And the needs of the children, youth and families of our city. Clearly were seeing increases of violence amongst the population of lgbtq young people, a sobering 97 of violence and increases of homelessness from 39 six years ago up to 68 in this past year. Thank you. Hi, im tracy, a native of San Francisco, homeowner and an advocate for the community. My community is under attack and underrepresented in City Government and the setasides make us feel part of San Francisco. This is my city. This is our city. This is a sanctuary city for everyone. In 1994 and please correct me if im wrong, i worked on the first Children Fund campaign, i was a mother of three children under six. I needed childcare to be able to work, i needed after School Services to work and provide for my family, so i could stay in college. So i could do a lot of these things that the services that the Children Fund protects. Therefore the next time it was up, i was a mother of four and all of my kids worked on the campaign with me. This last time around i had three of my grand children working on the campaign. We are three generations of family working on the setaside because we believe in it and benefit from it and we need it. San francisco is a great city. Thats why the voters protect children and these services. Thats why im urging you guys today to sit down and talk with us. There are leaders in our communities that would sit down and try to come up with reform legislation. But unfortunately we were not invited to the table for this discussion. Were reasonable people and we are also leaders in a different way than you are. I urge you today, i beg you please include us in the conversation and keep San Francisco for me, for my family and for everyone who has ever helped pass these legislations. Its like youre almost taking your voice away in what youre doing. Hi, im a [indiscernible] sometimes i dont know what were doing here. I come here and i see some of you on your phone. I know you might have some business but what she said was very important. So i just wanted to say i wish you can find different ways in balancing the budget. Cutting from social services should be the last, last, last resource. We cannot balance our budget on the fences of the people who need people still have very actual and basic needs and we are not covering everything here in the city. And i think that probably it wouldnt be extremely hard to find other ideas for revenue, really. I mean this is a very wealthy, you know, city. So i urge you to really look into different ways of balancing the budget. Thank you. Good afternoon greg moore representing Ace Coalition serving the elderly and Dignity Fund Coalition and justice fund coalition. Were representing one in four one in five currently San Francisco citizens, in 10 years it will be one in four. When we were crafting the dignity fund legislation, i had the experience of learning a lot about setasides. And appreciate the remarks today, it is a complex situation and understand the huge constraints it places upon supervisors in managing the budget. However i think theres a reason the setasides are there as was stated. I would echo one of my colleagues comments earlier that we need to slow this down. We need to discuss this situation. The idea of having unspent funds rolled back into the general fund and not to be possibly used for purposes other than which theyre intended frightens me. I run a small nonprofit in the tenderloin serving low income and homeless seniors and with city funding process being what it is, it can take three to six months to get reimbursement. That could mean doors opened or closed for my organization. So, again, i urge you to exercise caution and restraint and open it up to discussion. We are here to help find the best way forward. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors with the council of Community Housing organizations. I think its important that the city does have 19 separate setasides. It expresses our citys intentions to prioritize our schools, libraries, the arts, the seniors, the homeless, housing. It is why we are a special city. I want to bring up two particular concerns, one of which i think supervisor tang started to address, which is around the club acts the measures have. As some of you know the Housing Trust funds and other measures are largely measures that Fund Capital Improvements and those cant be funded year by year but need to be added over time. It sounds like that particular aspect is perhaps being dealt with. Our member organizations provide Critical Services and their contracts dont go one year to one year. The payment for those services that are done for this city often run from one year to another, those of you who have worked for nonprofits know what it is like to wait for the check from the city to come in. I think its very important for us to make sure we are not unintentionally affecting things that we dont want to. I want to make a few more general concerns. One is supervisor peskin talked about how many of the measures do not necessarily have revenue attached and some of that gets lost in the history. When we passed the Housing Trust fund in 2012, many of us worked on the gross receipts Business Task and part of the agreement with then mayor lee, we would recapture the funds lost from redevelopment in order to fund the Housing Trust fund, and the way it increases overtime is based on that increase and revenue. Similar with hotel taxes that historically went to serve housing and art uses, the measurement before folks same would be tree of the street Tree Maintenance Fund by prop w. Good afternoon supervisors. From the San FranciscoHuman Services network, the suspension trigger fails to address the real drivers of deficits identified in the joint report, which is primarily city employee, pensions and healthcare costs and wages that are rising over time. In order to cover those it robs funds for vulnerable populations and voter priorities. These are priorities that voters have chosen to prioritize in good and bad Economic Times. We should not deprioritize them when the economy goes down and the need is the greatest and it treats all setasides alike, even those that rise and fall with particular Funding Sources and where is the provision that says we do not need to add new Police Officers when the deficit is large. Even that setaside happens regardless of cost. The general fund return is very bad policy and open to a couple of types of abuse, allowing city officials to undermine the priorities to not incumbent funds and allocate funds as the year of the end approaches because its use it or lose it. And its unfair to put in a poison pill against a measure that received two thirds of voter support last time on the ballot. We ask the board to work with the community on real setaside reforms that fairly looks at all setasides. They should be proportioned to city revenues and have policy and needs based allocation plans with accountability measures. Look at the Childrens Fund as a model. We want to have this conversation. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Im Jacqueline Zimmer Jones from the dignity and Budget Justice Coalition. I want to reflect on how the proposal would impact our organization and that is that it wasnt until this past fall that a dignity fund rsp became available for us to apply for. It was sort of a long process between the submittal and time people were alerted they were awarded. We came in 9th out of 22 proposals and the agency funded the top 7. So we were close but we would love to have another opportunity to apply for the funds again and that wont happen until some time next year. I think its difficult to put a timeline on when an rsp is going to come out from the department. I think theyre extremely busy and have their hands full and its a never can tell when something is going to arrive that we can actually apply for. We have a 50,000 hole in our budget that came up last summer and we have been in fundraising mode since and we have cut people from our programs and theres a need for us to serve even more seniors in the northeast part of town and so we rely on opportunities like the dignity fund to help carry us through. Im looking forward to a continued conversation about other opportunities to help the city thrive without taking funding from these necessary Human Services programs. Thank you. And maybe its important through the chair to supervisor tang, to mention that the dignity fund is a model for what were trying to impose more broadly, that actually does have provisions in it to deal with economic downturns. If all the other Charter Amendments had that language, that would actually solve a lot of the problem that supervisor tang and i are trying to address in this. Just i do understand that. But its still nervewracking, thank you. Good afternoon. Im a district seven resident and here in my capacity today as the policy director of coleman advocates. I am interested to learn more about the proposed amendments that were just spoken about earlier this afternoon. I appreciate that information supervisor tang and i look forward to continue to review it. I want to underscore this all feels really fast and to try to get something on the june ballot, feels like as folks have mentioned previously, its a complicated matter with many interests and voices involved. We want to be sure to uplift the voice of community that have put the setasides as a priority and have been historically underfunded. And were concerned that right now it seems theres a lack of transparency in the process. The shift in the citys budget process is a concern and we want to make sure were intentional about any such shift. And the other point i want to make is that budgets represent values and so as many have said, at the risk of sounding redundant, when were looking at the shifting landscape on a federal level and shifting demographics, i grew up in San Francisco, going to college and coming back and going to law school and coming back, the San Francisco i know and love no longer exists and that hurts my heart. I want to make sure were intension intentional about the ways were trying to retain what is at the core of the city to support those who need us most, including low income communities of color. Thank you. Hello, im representing the Budget Justice Coalition and just cause. This Charter Amendment would make the process less democratic. This Charter Amendment threatens to cut peoples safety net. We do not approve of the Charter Amendment. Just cause has a program that builds the leadership of San Franciscos black and brown youth. This Charter Amendment would impact the youth and our future. We serve thousands of residents threatened with eviction, they come into the clinic and learn how to protect themselves and stay in San Francisco. This Charter Amendment will eventually impact these residents. And finally theres a poison pill written in that would kill prop and thats not right. Prop s which supports Homeless Services and arts, this would kill that proposition. So that means the plan is to cut eviction protection and then Homeless Services. That is not acceptable. And also, so also supervisor peskin, you had said it would be very brave to raise taxes instead of pause setasides. I would support that bravery. And i would support that bravery from all of you and us. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you for holding the hearing and having Public Comment. Im one of the founders of the transgender cultural district. Im sure it comes as no surprise that im opposed to the legislation. While i understand wanting more flexibility especially during a deficit, i cant understand cutting potential funding that many Small Community groups and projects rely on and have worked so hard for. It provides for jobs and Life Saving Services and some of the most vulnerable communities will be disproportionately impacted. It does feel like a bullying tactic. That may not be the intention but thats how it feels to those working hard to serve their communities. I would like to point out for example, art organizations from my perspective are not only doubling their own baseline participating in the ballot efforts but participating in a Diverse Coalition to increase to underfunded and largely independent organizations that are such an important part of the Cultural Landscape of San Francisco. I think its imperative, if we are to try to limit the funding made available through the setaside process, to undo the work of hard working advocates and concerned citizens, we must first identify other sources of funding. If the bill is reformed, with he need to offer Reasonable Solutions to a process that has served as one of the only ways that Community Members and voters can make voices and needs heard and addressed. I hope you will continue to have meaningful conversations before any reform is introduced or voted on. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im kyle, i work for transgender justice project, an organization that supports formerly and currently incarcerated trans people and primarily our base formerly incarcerated and currently impacted black trans women within San Francisco. Many of them have disabilities, homeless, low income and are elderly. So when it comes to the setasides. The setasides have been an opportunity to invest in supporting Community Members, especially as the black community in San Francisco has been genderfied out of San Francisco, where the black community is at 3 and is going to continue decreasing unless we work on supporting our Community Members. What the Charter Amendment would do is target a lot of the underfunded and impacted services that are supporting our Community Members that are life saving and really necessary to be able to thrive within San Francisco without really challenging any of the ways in which theyre being criminallized. So just policing. I think its vital for us to be actually investing in our communities while also moving away from investing in opportunities in organizations that are actually criminallizing our Community Members. I think it would be great if we could work with our Community Members to be able to actually be able to create a better budget. Thank you. Thank you supervisors for holding the hearing. Im here representing Compass Family Services and we serve about 5,000 homeless families living in San Francisco each year. Were here with the Human Services network and a lot of other partners in wanting to voice our concerns. It may not have been the intent as many said but it feels like an attack on nonprofits. We believe the legislation undermines the Nonprofit Sector in particular that provides a bull work of the Service Delivery system. Particularly in the highest need communities. Our sector operates under great stress with inadequate resources, low salaries for staff and long waiting lists. This is the last place we believe we should be looking for to save money, especially during the hardest times. And the Nonprofit Sector saves the city money in the long run and undercutting them is shortsided. In addition, we believe this is terrible public policy, flawed. There may be ways to address real budget shortfalls through a more rational process but taking the things prioritized by the people of San Francisco because theres no other way to address them makes things worse. It institutionalizes the already existing flaws in the budget process. Ask yourself why the finances of the city should rise on eliminating pathways to funding for vulnerable populations before passing this piece of legislation. In the spirit of collaboration, we hope to continue this conversation and not just let it end here. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is marsa ryan. In 2016, i have been working with homeless families, homeless pregnant mothers and families for 29 years now and in 2016 when i was called and asked to be the proponent for homeless families on the prop s for ending family homelessness i said yes. Historically i dont get into politics, i usually roll up my sleeves and do the work, but im tired and more importantly the families are tired. The increase in families is enormous and