additionally we hope to see undocumented youth employed at a rate consistent with the youth population. this is 350 job opportunities for undocument youth at the upcoming summer. undocumented youths should have ak access to employment opportunities. thank you very much for your time and we hope you take this into consideration as you continue your budget hearing process. >> thank you very much. nicholas for youth commission. i will be presenting on priority six and seven which are our muni related priorities at the commission. priority no. 6 as you are familiar with is the -- youth priority. it's something that we advocate for since 2009-2010. a multiyear effort and we've had a lot of commitment to this and it's been a tremendous struggle. the reason why we begin advocating for the youth program was the extremely sharp jack s in price. mainly the pass to $20 in may of 2010. at the same time, sf usd was making severe cuts to yellow school bus services and had no options to get to school but to use muni. a program for low income and motion derate youth. there was a pilot program for 16 m

for undocumented youth it's challenging because the law says that we are not supposed to hire undocumented people and you are pushing the laws in a way that is very effective. i also wanted to say that in developing youth positive police policies in the school it's a give and take with lieutenant and the school district sometimes and i'm glad that it's a restorative policy that it's a police department and hope there is common ground there. the youth oriented training with police and our former police commissioner, there is a lot of good models there. i'm hoping that the trainings are successful as well as the mou. i think for the transitional age youth and commissioner wu or tong brought up the bridge funding that is critical. i know it's a lot of money, but i know it's until voters can pass the expansion of the children's fund that includes transitional age youth, there is that period of time that we need to ensure that people don't fall further through the cracks. i'm glad that you are looking at bridge funding. and i also want to say on city college maintaining our city college that th

support disconnected k and for the children's fund to prioritize and dedicate employment for undocumented youth, mentoring program and adult probation system and support 18-20-year-olds transitioning to juvenile systems. >> thank you very much. nick from the youth commission. for priority no. 2 is about the youth voice policy. this priority no. 2 is heavily based on legislation and i'm sure you are very familiar with which is the brown act which is the state legislation. the brown act for decades has ensured that meetings by local agencies are open to members of the public and they have an at some point to observe the meetings and can make comments at those meetings. that applies to all board of supervisors and those in san francisco. however every meeting of the board of supervisors and commission available to the public they are barriers to youth 18 and younger namely the public hearings when youth aren't able to attend and provide their input. we have reviewed trouble youth data that don't care at all about government politics and/or only a little bit interested in government and politics. w

, could possibly -- stop deportations and be able to expand the current program that allows undocumented youthhich is called a deferred action. >> wouldn't that make it worse, perhaps? how would stopping deportations how would that help resolve the current crisis on the border? >> you know, there is a difference between what is happening, you know, here in the u.s. we do have 11 million people who are here undocumented. we also have a crisis, you know, across the world. not only in this country we have a crisis in central america. the reality is that a lot of these folks that are coming in. a lot of children actually central american. and there is a really big crisis in hon door russ and central america overall especially with el salvador. i think we need to figure out a way to also, how can we stop the violence in those countries? how can the u.s. do that? you still have 11 million people who have been here for a long time who also need to be, you know, take -- taken care of. >> some have criticized what they view as lax immigration policies under the president as the cause. this is what home