Dozens of phone calls and emails of people complaining theyre not feeling safe, that there are fires being lit in tent encampments, that there is needles, human waste, that there are people in Mental Health crisis. Supervisor haney and i passed this so we have a permanent longterm solution to the problem. What is the city is doing is moving people from one corner to the next. Im glad that some supervisors dont have to deal with those problems, but those of us that do every day, its not just, you know, a natural phenomenon that all people who are experiencing homelessness feel that the only places that they can go are district 6, 9 and 10 with some in 8 and some in 5. Its a manmade phenomenon. Its the fact that police let things happen that the Homeless Department let things happen in certain neighborhoods and dont in others. If were serious about all being part of the solution in solving this problem, then please dont put that responsibility on three or four supervisors. Please stand up and take leadership. Just like supervisors walton, haney and i have done for the entire time that weve been at this board of supervisors. Im sorry, but this president yee so this is not something that i think you can put on just residents in a few neighborhoods when this is an extreme citywide crisis. President yee supervisor walton. [applause] [cheers and applause] supervisor walton thank you, supervisor yee, ronen and preston for stepping up. I work closely with everybody on this board of supervisors and we all talk about how much we work towards solutions that we all know are problems in our city. And every one last one of us has admitted we have work to do around addressing Mental Health. We have work to do around addressing affordability. And we have work to do around addressing homelessness in San Francisco. And we know that every district in San Francisco has unhoused population. Im looking at the data right now. Every last district could actually use a safe place for our unhoused population to be able to stay. Right now in district 10, we have two Navigation Centers. And we are working on our third one. We have several nav not several, we have Navigation Centers in district 6, district 9, and we have a triage facility now in district 11. So we have a chunk of this board that is working very hard to address the issues that exist across the city when it comes to our unhoused population. Weve even worked closely together to have some of our families at sfusd school sites here in San Francisco. So there is no way we can all stand by and say we want to do everything we can to address homelessness and provide safe places for unhoused population without everyone stepping up. I know our president has talked about the possibility of Navigation Centers and shelters in his district. I know supervisor peskin has talked about having a Navigation Center in his district. And so all we need is for everyone to step up and look for sites and Work Together so that we can address this problem in unison, because it is a San Francisco issue. It is a regional issue. It is a statewide issue. And surely here in San Francisco, we can do what weve always done, and come up with solutions that are best served so that people across the region, across the state can figure this out. And we will be the ones that come up with the best policies to address what exists in our communities. So again i just want to thank cosponsors. I want to thank all of my colleagues because i know in your heart of hearts we can get this done working together. Thank you for obliging, president yee. President yee okay. So madame clerk, were finished with roll call. Were going to move on to Public Comment. At this time the public may address the entire board up to two minutes on items within the jurisdiction of the board to include the november 5, 2019 and november 12 Board Meeting minutes and items 3037 on the adoption without reference to committee. A Public Comment is not allowed when an item has been previously subject to Public Comment. Direct your remarks to the board as a whole not individual members of the board. People with interpretation will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. If you would like to display on the overhead projector, just tell sfgovtv. It is a board rule in this chamber, that if you have a feeling one way or another, in support, or against, that you not clap or make audible sounds. If youre in support, just go like that to show your support. We appreciate that. President yee okay. Good afternoon, supervisors and president. Id like to bring to the attention the Human Service agency taking over mother browns kitchen. Im a client and i was a few years back and i just returned to being a client. This agency in bayview is the oldest nonprofit in bayview. And it is operated by women at the top. Maybe against women in leadership position. I wish we grew up and accept the fact that women are a power now. Quit ragging on them. Number two, the v. A. And the United Council of Human Services has a program, thats where im now residing. If we could if mother browns and United Council could get the support it needs, you run this program and especially i would recommend that the supervisors and the v. A. Get together and build a shelter for veterans only. Its deplorable what is happening to our veterans on these streets. So interested in building houses which is a good thing. Barack obama left plenty of money for the cities to use to house veterans. Why dont you guys get together and really use your heart and your wisdom to dont close mother browns and appoint them as the next Navigation Center for veterans only. Thank you. Im also here making comments about the mother brown and hope house. Im familiar with the Health Care System here. I was on gavins Health Care Policy committee. Kickoff of the obamacare for the bay area. A thing mitch was involved with also. Hes down there in l. A. I think we have the resources here in San Francisco, both the talent and everything to make the things for the veterans work very well at this organization, with the mother brown and hope health right here. We dont need to go outside of the city to l. A. To have that done. And thank you very much. Happy holidays to everybody. Good afternoon president yee and supervisors. Im walton. [ ] da, dee, da, da, dee, da dee. Aint no Mountain High enough to keep me from coming to see you today another cook here. Shes 164, but you all know her. Her birthday. Mary c. Thats a letter from the president of the c. E. O. Heres a key to a Mental Institution house. Its a real old one. St. Agnews. There is a house key. And id like to say id like to say jingle bells jingle all the way oh what it fun it is to say happy holidays and for john over here, id like to say thanks for your work and old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind and we like to all thank you now and thank you for your time thank you. Goodbye. Good afternoon, everyone. Im a student at city college in San Francisco. If you dont know, please know that we are in a crisis at city college. We are being prevented to achieve our dreams, our American Dream of being receiving adequate and proper education at city college. There is hundreds of classes being cut. And im afraid that we might be seeing our students and our teachers at these Navigation Centers. Its very sad. I know youre doing a great thing for our community, but our teachers may end up there because there are a lot of class being cut, therefore, there is no jobs for them. There is a wall being built up that keeps us away from achieving our education. We need these classes back. We need that funding to be available for all of us to take the classes. Our older adults dont have the classes because theyre being cut. Traditional education is also impacted negatively because the classes are being cut. And not everyone is in a fortunate situation where they can graduate this semester. There is a lot of classmates because they cant take simple classes like algebra. They have to wait a whole other semester to graduate from high school. This means theyre placed at risk. They could end up in the streets. We talk about the amount of homicide in the city. Thank you very much. If your hesitation stems from concern about proper budgeting, worry encouraging independent audit. If your hesitation is from thinking this is a shortterm fix, i can tell you weve been working tirelessly on longterm solutions. If new things wont move you, perhaps things previously said may. The important truths are that knowledge is power, that knowledge is safety, and that knowledge is happiness. Thomas jefferson. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin franklin. Knowledge is power, information is liberating, education is the premise of progress in every society, in every family. Throughout history limiting knowledge has never been shown to be a good thing. Me. Just now. I urge you, supervisors yee, mandelman, stefani, ronen, to publicly sign on and support the emergency funding today before this meeting adjourns. Please shows that you invest in classes for the people that have made San Francisco the unique and soughtafter city that it is. Thank you. Hello. My name is marcos. Im a student at city college as well. Im here with the giant stack of petitions addressed to the supervisors that have not signed onto the ordinance yet. Yeah. Were urging you to join your colleagues and sign on to this allocation emergency funding. I want to thank supervisor walton for calling for a hearing at the committee. We think that is badly needed. We were never consulted for these cuts. I think its important that the record is set straight about that. There was no Community Involvement in this. We are losing many vital programs for students today and basically, every day, until this issue gets fixed. Were not looking at this as a bandaid. I want to say that a majority of the petitions, basically all of the petitions were gathered in 36 hours, we have another 300 almost online. So as you can tell, people are very, very what is the word fired up about this i guess. People dont want to lose their education. And people are paying attention to what the supervisors are doing here. We need you to sign on to this ordinance publicly and were asking you to do so as soon as you can, any means or ways that you can. Because we need the city College Administration and their board of trustees to know that the city will provide the funding regardless of what the mayor says. Because we know the board has a majority of people that want to see students stay at Community College and we need the support of the other supervisors. Were calling on you to sign on to the ordinance because we want the trustees to restore the classes. Well continue to do it until the last moment, so we expect your support. If it comes at the last moment, well still take it. Thank you so much. Im a city college student. Im choosing to put my belief in you. I heard that you reelected into the board of education in 2008 with the highest number of votes that a Superintendent Search and brought a divided school together. I believe you bring the pieces of usf together too because you have personal experience. You know what its like to be a student. You attended that campus before. So i understand that you can sympathize with how the students need to have a place to learn, to navigate and develop alongside others. But you can also sympathize with the teachers, too, right . Because you not only were a k12 teacher, youre also a Community College instructor as well. You know what its like to teach with care, to have colleagues supporting the school and to help students. And i believe you care about education, because you have a degree in education and served on the board of education, too. The cuts are not inconsequential to you. Mostly i believe in you because ocean campus is in your district. Since you have gone from being a student to a Community College teacher to finally a San Francisco supervisor, i believe you wont turn us away. Be the cosponsor for the emergency bridge funding. Thank you. Far all future speakers on this matter, please direct your comments to see board as a whole, not to individual members. Also, if youre in support of this issue, there is a board rule you not make any audible noises. Instead, use your supportive hands, please. Thank you. Hi, im a parttime student taking a full course load. Im advocating today for the emergency bridge fund for city college of San Francisco instead of attending my final exam. In two years i completed 24 classes which is enough to earn an Associates Degree and i want you to show how its impossible for the current class cuts. Im a modern maker. I built my own curriculum from departments, engineering welding machine shop, business, fashion, woodworking, floral design, making 100. This is steam. Science Technology Engineering mathematics arts makers. These are skills that people create in Real Products and experiences that make us smile. These are the skills that Start Companies and manufacture ideas in San Francisco. 24 classes, many of them are multilevel classes requiring to develop techniques. Chancellor said no programs would be cut. My curriculum would be impossible today of chancellor roachs cuts. Of the 24 classes completed, 8 are left. 16 are gone. 6 of 13 teachers are gone out of jobs. This is not a burden of students and teachers. It is pure mismanagement of leadership and the chancellor needs to be held accountable. He says we dont need money, but he means they dont need classes, students or teachers. I have spent 400 hours this year campaigning against class cuts. Every one of these supervisors have seen my efforts through flyers, tweets and protests. Im asking for the bridge fund so i can stop wasting my time fighting you and returning to my education. The city is pioneering Free Education in america, removing 5780 seats from classes is not savings we tolerate. Were watching. President yee thank you. [bell ringing] hello, im esl instructor at city college. And im here again to encourage everybody to support the bridge funding. Youve heard it from the students. Youve been talking about the homelessness problem. We have the homeless in our classes. If you cut these programs, there is no bridge for them to get jobs. The vocational cutting is just a nightmare. The 90 cut of the older Adult Education is faith nightmare. Thats another vulnerable population that can become homeless. Youre a great city, doing great things. Youre progressive. Keep it up. Because Public Education is in danger. We have to look out for everybody. Were connected with each other. We provide the employees for many of the jobs here in the hotel, the culinary business. We also we deserve to be treated with respect. The students, the teachers. Theyve got emails and working for the colleges 25 years. The Fashion Department walks in. Oh my god, they just told us were gone, were gone. And its not okay. So you do need to have a hearing. We do want accountability. We should have a comp troller. We want to be sustainable, but we want to be here for everybody. Were going to kill our vulnerable population if you make these cuts. Its sickening. And i saw those students when we brought those papers. In minutes, theyre like, sign it, sign it. They said city college is our home. We love city college. Thats the place for them. We want to work with the city on this. So please support it. Hello supervisors. I came at the last meeting. Im an Emergency Department nurse at San Francisco general. And i am also a shop steward for cisu1021 for nurses. So i was a little star struck last night and i met a few amazing supervisors at a get together at our party with a little wine in my system. And i just wanted to say that im really excited i got to meet some of new person. And the reason why im actually here to talk is not to ask you to do anything right now, but i do want to bring to light that i am learning how to be an organizer. We have 2000 nurses in just San Francisco general alone well, in dph. And i know that dph takes up more than a third of our budget in San Francisco. And i think we need to start addressing this as a crisis, as a team. And so im hoping that we can organize like were doing with our departments, the nurses and ancillary staff and actually have all you supervisors join forces with us as as well. And hear our staffs cry for help and Work Together and try to address what is going on. So i have some pins for staffing now. If you dont mind, i want to hand you a few. If thats okay. Thats it. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Hi, my name is julie. I also work in the e. R. I was here last week. Anyhow, on top of what krista was saying, part of the reason were here, there is a resolution from the resident positions that weve started to combine forces w