And our safety nets already strained by years of state cuts and it cannot sustain these additional reductions in federal funding. In addition to the cuts i have just detailed, there are also competitive grants and state passthroughs that will also see cuts, and totals for which we really cannot estimate at this time. Although this is serious business, and we need to get engaged although this is serious, we need to get engaged as a city to advocate against request ration sequestration taking place. My office is closely engaged with the governor, his white house, members of our federal delegation and other mayors from across the country to make sure they are aware of impacts sequestration would have on San Francisco. I welcome all of your supervisors in making the case to our elected officials in washington, d. C. About the serious impacts this will have on our residents. Thank you, supervisors, and i wish you all a wonderful season of giving, of sharing, and of caring for our vulnerable
And i think that as we do this, its important that we carefully study this. So i prosecute esh that we are going appreciate that we are going to move forward with this in this direction. President chiu supervisor avalos. Supervisor avalos thank you. This one is kind of troubling to me. I dont think i read the same memo in everyone else. I thought i lived in a efficiency unit. A family of four, 950 square feet and every inch of space is used. And were just totally crammed in. I live in a district that is 6500 more people more dense than it was 10 years ago, and we have a number of houses that has efficiency units for the number of people who are crammed into them. And a great demand i see for housing is not something that i believe is really the kind of units that were waiving the way here today. I do see that there are benefits for that and in certain parts of San Francisco but i think over all this does not make a lot of sense to the San Francisco that i know. I also know there are a
Education. We, in San Francisco, have seen tremendous Economic Growth coming out of the most severe recession since the great depression, and having served on regional bodies that include other jurisdictions, i can tell you that we are very lucky in San Francisco, that we are lucky that we have the resources that we have had, and that we hopefully will continue to have. But, yetd yet, in a city as wealthy as San Francisco we have a School District that is facing a crisis. We have about half of our students in this class of 2014 that may not be able to graduate and meet the requirements. San francisco has to do better than that. And even though money is not everything, the ability for us to commit resources as a city is really important. And what i understand of this item is that there is a discussion about whether or not to tie the funding thats underlying this item to the Rainy Day Fund. And to the extent that happens, to the extent that there is a connection between this appropriatio
I want to be clear when we talk about a through g i hear the debate not all kids have to go to college and i agree but all of our kids have to graduate ready for college because you graduate ready for college youre able to access living wage jobs and if you dont have math and science classes that are required a through g youre not going to be able to go into apprenticeship for building and trade programs. So this is an important policy for the city. Unfortunately with our first two classes the level of cuts that theyve been experienced has not allowed our School District to fully support the program that is needed to do that. I think, also, with our city passing really the highest budget that we have seen in our citys history i think its more important than ever that we really step our support for your families and our kids. That being said i think that there are a lot of conversations in kind of moving targets as were finding different moneys coming in from the last fiscal year so i w
Separately. President chiu would roll call vote on 2 through 11. Clerk calvillo supervisor avalos, aye. Supervisor campos, aye. President chiu, aye. Supervisor chu, aye. Supervisor cohen, aye. Supervisor elsbernd, aye. Supervisor farrell, aye. Supervisor kim, aye. Supervisor mar, aye. Supervisor olague, aye. Supervisor wiener, aye. There are 11 ayes. President chiu those ordinances are passed, resolutions adopted and motions approved. Madam clerk, could you call items 12 through 14. Clerk calvillo item 12 is a motion affirming certification by the Planning Commission of the final Environmental Impact report for the California Pacific Medical Centers Long Range Development plan. Item 13 a motion reversing the certification. Item 14 is a motion directing preparation of findings reversing the certification. President chiu colleagues you may have heard discussions between the city and cpmc have recommenced recently. At this time this is nothing yet to report so id like to entertain a motio