. >>> hi, i'm brandon dawkins, eligibility worker, [speaker not understood] urban health center. i've been there for about 19 months. it is very important that we provide better staffing for our clinics. i'm at a clinic where we serve the homeless population, transgender and hiv. it's already bad enough that patients have to wait for some time five months out for their appointments because they can't get access. and with inadequate staffing it's not only going to make it a lot harder, but it's going to -- we can't provide the services we need to our patients with inadequate staffing. and patients are going to get mad, then they're going to go elsewhere because they can't come to the public health system of san francisco and get the service that they deserve. so, at the end of the day, if we don't beef up our staffing, the only people it's going to hurt at the end is our patients and we can't afford that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> hi, i'm donovan bing ham. and i have been -- i'm an lpt, licensed psychiatric technician. i've been with the city for around 25

. ~ brandon dawkins. [speaker not understood]. >>> thank you for your time, supervisors. my name is laura may alpert. i'm a resident in san francisco and are not rn who work for the city and county across the street at [speaker not understood] urgent care clinic. i have been a nurse 13 years. i am deeply concerned about staffing issues at san francisco general hospital. as i have sat through contract negotiations i have learned that there are 90 rn and 60 other positions that are unfilled. when questioning the human resource he he personnel they point to the bureaucracy at city hall. when nurses are over worked, patient care suffers. [speaker not understood]. i have personally witnessed this at my clinic. i call on the mayor to end unsafe staffing and restore staffing in hospitals, clinics, laguna honda and city-wide. thank you for your attention to this matter. and i have neglected to submit these texts that were from icu. >>> my name is rebecca kimura i'm a nurse in [speaker not understood] and i live in district 5. when the city went through the downsizing and the blog