i also want to say that my daughter is disabled with cerebral palsy who attends bessie carmichael, and if we could just remember and include our children with special needs. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. next speaker, come on down. >> hi. my name is becky gershon. and i work for the san francisco food bang. we are asking for funding to help meet one of the most basic needs for seniors and people with disabilities living on a low-income, and that's food. there are thousands of people on wait lists for home delivered groceries, home delivered meals, and on a daily basis, people are being turned around from hot meal sites. this is absolutely a solvable problem with appropriate funding, $8.3 million with all of these asks combined. we really appreciated budget that was allocate -- funding that is allocated by the budget funding this morning, but we also want to highlight those that weren't funded, for example congregate meal sites and funded meals. we want to thank the supervisors for the programs that you funded over the last few years, and we ask that you take the critical s

my name is valerie fernandez and i'm a fifth grade teacher at bessie carmichael elementary school. i'm speaking in support of keeping the teacher instructor at fort funston. i want everyone in this classroom to imagine they're a ten-year-old boy from the philippines. one day, your mom puts you on a plane. the next, you're in my classroom. for a month, i don't know what your voice sounds like, and i were you you on that camping trip. at the end of the night, you decide to speak, and your words were, miss fernandez, this was the best day of my life. tell my mom. that field trip could not happen without the organization of a full-time t.s.a. i couldn't make it happen on my own. i was going to have an anxiety attack multiple times. the t.s.a. is the person in charge, and she made that trip happen. in 30 years, i know that student is going to say to his friends, you know, first month i was in america, i went on overnight camping trip, and that was the best day of my life. i think we need to keep this position to future sfusd students get to experience this. i know my time's running up.