. >> my name is larry griffin. i am on the board of the booker t. washington center. i am here to speak in favor of the project. i am a native of san francisco and the western addition. a first set foot in booker t. washington in 1962 with my father who was doing volunteer basketball coaching. this is a very important project not just to the african-american community but the community of san francisco as a whole. the idea of transitional housing for youth, if you go down to mcalester and market or any parts of the tenderloin, you will see where a lot of foster youth and a graduate in two. they really do not have places to go to. it is really important. there's a lack of affordable housing in the city. this is a good project. it is a win-win for everybody. i understand the concerns of neighbors. i would be more concerned about a muni bar in my neighborhood than booker t. washington center. i hope you vote to approve this. thank you for your time. supervisor mirkarimi: come on up if i have called you. >> my name is donald clark. i was in foster care from 11 to 19. my t

. >> members of the rules committee, my name is larry griffin and i want to thank you for taking a moment for the firefighters that we lost today. my bleeding heart is today for that. i am on furlough time. i am here as the political action share in the at large chapter chair for local 21. they showed up at the last rules committee meeting of reporting -- opposing supervisor wiener's charter amendment. let to express some of our concerns and listen to what the supervisor has to say. live for talking with you on that. >> thank you for being here. >> i am one of the idiots that reads these things verbatim to understand what the wording is and as a result, what the potentials are. i look forward to looking at your changes, and i want to and knowledge that you did respond to the multiple people that came and said they were very concerned about the initiative coming under this because the bottom line is, the age of reason was a book by al gore and he talked about why people don't involve themselves in government anymore. we have turned our government over to a bunch of bureaucrats that run it.

julian davis and larry griffin to go through some of what the planning has been for this and where we come from and what we're trying to do in moving into the 21st century. >> thank you. i'm julianne davis. i'm board chair for the community center. the effort? has been providing services since 1919. historically in response to jim crow seggregation focused on the black population but also in recent years, others. this has never really been a debate about one story ore about nine united states. it's about whether the booker t. washington service center could have a stainable development plan. the at nitch building reduced to four stories with 41 units, would cost an unsustainable housing unit that this city cannot afford. the opponentses the no seem to care that that would leave the commission strapped for 10 years. that's the kind of thinking that led the world into fast ball crisis and also the kind of thinking that has priced so many people out of the decade since redevelopment. booker t. washington center has been severing this exune community uncommunity's needs for at least 100 y