Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

On reducing property crimes as one police officer, and that statistically, legal aid is the only intervention that reduces Domestic Violence in a community. And, you know, we know there is a lot of budget asks, and funding is very limited. Thats why i think its very important that the board Fund Interventions based on comprehensive outcomebased data. And the data shows, if you really dig into it, that legal aid is the most effective way to reduce poverty in San Francisco. So this year, were asking for funding to help us expand in the western and northern neighborhoods, and hopefully well make San Francisco the first countity in the Country Access to universal legal access. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is jodi, and i am the director of walk San Francisco. We are the only pedestrian organization working to make San Francisco more pedestrian friendly and safer walking streets. Walk San Francisco was instrumental in 2014 in getting our city to adopt vision zero, the policy goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2024. Im here today to ask you for Financial Support to help because we are in a Public Health crisis. With only six months into the year, we have already had 18 fatalities. Out of those, 10 have been pedestrians, and one was a senior. 50 have been people of color. These crashes have happened in every corner of the city in every district. Walk San Francisco has made vision zero our organizational career goal. We run the senior and people with disabilities subgroup of that will cooition as well as the coalition as well as the bay area families for safe streets. These are the people that we have lost due to street violence, and its going to take help to get to vision zero, and this is where we need funding, education, fund raising, and really let people know firsthand what its like to live with traffic violence and the impact of that, and were asking for your help with this work. I really know and im hopeful that all of you remain as committed to vision zero in reducing the number of seniors, immigrants, children, and people of color impacted by this the moment. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Gerald Miller and im here to ask you for help with the ddap program at juvenile hall. Theres an ask on the table for 300,000. I would like to show my support for the Panel Attorneys at juvenile hall, which we work very closely with, and i would ask for your support and full funding for them, as well. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, everybody, and its a miracle i made it through this. My name is jordan davis. Im a district 6 resident, and despite what some haters think, i am actually speaking for myself right now. I come to you today because im on an extended Hunger Strike for rent relief for Supportive Housing tenants. Lets just say for a number of days or years, it would have reached adult hood. Yep, 18 days, and im still up and walking around. I am one of the tenants in my neighborhood who are rent burdened. Director kosinski predicted that 8 million will be able to cure this by lowering our rents to 30 . Im willing to address it all, and shame on you for not addressing it in the budget. This is a longstanding issue, 20 years that needs to be addressed. While i know this is an uphill battle, we need some relief. And we cant get it all here, there are some supervisors with big visionary plans to address this. Finally, i want to say if this is the last time i speak before you ever, know that you have a responsibility to close this gap and make this right. Find some ways to fund nonlife affirming programs. Grow the pie because unlike my slum lord randy shaw, i dont pit organizations against each other. Grow the fucking pie. Peace out. Chair fewer next speaker, please. Hello, guys. Im nicholas parise, and im coming at you because i was homeless when i was 15 because my mom went to prison. I spent 20 years on the streets and then ten years in if prosecu in prison. And i used these programs starting to go to school and getting a job. Now im a case manager for hospitality house. Ive got a job, and if it wasnt for all the great, like, support that you guys give, like, i wouldnt have a chance, but i have a chance now, and i want to thank you guys. I just want to show you that the system works. Just need more money. Thanks. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name miguel cabrera. So like i say last week, so i come today so you guys asking for support for budget. Were requesting 14 million for 20192020. So we requesting 84 million for money. For this money, were requesting 60 section 8 vouchers for family, and for families doubled up and families homelessness staying in shelters. So i opposing to you guys spending so much money to keeping the lives of homeless persons, 20. 7 million. Its not really cool. We can use this money to putting people in housing and solving the problems, and yeah. So the other thing i want to mention, too, so we have a more in 300 200,000 Homeless Children in San Francisco school district. We need to invest in more childrens, we need to invest in more families to ending the homeless. Thank you so much, and i believe you can take it in consideration. Thank you so much. Bye. Chair fewer thank you so much. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is jonna, and im here to encourage the board of supervisors to fully fund the hspa and our city our Community Budget ask . This is why this holistic approach to ending homelessness and addressing it in many of those aspects is so important and it needs to be fully funded and not just pick and choose which parts need to be funded because homelessness looked different, so we need funding to address those specific issues at their roots. Thank you so much for your attention, and we really appreciate your hard work. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. My name is chi, and im here on behalf of the coalition for homelessness. Beyond your status as supervisors, i urge you as compassi compassionate and sensible people to support the Housing Coalition and hspa budgets. They have been developed by unhoused and formerly unhoused organizers in deep connection with community. We know what we need, and its not more funding for criminalizations for quality of life citation or four temporary housing fixes to keep families in unconscionable Living Conditions and turn people out back out on the streets in a matter of months. These conditions affect so many different communities across backgrounds and identities. All thats left for you to do is show up for us, your neighbors, as only you can. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker. Hello, supervisors. Brian basinger with q foundation. Im here to support on behalf of hspa, the budget justice and the q community network. Im deeply touched by mayor breeds and your support for first step to organizing lgbt budget asks. As the recent soji hearing showed, the city still has a way to go in achieving equity for lgbt people. You know, wed like to all believe that lgbt folks are being served by the broader system of care, but i think that thats still a little bit of wishful thinking, so we have more work to do that. So 10 was founded to help the city address these equity issues, and we started 10 to be trans forward so that the Transgender Community got the first bite at the apple, and im really thankful to the mayor for adding the 1 million a year to the first transgender rental subsidies. San francisco also has the highest rate of homelessness of people with h. I. V. In the nation. We are four times as high as new york or los angeles, and people are h. I. V. Also have the fourth highest rate of homelessness of any group in the city, and so i appreciate support to finally expand some rental subsidies for h. I. V. Positive people. Many of us, all of our peers got wiped out in the aids epidemic, and developing new relationships is complicated. Family rejection, etc. , so supporting that is very helpful, and i appreciate your time. Chair fewer thank you very much, brian. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is tiffany jackson. Im the Employment Program manager at hospitality house. Our program serves about 3300 o 400 individuals a year, providing low threshold job services. We have two to three people a week looking to fill positions in their companies. My team is out on the streets, pulling people from the street corner, going into homeless shelters and s. R. O. S, giving them an opportunity at employment to change their lives. We ask you to put money aside to assist with supportive and affordable housing, and when i say affordable housing, i mean really affordable housing. Just imagine going to your job eight hours a day and then having to find a safe place to stay in a doorway to stay because you missed curfew at the shelter. We see this every day, and we know you guys see this every day going into city hall or going on your lunch breaks. You, the supervisors, have the power and resources to help San Francisco housing crisis, so dont turn a blind eye. Do something about it. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Im darren, employment case manager at hospitality house, and im speaking on behalf of the homeless job seekers, and the problems that we have. So we urge you to invest in housing for the job seekers and bring up people in San Francisco because everybody deserves a Second Chance and to be treated like an asset rather than a liability. Youve got the biggest problem is the clients leaving after 90 days, most of them lose out on big Job Opportunities because of not having a place to stay, so i would urge you to invest more money in helping to find housing. Chair fewer thank you. Good afternoon. My name is bobbie jones, and im also with hospitality house. Id like to thank you guys for staying this long day and listening to us, allowing us to have a voice. If you see me on the b. A. R. T. Or on the street, you have no idea where i was. 65 days, i was released from federal prison. 25 days, i gained employment at hospitality house, and in 25 days, im going to be homeless. With the 2018 First Step Act that was passed by congress, my release from my Halfway House changed from july 16 to august 19. And this is both good news and bad news. It means that i paid my debt to society, and im also on crunch time. Ive got to find housing, and theres a tremendous shortage. I do not use drugs. I have no Mental Health issues, and i have fulltime employment with a really great employer, but on july 19, i will be homeless, and im and i work with an organization that helps people who dont have housing. Thats just to give you an idea how critical and how much of a crisis were currently in when it it comes to housing shortages. Im saying this because i want you to understand that we are doing everything that we can on our end. We are the front line for you guys, and sometimes theres a disconnect when youre at the top level, trying to allocate funds down. But what were here to let you know is were on the front lines to do the things and the work that needs to be done, but we need the funds to do it, so i implore you and i urge you to step up and not turn a tabloid eye like many of my colleagues have stated so we can continue to help more people. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is delbert hayes, and im also from the hospitality house. Im a substitute peer advocate. What i was to talk about is what i want to talk about is really housing because in San Francisco, you walk down the street and you see all these people in these tents, its not very nice, especially for us having one of the best cities in the world. So we need funding for housing because people like me, who love San Francisco, we dont want to have to move to sacramento or way out somewhere. And so we really do need housing because well also be helping a lot of people at the hospitality house. And im one of them. I used to be a client, and im im going to be 68 years old next month, and they gave me a Second Chance, and and i like it, and i love working there. And we just need funding for housing, we need especially for the well, of course, especially for the hospitality house. I work there, but people need housing. If you dont have no housing, you cant work. You really cant work. When you see people come out of them tents and really start working, then you know thats a great thing to see. Chair fewer thank you. Hi. My name is tony jackson. Im a peer advocate at the hospitality house. Ive been there almost a year there. Ive worked with multiple hundreds and thousands of people coming into our facility daily looking for housing and dont have the proper income, and were turning people down left and right due to the funding. I mean, we dont have anywhere to send people. A lot of thousands of people for clothes. They can help a couple of hundred, but thousands. We cant let them in our services because the hygiene that theyre carrying. These people need housing, they need i. D. S. If you can take 30 minutes to come sit in yoour facility to e what we go through trying to assist these people on a daily basis, you would understand. So please feel free to make your way to the hospitality house. Im one of the nicest ladies in the front. Ill guide you through what we do and how we do it, and hopefully, you can feel us that we all as a Community Need this. Thank you so much for taking the time out to listen. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. You can judge a society but how it treats those accused of criminal wrongdoing. We love to say that we live in a place that has the best Justice System in the world, but our Justice System is far from perfect. Far too many minorities find themselves in there, people disadvantaged economically and socially. Im a person who lives in the city. I live in district 2. Im a prosecutor, and i worked in the homicide unit for two years. I handle cases of young people in juvenile court. However, the pay hasnt gone up, and its become more and more expensive to live in the city. Ive since gotten married, i have a child and frankly its made it harder and harder for me to take these kinds of cases and continue to live here. I believe the quality of representation that we give people will depend on whether we increase this pay. I really strongly urge you to consider that. Its a huge and an essential part of our criminal Justice System, and its important. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Julie tron from the Bar Association, and im really here to thank you for your support because you have been supportive. I hope that you have felt supported by the kind of outpouring that you have heard from constituents, from lawyers, from judges, from police officers, from clients, from Community Service providers, and from statewide organizations like the california attorneys for criminal justice, the California Public defenders association. Nothing short of access to justice is what is at stake here. Couple of the lawyers talked about how important this work is, and if you have represents somebody, and i am a former member of our homicide panel. So ive served on this panel and ive served in the most critical cases. I know what it feels like to take on that responsibility, but i also think we need to remember what it feels like when youre coming out of that holding cell, and the judge is about to appoint a lawyer for you, and you have no idea who this person is, and you have no say in who this person is. So our Quality Control is very high. As you heard one of the attorneys say, it took her more than a year to get on this panel. We dont want it to be anything less, and thank you for helping us achieve some parity with our public defender and district attorney. Only 17 of the dollars spent on indigent defense goes to our panel. Somebody else mentioned go see the last black man in San Francisco, and you can see the young man who plays kofi was one of the young men accused of murder and acquitted at trial, represented by our lawyers. So had that not happened, he wouldnt be in that movie, and i know he fully supports this, as well. So thank you so much. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is sammy, and i live in the mission. I work for the Bar Association of San Franciscos Court Appointments program. I believe all people facing criminal charges regardless of their financial situation should be represented by high quality counsel. My job is to schedule lawyers to appear every day to accept cases where the public defender has a conflict in criminal or delinquency cases. It is getting increasingly difficult to schedule important attorneys as people leave the panel due to illness, retirement, and now with greater frequency, to work for more pay elsewhere. We need to have funding to encourage attorneys to join the panel. I contacted my supervisor, and thankfully, supervisor ronen supports the indigent defense, and i hope the supervisors here, you join her in fully funding the superior courts budget request. Thank you. Carl kramer, San Francisco living wage coalition. I have two requests, but theyre very interrelated in fighting for one of the most Domestic Violence<\/a> in a community. And, you know, we know there is a lot of budget asks, and funding is very limited. Thats why i think its very important that the board Fund Interventions<\/a> based on comprehensive outcomebased data. And the data shows, if you really dig into it, that legal aid is the most effective way to reduce poverty in San Francisco<\/a>. So this year, were asking for funding to help us expand in the western and northern neighborhoods, and hopefully well make San Francisco<\/a> the first countity in the Country Access<\/a> to universal legal access. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is jodi, and i am the director of walk San Francisco<\/a>. We are the only pedestrian organization working to make San Francisco<\/a> more pedestrian friendly and safer walking streets. Walk San Francisco<\/a> was instrumental in 2014 in getting our city to adopt vision zero, the policy goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2024. Im here today to ask you for Financial Support<\/a> to help because we are in a Public Health<\/a> crisis. With only six months into the year, we have already had 18 fatalities. Out of those, 10 have been pedestrians, and one was a senior. 50 have been people of color. These crashes have happened in every corner of the city in every district. Walk San Francisco<\/a> has made vision zero our organizational career goal. We run the senior and people with disabilities subgroup of that will cooition as well as the coalition as well as the bay area families for safe streets. These are the people that we have lost due to street violence, and its going to take help to get to vision zero, and this is where we need funding, education, fund raising, and really let people know firsthand what its like to live with traffic violence and the impact of that, and were asking for your help with this work. I really know and im hopeful that all of you remain as committed to vision zero in reducing the number of seniors, immigrants, children, and people of color impacted by this the moment. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Gerald Miller<\/a> and im here to ask you for help with the ddap program at juvenile hall. Theres an ask on the table for 300,000. I would like to show my support for the Panel Attorneys<\/a> at juvenile hall, which we work very closely with, and i would ask for your support and full funding for them, as well. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, everybody, and its a miracle i made it through this. My name is jordan davis. Im a district 6 resident, and despite what some haters think, i am actually speaking for myself right now. I come to you today because im on an extended Hunger Strike<\/a> for rent relief for Supportive Housing<\/a> tenants. Lets just say for a number of days or years, it would have reached adult hood. Yep, 18 days, and im still up and walking around. I am one of the tenants in my neighborhood who are rent burdened. Director kosinski predicted that 8 million will be able to cure this by lowering our rents to 30 . Im willing to address it all, and shame on you for not addressing it in the budget. This is a longstanding issue, 20 years that needs to be addressed. While i know this is an uphill battle, we need some relief. And we cant get it all here, there are some supervisors with big visionary plans to address this. Finally, i want to say if this is the last time i speak before you ever, know that you have a responsibility to close this gap and make this right. Find some ways to fund nonlife affirming programs. Grow the pie because unlike my slum lord randy shaw, i dont pit organizations against each other. Grow the fucking pie. Peace out. Chair fewer next speaker, please. Hello, guys. Im nicholas parise, and im coming at you because i was homeless when i was 15 because my mom went to prison. I spent 20 years on the streets and then ten years in if prosecu in prison. And i used these programs starting to go to school and getting a job. Now im a case manager for hospitality house. Ive got a job, and if it wasnt for all the great, like, support that you guys give, like, i wouldnt have a chance, but i have a chance now, and i want to thank you guys. I just want to show you that the system works. Just need more money. Thanks. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name miguel cabrera. So like i say last week, so i come today so you guys asking for support for budget. Were requesting 14 million for 20192020. So we requesting 84 million for money. For this money, were requesting 60 section 8 vouchers for family, and for families doubled up and families homelessness staying in shelters. So i opposing to you guys spending so much money to keeping the lives of homeless persons, 20. 7 million. Its not really cool. We can use this money to putting people in housing and solving the problems, and yeah. So the other thing i want to mention, too, so we have a more in 300 200,000 Homeless Children<\/a> in San Francisco<\/a> school district. We need to invest in more childrens, we need to invest in more families to ending the homeless. Thank you so much, and i believe you can take it in consideration. Thank you so much. Bye. Chair fewer thank you so much. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is jonna, and im here to encourage the board of supervisors to fully fund the hspa and our city our Community Budget<\/a> ask . This is why this holistic approach to ending homelessness and addressing it in many of those aspects is so important and it needs to be fully funded and not just pick and choose which parts need to be funded because homelessness looked different, so we need funding to address those specific issues at their roots. Thank you so much for your attention, and we really appreciate your hard work. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. My name is chi, and im here on behalf of the coalition for homelessness. Beyond your status as supervisors, i urge you as compassi compassionate and sensible people to support the Housing Coalition<\/a> and hspa budgets. They have been developed by unhoused and formerly unhoused organizers in deep connection with community. We know what we need, and its not more funding for criminalizations for quality of life citation or four temporary housing fixes to keep families in unconscionable Living Conditions<\/a> and turn people out back out on the streets in a matter of months. These conditions affect so many different communities across backgrounds and identities. All thats left for you to do is show up for us, your neighbors, as only you can. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker. Hello, supervisors. Brian basinger with q foundation. Im here to support on behalf of hspa, the budget justice and the q community network. Im deeply touched by mayor breeds and your support for first step to organizing lgbt budget asks. As the recent soji hearing showed, the city still has a way to go in achieving equity for lgbt people. You know, wed like to all believe that lgbt folks are being served by the broader system of care, but i think that thats still a little bit of wishful thinking, so we have more work to do that. So 10 was founded to help the city address these equity issues, and we started 10 to be trans forward so that the Transgender Community<\/a> got the first bite at the apple, and im really thankful to the mayor for adding the 1 million a year to the first transgender rental subsidies. San francisco also has the highest rate of homelessness of people with h. I. V. In the nation. We are four times as high as new york or los angeles, and people are h. I. V. Also have the fourth highest rate of homelessness of any group in the city, and so i appreciate support to finally expand some rental subsidies for h. I. V. Positive people. Many of us, all of our peers got wiped out in the aids epidemic, and developing new relationships is complicated. Family rejection, etc. , so supporting that is very helpful, and i appreciate your time. Chair fewer thank you very much, brian. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is tiffany jackson. Im the Employment Program<\/a> manager at hospitality house. Our program serves about 3300 o 400 individuals a year, providing low threshold job services. We have two to three people a week looking to fill positions in their companies. My team is out on the streets, pulling people from the street corner, going into homeless shelters and s. R. O. S, giving them an opportunity at employment to change their lives. We ask you to put money aside to assist with supportive and affordable housing, and when i say affordable housing, i mean really affordable housing. Just imagine going to your job eight hours a day and then having to find a safe place to stay in a doorway to stay because you missed curfew at the shelter. We see this every day, and we know you guys see this every day going into city hall or going on your lunch breaks. You, the supervisors, have the power and resources to help San Francisco<\/a> housing crisis, so dont turn a blind eye. Do something about it. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Im darren, employment case manager at hospitality house, and im speaking on behalf of the homeless job seekers, and the problems that we have. So we urge you to invest in housing for the job seekers and bring up people in San Francisco<\/a> because everybody deserves a Second Chance<\/a> and to be treated like an asset rather than a liability. Youve got the biggest problem is the clients leaving after 90 days, most of them lose out on big Job Opportunities<\/a> because of not having a place to stay, so i would urge you to invest more money in helping to find housing. Chair fewer thank you. Good afternoon. My name is bobbie jones, and im also with hospitality house. Id like to thank you guys for staying this long day and listening to us, allowing us to have a voice. If you see me on the b. A. R. T. Or on the street, you have no idea where i was. 65 days, i was released from federal prison. 25 days, i gained employment at hospitality house, and in 25 days, im going to be homeless. With the 2018 First Step Act<\/a> that was passed by congress, my release from my Halfway House<\/a> changed from july 16 to august 19. And this is both good news and bad news. It means that i paid my debt to society, and im also on crunch time. Ive got to find housing, and theres a tremendous shortage. I do not use drugs. I have no Mental Health<\/a> issues, and i have fulltime employment with a really great employer, but on july 19, i will be homeless, and im and i work with an organization that helps people who dont have housing. Thats just to give you an idea how critical and how much of a crisis were currently in when it it comes to housing shortages. Im saying this because i want you to understand that we are doing everything that we can on our end. We are the front line for you guys, and sometimes theres a disconnect when youre at the top level, trying to allocate funds down. But what were here to let you know is were on the front lines to do the things and the work that needs to be done, but we need the funds to do it, so i implore you and i urge you to step up and not turn a tabloid eye like many of my colleagues have stated so we can continue to help more people. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is delbert hayes, and im also from the hospitality house. Im a substitute peer advocate. What i was to talk about is what i want to talk about is really housing because in San Francisco<\/a>, you walk down the street and you see all these people in these tents, its not very nice, especially for us having one of the best cities in the world. So we need funding for housing because people like me, who love San Francisco<\/a>, we dont want to have to move to sacramento or way out somewhere. And so we really do need housing because well also be helping a lot of people at the hospitality house. And im one of them. I used to be a client, and im im going to be 68 years old next month, and they gave me a Second Chance<\/a>, and and i like it, and i love working there. And we just need funding for housing, we need especially for the well, of course, especially for the hospitality house. I work there, but people need housing. If you dont have no housing, you cant work. You really cant work. When you see people come out of them tents and really start working, then you know thats a great thing to see. Chair fewer thank you. Hi. My name is tony jackson. Im a peer advocate at the hospitality house. Ive been there almost a year there. Ive worked with multiple hundreds and thousands of people coming into our facility daily looking for housing and dont have the proper income, and were turning people down left and right due to the funding. I mean, we dont have anywhere to send people. A lot of thousands of people for clothes. They can help a couple of hundred, but thousands. We cant let them in our services because the hygiene that theyre carrying. These people need housing, they need i. D. S. If you can take 30 minutes to come sit in yoour facility to e what we go through trying to assist these people on a daily basis, you would understand. So please feel free to make your way to the hospitality house. Im one of the nicest ladies in the front. Ill guide you through what we do and how we do it, and hopefully, you can feel us that we all as a Community Need<\/a> this. Thank you so much for taking the time out to listen. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. You can judge a society but how it treats those accused of criminal wrongdoing. We love to say that we live in a place that has the best Justice System<\/a> in the world, but our Justice System<\/a> is far from perfect. Far too many minorities find themselves in there, people disadvantaged economically and socially. Im a person who lives in the city. I live in district 2. Im a prosecutor, and i worked in the homicide unit for two years. I handle cases of young people in juvenile court. However, the pay hasnt gone up, and its become more and more expensive to live in the city. Ive since gotten married, i have a child and frankly its made it harder and harder for me to take these kinds of cases and continue to live here. I believe the quality of representation that we give people will depend on whether we increase this pay. I really strongly urge you to consider that. Its a huge and an essential part of our criminal Justice System<\/a>, and its important. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. Julie tron from the Bar Association<\/a>, and im really here to thank you for your support because you have been supportive. I hope that you have felt supported by the kind of outpouring that you have heard from constituents, from lawyers, from judges, from police officers, from clients, from Community Service<\/a> providers, and from statewide organizations like the california attorneys for criminal justice, the California Public<\/a> defenders association. Nothing short of access to justice is what is at stake here. Couple of the lawyers talked about how important this work is, and if you have represents somebody, and i am a former member of our homicide panel. So ive served on this panel and ive served in the most critical cases. I know what it feels like to take on that responsibility, but i also think we need to remember what it feels like when youre coming out of that holding cell, and the judge is about to appoint a lawyer for you, and you have no idea who this person is, and you have no say in who this person is. So our Quality Control<\/a> is very high. As you heard one of the attorneys say, it took her more than a year to get on this panel. We dont want it to be anything less, and thank you for helping us achieve some parity with our public defender and district attorney. Only 17 of the dollars spent on indigent defense goes to our panel. Somebody else mentioned go see the last black man in San Francisco<\/a>, and you can see the young man who plays kofi was one of the young men accused of murder and acquitted at trial, represented by our lawyers. So had that not happened, he wouldnt be in that movie, and i know he fully supports this, as well. So thank you so much. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is sammy, and i live in the mission. I work for the Bar Association<\/a> of San Francisco<\/a>s Court Appointments<\/a> program. I believe all people facing criminal charges regardless of their financial situation should be represented by high quality counsel. My job is to schedule lawyers to appear every day to accept cases where the public defender has a conflict in criminal or delinquency cases. It is getting increasingly difficult to schedule important attorneys as people leave the panel due to illness, retirement, and now with greater frequency, to work for more pay elsewhere. We need to have funding to encourage attorneys to join the panel. I contacted my supervisor, and thankfully, supervisor ronen supports the indigent defense, and i hope the supervisors here, you join her in fully funding the superior courts budget request. Thank you. Carl kramer, San Francisco<\/a> living wage coalition. I have two requests, but theyre very interrelated in fighting for one of the most Critical Issues<\/a> in San Francisco<\/a> and across the country is facing, and that is growing income inequality. For the past ten years, working people in this country have seen their wages, Living Conditions<\/a> t conditio conditions stagnant. Thats mostly because of legislative initiatives across the country raising the minimum wage or here in San Francisco<\/a> last october, the action you took to raise the minimum compensation ordinance, and thats had a Ripple Effect<\/a> throughout the economy, and its had an effect of raising wages in the economy. Providing more funding can help push up those wages and help help reverse income inequality. The second ask is for the red stone labor temple building. We the living wage coalition, a number of other social and Economic Justice<\/a> coalitions support establishing a center for social and Economic Justice<\/a> in that building. Now meta is very close to acquiring that building, but they have a 7 million gap. There are shortterm lenders that will provide them the building if the city can provide them 500,000. If the city can provide that to them, these lenders will provide the shortterm loans that will help meta obtain the building. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker. Thank you very much, supervisors. My name is alex, and im here on behalf of the s. F. Living wage coalition. Today, i wanted to come along with my colleague to advocate for the saving of the red stone labor temple. It is a cornerstone of the San Francisco<\/a> community. Its active as a home for different labor unions, its active as a home for nonprofits, artists, and any other variety of Community Member<\/a> that you can find here in s. F. And to not safe save Something Like<\/a> this would be to lose a valuable relic in the San Francisco<\/a> community. So saving this and filling the funding gop that were looking gap that were looking for would alleviate other situations in our community. We would ask that you also take into earnest consideration the other requests that you have received here today. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. My name is ann janes. Im a member of covenant presbyterian church, and i speak for the church women united, a coalition of Womens Church<\/a> groups. We have always supported the Living Wage Group<\/a> that that helps low wage workers in this city, and we urge you to completely fund the minimum compensation ordinance. And i also must say, im very fond of this red Stone Building<\/a> and its beautiful murals inside, and i hope it can be saved as a labor temple. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi. Good evening. My name is james, and i work at the hospitality house right in the heart of the tenderloin. I, too, like my coworker was formerly incarcerated. I was serving a life sentence, and now im free. So im speaking in behalf not only personally but for the people in the tenderloin area, the voices that arent here to speak. And were asking that you urgently support the 14 million that haspa is proposing, the 84 million that eraf is proposing. San francisco has 11 billion and less than 3 of that budget is spent on homelessness even though it is a number a number one issue in San Francisco<\/a>. [please stand by] be used in m area could be used in housing families. It could be used in Substance Abuse<\/a> programs. It can be used in employment services, that is what we are asking. Thank you. My name is jesse desantis. In 2008 i lost my place where i used to live, and have been homeless for almost 4 years. From police and people that doesnt understand a transgender woman. Now we are here with all of these issues of housing. [inaudible] what we need is that you guys provide us rental subsidies for Transgender Community<\/a> and to ensure we have a house. Thank you for supporting [inaudible] thank you very much. Thank you. Good afternoon. I want to say, we are not the only ones, and we are probably not the most deserving, but i say this because i think that every single agency, every single advocate that comes here deserves not just to be listened, but to actually be funded. [laughter] it is funny that we come every year, and we have the same issues. Almost the same. We have children that deserve more health funding. We have young adults. We have seniors and people with disabilities. We dont have enough of that. They left one or two for each of you. I hope you can put this heart next to yours. You can make it possible to find more funding for everything, because everybody is important to him. But, you know, we have to think about our seniors, and there is proposition, budget asked from supervisor g, senior operating subsidy. Which we need that thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. San francisco senior and disability action. Many people have spoken today about the needs we do fully support the Budget Justice Coalition<\/a>. And so far as the Housing Needs<\/a> of seniors and concerns we are seeing that need every day in our advocacy work. We want to see as part of this budget subsidies that will keep people housed. Namely seniors, because that is who we work with. We know that the need is a wide. However, subsidies to key people already housed house. And then also we are sending out an sos, the senior operating subsidy which we fully support, to illustrate there are nearly 75,000 people, 75,000 people who do not fall within the income requirements to qualify for affordable senior housing. These numbers to the left, of this redline, or this wall, if you will, about 75,000 people are left out of affordable senior housing. We need to knock it down through senior operating subsidy. We have a petition here which is about a mile long signed by seniors throughout the neighborhoods, in San Francisco<\/a> that are in support of this help, of this senior operating subsidy. Again, seniors with disabilities, the need is wide. This is an illustration of that support. We ask that you do likewise the responsible thing, supervisors. And key. Thank you. I was the assistant on that one area along with tony at senior disability action. Again, we believe in supporting the Budget Justice Coalition<\/a> and there are so many need, it has been heartbreaking just listening, i cannot imagine what youre going through. It is to say that we have a lots of needs in the city. What are the possibilities . That is something we really need to look at. Some of us are very clear on what our asks are. Actually we are all here representing everyone in the city and wanting everyone to have the feeling of being secure in their homes, of having meals. Of having people around them. Of really being cared for. Especially people who have cared and done so much for others. Again, yes i am opposed to speak on behalf of disability action. Yes indeed i am supporting the sos, though subsidies, and as tony said also keeping people in their homes, those rental subs these are good we need to be sure to do that so that we do not have more people entering homelessness entire families, and our grandparents, parents on the street. Lets do all that we can, and please support our ask area thank you so much. Good afternoon supervisors. I am cochair for the Service Writer<\/a> working group and with the dc why f oversight company. I am here today to support and provide voice for many of our Service Writer<\/a>s in support of the minimum compensation ordinance funding increases, including the 3. 3 million currently in the proposed budget as well as the proposed 23. 6 million in add back fund as well as the Budget Justice Coalition<\/a>. We recognize within our field, while this is incredibly important ordinance, that this disproportionately impacts many of our youth providers. In some cases where youth are going to be working at 16. 50 per hour for the adults supporting them receiving a dollar more than the student they support. In addition we understand that many of our programs and the out of school time field are funded at reimbursement rates that are federal or state standards rated as we know in San Francisco<\/a>, these standards are significantly higher. In order to continue to provide the hike Holiday Service<\/a> that we do in San Francisco<\/a>, we ask that the supervisors do fully commit to supporting the increase. And finally as a Service Writer<\/a> working group, we are is socially, especially, encouraging the board of supervisors to continue to look at the intercompartmental dollars that are sure to support young people and to ensure when dollars are transferred and used between departments that proper oversight, and efficiency standards are upheld. And that this sharing of money does not create undue barriers that prevent access and equity from many of our young evil. Thank you so much for your continued support of children youth and families. Hello. Im here today on behalf of boys and girls club of San Francisco<\/a> no. Boys and girls clubs of San Francisco<\/a> serves youth and families of 14 locations insist in Six Districts<\/a> across the country. It has been an institution for kids and families since then. Im reading this on behalf of one of our Staff Members<\/a> who cannot be here today, because he is busy serving over 2050 kids at this very moment. Ive been an educator and you dependent for nearly 25 years. I do not regret a single day. I have worked for boys and girls clubs at a record level for the past 10 years yet however living in the bay area and in particular San Francisco<\/a>, ive had to accept there are certain dream will never accomplish. I own a home, have children, have a car, and possibly retire at 65. As a clubhouse director, i have what i believe is a good salary. The cost of living in San Francisco<\/a> belies that belief. I am lucky to live in a rentcontrolled apartment. I fall into a love and hate relationship because of the also owning a car is around the cost of renting a second room. I would need a partner making close to twice my salary before even thinking about starting a family. I applaud the organization trying to keep up with the cost of living. However, the cost of living in San Francisco<\/a> is an oozing at a rate or at some point the organization will not be able to raise enough money to pay people to work and live here in the city. Our organization are committed to spending significant resources. The city needs to come fit to paying true livable wages for staff and nonprofits provide Crucial Services<\/a> on behalf of the city and county services of San Francisco<\/a>. We are grateful for the things of the 3 cost increase. Our frontlines half need more than that to survive. Thank you for your time. Hello my name is madison, i am here today on behalf of boys and girls club of San Francisco<\/a>. Im going to read the following excerpt on behalf of one of our club members. Nine years old, coming home from school, headed to the boys and girls club, shots ring out. Lets build on the concrete. The street riddled with shell casings. I ran to the boys and girls club. I burst at the doors and landed in the arms of rebecca. The Behavioral Health<\/a> specialist to get that night the club stayed open. By the time i left it was dark. The streets were blocked off. 42 shell casings were marked with evidence others. The club was always my refuge. The excerpt i just shared is not an isolated incident. Our Behavioral Health<\/a> socialist did not ask if this pump number had a diagnosed Mental Health<\/a> condition before providing services. The time she spent with her was not considered billable client hours. In the immediate support she was able to provide was only possible due to the embedded Behavioral Health<\/a> model that the boys and girls club divides. Much of the current Behavioral Health<\/a> funding that the city provides is extremely descriptive and limiting. Providing embedded culturally competent trauma informed and easily accessible Mental Health<\/a> services for youth and their families get this includes Early Intervention<\/a> and prevention work which is a fundamental part of our Youth Development<\/a> strategy. The city needs to provide increased flexibility with Behavioral Health<\/a> dollars and a shift of focus to include more funding for tentative Services Area<\/a> thank you. My name is david ruiz, im 16 years old. I am here today on behalf of the boys and girl love of San Francisco<\/a>. I have attended the excelsior clubhouse in district 11 or four years and i have been a member of our president ial Advisory Council<\/a> for two years. I was really surprised to hear that the boys anger level only has one city contract to serve teens. The contract is very specialized and only reaches 125 teens. The club goes far beyond this contract the club serves about 2500 teens per year. With 12 locations across districts five, six, eight, nine, 10 and 11. Comprehensive Team Programming<\/a> at the boys and girls club is extremely important to me because i have been able to participate in Team Leadership<\/a> programs like keystone. Mpower to create events on projects that address relevant issues like homelessness. Not only at excelsior, but the greater San Francisco<\/a> community as well. The club has given me many opportunities and experiences i will carry with me into adulthood. My favorite memory was my first trip to chicago. It was my first time traveling. The clubs current city contract does not cover the full scope of work they do with teens like me. In order to continue this critical work we need more funding for comprehensive Team Programming<\/a>. It is essential to invest in the youth because we are the leaders of tomorrow. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello, i am terrel jones, i am 17 years old. I am here today on behalf of of boys and girls of San Francisco<\/a>. I have been a member of the [inaudible] i am part of the Advisory Council<\/a> which has shown me how i can make an impact on the boys and girl love with my opinions and ideas youd last year 378 teens were connected to jobs throughout the club. 100 of core seniors graduated from high school, working 49500 hours of Services Area<\/a> services. [inaudible] comprehensive Team Programming<\/a> at the boys and girls club is extremely important to me because the clubhouse except all youth. It has help me accept myself as a black person and part of the lgbt community. My favorite part of the club is going on College Tours<\/a> because i was able to ask arians going to sacramento state, and university of nevada. I can figure out what i want to do with my career. In order to continue to do this critical work, the boys and girls love of San Francisco<\/a> needs funding. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, board of supervisors. I just want to say thank you for taking the time to really listen to all of the needs of the citys most vulnerable resident. As you can hear from the youth that came up here to advocate for themselves and also for myself to advocate for all of the youth and families that could not come today. We are in our second week of Summer Program<\/a> and we are serving over 200 youth today. Even our High School Youth<\/a> are working and volunteering to make sure that they have internship opportunities for college. Im here taking as a number of api counsel to support the act, but also to support the ask to support services for Mental Health<\/a> and our academic enrichment program. To promote Higher Education<\/a> particularly for filipino immigrants youth. Our program, we have a Youth Program<\/a> and a college prep program. Although we focus mainly on academics we have found in our program is that there is a high need for Mental Health<\/a>. Weve had to do a number of suicide aviations every year. Filipino youth, in sentences, have the highest prevalence of depression. One in for of our youth Seek Services<\/a> for depression, selfharm, suicide, and their families as well need support. Many of them live in srl, do not have basic right i do not have adequate housing or job. I am sure many of you know that can have a toll on them being able to focus on school, and get those services. Im really here to advocate to make sure you can help support our services for our youth and families, to make sure they can get Mental Health<\/a> support and we can provide Higher Education<\/a> support to all of them. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. My name is harry, the Program Director<\/a> of Family Support<\/a> services. I am here to talk to you about programs and services that we provide Family Support<\/a> services for Family Resource<\/a> center for families experiencing personal violence, family violence, Community Violence<\/a> and also our youth who are in this home that do not have opportunities youth around. I am here to ask for your support. As well as support our program for youth area thank you. I am jack, and i work at the Family Resource<\/a> center. We were able to survey 100 youth and do a focus group. I wanted to relay the message to you guys so in this valley, they dont feel like they have a place to go to to do things and learn. And also they feel and safe in the neighborhood. Often times they just stay home and feel isolated. It was tested that you guys can allocate funding for our youth to woody. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good afternoon board of supervisors had my name is lorena, i am the Family Support<\/a> specialist for the program, which is part of the frcs. It is home of heart and caring. Our program is home to many of our latino and immigrant families get in their children. We offer families a safe and nurturing these sorry safe and nurturing space in which they can be a stronger and healthier family. Child interactive groups, parenting classes, cultural and family event with wellness support to conventional, traditional and alternative ways to get we are requesting that you please continue supporting us, and consider including additional funding to sub worked the infrastructure. And more intensive needs of families and there are many. We need for our families to be empowered, feel supported, and hopeful in order to thrive despite our current harsh little on social climate. Thank you. [inaudible] i am here to ask for your support for the city, we are Resource Center<\/a> in the city, for the more vulnerable families of the city. We all know the situation are extreme right now. The housing crisis is a total crisis our families are surviving those families with small children. Sometimes they dont have a place to go, they dont know where to find resources to find even food or support. To get the health services, etc. We are vital for these families right now and that is why we would like to look at those is something very valuable for the city. [inaudible] continue supporting the funding and also looking into increasing funding because we are really there for the families, and the families need us to exist for the them to get the services and support they need to have Healthy Families<\/a> area thank you. Hello. I came here on behalf of Mary Elizabeth<\/a> was founded and has a history of porting women since 1914. This is a long history of contribution towards equality. And protection of vulnerable individuals. Since 2009, providing safe housing to victims of Domestic Violence<\/a>. Which my mom and sisters were. Since 2009, Mary Elizabeth<\/a> also provide Supportive Services<\/a> to critical homeless victims which my mom would be today, if we would not her as our children. But thanks to cash programs we have been able to keep this safe haven running. However, due to problems with budget and underfunded programs, the city keeps our unit rental rate, at one 85 per unit. That is way below the 1100 that sros have been charging upon programs like that. Such low amount compromises our mission and prevents our population from having basic needs an example being the news program which was discontinued in 2017 after more than a decade inviting breakfast, lunch and dinner for women, with access teaching are limited. Please dont reduce our funding. Taking care of the most vulnerable as we exercise our civility. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors he had my name is maggie, and i am the district 3 appointee of the youth commission. I am here today to urge you to consider our Budget Priority<\/a> asked that we presented earlier in the year. We have six parities which include 1617yearolds, the board of hazarding housing for traditional youth. Services for children with incarcerated parent and mandatory trauma and youth Cognitive Development<\/a> training. We have been working on these Budget Priorities<\/a> for our entire term. Please take this into consideration. Thank you. My name is doris mom here and support of the Community Connectors<\/a> graham, excuse me. Of the Sf Community Housing<\/a> organization as the other women whose talk about this, if deals trivial in the face of many of these organizations. Fortunately our ask is also fairly trivial. What the Community Connectors<\/a> do, right now, i merely and these were not gotten district is provided methods and means for seniors to remain in their homes as we age. I am a recent exile from the world of work, and it has not been an easy transition. Having others to discuss loss of opportunity, loss of nervous, lost a friend has been essential. The heart that each of you has back in your office that we delivered earlier today were admitted by seniors who went to a knitting class read it seems trivial. That also got people who would otherwise be sitting alone in their home in solitude out communicating with their neighbors, watching one another, making sure we get out and we get size, we get mental exercise and we take care of one another. I hope that helps you to see why it is important for this small amount of funding to not only keep going in the church payment basements that are costing twice as much but also expanded to other neighborhoods get this is very close neighborhood focus group. Thank you very much. Hello my name is tim gallegos we had asking the board to consider Ballot Initiative<\/a> since the training for those working within our for the homeless community. Particularly the Mental Illness<\/a> or learning disabilities. Mandatory training for all employees is a must read working within or for the homeless immunity. The shelter monitor community will step up and patrol do a little more patrolling and we have to police our shoulders a little bit better, that would ensure the homeless are treated with dignity follow up with complaint establish a universal code of conduct or guidelines for staff working directly with the homeless ovulation. Commercializing mandatory sensitivity training similar to that of a guard card boosting funding to pay workers a better wage and ensure better treatment to the clients of the shelters and more available funding. Im proud member of the lgbt q community, currently at the navigation center. Currently homeless and currently incarcerated. Thank you for your time. Hello. My name is elma davis. I am a mother of seven. We come from florida, we have been here in the area almost 2 years. When i send my son to special cool, he comes back with problem Child Protective Services<\/a> situation removed from california to florida i we are look for any legal help for my son. He is 12 years old, and we just moved to San Francisco<\/a> so he can get a better chance, and make it out of the Domestic Violence<\/a> problem that we have. Right now we are homeless, we have been in a bunch of different offices, the v. A. Is our last stop. We hope that sentences go is an oppori","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"\/\/ia801009.us.archive.org\/28\/items\/SFGTV_20190624_230000_Government_Access_Programming\/SFGTV_20190624_230000_Government_Access_Programming.thumbs\/SFGTV_20190624_230000_Government_Access_Programming_000001.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240716T12:35:10+00:00"}