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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 ...

The precedent and no, the City Attorney said that the City Attorney would hold it and they followed the advice and we are saying that they were right in doing so. They were not in violation. And yet we have all of these people and basically what you are saying in my privacy in dealing with government is at the whim of whoever happened to get the information, and i dont know about you but i am not comfort with my information being that open. And to say that someones address is confidential. And i...

Much stronger sense of how influence impacts important and lucrative decisions in our 7 billion plus budget. I have 26,000 Employee Base that we have making decisions every day about how we use public dollars. I regularly hear from constituents concerned about governmental transparency. This legislation is designed to increase Public Confidence in the everyday workings of our local government, shining a brighter light will lead to better and more open decisions by city officials. And while our p...

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...

Incarceration. Drug court, the sisters program, probation officers, judges, and others refer women to safe house. These women are traumatized. Many are suffering from mental illness, and especially from ptsd. Some are pregnant. They are young. They are old. They do not need to be in jail. We have a comprehensive program and mental, physical, and dental care, education, group therapy, money management, computer training, job internshipses and more. And we do this for slightly over half what it co...

I have a serious concern about families having to go out to san bruno. I have a concern about our volunteers. I work with im a volunteer with an organization that goes into the jails and im concerned about our volunteers having to go out to san bruno into away from the area where they live. I volunteer while we live in San Francisco, we have to go out there. The families, many of the families do have to take Public Transportation and theres almost no Public Transportation out there. It is a long...

Transportation and theres almost no Public Transportation out there. It is a long way from here if youve got to take the bus. Let me tell you. The last stop is maybe you could call it bart, but really its over there at San Francisco state and its a great hardship for people. We work to help parents, incarcerated parents stay in contact with their children through reading programs. And unfortunately its hard for the children to visit their parents. We work so hard and the parents are working so h...

It just so happens that we already had one in the works. So we bring to you a proposed draft of that, we think that it is fairly comprehensive. And the only other thing that i want to say it has a few minute of last minute typos that we want to correct before the commission considers adopting this document. Okay. Lets see the first typo is right at the very beginning. Where in the introduction, there is just a space between the and the end of this page. So it is just a movement. Second typo is p...

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 growing. We are a Secular Organizatio...

Volunteer, a volunteer board and financial officers. Volunteers serve our clients each and everyday. We have two part time employees that assist us. These employees like those before them are economically disadvantaged individuals who are graduates of the st. Anthonys recovery program. Our annual budget is approximately 100,000 of which only 41,000 is paid in salaries. St. Francis living room is very efficient in the riewses of funds because it focuses on volunteers. We provide a lot for people ...