so i want to thank everyone for their efforts. >> supervisor mar >> thank you chairman fontenot. i didn't think it could get done and i just have to say that it's been a team effort but especially with our pitcher, quarterback, chairman fontenot you did a great job and your staff, catherine and justin simi folks from your staff really were transparent. i know sometimes you couldn't get stuff printed out as fast as we wanted it with the controller and the mayor's budget office, but i do feel that you are extremely transparent. i do want to say that the budget justice coalition and many different organizations that were, up until the very last minute today, but also until midnight last night, in the halls, i want to thank him for keeping the the focus on human needs in our community could i think there's a lot of contradictions in his nine the focus on human needs in our community could i think there's a lot of contradictions in his $9 million budget. i think the contradiction of unchecked development purses displacement and addictions, and the goal of equity and social justice com

not only some of the elements that was concerned about are included, but also because, as chairman fontenot was saying, it similar tied to a budget process and i'm glad bush was waiting to ensure that also those of their budget process before i would support this bond measure. i wanted to be a balanced budget. so, all that said, at this point i'm joining my other 10 colleagues insane that i really want to be a cosponsor of this bond measure. >> thank you supervisor yee. supervisor mar >> thank you. also announcing today i'm by this board unanimous board supporting this. i think because of the affordable housing groups we have a much better bond. it's moved significantly from 250 million now to 310 million. i think supervisor avalos lie along with supervisor campos supported much more money but i think this is good progress on this. i think it's still not enough toaddress the huge prices were facing especially among the working families and low income neighborhoods. and the sharp huge wealth gap is continuing to grow within our city is highly by national analysis and stories. i want to say t

so, i want to thank chairman fontenot for your work and the budget committee for their hard work as well. of course, all the support from the mayor's office for mayor lee who i knew has worked very hard to at this budget together at first going out to a lot of neighborhoods and listening to the constituents and concerns from people all over the city, and of course, the mayor's budget staff, budget dr. kate howard, your work, thank you for your staff, your hard work putting this budget together. of course, the controller's office, at rosenfield and all the staff that were there. the budget analysts and your work, your gain in year out. i just want to thank you all for that. for me i would like to talk about just district 11 and how can't work within doing year after year, building upon past work for district 11. early on knowing that district it not have a lot of places we could build stronger public services. we have a kind of historic real small and we devoted our efforts, my office, to community development with. how do we i should build the assets that are currently in the community?

karen fontenot is already fired up. >> i do not want my child exposed to a time when she was consideredhools but she wants the rebel man to move out. >> i don't think this is a black or white issue. it's a sensitivity issue. >> when you look at the mascot and school symbols, what do you see? >> i see confederacy, i seeic images of slavery, jim hill. >> reporter: it's affluently white. signs supporting the rebel man are everywhere and teen opponents admit most residents want to keep it. >> it did not in our hearts then or now represent the shameful times of slavery or the racial issues of the day. >> reporter: to supporters the rebel man represents heritage not hate pride not prejudice. >> there's nothing racist about it. >> reporter: michael o'neill played football here. he agrees the confederate flag should go but not the rebel man. >> the confederate flag with its direct lines to racism, taking that down is drawing a line but when you're starting to dik over a character, you're not drawing lines. you're splitting hairs. >> reporter: in 2010 they replaced the colonel with a black bear.