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I know that there are a lot of people here. I see maybe two empty chairs. If folks can squeeze in because i know a lot of people want to be here for this hearing. Please, if you can do that. So, the legislation before us today is one that we actually approved several years ago just for the city and county of San Francisco for employees of city and county of San Francisco. And what was behind it was removing the barriers resulting from the stigma associated with the conviction history, means more opportunity for work and [speaker not understood] for the 700,000 citizens who are released here ev...

System saving taxpayer dollars. The policies embodied by fair chance helped open the door of opportunity for all of us which make all of us safer, healthier and stronger. So, i want to go over the basic aspects of this legislation and i had mentioned that 25 of adults in the u. S. Have an arrest or conviction history. And that studies as many of you know show stable opportunity to housing and employment reduces recidivism thus increasing Public Safety and public dollars. There are racial [speaker not understood] resulting in devastating impacts in our communities of color and criminal records ...

Creating safer communities, and helping communities thrive, and also by creating a sense of inclusion that will motivate people to give more meaningful [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Harper. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is cynthia vasser and im in support of this legislate. Im a former journalist and i do want to [speaker not understood] with a mark. And i just want to remind the supervisors that San Francisco politicians have long been leaders in criminal justice reform. And if we really want to make honest reform to the criminal justice system, we have to think a...

For larger bikes for low income and transit challenged adults laz and expanding the programs and others can benefit and more generations can benefit as well and this will enable bikes to really make a difference in peoples lives. Lastly today we have related the discussion about the bike Registry Program as well. That will enable people that lost bikes to reclaim them through the registration process that is available so thats another tool to people that can claim their own bike in the system so this legislation will work in partnership with the Registry Program. I know mr. Crudo has some rema...

To people that can claim their own bike in the system so this legislation will work in partnership with the registry program. I know mr. Crudo has some remarks and we want show the video showing the work in the communities. Thank you mr. Supervisor. I will keep my comments brief. David crudo for the Human Services agency. I would like to commend supervisor avalos on sponsoring this change in the ordinance. Historically Want Department is the recipient of unclaimed bikes for kids programs and we have a program with the presid presidio cwca and transfer the bikes to them and they would teach kid...