we appreciate your efforts of the mayor and rhonda simpsons and requesting these funds for development so folks can maintain employment in san francisco. it's critical to fund these programs to enhance the economic stability and prosperity of san franciscans so they can compete for the jobs and stay in san francisco. metaas you know is a community based local economic development agency. it's located in the mission district of san francisco for nearly 40 years. we have been work to improve social conditions in the neighborhood and stimulating investment and enhancing the business environment and jobs for the residents. it's critical to fund the programs to maintain that. we had a huge displacement of our community in the mission district and all around an fran and it's all over and funding these programs will help keeping programs in san francisco. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> thank you for listening today supervisors. i debbie her man with the health and services network and i am here with the nonprofits and here to support the budget enhancement request.

we appreciate the efforts of the mayor and rhonda simpsons and others to support our work and our coalition is requesting 1.2 million of support for basic skills development to people with barriers so that they can develop the skills they need to obtain and maintain job and employment. we respectfully ask for your support for this important request. since 1978 asian neighborhood design has trained over 2600 at risk lo income individuals from under served communities in green construction training, corpently, and cabinet tree and solar panel installation. we service many residents every year and they gain skills in sustainable building, life skills, ged preparation and wrap around services. we are the de facto job provider for the green train academy. it cost $6,500 a year to train these at risk youth in our program versus hundreds of thousands of dollars to incarcerate one of them. we recently celebrated our 40th year serving communities of risk here in san francisco and without your funding our program is in danger of closing our doors. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good