point out, we last friday, president yee and some of us others went and sat on a panel. there were about 150 early childhood educators in the room. we have money to fill classrooms now. we don't have early childhood educators to fill the classrooms and leave them. they can't survive on minimum wage.

minimum wage is not a salary to be in that industry. they can't attract them. thank you to president yee for his forth right and leadership on ensuring that we're inserting that conversation in as well as voters of san francisco. last one is proposition c, $300 million would have made a significant difference in this conversation. $50 million on parcel tax would have made a significant contribution in this conversation. as well as $150 million for the early childhood educators and a industry. if you add that up, that's over $500 million. we don't even have enough in this surplus to meet that. we're trying. i think every single w. of us on this board thinks and believes that all three of those is a strong statement for working families, families in san francisco, individuals that are

living on the streets that are unhoused and need additional services. we are making some really strong commitments if this -- in that manner. i believe it the board made a really strong move in the right direction. i want to thank supervisor mar, thank supervisor fewer and mandelman and peskin for the hard work they've done. let's be clear, i want to be clear about this. i know president yee said this, there are additional funds coming in. we're fortunate to have abundance of riches if san francisco. we don't need to be faced with the fool's choice. this is not about choosing between homeless services and early child care and support for educators. we can make a strong commitment. at the end of the day, we are

doing year two, the mayor made a strong commitment in prop c and other services that lot of folks spoke about today. we're trying to balance all of that. i think when you look the percentages what the voters ask for and what we put forward in the surplus, each one of them its >> -- is getting strong percentage what the voters said. i wanted to call that out. also to end with saying, as supervisor mandelman said, which was a wonderful point, we do care. we care about our teachers. i have two children that are if first and third grade. the school year began with seven educators turning over. it is not uncommon occurrence. as a supervisor district 11, i have had it deal with situations at s.f. community school working

with the superintendent, same thing with monroe. three months in the school year, there was not a teacher in one of the classrooms at monroe elementary. that caused significant upheaval and disruption. i understand firsthand. i emphasize and i want it make sure that loud message is sent. every single member on this board cares and deeply cares about educators, early childhood educators and ensuring we have the right commitment for those living on our streets and affordable housing. without the commitment for affordable housing, also many of the teachers, we heard that last fall. of them will be forced out of san francisco as well.

i want to thank everyone. thank you for giving me the opportunity to say few words. i also like to add my name as cosponsor. we have a really strong commitment to ensure that we have a pathway for success. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. i think we have 11. i have to say, this is quite a feat. i'm new to being budget chair. i think i got very quick lesson these last couple of weeks. lot of beating up. here we are, 11 of us agreeing that this windfall is not enough. we have great need in the city but that these appropriations recommend reflect the will the voters. representing prop c, prop g and also prop c. i want to say little bit about -- i don't know if lot of you

know about myself. i'm fourth generations chinese-american, four generations of my family have been educated draw the san francisco public schools. my grandfather was educate in the the oriental public schools. my mother and father were educated here. then i got on to the school board in 2009, quit my job for the last eight years from 2019 to 2016, i made $461.75 a month serving on the san francisco board of education. was humbling. i was an advocate on the other side of the podium yelling at the school district all the

time. when i was there, i learned a lot. i was very humble how hard people worked educating their students. i want to say that because i was there and raising three children, being stay at home mom and taking care of young children for a very long period of time, is very taxing. i know how hard our early childhood educators work. i know how hard our sfusd educators work too. i think that when i i think about homelessness, i want to grad school. no one expected i would go or go to college when i did earning i remember one thing from grad school. that was maslow hierarchy of need. if you're hungry or sheltered, you can't learn and meet your full potential.

i think what this budget really shows is that, although, a majority of the money was put toward a lot of homeless and housing initiatives, i think we carved out enough money for san francisco educators. i meanwhile sfusd, in my book, there's not at hierarchy. i don't think the work of childhood educators is less valuable than the words who teach k to 12. if we want to talk about educational outcomes, must look at 0 to 5 and those years. especially for those wonderful communities we are trying to close achievement gap. while i was on the school board, i wrote the resolution for ethnic study for restorative practices looking at the systemic racism in the system. what we're seeing here is a

compromise. it is a compromise of great realizing what the voters wanted but also that there's great need. what i have been disappointed it, take money from affordable housing acquisition, take them from substance abuse, give -- earmark more money. it's not about. it's about that all of these things are really super important. all of these things are part of raising the village and supplying the village that our children need in san francisco. i'm thrilled that we are all together on this. knowing this isn't the last money. there's more money coming. i also want to echo what supervisor mandelman said. i was on the school board when we sent out 506 pink notices.

the thing that saved us was rainy day fund. rainy day fund. i was at the charter amendment to have the public education enrichment fund. city and -- there was nowellness centres. all these things our children need city and county of san franciscos puts in un$1 million every year into the fund. it pays for these things. they are essential support for our students and also for our teachers. i want to the say, this has been learning experience for me. i'm glad and proud of my colleagues that we have all come together and this is only the first $185 million.

i'm hearing there's more down the pipe. i'm hoping we can have an open conversation about how this money should be spent. i will say, that needs of the homeless folks that are living on our streets, i think if you have a child in public schools, if you work in public schools, if you're an early ed teacher, if you are a senior, if you are a people like us who are parents or part of the community, we know we have a homeless crises. we know that there are people in need. we know that children are homeless too. this resolution also includes an intent to make the homeless request and housing request that the mayor has pick for us that we are actually taking from. it makes it whole too. is it everything that