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Sexually exploited as well as homeless on the street. So in terms of d c wifi were a highrisk and we need thank you. Next speaker, please good afternoon. Im the executive director of the center for young womens development. Im a proud member of the girls alliance. Here in the district 6. We work with the incarcerated young women. Weve been providing jobs for girls almost 20 years now and we loss our entire contract this year. We definitely have been working with the department and got some support back but we provided support services for this very vulnerable population which we were told that...

[applause] [inaudible] [cheers and applause] good afternoon supervisors. My name is dave canner and the acting director for seiu 1021 San Francisco. I want to start by saying its really unacceptable that the community has to be out here begging every year and yet private for profit contractors never have to do this. That is absolutely unacceptable and i think thats a struggle were going to need your support in fixing in the coming years. Its just unacceptable. I want to speak about the where we think some of the money could be found to fund the services that these folks are providing. The Syst...

Cost of living and food and everyday costs and were talking about wages that are pretty low and these are workers that with the poorest of the poor and frankly their work is hard and they deserve to be compensated fairly. They deserve to have Family Health care where a lot of folks dont have. Its so expensive that some of them use public assistance. Its unacceptable. White the nonprofit funding has been flat in the last five years which is basically a cut and the private contractors have increase and they had increase of 16point. 4 and addition to landlords that lease with the city get average...

Alliance the needs for Girls Programs is dire. Oasis has been partnered with other organizations. However, we received a 24 percent kit which is about 50 50,000 out of our crack. Were been working with maria sue and were grateful. However, our partners have not been that fortunate. Thank you hi im 15yearold and i joined oasis and it changed my life. Ail the love from this program made me the person i am. Ive learned so many things in this Program Including eating healthy and i want every girl to have the chance to join irritations like this hello, im a new comer who came here 8 months ago from...

Demorizing and our jobs are point scpls cant do the work and not to mention we have small salaries and for these reasons and more were asking for the 4 so its imperative these services are funded and we get these and we dont need the americas cup. Nonprofits dont care about americas cup and the kaiser increase and taking money out of the general fund also we dont care about that and please give us the 4 . [applause] hi my name is kaitlyn and a researcher at seiu 10 to one representing nonprofits in San Francisco. This is necessary for nonprofits to stay afloat and the city can afford it. We en...