and, i'd like to introduce our very own curtis bradford. >> thanks, boss. i've been wanting to say that for a while. my name is curtis bradford and i'm co-chair of the tenderloin peoples congress and long time resident for over 15 years. i'm really excited about today because this is a long time coming. i was really fortunate to be part of a volunteer as a resident leader with a group called 950 market street coalition. it was a group of residents that came together folks like david and cathy over here and steve and felicia and awesome gale seagraves and steve and others along with support from folks like rio and pertiba and alexandra from s.r.o. collaborative. with their support, us residents were able to enter into negotiations with 950 market street, the big development one block down here at the corner of turk and taylor and really worked on developing a benefits agreement that worked for the community. remember an entire block of the tenderloin of the community. full of rich history for our neighborhood. and we wanted to make sure the community got som

and, i'd like to introduce our very own curtis bradford. >> thanks, boss.e been wanting to say that for a while. my name is curtis bradford and i'm co-chair of the tenderloin peoples congress and long time resident for over 15 years. i'm really excited about today because this is a long time coming. i was really fortunate to be part of a volunteer as a resident leader with a group called 950 market street coalition. it was a group of residents that came together folks like david and cathy over here and steve and felicia and awesome gale seagraves and steve and others along with support from folks like rio and pertiba and alexandra from s.r.o. collaborative. with their support, us residents were able to enter into negotiations with 950 market street, the big development one block down here at the corner of turk and taylor and really worked on developing a benefits agreement that worked for the community. remember an entire block of the tenderloin of the community. full of rich history for our neighborhood. and we wanted to make sure the community got somethi

. >> thank you supervisors, my name is curtis bradford cochair ofthe tenderloin peoples congress and a longtime tenderloin resident . i'm here today to ask of the budget committee not cut the funding for the tenderloin committee action plan from the planning budget and fully fund the positions needed to support the work of the community . years of hard work input from literally thousands of residents, hundreds of community meetings and amazing dedicated grassroots efforts by rtl resident coalition have gone into developing and informing a community center resident led planning process for theneighborhood that has been created by the community and deserves the critical funding to see it through . it's good for the city, good for the tl edits are planning to invest in the needs community has identified for itself. also the improvements we've made in the last six months could be washed away without this investment and honestly it would just be years moreof the containment zone status quo and it's just not acceptable and it's not good for the city . >> the speakers time has elapsed . >>