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[applause] [inaudible] [cheers and applause] good afternoon supervisors. My name is dave canner and the acting director for seiu 1021 San Francisco. I want to start by saying its really unacceptable that the community has to be out here begging every year and yet private for profit contractors never have to do this. That is absolutely unacceptable and i think thats a struggle were going to need your support in fixing in the coming years. Its just unacceptable. I want to speak about the where we ...

Residents require anyway. The Botanical Garden is a museum that is living and breathing that requires care and maintenance for the collections to survive and thrive and to consider it merely as a place to picnic is doing it a disservice. Its far more than that. I urge you to support the Lease Management agreement and the non precedent fee. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hello supervisors. I am big rich and represent project level and we occupy and operate the Recording Stud...

Cost of living and food and everyday costs and were talking about wages that are pretty low and these are workers that with the poorest of the poor and frankly their work is hard and they deserve to be compensated fairly. They deserve to have Family Health care where a lot of folks dont have. Its so expensive that some of them use public assistance. Its unacceptable. White the nonprofit funding has been flat in the last five years which is basically a cut and the private contractors have increas...

Item 7c, update permit tracking system. Good morning, commissioners. Vivian day, special assistant for technology. And im pleased to announce that were still currently on track with permit tracking system. In fact, were a little bit ahead of the game. Weve completed as per your agenda package, weve completed all of the prioritization of the change orders requested beyond the initial configuration stage for the actual system. We will they were very minimal in nature. Weve also completed all the i...

And since 1986 has used theater to address many of the Current Issues of today. For the past three decades youth aware brought antibullying education and messages of non violence to thousands of students across San Francisco public schools, Community Centers and social service facilities. Through youth aware we are building a safer and Equitable Community for us all. Were are supporting supervisor campos and the mayors antilgbt bullying efforts and to demonstrate this i want to share a letter wr...

Name. Dr. Joe barbachi i serve as a educational dosant and educator in the program. I want to relate several of my recent experiences in the garden. Yesterday morning i gave an educational walk for 10 of our Summer Enterprise high school and College Interns and their mentor. Theyre working with one of gardeners using a staff design plan to install the first mediterranean basin program. We discuss the importance of plants. We talked about the difficult problem of global warming. Its my firm concl...

Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you. My name is peter demeris. Im a volunteer and serve on the board for the st. Francis living room on golden gate avenue in the heart of the tenderloin. St. Francis living room monday through friday provides hot nutritious breakfast, activities and a place to congregate off the streets for the elderly poor of the tenderloin. We serve about 100 clients each day and the numbers keep ...

Have us like happened the last time where, you know, everybody was delighted, we finally got somebody permanent. And a few months later, you know, the job was given to somebody else. She did a fine job. I would hope this time the finished product is a decision where somebody takes the run and stays for sometime and we all have continuity. Thank you for your time. Thank you, inspector. Next speaker. Seeing none. Okay. Well go back to the motion. Ill do a roll call vote on that motion. President m...

Over private contracts. Thank you. [applause] my name is matt feltstein. I work for Progress Foundation for a house for the mentally ill and the drug addicted. In the years i have been doing this job i had all kinds of jobs. I came from a privileged family and dont know what its like to struggle. What i can say about my coworkers is theyre brave, compassionate understanding people ever going to meet in my life so i am in awe. Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. [a...

Francisco International Faith council is having a talk on racial profiling in the 21st century. Prolaris society. You can call the San Francisco International Faith community, but being here today something i heard a lot about being young, gay, old, gay, black so many different diversity of San Francisco i think this budget it covers us all, and just like i know that in the sro in district 6 we dont have representation for violence, bullying, the way that other districts have it because like i w...