Million Pilot Program to provide longterm assistance to seniors shut out of Senior Housing. The Senior Housing thats being built and Senior Housing that will be built under the ballot measure for the housing bonds the Affordable Housing bonds, the alternative to president yees Senior Housing program is more and more housing seniors. I refer you to the justreleased Community HousingEngagement Survey of the Mayors Office of housing with the office of economic and Workforce Development and the planning department. That survey that just came out confirmed the number one request of Community Members all throughout San Francisco is Affordable Housing and city assistance to reduce the cost of housing. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. That luckily are available in the city but not enforced. I recognize as the root of this issue the government, both city, state, and federals failure to side with the workers, and this generational degradation of Worker Rights and our ability to organize in favor of corporations. The largest corporations in San Francisco enjoyed hundreds of millions of dollars in tax credits from the federal government, so the money is here. I challenge you guys [inaudible] chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hi. Good morning. My name is lourdes alarcon. Generally speaking, i had the help of getting subsidized child care, but i also have to be part of the waiting list. And yeah, i dont want to first of all, i want to thank the people representing us today, and i want to acknowledge that because you know how child care how important it is for a mother to have, so you dont want to choose between not especially a job and not being cannot pay child not accepting a job and not being able to afford child care services. I want to thank supervisor ronen for opening the horace mann shelter. But also, im advocating for the waiting list. This is a struggle, we have a lot of many issues. Were not against each other, but i think children cannot wait. They are, like, growing every minute, and they need the investment because thats investment in our future. So were advocating for child care because thats part of our future but thats also supporting women that need the services in order to make develop a Better Family and have their opportunities for their children. Thank you very much. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning. My name is mia velez. Im a child care provider, and with the consent of the parents of the kids i care for, i asked them to have them here with me, some of them, most of them. As you can see, the kids are over there, climbing furniture, crawling under the seats and things like that. If you can imagine for those of you that are parents, if you had to bring your child here, what kind of work can you do . Are you able to provide for your family . Are you able to pay your rent if you had to bring your children here to work . So i just wanted to remind you the kind of work thats needed for the people, for the citizens of frisk and United States in San Francisco and United States in general. Right now, i have a waiting list of full paying parents of 50, and im not including the parents who subsidized. We reserve in our program two subsidized seats. We can only offer seats for two families who need care. I cant imagine what those parents who need care are doing right now, how to provide for their kids, and what theyre hoping for the future, so i just want you to think about us. Thank you. Good morning. My name is maria jandres, and im here representing many mothers, many women, that we struggle every day, and were not struggling because we want to, were trying to thrive, do all the things that we have to do, but especially advocating for immigrants mothers that since we are a part of the School District, but we dont know the rights that we have to be part of that School District. And im asking here for to support the collaboration for the noncitizens voting because its important for parents that are involved in their schools with their children to be part of that. But not only be part of that, just coming and drop off your kids. I want my child to be successful. In order to do that, i have to be able to empower myself and know that i can make decisions in the school board, as well. Im also speaking on behalf of the child care because ive been on a wait list since i was in my second trimester. And until i was homeless, i could not access that, and its a shame to deny parents to what is a human right. Kids should not be in spaces where they are not learning and their development is not getting what they need to do. So im very grateful that you guys are working and doing these power these changes, but please, lets support the immigrant families. Immigrant families, we are very afraid. People are afraid of speaking up, and thats why im not here because im not afraid, and im going to tell all the other parents to speak up, to fight for their rights. But thank you very much. Good morning, supervisors. My name is maria lusori, and im with the parent advocates. Every year, we fight the same fight. We have children in extreme poverty living side by side with our millionaires. We have the highest density of millionaires and billionaires and the fifth largest economy in the world. We need to grow our economy for our children. Our children are only here four to five years. The lost opportunities cannot be rebuilt. If they do not access child care, their learning potential is minimized. When i was a young parent starting parent voices, my first paycheck went to pay for my infant care for my daughter, and i was so sad, i had to call a parent talk line, and they sent me a check, but that only took care of my one. Luckily, my parents came, and i had to pull my son out of preschool so they could take care of my infant daughter and my son. Meantime, im still on the waiting list. My children had to go home to the philippines until i raised enough money. And finally, i was served and i got the funding because now my children are in college, and i think they benefited by the time they get the funding. So i hope that all our children will get the same child care access. Thank you very much. Chair fewer thank you very much. Yes. Hi. My name is june bug. Im with parent voices, and im with poor magazine, and i support the justice coalition. We need funding for our children 0 to 5. We have over 2,500 children in San Francisco on the wait list, and children that dont have care can end up being homeless. Children that dont care can end up with parents without a career, without college education, without economic stablity. Cribs, not concrete. My daughter waited on the wait list so long that i had to go through extreme stress just to get child care for her. My son got subsidy, and even with scholarship, i still ended up paying 200 out of my welfare check to keep us from ending up in poverty. Im someone who needs child care, ive been through homelessness. All of these issues shouldnt be pitted against each other. Theres a way we can look at the budget and make sure these needs get met if we do it in an equitiable way. The amount we need to help children get off the wait list is really large and would probably be at risk of taking money away from other services. So im here to ask if we could start doing something in the meantime. And that is at least 2 million because with 2 million, you can help 250 children. Thank you so much. Remember, child care keeps San Francisco and our children learning. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you, june bug. [speaking spanish language] my name is antonia lopez, and i participate with meta. I had the opportunity to be a leader for 30 years. One day, it came into action in the collaboration. I had the opportunity to do outreach in the community and to be in contact with many parents about this issue. Throughout the outreach, i met and spoke with many parents of immigrants. I met many of them, and i know that they recognize the importance of the power of voting, and theres many parents that value this right, but this is not this is not just about recognizing the value of voting but also participating in the School District. Our community understands the value of being able to participate openly and freely. Much of their testimonies that i that i heard spoke much about the fear that their families were being separated have a conflict of interest, deciding whether they should vote or feel secure. As a mother leader, i would like that they that they brought in other resources the resources that we have for outreach to be able to clue more families, to be able to incorporate more immigrant families in this process. We need time for doing that and to generate the trust and the consciousness in providing this issue in order to be able to motivate more parents. My wish is to be able to continue this work and to keep raising our voice so that ultimately it would result [inaudible] chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Happy monday, supervisors. My names kevin. I work with coleman advocates for children and youth. We work with families in San Francisco, adults, young people to transform their school communities. Im here today to ask you to support the Budget Coalition demands, asks from the budget as well as the parent collaborative. We are at a time where our families are under attack from high rent prices, displacement, Police Harassment from the president and his words. This city took a really courageous step in allowing noncitizens to vote for a school board, recognizing the importance that that process has and families feeling connected to the School Community and having a say in what that outcome will look like at the school where their child is being educated. So im here to ask you to support the noncitizen immigrant voting collaborative and really follow through on your commitment and make sure that these families get the opportunity to learn about their rights and fully participate in the democracy in the city that is setup to give them a say in their schools. Thank you so much. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, members of the committee. Thank you for this opportunity to speak. My name is arla s. Ertz. Im a resident of San Francisco in the district 5 Western Addition neighborhood, and i have had the great honor and privilege of living in this wonderful city since 1970, and the only reason i am still here and have been here all that time is because of rent control, otherwise, i wouldnt be able to afford to live here. In october, i retired from my position as a social worker with the city and county of San Francisco. I worked as a social worker for many years, serving many of the people whose needs are representing here today. And one thing i can say for sure are the needs outweigh the Resources Available and even what resources are available sometimes require waiting for a long, long time if anyone gets them if they are still here by then. So im here in support of the budget justice requests, and theyre youre going to hear from many people today with many different needs from many different communities. Im not going to pick and choose which ones to speak about, and i urge you not to pick and choose which ones to support because the need is across the board. So i encourage you to take an equitiable approach and a broad approach to support all needs from all communities. I just one last thing. I was shocked, shocked to stand here and hear from the ohlone member of this group speaking about budget being cut. Lets not forget, were standing here, meeting on stolen land today, so lets not add insult to injury [inaudible] chair fewer thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is kim shuck. Im the poet laureate of San Francisco. Im also a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of oklahoma. I am also one of five generations of my family that have lived in this city. And i was appalled to see the native programming budget got cut. For a lot of reasons, i got to hear some nonsense being in and out of this building a lot, and its not the fault of the people who say it. Its miseducation and its ignorance. Part of the solution is to continue to make possible Public Events where native people are visible. There are a lot of us here. It is one of the endpoints for the relocation in the 70s. I have had the displeasure to here one member not of this board, but of another board, refer to our member as not looking like an indian. Thats serious. The other thing that San Francisco is is on the list of cities that have the most murders of indigenous women, which is a big issue these days. Its an issue thats important. I want you to think about that. Have a good afternoon. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Hello, everyone. My name is cynthia. Its an honor to be here and for you to hear my voice. Its very important for me because im a Domestic Violence survivor, and its very empowering right now. Its a dangerous situation. We need subsidies like shelters, Affordable Housing, and to support all of the nonprofits that are currently working, enough subsidies because those are the ones that deal with these kinds of problems. To me in particular, when i was on crutches, two organizations offered their handout to me with food, a space where i could go. Even though i havent yet achieved the american dream, as an immigrant and as many of us that are here today, we are in a struggle. Also as a huge Economic Contribution to this country, trust we are here today for a Better Future for this country and for our families. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. [speaking spanish language] hello. Good morning. My name is cynthia maldonado. I am the mother of two children, of four years old and nine years old. I am really concerned that they may be considering budget cuts for programs for my children. The truth is that me as a part of the community of low resources, we always need to look out that our children have the same opportunities that other children have. Its been very difficult for me because my child who is on a waiting list for preschool has not attended it. But thanks to programs like la raza and others, they have helped me help him, and they have helped prepare him for kindergarten. I ask you to please keep in mind our comments and our needs as a community. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. [speaking spanish language] good afternoon. My name is carmen rodriguez. I am a latin mother from with a children that are 10 years old, 3 years old, and 7 years old. In particular, la raza has been helpful to me for having support for my family. And with the fact that they are in an education program, i have been also able to enroll them in other programs, as well. And i would like to see that other families can also enjoy the benefits of these programs like i have enjoyed. Like my colleague said before me, it is very helpful for us to receive assistance with food as well as with health care. And i would like to see your support so that many other families can benefit from these programs. Thank you, thank you, thank you. [speaking native language] [inaudible] to lowincome seniors. Lets look at the citys housing portal. This year, so far, there were over 40 Affordable Housing opportunities. Only three of them are Senior Housing. [please stand by] the income is usually around 800, we need truly Affordable Housing area the resources that the city has put into developing Senior Housing is far from enough. Among the low income population, 24 of them, the city only both 12 of resources under Senior Housing. And now we cannot even reach the threshold to apply for Senior Housing. At the same time, fund and support program to make Senior Housing truly affordable to low income seniors area thank you. Good afternoon supervisors, member of the committee. I represent affirmative action, we are here to ask that you include our budget requests for noncitizen voting are reachable. We are very thankful for our inclusion in the draft spending plan. There is no doubt that immigrants, no matter what our statuses are that we are under attack. Just in the last week, you have seen how the c3 has unleashed a new wave of terror that has impacted our immigrant families, threatening largescale deportation and major us cities and shooting hours to get we want to acknowledge and thank all of the Community Members who came out today as a demonstration of political courage and for their ability to release the couch and participate in this civic activity on the budget process area this is a testament to our work. This is what we are trying to accomplish when we are saying that we connect with the community they are engaged and trust communitybased organizations who engage in service provision, Community Education and civic leader to be able to overcome the panic and activate their political power. We appreciate we would like for this committee to fully fund our collaborative that goes towards seven organizations to do this work in a multilingual and multiethnic matter. We have demonstrated our track record serving 60,000 san franciscans in the last year and connected immigrant families to key services. Now is not the time to back out of the cities invest for immigrant safety nets. Now is the time to honor what we mean when we say we are a century city. We will protect, and safeguard, not just immigrant life but safeguards as well. Thank you very much, next speaker please. Hi, i am a parent to two children living in San Francisco. I am also a migrant parent working with chinese for affirmative action. In last years election, in november, for their specialist, went to school with the immigrant communities to raise awareness of immigrant voting and to conduct Community Education. We were able to reach more than 1000 chinese immigrant parents. I want to take this time to share my experience working with immigrant parents. From the. Of may to november 2018, as part of our outreach team, the five of us reach out to primarily chinese immigrant Community Centers and schools to ask wayne voting in the unified school to erect and basic information. Especially in the chinese speaking community. More importantly, we wanted to ensure that immigrant parents are aware of the right they have as to get parents engaged in schools, no how the schools of function in School District in their own communities area communities. I believe we are aware of the existence of immigrant families in the city. Many. Chose not to exercise the rights assigned. Some of the reasons behind them, i believe, are the same one m impacting immigrant parents in the unified School District the language barrier, cultural barrier, to name just a few. The more alarming one is what we are in today. Our work is not only to educate parents about the right but to empower them. Please show your support to immigrant parents and communities across the city i am a parent to three children, i am also a specialist with chinese affirmative action. Like we heard earlier, last year i went along with a team of specialists i go to different schools to reach out to different immunity members of the School District to talk to them about the right, and their access, to voting right, as immigrant parent. We informed them the right to participate in the School District and to, to encourage them to participate in the schools, and to care for the community they are in and also the schools that they are part of. I am also among them as an immigrant parents. I also get to understand my rights and to be able to fully participate in this effort. I would like to urge the board of secure supervisors to continue supporting immigrant parents voting collaborative with full funding so we continue to do this work. Thank you. Thank you, next acre please read next speaker please. My name is ivy, im also parent to two Young Children here, and i am also a member of the specialist team. During the election last round along with my team we went to schools to read, speak to immigrant parents, and their schools and reach over 1000 chinese speaking parents to listen to their opinions about the school. As you know, San Francisco is a city made of many immigrants. Its not that parents do not want to participate in voting, there are one too many barriers that exist for them like language and cultural barriers. In this atmosphere today, there are many reasons impacting their decision. Our outreach effort is not just on educating and informing people of their rights to participate for election, but also recognize that there are many ways to participate in the community and encouraging them to do so. I would like to urge the board of supervisors to continue supporting immigrant families in our community, by restoring full funding for us to continue to do this work and continue to speak to immigrant parents about their rights. Thank you. Next speaker, please area please. My name is amy, im also a specialist with chinese for affirmative action with her daughter that also goes to school in San Francisco. Last year, i also went along with my team to go to Different Community to talk about noncitizen voting at the school and the Community Spaces area one of my personal experiences, we went to the school and it was the first time that the parents, and also the teachers, at that school that have heard about noncitizen voting to know they have the right to participate in different meetings and also be able to vote. The parents and teachers walked us to the door and passionately thanked us for coming to the school to speak to them that day. Really encourage us to come here to educate them about the right and opportunity to participate. This outreach effort is especially needed by the newly arriving chinese leaking immigrant. They dont really know what resources are available to them. We really want to use this opportunity to encourage that we can instill the full fund inc. For us to continue to work area thank you. Next speaker, please area my name is chris and i, i am also a parent to a young daughter. Im also an immigrant parent with chinese for affirmative action. San francisco is a city of immigrant. Many parents opted to not participate with the school board, where the activities in the school, for the reason, similar to what a lot of folks have already mentioned area my language barrier and cultural barrier. [speaking spanish language] especially in this time its, its really impacted their decisionmaking. Our work is not to only educate the parents but to empower them to participate in the civic process area we hope that the board of supervisors will support immigrant families to fully restore the funding. For us to continue outreach in the communities in education effort to inform people of their rights. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next acre, please. Good afternoon, my name is norma garcia. I am here also to call on you to support the full funding of the immigrant parent voting collaborative. As you have heard from him of the work of the collaborative is powerful. We are empowering the community by developing community leadership. Lets not forget, the city of San Francisco voters approved proposition and in 2016. We have an obligation to fulfill that mandate of the voters, and make sure that all of our citizens are fully informed of the opportunities on the risks associated the implementation of noncitizen voting we cannot tread lightly here. We need to make sure that the work of this collaborative is fully funded, because peoples lives, their freedom, their ability to participate pacifically is all at stake, if we dont do this right. I want to just remind everyone about the value of voting, its all right that we all hold near and dear, and the value of public anticipation, there really is no equal. Its really important that we follow up on our commitment to fully fund the immigrant parent voting collaborative work area thank you very much. Thank you. Next beaker. Next speaker. Good afternoon supervisors, jessica lehman. I know it is a long day. I want to thank you for listening carefully to people to speak their voice on Budget Priorities get we know San Francisco is a wealthy city. We need a just budget for all. One that prioritizes generalized communities. Including seniors, people with disabilities, lgbt, etc. Seniors and people with disabilities need to use necessities. There is the senior operating subsidies that pres. Tron 11 have worked on to make sure Senior Housing becomes affordable. We also need to continue and expand the portable tenant base senior and disability rental sub these that have been working so well to make sure that when a person is hit with a rent increase that they are able to pay in their home. We know finding a new place, unaffordable place is not an option. We also, of course, need sub these for homeless families. We hope you will prioritize these area seniors and people with disabilities need more Community Connector program, technological help at home. These are all about reducing isolation, which is a major cause of death. Not to mention the impact of the rest of our community when we do not get to be in contact with other seniors and people with disabilities get the current proposed spending plan is a start. As the pot grows and you determine your district ask, please ir ties as from the budget justice coalition. This is what Community Members have asked for and what we need. And we deserve to be cared heard. Next beaker, these. Good afternoon, we are here representing senior and disability action. We are asked and you to fund the senior disability budget acts, but particularly the rents of these that people have talked about. People with disabilities. We have seen so many of our members who are able to answer go, because of Affordable Housing for seniors. That in foods members like therese area these are the people that built san fran disco and made it the great city that it is and we want our members to continue to be able to live here most of their families and communities area thank you. 1016 next speaker, please get good morning. My name is almon, coming back for a second time here representing mission graduates. There are two points i would like to make today around immigrant voting. One is we have a twoyear contract with you all. It dates you are going to fund it, and fully funded. I want to name them. The second part is, this is a good invest and, and you know, as san fran disco continues to build trust around different immigrant communities, we want to foster civic participation, many of the collaborators and partners you heard from have really deep ties to the community. They are really essential to this work, is ashley with the 2020 census coming. When we look at the longterm, and how much information and education we want to get out to our immunity, this is a key time in San Francisco, over the next 10 years, this is all around hardtoreach communities to get i just really want to stress that, that it might as if its only for this purpose of voting within the School District, but it is actually much larger than that. Thank you. [speaking foreign language] my name is norma and i am part of the parent program. I am a mother whose mother is to form inform other parent of information. And our rights. 1920s six immigrant but was already implemented. In 2000 and continue throughout other cities area in washington, boss none other cities area the people before us have left us and we continue to fight. It was not fair to them and it is not fair to us area paying taxes and not being able to have a voice, democratic voice for everyone. To have the right to vote, it motivates us to feel more at home, and to be able to advocate for the education of our children. [speaking native language] we want to continue with the process of immigrant voting. Since 50 years ago [speaking native language] think to these type of fund, we can continue to do this work. [speaking native language] to reach every parent with the objective of raising their knowledge around immigrant voting. [speaking native language] and the empowerment of families, without us worrying about our immigrant status. Continue contributing to our cities in different ways. And around the participation that the sick of education of our children. With the help of immigrant voting, leaving a legacy for our children. And for all of the youth to leave a Better Future for them. Better job, better salaries, and a better style of life. Educating the community [speaking native language] strengthening the voice of our community. Promoting democracy. With the immigrant vote area that we we are able to say that the power of immigrant Civic Engagement [speaking native language] there is so much to say, but the most important thing is to continue to help our youth. Thank you. Good warning, my name is josefina. I am also a mother leader here in San Francisco. Supporting immigrant voting. [speaking native language] within the last five years, i have had the privilege how families dissipate more. One another communicating, their voice. We get information, and we get involved area so that folks can hear our voice. And take us into account. And to be able to participate in all of the decision, no matter how tall they