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 Studio of africanamerican art and culture complex. We could stay up here all day and talk about our list of accomplishments. We are a musicking Programming Program in a safe environment that the africanamerican Cultural Center has provided for the youth. This is a small fraction of us here but i wanted to speak on behalf actually we were requested by the District Attorneys Office to write the theme song and we performed it today on the steps here and we have been operating for the last year on a sho
Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. I am lindsey seal and here on behalf of the sierra club. The mayors proposal proposed this amount to give to the Golf Course Fund and includes 1 million for a short fall balance as stated by the citys own budget update is caused by revenue loss and Environmental Issues at sharp park. The question is why does the city of San Francisco need to spent 2. 5 Million Dollars to fund golf courses that include one in San Mateo County that floods every winter and killing two endangered species in the process . Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hello i am Harriet Larkin and here from renaissance parents of success and nonprofit in the southeast sector. However we serve all children city wide and by children i mean youth. We also support the families and we were not defunded for our specialized team, social Justice Program or Work Force Development programs that were developed by our children who are black and brown and yellow, a
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 written by a San Francisco middle School Student who saw out spoken a play that we did and explores issues. I am sylvia and in the eighth grade and my hair is purple and half is saved off. I have been having issues and sexually oriented issues and after seeing out spoken i appreciate today so much. I could connect to many of the things in it. It didnt dissolve my problems or find solutions but opened my eyes. Everyone has problems including me. I just needed a hand. So many other it is out there d
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 conclusion that the fee has maintained the Botanical Garden and i am concerned that the lack of the understanding of the importance of the collection and our educational role in the crucial relationship in plants and people. I want to urge you to support the new lease and Management Agreement and the continuance of the fee thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is joseph mack. I am a Botanical Garden society volunteer. Im speaking as an individual. I want to briefly go into my personal ar
Three years of working here i see more families moving into the tenderloin and south of market so it would be great to have funding to support us. There are still a lot of tenants in the community that need our services and landlords who are not aware of this program and that both parties will benefit in the long run so thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is patty and organizing director [inaudible] and oversee the program and i am here just to ask for additional funding to support the program to expand it. I have been working in the tenderloin and south of market for the last four years and seen increasing number of families moving into the neighborhood and we want to basically use the extra funding to support and outreach more families in the neighborhood. I am also a member of seiu 1021 and i am asking for your support for getting cost of doing business for raises for all nonprofit workers in the city. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next s