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I am zach murray for the welcome Youth Services and i am rising to advocate that the board of supervisors in the department is here to do more and be accountible and give us public leadership to enhance the budget and the policy priorities to include the youth and the reality is that when compared to the homeless Adult Population you have the needs that set them apart from the Homeless Population and to date, the youth needs are rarely prioritized in the Public Policy and San Francisco is first, and the ten year plan to abolish the homelessness, and the larger exiting foster care and represent...

Homelessness at the front end, that the tenants in San Francisco, have a right to council, and many are becoming victim to land lords, and to the real estate speculator and we know what steps to take to halt it and we got to do it. We have these units sitting empty and boarded up and we have the people who are truly suffering on our streets. And we can Fund Subsidies in the private housing and we can make sure that our nonprofit housing is affordable to the poorest people and we can make sure that the communities, have access to that housing, thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please . Good m...

And it should not be the facts of 2014. It should not be the way things are. You you know, theres been a lot of discussion around the opportunities for women and obviously weve grown you cant see 20 women in the United States senate and not think that were making some progress. But we have to think not only about those women in professional occupations but those women who are our school cooks and our janitors, like my mother, those women who are working every day at the diner to put food on on the table to to put food on their familys table and food on the table of their patrons. And so when w...

Honor. For the record, my name is nick wilcox, i live in penn valley in california here with my wife amanda who because of the crowded conditions is in the overflow room, shes also put in a speaker card and would like to reserve the right to speak at the end if she deems that necessary. I would like to thank supervisor farrell and mayor lee for your steadfast support of lauras law. As supervisor farrell said, amanda and i are the parents of laura wilcox, laura when she was 19 in 2001 died in a rampage shooting while she was trying to help people with severe Mental Illness. She was working at t...

It does require the courts involvement, which for some individuals can be a traumatic thing. Overall it provides crucial treatment for patients whose Mental Illness itself prevents them from recognizing that they in fact need treatment and will be able to benefit from it. I want to underscore that in the department of Public Health there are over 30,000 individuals each year who are treated in a voluntary way. The overwhelming majority of individuals who receive treatment do so in a completely voluntary way. These services that are provided by the department of Public Health will be accessible...