For broadcasting this event. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please be sure you silence any cell phones or electronic devices. Any documents you need to present should be given to me, your clerk. Chair fewer thank you. Mr. Clerk, will you please read items 1 and 2 together. [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much, mr. Clerk. I would just like to start this meeting by saying thank you all for coming today to come and give us public testimony about where you think your public dollars should be spent, and your priorities to where the public dollars has been spent. For the last two weeks, weve been hearing from city departments on their plans to spend public dollars, and now it is your turn to tell us where you think we should appropriate these moneys. I want to thank you for your time. I know that many of you will have to wait a while to speak, and we are not doing speaker cards today. Everyone can just lineup. We are prioritizing peopl
Read next speaker please. My name is ivy, im also parent to two Young Children here, and i am also a member of the specialist team. During the election last round along with my team we went to schools to read, speak to immigrant parents, and their schools and reach over 1000 chinese speaking parents to listen to their opinions about the school. As you know, San Francisco is a city made of many immigrants. Its not that parents do not want to participate in voting, there are one too many barriers that exist for them like language and cultural barriers. In this atmosphere today, there are many reasons impacting their decision. Our outreach effort is not just on educating and informing people of their rights to participate for election, but also recognize that there are many ways to participate in the community and encouraging them to do so. I would like to urge the board of supervisors to continue supporting immigrant families in our community, by restoring full funding for us to continue
Meeting to the budget and finances committee. Our clerk is mr. John carroll, and id like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this event. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please be sure you silence any cell phones or electronic devices. Any documents you need to present should be given to me, your clerk. Chair fewer thank you. Mr. Clerk, will you please read items 1 and 2 together. [agenda item read] [agenda item read]. Chair fewer thank you very much, mr. Clerk. I would just like to start this meeting by saying thank you all for coming today to come and give us public testimony about where you think your public dollars should be spent, and your priorities to where the public dollars has been spent. For the last two weeks, weve been hearing from city departments on their plans to spend public dollars, and now it is your turn to tell us where you think we should appropriate these moneys. I want to thank you for your time. I know that many of you will have to wait a whi
This effort. I would like to urge the board of secure supervisors to continue supporting immigrant parents voting collaborative with full funding so we continue to do this work. Thank you. Thank you, next acre please read next speaker please. My name is ivy, im also parent to two Young Children here, and i am also a member of the specialist team. During the election last round along with my team we went to schools to read, speak to immigrant parents, and their schools and reach over 1000 chinese speaking parents to listen to their opinions about the school. As you know, San Francisco is a city made of many immigrants. Its not that parents do not want to participate in voting, there are one too many barriers that exist for them like language and cultural barriers. In this atmosphere today, there are many reasons impacting their decision. Our outreach effort is not just on educating and informing people of their rights to participate for election, but also recognize that there are many w
Something that voting restrictions could help with. Host lets talk to diane, who is calling from upper darby, pennsylvania, on the democrats line. Diane, good morning. Caller good morning. I have a few questions, but i want to start with this one. Last year and this year when i went to vote for school etc. , we city council, had the same names on certain parts, like maybe for school counselor, for schools. The had the same names on democratic side as they did on the democratic side. ,o, say the name was John Smith John smith was listed on democratic, and then john smith was listed on republican vote. Either it is democratic or republican, not both. It is called a crossover of some kind. I did not vote for anybody that was a crossover. I would like to know is that considered voter manipulation . I saw it last year a little, but this year a lot. There were four names on one vote, and you get to vote for four on school, two on counsel, whatever, and i saw it a lot this year, and it upset