it's okay to build low- to middle-income buildings, will get us to a fair and equitable city. it's not easy and we look forward to continuing the conversation. >> supervisor tang: thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. i'm fernando marte, community of housing organizations. as the previous speaker stated, we have a long ways to go and this report makes it clear. not only are we not producing enough affordable housing is for every two new affordable housing units we produce, we lose an affordable unit. two steps forward, one step back. and i think it leads to several directions that the city could go in. what the previous speaker said and supervisors tang and safai did around home-sf, that's one direction. it created something that a lot of people came together to support. but we haven't seen it actually make that difference yet. and i think it will take some time before the market starts to move out to the outer areas. in the meantime, we keep losing and losing the affordable housing that we have. and it points to the other direction of what we need to do, which is a real pres

-- the rules around shadow are applied equatability across the city, not just in their neighbourhood and that development happen equitably across the city. not just in low income communities. i heard issues around, affordable housing units are being put, they are necessarily affordable to the community. and i am really look at the process. and making sure that it is truly equitable. i heard folks really bring up, you know, it was said that the process itself of how we talk about and negotiate community agreements still needs to be worked on so that communities don't feel like they are fighting for a crumb. i hear you and i want to voice that. there is impact here. and any development that happens, it is going to have an impact shadow on the park. it has impact on your day-to-day life. i understand that, why you have come out and expressed opposition to that. i think as commissioners said, we are put in a difficult position in i wish that we were having a conversation about how we could mitigate some of the impacts of the shadow for the residents that are already there. i know that efforts have been made with the develope

city. the mayor has set her priorities , building more affordable and low income housing, reducing homelessness, providing behavioural health services and cleaning up our streets and making them safer, creating equitable opportunities for everyone in making -- and making government more accountable. specific instructions to our department and other departments in the city are focusing on accountability and equitable outcomes and reprioritizing funding and budgets for highest and best use. new positions may be considered if they align with the mayor's priorities. she has also asked for departments to propose savings or revenues of 2% in the first year, four% in the second year, and 1% contingency proposal in the first year and a 2% contingency in the second year. those two last measures do not apply to us due to prop b. key dates will be coming back to you in january for a budget preview at your commission and we will also be presenting the operation committees in fairbury 21st. will be presenting to you the final budget proposal for your review, and a hopeful approval to be submitted to the mayor's office. thank you. >> there is a request to speak. >> yes. the question i have is that projected, at thi

city. the mayor has set her priorities , building more affordable and low income housing, reducing homelessness, providing behavioural health services and cleaning up our streets and making them safer, creating equitable opportunities for everyone in making -- and making government more accountable. specific instructions to our department and other departments in the city are focusing on accountability and equitable outcomes and reprioritizing funding and budgets for highest and best use. new positions may be considered if they align with the mayor's priorities. she has also asked for departments

along with a coalition of organizers and activists have made such an im print on the city of making it more equitable for all of our residents in fighting for our workers. thank you for everything that you have done to make this city a better place for all of us, including me. [applause] >> a number of us have had the privilege of being here and having love-fests out here. we have a lot of great people in this city. we have a lot to be proud of. and i am really, truly honored to have the leadership of this city, my city, give me this kind of welcome. it moves me. and i want to thank everybody that came out and ask you to keep doing the work that you're doing. when we're talking about how people live, how much people make and the healthcare people have, these are the critical issues that face us today. thank you. >> president cohen: we salute you, fred. [cheers and applause] >> president cohen: all right. why don't you take this beautiful picture. >> president cohen: thank you very much. next we'll hear from supervisor yee. he will be honoring the voluntary and public nurse courses that opened shelter

i say if a program is successful it helps the diverse community in the city in an extremely equitable manner we should continue its. given the realities we live in now, the only people who oppose this amendment are republicans. do not want to be -- not be a republican swamp monster. i want to -- [indiscernible] >> i may have butted heads with you and the possible you have left a legacy that i can only hope that the new progressive suits can live up to. thank you. >> i only have a minute. okay. i am the district 11 youth commissioner and the chairman of the commission. i'm here today to say that free city college is beneficial to all of us because it allows our workforce to adapt and develop and evolve as the market continues to grow and into new areas. and there are personal accounts from ex-boyfriend's mom who was using free city college to get her ged. it is something i have notice and i have seen for the immigrant community, the way that free city college benefits us as it it gives immigrants the opportunity to boost themselves in the economic ladder here in san francisco, which is

city where this type of housing is illegal to be built on the west side. i think if folks in san francisco really wanted to get behind, let's build more housing equitably, i'm looking at you, west side of the city. that is all i have time for today. thank you and have a great holiday season. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners i am the former executive director of west bay filipino multiservice and i am really sorry that i am here on this side. however, she is a friend of mine i advocated for the city to name the park after her. i was responsible for having a plaque placed on the entrance of the park that describe her remarkable things that she did during the 1948 -- in london. my sense is that if she were here today, she would tell you that a little shadow on her part is mitigated by our city's need for more housing. i am speaking on her behalf to please approve this project because a little shadow in the park is not going to impact the quality of the park, or its use. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is david. i run an office by the park. i want to thank everybody for being helpful and work with this pr

our communities from across the city demand you shift your agency's priority is to place our people and equitable outcomes first and make a renewed commitment to investing in public transit that serves those who need it most, and use it most. unrepresented and excluded from current planning processes, our vulnerable communities are left with not only an inaccessible and unreliable transit system, but forced to endure exclusionary changes to our neighborhoods that only exacerbate the current crisis of gentrification and displacement and further devastate our communities. our communities need you to make a permanent commitment to community process, that elevates the concerns and needs of existing residents and particularly those most vulnerable among us. in order to move towards an equity first direction, and ensure justice in transit, it is our fervent belief the sfmta board of directors must immediately make the following changes. and the use of private transit on red bus lanes, commit to a permanent community planning process for future, current plans, and failed existing projects that will acti

we need all levels of city to think about it and that will help with our safety and also the community to be more balanced community. we need equitable share of our representation in the police and chinese immigrant don't feel comfortable speaking with other people unless they feel that the person understands their background. that will help fight the crime and also help to reduce crimes. police consider that. thank you. >> vice president mazzucco: next speaker. >> i'm visually impaired. i filed my notice of intent to run for mayor of san francisco. it was nice meeting you chief scott at general hospital. i'm highly upset. i no longer have ihss workers at all. does everyone know where ellis hotel is? 465 elder street. it's upsetting. you know how many thousands of emails i get everyday? all my information is in the elections department. thank you bay area reporter. i was assaulted twice. i have nowhere to go at this moment. they said i was stealing cup of coffee. do you think they have something better to do? he told me, only reason he did it because cafeteria insisted on it. i feel sick ever time i go by the police station. mission

think about the latest stats in new york city, it's that 86% of the people arrested for marijuana were black or latino. that is -- nothing about that is equitableso the idea of equity and equality, the difference between the two, is important across a host of things. i use the education just 'cause it's, like, an easier lens for people. >> well, and education is one where it's very easy for people across the spectrum of sort of political ideology to engage, right? conservatives will talk about education, and certainly, i think about education in terms of equality of opportunity. >> yeah. >> and often in education, we fail our children. we fail the most vulnerable because they don't have equality of opportunity. >> and the only way to get to equality of opportunity is equity in resources, right? so they are not like an either/or -- they are often a both/and. so you often need equity to get to a place where equality might even be real. >> do you see equality of opportunity and equity at odds with each other or as partners? >> partners -- so, we think about -- so when you talk about the inequality of opportuny with regard to kids, like, what does

city. most of them are women, 92% of them are women almost 83% are women of color. this is an industry that when actually be more equitable if we're able to stabilize them. the legislation before today is market-driven. it's not something that we're forcing on developers. we're providing options. if developer chooses to provide the child care unit, they could get a reduction in their developer's child care impact fees but they would also bring in an amenity to their building. thirdly, they would also be able to bring in hopefully rent in a space that might otherwise be vacant. the other thing i want to mention for you today is that after meeting with the developers to see whether or not they will opt in this program, they want to see more child care options. we do want to offer couple of amendments that we want to entertain. as states now, the unit need to be designated a child care unit for ten years. it would actually remain the bmr unit in perpetuity. that seems to be a difficult decision for developers or property owners because that's a unit they would like to have more flexibility. supervisor yee is offering the ame

equitible -- equitable program and every single resident regardless of age, income or any type of gpa's prerequisite interested in enrolling will not have to pay tuition, include mig self. city college and community college is our nation's only life-long learning institution and this institution only grows in its importance as we see the technology racing ahead of education we're providing to residents. as automation and technological advances continue we find many jobs available today will not be available tomorrow and that is why this life long learning institution will be so critical to the economic longevity of this great city. we also know that by 2020, regardless of all the technological innovation, 70% of all jobs in the u.s. will require some type of post-secondary degree and a high school diploma is no longer enough. we need to increase the social compact government has made to citizens to provide a free and universal k-12 education and expand it to college. the charter amendment is set aside for 10 years. in fact, it's the only one with a short duration. every other charter amendment is 15, 25 years or significantly longer. this is also the third smallest set aside