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Sexually exploited as well as homeless on the street. So in terms of d c wifi were a highrisk and we need thank you. Next speaker, please good afternoon. Im the executive director of the center for young womens development. Im a proud member of the girls alliance. Here in the district 6. We work with the incarcerated young women. Weve been providing jobs for girls almost 20 years now and we loss our entire contract this year. We definitely have been working with the department and got some suppo...

[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 ...

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...

Alliance the needs for Girls Programs is dire. Oasis has been partnered with other organizations. However, we received a 24 percent kit which is about 50 50,000 out of our crack. Were been working with maria sue and were grateful. However, our partners have not been that fortunate. Thank you hi im 15yearold and i joined oasis and it changed my life. Ail the love from this program made me the person i am. Ive learned so many things in this Program Including eating healthy and i want every girl to...

Demorizing and our jobs are point scpls cant do the work and not to mention we have small salaries and for these reasons and more were asking for the 4 so its imperative these services are funded and we get these and we dont need the americas cup. Nonprofits dont care about americas cup and the kaiser increase and taking money out of the general fund also we dont care about that and please give us the 4 . [applause] hi my name is kaitlyn and a researcher at seiu 10 to one representing nonprofits...

Good but having challenges getting staff we have good funding everybody is pressing on the bureau of architecture right now. We had a presentation by the better Market Street focus group in the focus Group Workshop to make a presentation on the preliminary final report and what were some of the good findings and of course that group then came to the counsel on the subsequent meeting and made a presentation on the whole process. Ive talked to the team they are ready to distribute the final report...

Communities with the highest hiv loads in the city. Our clients nostril people of color foozs homeless. Their resilient and proud of their achievements. Over 60 percent of our clients are in and out undetectedable. Its amazing but hard work. At least 25 percent a full quarter of our Client Community will fall through the cracks. 45 fewer people who can stop the disease from spreading 45 more people are managing their health through the care system. We ask you to lead us again additional keep a a...

Food. Because i have both available to me i was able to connect is two. 2 years later my hiv was negative. I really worry about those cutting programs. Trying to do all this by may i approach is taking care of. Her first degree. Im happy about my excuse but my story is not over. We invest in our health and we need you to do the same thank you hi im ronnie have hiv. Before that i was gainfully employed. After i test positive equivalent i lost my job and health care. Things went from bad to worse ...

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...

Here and he pleaded with the city not to turn their backs on Balboa High School and you responded quickly especially supervisor avalos, thank you so much. It was in the form of a two year addback, 75 k through dcys specialized teen program. With that fund in one year, we rebuilt the foundation built at balboa. We have a highest attendance. We take our young people out of being a consumer, but being a maker like 3d printing and gardening and culinary arts. These students are working on building a...