david elliott lewis. i'm with the tenderloin people's congress s.r. collaborative, san francisco police department crisis intervention team training program and other organizations. one of my concerns is our displacement and loss of african american population in the city. when i moved here three decades ago it was 17%, it is 3.5% now. i think issues like these fees which help keep poor people poor are part of the reason it's a structural impediment that maintains poverty and it doesn't help the city that much and it hurts the poorest of the poor. again, i hope you will consider getting rid of it and helping people who are at the bottom wrung economically under threat of homelessness or even homeless stay in the city. thank you for your consideration, supervisors. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm lily robinson from the fillmore area and i'm president of the n.c.l.s. and also i'm speaking for eli crawford. would like to say these horrible fines are abolished and help them live a life they are supposed to under our co

next speaker. >> david elliott lewis. as part of work with s.r.o. collaborative, an agency that tries to make life better in the tenderloin s.r.o. residents, we have had an occasion to work with the board and cheryl herself, attempts to get streets converted from one-way to two-way. i could wait if you guys need time to talk. i could wait. okay. these were also multi-agency projects that required s.f.m.t.a. to work with other agencies, it's not a simple thing to convert a street from one way to two-way but it helps revitalize a neighborhood and make it safer and i found cheryl's help helpful getting the work done with the tenderloin. i share some of the frustrations but i'm here to support the nomination. i think she has done well in a really difficult job. and i i'm here to support it. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. any other members of the public wish to comment on this item? please come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. i will just say since i was the author of both the charter amendment and legislation, i want to be cle

david elliott lewis. i served two terms on the city mental health board. i currently serve on the boards of nami san francisco, the mental health association, community housing partnership, and also work as a trainer for the san francisco police department's crisis intervention team training program. i say this because i know something about our city's behavioral health system and i know something about our state's behavioral health system and i have a lot of concerns about your agenda item 55 coming up to support scott weiner's state bill 1045. we already have laws on the books for conserve atoreships and laws for people who can't care for themselves. to enact additional legislation which strips people of their rights is really troubling. we have a system of care that is broken. we do not have treatment on demand. we don't have housing on demand. we need housing and treatment and community supports. and, to enact another law that can deprive people of civil rights to address a political need of seeing homeless people on the street is really troubling. and

david elliott lewis. around 2005, because of untreated disabling depression, i found myself losing my own housing after living many years in san francisco and living well in pacific heights. i went from pacific heights, you might say, to a view of the pacific. and i was on the street. it was a harsh life. i think i would have actually died. i was rescued in 2006 by community housing partnership, a supportive housing provider. that allowed me to both recover from mental illness and rebuild my life centering around volunteer work and helping my community. because of that, because of the supporting housing, i received, i can now give back. i serve on the boards of national alliance and mental illness san francisco, the mental health association, and the community housing partnership as a resident board member as well as i work as a trainer for the san francisco police department crisis intervention team training program. none of this would have been possible if i wasn't rescued by supportive housing. those w

. >> david elliott lewis with central city escrow collaborative in tenderloin congress. for ten years i've lived in the tenderloin and i've known gail and i've been usually impressed with her. she has helped house formerly homeless people. and a lot of those formerly homeless people had been queer. so to say that the alternative choice as a pro-queer choice and she is not is not accurate. she has done a lot for l.g.b.t. people in providing housing for them. i've been impressed with her integrity, leadership ability, organizational skills. i've worked with her on some projects over the years. i think the port is an important property. it's been under-utilized and we lost a lot of business to oakland, union jobs that should have been here. i think she could do a lot to help us. i hope you will consider her. thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is william rogers, c.e.o. for goodwill industries of san francisco. goodwill, as you know a large non-profit workforce development agency, we employ about 600 people. i'm here today to s

elliott has criticized the management and the strategy under vivendi. the firm is glass lewis. stors to vote for elliott and take out the vivendi hold on telecom italia. let us talk about what is coming up for the rest of the week. tomorrow, zuckerberg is scheduled to testify before the senate panel. -- and this friday coming up, president trump travels to lima, peru for the summit of the americas. will we get a deal? max is still with us. what is the highlight of your week? that we dot facebook have minutes coming up and the president will sit down in lima for the possibility of a nafta deal. and the trade story. last week was a lot of sound and fury dominated by the trade theme. will we continue that this week? perspective, macro we are focused on the european story and trade. as we said before, we have seen to an half months of negative surprises in the activity story in the eurozone. a week and half ago, we were seeing consensus moving 0.1% higher for gdp growth. we are now at 2.4%. if we continue to see negative surprises in eurozone growth, that will have a bunch of conseq