End of the meeting. Please call item four. Clerk number four is the Charter Amendment for the june 5, 2018 election to establish as a condition for noncitizen voting in an election for members of the board of education, that the board of education, that the board of implementing ordinance 270 days before that election. Thank you miss somera. Unless there are initial comments from anyone else, ill hand it over to the primary sponsor, supervisor fewer. Thank you. I recognize any proposal impacting the hardfought victory, they need immigrant communities to be united in support. Ive heard from leaders about the need to protect their communities to have the voices of the parents heard. This charlotter amendment came out of a year of discussion sphrdiscussionsfrom advocates a. Ive heard from many immigrant right groups both in support of the Charter Amendment as well as those expressing concerns. Ive decided to withdraw and table this Charter Amendment. However, i firmly believe we need to identify and prioritize funding that provides resources and guidance for the department of elections to implement noncitizen voiting using best practices. There is a tremendous need to partner with Community Organizations to do indepth education and outreach to diverse and hidden communities in a competent manner. If any Voter Registration organizations or candidates running for school board are soliciting the votes of a noncitizen parent, i believe they have a moral obligation to inform them that if they register to vote, their information cannot be kept private from the federal government. In our current times, its important for individuals to understand their Voting Rights the risk involved. In order for individuals to make an informed vote, they need to understand the individual risk. We must clearly communicate both the rights and risks to prospective noncitizen voters so theyre making an informed choice about registering to vote and i look forward with working with my colleagues and Community Advocates to shake theu make sus given to the department corrections. Id like to thank angelina who spent siem hours on this and tirelessly worked very, very hard with advocates, our City Attorneys office, other attorneys to come up with a solution but weve decided to table and withdraw this amendment. But thanks to angelina for all her hard work an diligence. Unless there are additional comments from colleagues, well go ahead and take Public Comment on this item because its been a jean diesed agendized. Is there anyone who wants to speak on this item . You have two minutes, please state your name. Hi, supervisor fewer and others, im from innovate public schools. I want to congratulate this new solution. I think that our families, many of whom are widows, were supporting the original proposition and felt like there could have been a better solution than the Charter Amendment. We support this. Were committed with working with supervisor fewer to figure out more implementation and community education. Thank you. Any other members of the public wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] so would you like to make a motion, supervisor fewer . I move to table this item. Seconded without objection. Well table this item. [gavel] thank you mr. Somera, please call item five. Charlotter amendment for the june 5, 2018 election to provide that whenever the projected budget deficit exceeds 200 million, the city is not required to increase funds for museums or Cultural Centers pre provided the funds remain unspent or uncommitted and maintain the symphony orchestra. Thank you. And so, unless there is additional comments, im going to hand it over to the primary sponsor, katy tang. I think we had a great discussion last week, i heard from a lot of members of the public. Then following that had several meetings with different organizations to explain what exactly this charter measure would do. In the process, im realizing it doesnt do even enough what have i had originally intended to do. But i think supervisor peskin and i feel this has opened up the dialogue on budget seta sides and what the impacts are on the general fund as well as on other seta sides or existing baselines if new ones are add. I think there is a lot of education around this issue. Because sometimes budgeting matters get complicated. Its been a great experience trying to explain to everyone what exactly this measure does and how it relates to the rest of the citys budget. With that said, we certainly heard from folks that they wanted more time to chime in on this. At this time, id like o continue this for discussion on the like to continue this for discussion on the November Ballot. I dont know if we table it or discontinue it. Deputy City Attorney. Deputy City Attorney john jon givner. If you table it to the chair, its best to amend the date as supervisor safai did with the Charter Amendment so the clerk doesnt file it after the march deadline. Per that recommendation, id like to amend the date like supervisor safai did on the m. T. A. Measure so our intention is to continue the discussion as it relates to the November Ballot measure. But of course, as i said last time, if anyone wants to reach out to our office to learn more and gain a better understanding of what this would do or suggestions you you have, please contact my office. Colleagues, after Public Comment, i would like to have you make a motion to that effect. Thank you, any other colleagues wish to comment on this item . Right now . Lets take Public Comment. Any memples the public wish to comment, please come forward. Waw to line up to the right. If you want to line up to the right, you have two minutes. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im cochair of the [inaudible] coalition. Im here on behalf of the coalition. Were happy with supervisor tang to continue this item to the November Ballot. Many of my colleagues stated at the hearing last week, were strongly opposed to this legislation in the current form for attempting to claw back funding from the dignity fund as it was intended to be as the voters stated in the 2016 per dedicated funding, thats what we wanted it to be. We needed to grow for future needs of the growing disability and senior community. We are dedicated to having a dialogue with supervisor tang and her office between now and november. We appreciate the supervisor tang wanting us to have a dialogue. We look forward to communicating more with her office in expressing our opposition to any future legislation. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Im margaret broadkin and i have a deep interest in the Childrens Fund as i believe you know, having been involved in the creation ever the Childrens Fund. Im so happy to hear you are going to continue this. This has not been a conversation, there needs to be a much more robust conversation. I did want to point out that it is a cut when you propose a flat budget to any program or labor group. Its a cut in their ability to provide services. Its a cut in a familys ability to support themselves. I dont think it is fair to say this isnt a cut. I would propose that the current measure has a lot of problems in it. Some of which are specific, but very general problem that i see if you want to continue with a discussion, i think we should start again. I think we should ask ourselves the question of why in this very rich city are we talking about budget deficits and that when we have that conversation, that all of the players with who are stakeholders in the budget participate in that. That would include labor. That would include capital costs. That would include departments. That would include police and fire. Not just have a conversation about the very things that the public has voted on as priorities and were voted on because they werent given adequate attention in the budget. Thank you. [applause] next speaker. Goomp. My name is reese, im good afternoon, my name is reese. Im with friends of the public library. I want to thanks for continuing this conversation. As we discussed last week, there is a number of concerns, i think, that we would like to address. There is a number of concerns generally that i know you are trying to address. Id be happy to and i know our organization would be happy to talk with you and work with you further on your interests in this overall issue and how we can Work Together on it for the future. Again, just like margaret seed, you know margaret said, the library happened through this because originally there were a number of cuts happening before the citizens took it to the ballot. Wed like to talk with you further about how this would move forward. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im michael bleker. I want to speak in opposition to the Charter Amendment and hopefully it will have some changes. Specifically, i want to speak on behalf of the dignity fund which is opened the system up for seniors, the growing problem of seniors and disabled adults in San Francisco. Where i work, we see an increasing number of seniors. There are approximately 30,000 veterans in San Francisco. 30 are seniors. Its a problem that has not been addressed by the current budget process. This is a way, this is what we do, went directly to the ballot and vets were called out in that proposition. It was a way for us to get into the system which hadnt been addressing our needs. It calls for an assessment of the what needs are for seniors in San Francisco. That will be well follow that and look to that for the direction, but again, this Charter Amendment is not really the way to handle that. Wed love to see, you know, the flawed system addressed in a transparent way. We know that it could be improved and we look forward to that. Thank you. Hello supervisors, debbie from the San FranciscoHuman Services network. I also spoke last week. Im going to not repeat myself and just say that i think margaret put it so well, that i want to parrot everything she said. I also keep thinking about something supervisor peskin said last week that its a practical matter. This is a readymade Charter Amendment with builtin opposition from everybody i can think of. People with children will hate it, senior also anticipate haight it. People who go to the park also hate it. Its going to be a difficult haul on the ballot with such builtin opposition at every level. Without a conversation, and a good solid policy conversation with stakeholders, i dont see how satisfied reform is going to even work or is going to pass. So, because of that, i really appreciate you listening to the stakeholders. And having this deferred to november will take into account all the seta sides we have in the city and hopefully something can be agreed upon to address those conversation conversationt picking winners and losers. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is lisa. Im here with the [inaudible] i wanted to thank you first for listening. Last week we came and we spoke and especially to supervisor fewer and supervisor [inaudible] when they said at the moment they could not be in support of this. To you too, because i think that it is great that for the first time in so many years that ive been coming here, i feel like you guys started to listen to the community. Thank you. And i hope that Something Better can happen and that this measure doesnt lead to be impulsed. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi, katie norman. You know me. Sueser pfeifer. Im a member of the fdr Democratic Club for seniors and people with disabilities. Weve been part of the Dignity Fund Coalition since the passage of it. I know the legislation called for real needs to adapt to the changing needs. Right now the funds can be rolled over and used for other needs as the year goes on or the next year. The fdr club gave the dig noit dignity colaition their award because ive witnessed the carefulness with with which this organization issued the funds, they know this is precious money and it saves and enhances lives. This protects peoples lives. They have been so careful with administering the funds. I would hate to see it go away. This is something historic and im proud of San Francisco for passing. And i hope we can keep it going. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Im the organizer of [inaudible] wed like to add our voice to everyone who has spoken. Also, many of the societyasides built in inequities. Hting for the same things and setasides protect our population. Trigger cuts somehow, i dont think we need them because there is a builtin reduction. Many of the setasides go down. Thats how i understand it. I appreciate this chance to talk more about this. I think these are voter han vot voterapproved mandates. We have to honor that. We are San Francisco. We want to protect the programss that are near and dear to our hearts. Thank you very much for listening to us and for considering more discussions and make it a meaningful amendment, if needed, thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon Committee Members. Im john osaki. Seeing how the legislation is going to get delayed, ill represent them. I didnt get a chance to express my views on this last week, so i thought id talk a few moments do that here today. I think all of us should be concerned about the so solvencyf the city and finances. If this measure is meant to help address that, then in the months ahead, i urge you and all of you to look at this, not just from the standpoint of how setasides effect the solvency of the city, but how many factors affect the solvency of the city. I dont think i have to tell you that the projected deficits were looking at in the future are not because of setasides. There are many factors contributing to that. If that is the goal, then lets look at this in a holistic manner and not single out specific issues and, in this case, resources that are i have to say this, that many of us feel that when times get tough, theyre seen as nonessential. Theyre seen as services that are not critical to people and i think what i feel, and i think what many of the people here feel is that the services are vital to the people we serve and wellbeing of san franciscans. If were going to address the issue of solvency, lets take it from a holistic view. Thank you, very much. Next speaker and if anyone else wants to comment, please line up by the podium. Good afternoon. I was here last week. Im working for the population homelessness for over two decades. 24 years. So what i want to talk about is our families, homelessness. First thing i would like to ask you or tell you, if you want to do changes, if you want to do these amendment changes in doing Something Different for better, i would love to see you guys go into the community and involving all the community. I dont think the process is involving the community. It can be at some point, but i really, when you guys go down to the community and assemble with them and collect recommendations from the community, these kinds ever changes can be more valuable. When it comes this way, and doing the changes, this way is not going to work. You want to make noises. We have to understand that we have so many Homeless People in San Francisco. We have more than a thousand meme that need to go to a shelter. Its cold like hell. Imagine if you and your kids or if you want to go to sleep at night, this a serious issue. I would like to Work Together and create something more realistic about how we want to end homelessness. How we want to create housing. So i would like to be part of this process and would like to invite the families and Homeless People together to come together with us and decide how thank you. Thank you. [off mic] i apologize because i have to cut your time off because Everybody Needs the same amount of time. [off mic] thank you. Thank you for your comments, sir. Thank you. And any other members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Seeing none, i dont know who the vice chair is here, but if he can close Public Comment. Okay. I think Public Comment is closed. Have we made a motion on this . No, i wanted to respond quickly to the members who came out and thawpg for your input. As i thank you for your input. When supervisor peskin took up this measure, we knew it was unpopular to do this. But being the two members of the board who care a lot about our citys Financial Health, we felt it was a conversation definitely worth starting. As you can see, many of you work hard in your fields, care a lot about your work and all of your baselines setasides that you helped get on to the ballot and successfully reflect the value that all of us share in your work. I want to acknowledge that. We as solemakers, when were policymakers when were budgeting, we have to make really difficult tradeoffs that i think, you know, members, if you care about the libraries, you dont have to make the tradeoff. If you care about children funds, you dont have to make the tradeoff. We do when it bad budget times, were forced to decide whether we close the homeless shelter or increase the baseline. That puts us in an unpopular position. But this is a dialogue i think is worth having. With that said, i look forward to the conversation. This is not the only me