No. We have had two short length of stay for youth who were not ready to go home or for homes we had not yet identified a safe place for them to go. We cannot extend lengths of stay for youth who had particularly complicated situations. We can no longer provide the same extent of support that we once could and our capacity is limited. When we make decisions and consider impact we need to look beyond the moment, look at the whole web and effect that one strand has on the rest. Diamond youth center is one tie of the Youth Services we have in San Francisco. I urge you to reconsider the budget cut. Enke. Thank you. Hello, my name is kyle, i am 21. Im with larkin Youth Services as a member of the youth advisory board. I am here to advocate for my Homeless Youth peers. I have noticed that we are requesting for more money, in the budget. As for Homeless Youth, i also notice in the budget a lot of the money was placed towards just homeless themselves. I feel that is grouping everyone into like 1 specific pl. In reality, there needs to be a lot more help. One in five Homeless People on the street are under 25 in San Francisco. That is kind of an issue, because us as the youth are the ones that are going to bring a change into this place. When you cut funding for us, and you lower the budget for us, and you make it harder for us to get off the streets and you make it harder for us to get out of being homeless, it really makes it seem like you are really supporting that issue. On top of that, the biggest thing i see a problem of, a lot of these people that are basically about to get booted out of the shelters are people under the age of 18. They are minors. Theyre about to be put out on the streets. The same streets that have artie had those issues. I know there is a lot of people requesting a lot of different funds and things. But, i feel as though this is something that is imperative and incredibly important. We are the people that are going to bring a change. On top of that, having more people that are minors, having more people that are younger ages on the streets creates more trauma. When you create more trauma like that, that makes it harder for the mental parts, too. That will bring it back up into that. You will see more people having Mental Health issues are more people seeing trauma from the streets. Thats all it got. Good afternoon. I am a district 9 residents and im also a parent to this dutiful child. Im here to talk about childcare slots now. As you can see, its a very important issue. Ive heard that there is no add back money for childcare slots. I would like you to consider the childcare slots that you have right now. There are over 3000 families on the weight rest right now who are waiting just like me, who are waiting just like other families who cannot work, their lives on hold because they do not have access to childcare. This is an issue that is important to all of us. Please consider childcare spots now part i want to add, i dont know if the funding got caught but i used to be a house list youth. If i didnt have the housing that they currently have now, i would have still been left on the street and i would never have been able to leave the city. Market street is one reason i am able to still live here in the city. I just want to tell you all please think about housing for young people. Childcare spots now. Add that. We are waiting. Families are waiting. Thank you. [speaking native language] good afternoon, my name is margaret and i am period motor. A promoter. I have been trained to do outreach for parents who are not citizens. [speaking native language] i am here to address the funds that are available, so that we can continue informing the community. I hope that the budget is reestablished for the collaborative. So that we can keep counting on this money. Thank you for the funds that you provide, representatives and supervisors. To the Different Community organizations. We believe in you, and thank you. Good afternoon. My name is sidney holler, im a juvenile defense attorney. I have been a member of the superior court conflict now for the past four years. It is a an honor and privilege to represent our most Vulnerable People in the criminal justice system, children accused of crime. The youngest client that ive ever had is 11 years old. I spent the weekend talking to a 13yearold who is most likely not competent to stand trial. Also working with an 18yearold for his upcoming trial, tomorrow. I really enjoy representing these young people. The vetting process to get on this panel is very rigorous and strenuous. It took me over a year to even be accepted onto this panel. I spend hours meeting with my clients explaining the criminal justice system, what the charges are, going through the evidence, the video surveillance, explaining the Juvenile Court system. Sometimes our biggest victory as when they get released from Juvenile Hall where they get that ankle monitor off. I am here to today to support full funding for the indigent complex counsel. We are asking for our counterpart the public defender and District Attorney offices. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is casey lee and i am here also to ask for full funding for the superior court indigent conflict counsel program. I was born and raised in San Francisco both in the Richmond District and San Francisco chinatown. I spent time in los angeles as a public defender. I served as a public defender in la for eight years i returned to my hometown here to work as a conflict counsel. Its the exact same type of work as a public defender, minus the recognition, minus the support staff and minus the benefits. In my eight years here, i continued on as a conflict counsel and did not apply for any Public Defenders Office because my experience has opened my eyes to the fact that the clients who cannot be represented by the Public Defenders Office still due to a conflict of interest, still deserve a robust defense. I am a certified criminal law specialist. There are only 20 of us in San Francisco. Of the 20, 10 belong to our panel. I have personally tried and one life cases and there are many more experienced attorneys on our panel. All of us choose to do this type of work as opposed to privately retained work because we believe in representing those most marginalized in our communities. We want to be able to continue doing this important work. We are asking for parity. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is brett andrews, the ceo of prc baker places. I want to thank you for your leadership throughout this budget process. I know there are many city priorities and issues we have to deal with. I appreciate your thoughtfulness and consideration as you move forward on this to your budget. It is appropriate that i go after the two attorneys, i am thinking through a racial lens here and how often so many people in our system are disproportionately represented, people of color, specifically africanamericans. I had the opportunity to see the last man in San Francisco encourage everybody to see if theres a story to be told there. I am thrilled and excited about the resources and commitment that the city has made around the expansion of beds, particularly our treatment beds. Prc baker places has 159 treatment beds, and 115 coop beds that allow our clients to move out of treatment and live healthy, Productive Lives in the community. With that, i would say we also need support of services that wrap around these clients to make sure that they have access to Financial Resources and employment resources and legal resources. I am here to encourage you to support our expansion into the healthcare programs, funding is such that were able to provide that service for the hivpositive population and we are not able to provide those services for those in Mental Health and subs abuse issues. I encourage you to look at that proposal and understand the significance of it and the seriousness of it specifically through a racial lens. 36 , of 4 of the population that africanamericans make up 36 of the homeless population. Of that 36 , 44 of them are africanamericans who have lived in the streets for over 10 years. Please if were able to provide health and Human Services through a racial lens we know we can walk and chew gum at the same time. I think you for your consideration and your support. I want to give a shout out to my sister organizations in this room. Hi, i am nathan, i am an intern at larkin street Youth Services. Im advocating for requesting additional funds for services that help end homelessness. As a young gay man i see homelessness as an issue of the lgbt community. When a gay person is about to come out to their family they do not how theyre going to react. Ive had many friends be abandoned by their families because they are gay. When they are kicked out, they may go to friends houses for a bit, hopped couch to couch and eventually when the resources are exhausted they go to the streets. Half of the Homeless Youth in San Francisco are lgbt q. If additional funds requested by larkin street are not med, 40 of beds for unaccompanied minors will be lost for the city. 12 beds will also be lost. An essential services for trans youth will be lost. Many of these i have met at larkin where discouraged when asked to speak in city halls like this. When immediate results are not seen. Youth experience and homelessness are not statistics. They are disproportionately of color and queer identities and they need specific Services Related to those identities. The Queer Community and the communities of color have helped create the culture of San Francisco. Continue to fund efforts against youth homelessness. Please increase funding for Service Providers from the bottom up. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors, i also work at larkin street youth facility. I want to thank the supervisors for their many assessments and addressing San Franciscos issues on homelessness. The youth at larkin street are some of the most vulnerable not only across the bay area but across the us. Who have been kicked out of their homes. We have youth leader families as abuse and poverty. The School System has failed many of the youth that we serve. Providing them adequate and Restorative Services like at larkin street crucial for alleviating poverty. Through larkin street there is a chance to and cycles of poverty and end our young folks from expensing longterm homelessness. We have a need for funding to specifically allocate for transitional youth who are exchanging homelessness. Youth under the age of 25 make out one of five people expensing homelessness. We cannot fully address the issue of homelessness without thinking about this vulnerable 20 that makes up the population. With our additional funds, San Francisco will lose nearly 40 of the cities total shelter beds for unaccompanied minors. 12 beds essential services for the transit youth through the housing initiative. If we want to provide these young people with their basic human rights adequate housing and shelter. We must provide it. Thank you. Hi, i am lauren babs, the director for planned parenthood of northern california. I want to thank our supporters that students for actually standing with us. We are looking for San Francisco leadership to increase safety and security at our Valencia Health center. We have seen numerous abortion men sweep this country with one goal in mind. I direct challenge to roe v wade and to ultimately have the Supreme Court make abortion and act inaccessible in this country. We have seen 16 abortion bands in the last five months. Because of this there has been volatile protester activity right in front of our health center. Our patients come to us for judgment free care and they should not have a fear while getting that care. I commend all of the San Francisco board of supervisors we have met with in the lap past few months and their willingness to keep everyone in our community safe. Thank you to the staff, as fpd, members of the attorneys office, City Attorneys Office and we strongly believe funding a Security Guard is the best pathway forward. I urge you to support this funding request to keep our patients, staff and community safe. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. I am melia chavez i am here representing two different roles. The first is cochair of the homeless emergency Service Providers association. We are also a member i wanted to say thank you, and that i admire you for having the strength to make such difficult, even impossible choices. I do understand how hard this budget process must be for you individually with all of the thoughts and time you put into providing this forum for all of us to be heard. I just want to thank you for that. A couple of things that i would really like to highlight, around our efforts. Around subsidies, really emphasizing the need for subsidies for seniors and people with disabilities as well as subsidies for families. In addition to that, increased resources for Mental Health services especially for families, and addiction prevention and rental assistance to keep people housed. My second role, as Deputy Director of the homeless prenatal program. I would like to speak out around increased need for assistance, for Family Resource centers. We are one of 26 Family Resource centers. Since the city moved to the new quarter rated coordinated system. No longer able to access those. Families that are doubled up, families living in sros and those that are experiencing housing. I asked that you please increase resources for Family Resource centers. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I am doug gary im with living innovation and support housing. Thank you to all of you for your incredible patience and work through this on the budget director and controllers, their office does great work as well. Supportive housing works and it is the answer to longterm homelessness and making sure does not happen again. The trick that the network is facing right now is that we have chronically underfunded contracts. Basically two impacts, one for the tenants we serve who are the most resilient people ive ever had the chance to work with. They need to have appropriately funded programs in order to thrive and in order to be sure that they dont have the traumatic experiences of homelessness. The other is staff who do incredible work 24 7 all over the city. We have significantly underpaid individuals who are not able to live in the city and they are commuting from very far away. They themselves, their families are living off circumstances that move people into homelessness. The compensation ordinance can go a long way, if we can get the dollar amount funded so that people in the 1650 all the way up to 25 per hour can see a bump. We think we will be able to return to the days before we had such recruiting and intention challenges. We think we can fix the cracks in the foundation of support housing. We are so grateful to your support for all of the work out there. If you fully fund the support housing, it works. Thank you so much. Hi supervisors, and department representatives. Thank you so much for being here today. Your time and attention shows a lot of commitment. My name is mary kate, i live in glen park and i work as cochair, and as director of public funding at larkin street services. I am here to talk about new and existing services that really need San Franciscos support, and your support. Propose a lot of Brilliant Service strategies that we can bring online as soon as they are appropriated. Housing, emergency services, prevention and Behavioral Health functions. I specifically want to call out and elevate youth to receive these critical youth interventions. One of five people expensing homelessness in San Francisco. My colleagues and our young people, have compellingly articulated they really intervene at a critical point in a Young Persons life. On that note, i want to express support for fully funding larkin street request. It is extremely important to Bring New Services online as soon as we can to meet the existing crisis in the streets. We have to do so on a strong foundation. Larkin streets housing portfolio provides a foundation with emergency, transitional, supportive and subsidy based beds that provides, as my colleague noted, not just beds but all of the interventions you can need to just thrive. Thank you very much for considering our request. [speaking native language] my name is mary jane, [inaudible] i am asking for you to support the coalition, because it represents the needs of everyone like families who are living in srl. With over 90 of our families making 50 of ami, the only opportunity to move out of sro is through housing voucher provided by the San Francisco housing authority. Therefore, the sro families united collaborated is asking for new housing choice voucher that will support up to 50 families to move out and 25 moving in. 100,000 for additional staffing as the sro families collaborative to support families. Thank you for your time, and again, support. Thank you so much. [speaking native language] good afternoon, supervisors. My name is mary. As you have heard today, we have a severe crisis, housing crisis. As an outreach worker and the mission im seeing firsthand the travesty that our families are suffering. We are asking for our families. We are asking for 5. 5 million for housing. That would allow for 50 families to move out of sro hotels. And 25 families that will be allowed by the moving on initiative. That will be able to move from the Housing Units with assisted living. Making room for other families that are homeless. [speaking native language] with an additional 100,000 for personal, for staff and family collaboratives. To live in the sros. To support families with the process of signing up. As well as interviews and housing searches. We need a lot of your support. To get our families out of these unhealthy hotels and unpleasant situations that they find themselves in. Thank you so much. Thank you. [speaking native language] good afternoon. Ive had the pleasure to work with families for 18 years. Families that live in the sro. I cant tell you of any group of supervisors that has left a legacy for those families. I would ask you to be that group of supervisors that leaves a legacy behind for the families that we are asking for. [speaking native language] we would like to work with you shoulder to shoulder to get our families out of the situations they find themselves in every day. [speaking native language] supervisors, dont leave just a reminder that you are a supervisor, but leave a legacy that you worked for the community and that you are thought of dearly. [speaking native language] because while i have worked with those families, those children are living in really poor conditions and i would like those children to live in dignity. I would also like to see supervisors to come and visit, to see for themselves how these families live. We would like for the children to live in dignity, to live in a clean place. They are our future. We cannot be offering our future in this kind of condition if we have nothing else to offer for the children. [speaking native language] thank you for listening to us, we will be the we believe in you and we want to believe in you. Thank you. Im here representing San Francisco youth force. Basically we go around cleaning up the city, beautifying it. Its an honor every time. Nearly 40 of the city has been unfounded because of lack of additional funds, 12 beds of transitional housing will no longer be there if funds is not met as a requirement. I believe that something should be done about this, and it should be taken care of, and things should be better and way different. Thank you. [please stand by] our primary goal is to expose youth to coding who would not otherwise have the opportunity to. Thank you for supporting mission bit. I hope to provide programming in every district in San Francisco, and in order to do that, we require more funding to expand. Please keep us in mind when allocating money to Afterschool Program in San Francisco to support our youth. In a city at the forefront of tech innovation, the opportunity to join the Fastest Growing industries must be available to all students to improve our citys economic and workforce groups for our future leaders. Good afternoon. My name is cynthia chin, and im also here on behalf of mission bit. Firstly, i would like to thank you for your support and the funding that youve provided with us. For five year, we have provided free coding lessons across San Francisco. For five years, we have given students what they need to compete for tech jobs in the worlds most influential career. Our goal is to retain the students that are already enrolled in our programs and to expand so that we can give every student in San Francisco the opportunity to pursue a career in software engineering, and we know that this is a lofty goal, considering how many students dont have lap c tops at home and have to complete homework and assignments on their cell phones. What we lack now in order to reach our goal is a space for your students to build our community. This is how we address the problem in our community thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker. [speaking spanish language] hello. My name is norma, a mother and leader in the community, a mother grateful for all of the tech technological programs that are free. I have two children that are taking these classes, which i cannot pay. Thanks to mission dev, a program that supports for students, primarily students of latin h lat latin heritage or afro american students. They help us close the gaps when it comes to technology learning, then being most affected by the displacement of families. Im asking you, supervisor, to support all the monetary recognition of these programs and the enrichment of our children so they have a better education and above all, a Better Future of having a better job and better salary. So that they can reach their goals in technology and above all in their lives because the city is very beautiful but very expensive. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is ricky pickens. I work with larkin street Youth Services, assisting with youth. Over the five years ive been with larkin street, weve helped and assisted at least 200 or more youth preparing for their careers to get into higher education, get into housing and assist them into two of the programs, which is diamond and ghouse, so i think you can help them as programs that assist them in the program. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. Cheryl adams with larkin street services. Thank you so much for your time. This is a big, big day. You hear so many important priorities, and i really appreciate your time and interest. Im going to let the words of the young people and the staff stand for the things of larkin street, and im just going to give a shout out for hspa, and those organizations that support housing and opportunities in our community, so thank you for that, thank you for hspa, and thank you for your time. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is naima [inaudible] chair fewer oh, just come on down. Okay. I was just waiting. Hi. Good afternoon. Im netty, and i am the president of the planned parenthood chapter at San Francisco state university. Working with planned parenthood has allowed me to educate myself about the services around safe sexual materials. Barriers to access prevents people from receiving necessary care which harms the community. We must do better for our community members. The antichoice harassment invades the personal safe and privacy of the patients. I myself am at planned parenthood. I can imagine how uncomfortable it is for those trying to receive the Many Services that planned parenthood survive. Intrusive interactions are the very things that cause someone to not enter. I urge the board of supervisors to fund a Security Guard to ensure Patient Safety during heightened protesters periods. Thank you for your time. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is keith robert. This is the first time ive ever used that name to announce myself but ive recently come out as transgender. As a transgender personal, ive experienced a lot of hatred towards myself in my life, but planned parenthood was somewhere i could go to get safe and solid health care. When one of my younger relatives behave pregnant under horrible circumstances, she decided to have an abortion, and when she went to the clinic to have this treatment done, not only was she harassed and dehumanized, but she was threatened, and that was a horrible experience for her and for me to have to watch, and she grew up with that on her conscience, and her heart, and i believe that that experience is still with her today. Thats completely not something that she should have ever had to deal with or something that anybody else should ever have to deal with. Its completely unacceptable. This community is so strong and has such a phenomenal idea of progressive and forward thinking ideals and thinking and ideas that i embody. You as leaders that have created this environment can help us create an environment where we all thrive. By putting a Security Guard outside the San Francisco clinic it ensures that me, my family, and people that come after me feel safe and secured in our community. Thank you so much for your time. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoonevening. My name is claudia, and i am the president of the chapter of planned parenthood of San Francisco state university. This organization has allowed me to give back to the community that i moved here that welcomed me with open arms. At times when i have shown up to work at the health center, ive experienced individuals trying to make me feel shame for the type of work that im doing at planned parenthood . Im at extra high alert when protesters are present, especially during high protesting times, especially during the last lent period. Someone followed me until i was at the door, and im shaking as im talking about it. I had to take a deep breath, and calm myself and try to get myself together, and thats something no one should experience as theyre trying to get services at planned parenthood. It is important to me that my peers, young people in need of quality and Affordable Care are able to access the needed services of planned parenthood without the threat of violence. I ask for the funding of a Security Guard to assist during these times of heightened violence. Thank you for your time, have a great day. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Do in my position is help victims access justice by accompany them to the police station, acting as their support station and making sure that their right to an interpreter is honored by Law Enforcement. This often involves waiting for hours with a victim and her children until an officer is able to sit with her to take her report, hours she would not be likely to wait if she did not have an advocate there to make her feel safe. I know youre all aware of the homicide for Domestic Violence victims. The work of Domestic Violence agencies in San Francisco is really homicide prevention, helping victims and their children escape from the violence in their lives, and helping victims feel safer for reaching out to Law Enforcement when they need it. I know you all support the work of Domestic Violence agencies in San Francisco, and we appreciate your continued budgetary support. Thank you so much for your time. Chair fewer thank you. Next s next speaker, please. 42 of Asian Pacific islanders in San Francisco live in poverty. A third are seniors. Selfhelp for the elderly is a Community Organization serving over 45,000 seniors a year. Today, we are requesting help for our 3133 taraval location. Because of the growing need for services in the park side neighborhood, our existing senior south side locations are unable to expand our services to meet this need. For example, our meals program, champs, continues to grow with over 2,000 seniors attending who may need other services and never accessed ageing services before. Fortunately, our donor donated a home at 3133 taraval street into a center to serve seniors with a focus on asian immigrant seniors and other seniors on the south side of San Francisco. We are requesting for 3 million to complete this facility and to help more seniors. Thank you very much for your time today and your consideration. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker. Hello, brenda. Thank you for listening to us. Thank you for missing lunch. I am here for first voice. We present, produce and perform the stories and praise songs of our people. My grandfather was a founder of japantown in the 1800s. My grandmother was a leader of the chinatown the first chinatown garment union. The work that we do is deeply rooted in San Francisco, all of San Francisco. Were considered thought leaders in the arts field, nationally, regionally and locally. We gave the National Address to the state of utahs annual arts complex. Im a Committee Member of apapa 2020, held in new york. Its the largest convening of arts producers in if the english in the English Speaking world. We do this because we know from our work nationally that artists of color must not be marginalized. We must be made part of americas culture and identity so we can ultimately impact her psychology to embrace all of us who live her. 45, the number live here. 45, the number of artists that weve produced here. 1,000, the number of people this year including women in recovery, seniors who took classes, rehearsed or performed in our studio in the Richmond District. 2021, the year we premier and tour a new work about San Francisco commissioned by the hewlett and commissioned by the art fund. We pass forward her history, the people who guilbuilt and ft for this children. We are a member of the a. P. I. Council. Although we have funding and grants. We are asking for 22,500 to help us with organizational support. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you, brenda. Next speaker, please. Hello. I work at lyric which supports lgbt and trans youth. I am calling on the board of supervisors to show their support. The lyric fellowship is about growing leadership to ensure that lgbt and trans youth have a voice to impact their lives. We are asking you to continue fulling lyric at the full ask of 200,000. The majority of fellows and people of color who live with disabilities, two thirds have experienced violence in the past year. A third struggle with addiction and none have finished college. We have an obligation to uplift trans young adults who are at a critical moment in development, both in terms of being transgender and in terms of transitioning into adulthood. Lyric fellows are already a part of supporting their community. Theyve worked on trans and youth elder brunch. One is a youth commissioner. Another recently got signed to a hiphop label. Another created a short film that aired last weekend. One is a member of the justice coalition. We ask the supervisors to affirm the Budget Justice Coalition ask. Thank you so much. Chair fewer thank you. Good afternoon. My name is joejoe. Im on the Trans Committee for the Mayors Office on trans initiatives, and impart of the lyric fellowship for youth, and i still access their services today. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is michelle carington. I am a lifer in bayview, and i am a member of local 261. I am here to speak on behalf of open door legal. Open door legal i was a client five years ago when they first came to my community, a community where had no legal help whatsoever as far as housing, evictions, whatever the case was. We had no help. These were two people who graduated from law school who chose out of all the opportunities in San Francisco, to help in the Bayview Community bayviewhunters point community, and they have been a god send. We are now reaching out to expand our services, free level and Civil Services to excelsior and to the fillmore districts. This money i feel will be very well spent in helping us do this expansion and help people like they helped myself and many others here in my community. I am now a threeyear board member, and i am on the westbrook apartments tenants association. Im the treasurer. So i dont know what to say about this organization, but they have been a god send, so i appreciate you listening to us and hope that you will consider us on the budget. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is claudia, and i am going to talk in behalf of open door legal, as well. I had a case with them. I am a witness of what they can do for someone that needs legal help. I my kids were really complicated because it involves different type of things like Domestic Violence, restraining order, homelessness, and also i was about to lose my kids, and i was i came to hope door legal, like, two, three days before think child they took my kids, and they did an amazing job. After looking for help for more than five organizations that we have in San Francisco, the day that i came to open door legal, i obviously had no hope, but i had it in my mind that maybe i was not going to be turned away like the other organizations, but open door legal did not do that. They took my situation and they helped me, and they were very, very effective on everything that they did. Im a witness that they worked overnight to have a you know, to win my case. And not only that, they changed my whole career. They helped me get my house back, helped me get my kids back, which is really important in my whole life. I would like to say it would be a really big blessing if you guys keep supporting and funding this organization that has been so much help for bayview. Ive been living in bayview for more than 18 years and have never seen a group that works like that with that passion, and its young people that they really want to do good with the community. Thank you so much. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker. Bless you. Hi. My name isle lina, and im her on behalf of open door legal, as well. Im a former client, as well, and i cannot express to you the Great Service that open door legal has provided for me and my family. Beyond just me and my family, ive also seen the work that theyve done within the community. And if i tell you ive lived in San Francisco all my life, and there has been multiple opportunities that i have given to the legal system in my case of Families Court as well as dealing with unfairness, being a tenant within San Franciscos judicial system. And i most definitely believe that they come from more than just a legal background, they come from a heart of justice. They believe in advocating and doing things for people that no one else in this community does. No one else in San Francisco even tries to take the opportunity to put themselves and place themes in the shoes of their and place themselves in the shoes of their client. I am asking you guys to please, please, please fund them because their so many people that have there are so many people that have cases like me and claudia and have gone unnoticed. And im advocating for, and im telling you with my whole heart, i am i believe in them with my whole heart, more than i can tell you in two minutes. But please believe that these people are genuinely involved in truth and justice for all. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Well, good afternoon. My names adrian. Im the executive director and cofounder at open door legal. We are an Award Winning nonprofit pioneering the truth that everybody is more access if youre able to access the law. When we opened in 2013, homelessness declined 56 or 65 . Weve documented a 21 1 social return on investment and returned millions of dollars in cancelled debt and damages to very lowincome individuals in district 10. Other research has demonstrated that each legal aid attorney has eigh