unfortunately commissioner hilary ronen is having to step down from our commission. we have appreciated her role in this body and want to thank her for her service. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> please make sure to silence also phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and copies of any documents included as part of the testimony should be submitted. >> mr. clerk, please assist commissioner singh on her apparatus? thank you. one moment, please. thank you very much. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 2? >> item number 2, approval of the minutes from the march 15th 2019 a regular meeting, i would like to note there is one correction needed in that the title of the documents should read minute and not agenda. >> thank you very much. do any commissioners have any changes to the minutes of the march 15th meeting? seeing no changes, let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item number 2, the minutes of the meeting? mr. wright. >> i don't know anything about the minutes of the meeting, but th

i'm sandra fewer, chair of the budget and finance committee, i am joined by supervisor hilary ronen,orman g. and matt haney. may i have a motion to excuse catherine stefani and norman, please? and we can second it by supervisor mandel men and take that without objection. thank you very much. i would like to thank lawrence and kalina from s.f. government t.v. for broadcasting this meeting. are there any announcements? >> please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards are copies of any documents to being completed should be submitted to the clerk. >> thank you very much. please call item number 1. >> i don't one is a hearing on key mental health and substance use strategies and programs in the city budget identifying funding levels, gaps and opportunities for future spending. >> thank you very much. today is the third by roger prior to hearing at budget and finance focused on mental health and substance abuse. our presenters for today include the budget and legislative analyst department of public health and the san francisco police department, among oth

school and we are the only islamic school in san francisco, we want to see -- we went to see hilary low ronen last month because of our citizenship seen that we are working on. i came there for a different project, but left with something else. while we were there, we were asking about all the responsibilities that supervisors have, what their day is like, how they solve problems , with the budget is like and we were introduced to the initiative of closing juvenile hall. when we got back, we became very intrigued by this initiative, we changed the project we were working on. we said, instead of making our students supervise the city, and giving them problems, and having them try to fix the problems, let's talk about the close of juvenile hall, and let's write essays entering those essays into persuasive letters. today we are here to deliver those letters. our students wrote letters on behalf of the research, and we are here to deliver them today. when you see an injustice, you try to change it with your hands , and if you can't change it with your hands, you at least speak out about it, and i