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Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you. My name is peter demeris. Im a volunteer and serve on the board for the st. Francis living room on golden gate avenue in the heart of the tenderloin. St. Francis living room monday through friday provides hot nutritious breakfast, activities and a place to congregate off the streets for the elderly poor of the tenderloin. We serve about 100 clients each day and the numbers keep growing. We are a Secular Organization governed by a board of directors that volunteer, a volunteer ...

The precedent and no, the City Attorney said that the City Attorney would hold it and they followed the advice and we are saying that they were right in doing so. They were not in violation. And yet we have all of these people and basically what you are saying in my privacy in dealing with government is at the whim of whoever happened to get the information, and i dont know about you but i am not comfort with my information being that open. And to say that someones address is confidential. And i may go to that meeting because i would like to talk to other people and maybe i want the informatio...

Much stronger sense of how influence impacts important and lucrative decisions in our 7 billion plus budget. I have 26,000 Employee Base that we have making decisions every day about how we use public dollars. I regularly hear from constituents concerned about governmental transparency. This legislation is designed to increase Public Confidence in the everyday workings of our local government, shining a brighter light will lead to better and more open decisions by city officials. And while our proposals will effect certain activities such as lobbying and permit expediting, i want to make it ve...

Francisco International Faith council is having a talk on racial profiling in the 21st century. Prolaris society. You can call the San Francisco International Faith community, but being here today something i heard a lot about being young, gay, old, gay, black so many different diversity of San Francisco i think this budget it covers us all, and just like i know that in the sro in district 6 we dont have representation for violence, bullying, the way that other districts have it because like i want i will put just to show you this monday im going to be in court at 10 00 a. M. At 514 dealing wi...

Incarceration. Drug court, the sisters program, probation officers, judges, and others refer women to safe house. These women are traumatized. Many are suffering from mental illness, and especially from ptsd. Some are pregnant. They are young. They are old. They do not need to be in jail. We have a comprehensive program and mental, physical, and dental care, education, group therapy, money management, computer training, job internshipses and more. And we do this for slightly over half what it costs to keep a woman in jail. Our graduates are working. They are off the street, out of the emergenc...