for dcyf, we are not proposing any reductions to those two areas. >> thank you. why don't we hear from our final two speakers. >> i'm a member of the immigrants rights commission, and also a senior who participates in will meal sites. so in various parts of the city, including this one. i want to tell you how much we appreciate the restoration of the senior nutrition programs. i've had to advocate for this for two years. i thought they cut the same thing this year, are we going to go through this again? i'm so pleased that it's been restored, the nutrition cuts have been restored. the person who decided that seniors should have weekend meals was george moscone. when he was mayor, he expanded the nutrition programs to cover the meal sites. so i'm glad we will have a mayor who will be remembered for restoring the senior meals on weekends again. thank you. >> hello. i'm with wee children standards, focused on childcare and family support. i want to thank youz out to the community, really hearing from the community, particularly with a lot of immigrant and non-englis

dcyf funded a collaborative, but even now the funding is not there anymore. we continue to work together. in 2004, dcyf reported that district 11 is the most underserved community and has the highest concentration of you off. we are not only serving youth in our community, but we are serving youth from other districts. in addition, district 11 also has the highest number of schools in one district alone. a high population of youth resides here. they come to the district to attend school and after-school programs. [applause] >> good evening. i'm the program director at out of sight youth arts center. i want to talk about the curve needs of the district 11 youth that we work with and that many of our organization work with. with our current budget cuts on education, school aren't being cut, furlough days enacted, resources diminishing, we know that school is not enough. today, are you is faced with many challenges, peer pressures at school, other issues. you get involved with an after- school programming in order to learn more, make friends, feel empowered, dev

>> when will you know all the schools that are on this list who received matching funds from dcyf who would receive a full day summer program? once you find that out, will you be able to give supportive education a list so we know which schools have full programs. i mean, we talk to folks all the time. and i would like to have knowledge of whether they were full programs or programs that are after summer school and whether they were after school programs. >> absolutely. >> i can, you know, give a list to -- forward to awe of commissioners we have a list of all of our summer programs dates of service and times of operation. one drawback is that it's only for the students that are attending that particular school. there is legislation at the state level currently that hopefully next year will offer some flexibility so that say students that attend bryant elementary there could be students that are not in the community can also participate in the program. >> can i just thank you for that detailed and illuminating explanation of all of this. >> absolutely. absolutely. >> i also want to th

we have the executive director of young community developers to talk about what transpired in the dcyf meeting. >> [inaudible] supervisor cohen: turn your microphone on me -- turn your microphone on for me. thanks. >> well i will talk loud. [laughter] [inaudible] 1 of the things i do, just to put a little perspective -- i spent a couple of years working with the department of children, youth, and their families, and one of the things we had to do over those couple of years, unfortunately, was make a lot of budget reductions to programs throughout the city. i definitely know the task that you all have a head. i sympathize with you. i have been in your seat, but i also put that perspective in place so you can understand you should listen to what i have to say because i have been in your place. in all seriousness, i have asked to recap the conversation we had on march 17 with department of children, youth, and their families director, supervisor cohen, and a lot of district 10 cbo's pier that was an open forum for us to start talking about budget priorities and the results of some of the

our city that have the biggest share of our general fund dollars, closely following on the list are dcyf, the rec and park department, and others. as supervisor cohen said, we have asked our departments to propose 10% reductions to their general fund support an additional 10% contingency to put ideas on the table, to think about how we are going to be able to close this deficit. we are in the process right now of looking at those ideas and thinking them through. as the mayor said, we want to hear your thoughts about these ideas as we are in our decision making process. just to kind of put the challenge in perspective, if we took the full 20% from every department and said we were going to put that in our budget, that would only save us about $180 million from this point forward. we are working on other solutions, but the point of this is to illustrate the challenge in front of us and the reason we are having discussions that we have to have tonight to balance our deficit. another point is that going forward, there is not that much improvement on the horizon, and our projections show we w

i think it is really important that you look critically at all of these important programs that dcyf funds for the children and youth especially. i'm going to give you some paperwork on this matter. thank you very much. [applause] >> good evening, everybody. 32-year resident of the english side neighborhood. not a native, as my daughter's tell me, but 32 years is a long time. thank you for being here tonight and listening to us. here are some items i would like you to consider. first of all, let's get back balboa park station fix that. as we do it, let's not forget about pedestrian improvements. we have to make sure that with gas at $4 or $5 a gallon, we will all be walking, so let's make it as attractive and pedestrian-friendly as possible. second, we have a signature building in this neighborhood. it has been an abandoned eyesore for too long. there is a fabulous program by the friends of the geneva car barn to put together a youth programs there. why can we have a signature building in this neighborhood with signature programs for all the youth we have? we have the kids out here.

this is something i've discussed with the mayor, as well as with dcyf.'d like the mayor to provide a perspective on that. >> with respect to the summer youth employment program, that was another program that we heard all through the rest of the city. i want to -- in cooperation, and also, of course, supervisor david chu has been talking about this for some time, asking our officers to take reconsideration of the cuts. so we've been working very closely with our director of the children, youth and family, and tonight we just want to announce that we are moving an additional $500,000 to the youth, summer youth program, and there will be 300 more slots made. we'll be able to divide that to make sure that chinatown gets enough slots for the summer youth program. you'll definitely have more. we're making those decisions as of today. you'll hear more details about it. there will definitely be more summer youth slots will aimed at both chinatown and all the other districts for the summer. >> mr. bonner, just in response to fees, the rec and park department does

want to say is that april 6 at 1:00, the board of servisors will hold a hearing about the budget for dcyf. that is a really important one for people to show up if you are concerned about after-school programs and family support issues. the mayor's office has been quite open to hearing feedback. supervisor campos: i wanted to give mayor lee an opportunity to say something. thank you again for being here in district 9. [applause] mayor lee: thank you for coming here tonight. this will not be our last meeting. i have listened carefully to the translated commons and what people mean to say here. i do think that we will have to spend quality time defining the word "progressive" when we start thinking of ways to raise revenue. i suggest we all start forming the partnerships that we need to form to get the best ideas possible. thank you very much. you have been a wonderful crowd. [applause] supervisor campos: mr. mayor, i want to say on behalf of district 9 and the mission, and thank you for being here. thank you to all of the department heads. you have a commitment from this community that we w

supervisor avalos: we have the director and staff from dcyf. welcome. >> thank you. what we want to do today is present a very quick overview of our findings from the 2011 community needs assessment. of course, seeking your approval of the report, which will then allow us to move into our second stage of our planning process. i actually have our staff here, our senior policy analyst, who was in charge of the needs assessment for this year, and she will walk through all of the high level findings with you. >> thank you, and good morning. this is the first year of our three-year planning process, so the goal was to assess the needs of children, youth, and their families across san francisco, and that will lead to the next phase, which is the next. this is purely focused on needs. our approach was twofold. a mixed method approach, one looking at demographic and administrative data as well as collecting primary data about community perspectives and what the needs are. in terms of the demographic data, we are fortunate to have the 2010 census, the first round of data avai