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we have a scaled-back health plan for our staff, and i'm ashamed to say we have no retirement for our staff. there are over 15,000 seniors in district 1, and the richmond senior center is full every day providing a full range of activities and lunch. each year we are asked to take budget cuts. in the past, supervisors have helped to restore some of these cuts. last year, mayor lee added money back to the department of aging. i appreciate and am grateful for this. for this upcoming budget, the human services agency and the department of a bold an aging services have submitted a budget...

hippie hill in golden gate park inspired our drum circle. i want to tell a story about two of our seniors. we have one gentleman who was born in korea. he came to the united states as a young man. he was born with cerebral palsy. he is wheelchair-bound. he has limited use of his two hands. he comes to the center twice a week and does part with us. he draws pictures of his church. his church has stained-glass doors and palm trees. we have several hundred pictures of this church because he draws it again and again, he loves it so much. his state is so great. his friend is roberts yip, ...

has the next internet boom? or is it the children of san francisco that have pride for san francisco, have family in san francisco. these kids are just as intelligent as someone coming from another state to go to these colleges to be part of the silicon valley, which is our neighbor, to be a part of companies within san francisco, like twitter. we have billion dollar companies out here, and these children know about these companies, they use their devices, facebook, twitter, myspace. my advice would be to allocate some funding to the children so that they can learn how to become a pa...

>> mayor lee, supervisors, thank you for inviting members of the richmond area to speak today. i want to say something about seniors in the district. i manage the senior center on a daily basis. we have our programs, music, billiards, we have a drum circle month -- once a month. hippie hill in golden gate park inspired our drum circle. i want to tell a story about two of our seniors. we have one gentleman who was born in korea. he came to the united states as a young man. he was born with cerebral palsy. he is wheelchair-bound. he has limited use of his two hands. he comes to the cen...

>> thank you very much. now, speaking about families and children, from district 1, from the richmond district neighborhood center, we have patricia. >> thank you. she and her husband were instrumental in the beginning of the richmond district neighborhood center. that was 36 years ago. totally a grass-roots effort to save the school district law from being turned into condominiums, and turning it into social services for the richmond district, which there are very few social services. we now have served over 3000 people per week in all of the schools and other sites around the richm...