Domestic violence problems. Thank you. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you for your time this afternoon. My name is bill hirsch and im the director of the Referral Panel in San Francisco. I want to make a couple of points. First of all, sometimes advocates are often accused of being selfserving in these hearings. I think it is important to remember that sometimes the communities that we are speaking on behalf of do not have a voice in the budget process. That is reflected unfortunately in the document that we see this year. Time and time again we do not see the priorities identified by Community Members reflected in the budget documents. I just want to point out 2 compelling need that were not addressed in the mayors Budget Proposal. The first is full funding for implementing prop f, the civil right to counsel. People do not anticipate the need for an attorney. Once they get an eviction notice i can assure you that becomes a compelling need. We did not see any additional funding to implement the measure how we ask your support of the proposal. The other item i would like to draw attention to is the very compelling Mental Health needs of long term hiv survivors there are many studies which document Mental Health needs of this community. There have been many public forms in San Francisco which have tried to draw attention to this compelling need. We are asking for 500,000 in order to continue an initiative that the supervisors into the budget this past year. 500,000 to continue services that have just initiated in this current fiscal year. It would be terrible for us to do continue services which have just been launched. Thank you for your time, and your consideration. Thank you very much. I am caesar, when i was a youth, and i was homeless. The larkins was there for me serving younger than 18 up to 24. This shelter was healthy and safe. I am here because many of my friends are will in shelters, navigation center. Unfortunately, they are not white as safe and healthy as the larkins shelter was also, the navigation centers, the intake assessed is a bit of a barrier, just to get into the navigation center. I think that is somewhat discriminatory. I said arent funding doctrines services for People Living in an able housing unit they must also fund sex Worker Services a lot of work has been introduced, i support that. Want to see the graham expanded citywide. As an hiv positive person i was fortunate enough to nullify for hiv transitional housing. Transitional housing should be available to all San Francisco regardless of the hiv status. As i said, the adult shelter has a huge waitlist and it is not safe and can deteriorate a persons health. Im also supporting funding inspections of the Health Center and conflict resolution training for staff that are working population. I am forever thankful to the department of San Francisco labor standards enforcement as well as many nonprofits like st. James infirmary, larkins become a positive Resource Center for helping me become housed and to stay housed area it takes public, private and nonprofit investment to solve homelessness area speaking of public investment, we cannot wait for the public bank we needed to launch this year. It has to happen. With the public bank we can invest in offering rental security deposit. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please area good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to address you today. I represent the nonprofit supply bank. Org which is one of the San FranciscoBudget Coalition in the city of Sanford Cisco for the last nine years i am here to reiterate my request your support to restore funding for the kid to college program. This program was funded by the city for more than eight years and has served 13,000 low income students. This includes hundreds of low income rodents in district 8, and district to and thousands of low income students and three, nine, 10 and 11. As noted in the material shared, an investment of 300,000 per year from the city would provide school and hygiene applies valued at more than 800,000 every year because of the food bank model and well established supply chain. We need your support and leadership to continue the progress we have made with this grant and for the thousands of childrens and families that have depended on it throughout the city for years the thank you for your time and could generation. And consideration. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is jacqueline jones, the executive director of next village San Francisco which is an organization that helps seniors and district 2 and three age in place with the help of volunteers to get we also combat social isolation by having events for them. We are also a member of the Budget Justice Coalition and this year we requested 50,000 to help us continue our work. We have, for example, a member in district 2 named marianne who weighs 67 pounds on his two week to get to the store. She did not qualify for help from the city even though she is on limited income and she hired a personal caregiver to take care of that responsibility for her. Unfortunately it was 51 to have the caregiver bring her the groceries each week, the total cost of the groceries was 22. So a neighbor told her about next village and we are providing her with two volunteers who take care of those task for her, and also she now has companionship that she did not have before she had it. There is hundreds of examples of that kind of work that is being provided. This is a new piece of a continued of longterm care and i hope gov. Newsom can can use it in his master plan. You so much. Thank you very much. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to eat. Im the Business Manager [inaudible] we are advocating for the violence against women funding. I cant help to think as i sit here and listen for the last two hours, that all of the need tier on the city i dont think we are anymore than anyone else. Its not just about money. Its really about heart that is left in the city. Because, all of these people represent that heart. Are we going to fund it or not . Can we keep it . I know at our agent, 75 of our budget goes to these people who are living at wages where they cannot afford to live in the city. Another 15 for occupancy. What is really left . I know we are not alone. All the agencies you collaborate with, all of the agents as you have heard the car facing the same thing. In your overall budget, are you going to focus on heart . This is the heart that you are seeing today. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your time. Good evening, supervisors are you my name is jesse stout i live in district 6. I am here with part of the Budget Justice Coalition. We have just heard for several hours that the city has many unfounded budget needs social services that are important to us including Mental Health, housing. You as the supervisors in the Budget Committee have made an important decision to make. Where will the money come from . Well, we are here to propose that we can close agency bryant, cj for houses and people every day. The city administrator says it needs to close by this year in order to prevent those hundreds of people from dying in our next earth. The city jail population overall in San Francisco is 25 traditional aged youth that is young people in the jail. 30 use jail Mental HealthCare Services area people that need better provide for out here in the community. 40 homeless at the time of arrest. 2 in five people were arrested when they were homeless area perhaps most appallingly, 52 of our gel population is africanamerican, i would also like to note that 82 of San Franciscos jail population today is pretrial. Less than 1 5 of the people in our gel have been convicted of a crime for what they are there for. Most people in San Franciscos jail are there because they are too poor to afford their bail bond. If San Francisco can provide housing, healthcare, education, Mental Health services for people so they did not end up in our gel, that we could save 24 million a year. 3 million on the sheriff over time at 850 bryant. I would ask you to please county jail 4 instead of failing to find any of these important services. Thank you. Good evening, supervisors get Peter Papadopoulos with the Mission Academic development agency. Im going to highlight one item and to ask acts of it that you have in your Budget Proposal here and then i want to urge them overall action. We know in communities Like Commission and others we have been advocating strongly for more Affordable Housing and particularly not particularly making headway on our senior Affordable Housing which is critical. We also know and are very aware and you have heard from folks that this is not necessarily housing that seniors can afford. Many of them as it currently stands, so we would very much urge you to some part of the proposal, because we think it is going to be necessary to make a structural and longerterm change to the base of the power looking at this Affordable Housing as we go forward, what is that groundwork that we are looking at is it over a longer term so we know we have that Playing Field to look at. At the same time we do think we are going to continue to need to expand these elements of tenantbased subsidies so that we look at what the overall framework of a Company House of functioning, and how will we be make sure that those seniors who need deeply Affordable Housing are going to be able to sustain those units over the longer term. Lastly, we have heard so many folks today speak passionately, and eloquently about these needs we are facing. At united save the mission, and other groups would continue to encourage you, and the city, to grow what would really be a city equity framework. How do we move from a planning stage, like the office we have for a new commission . Thank you very much area debbie lerman, Human Services network with a Budget Services coalition. Im here to talk about nonprofit workers this body has passed legislation to raise the minimum wage for city contract employees, 1650 16. 50 if the city doesnt fund the cost the mandatory increase will create an unsustainable situation that will destabilize Nonprofit Service writers, threatening job, and program. Nonprofit need to provide consistent raises for all of their workers you responded by creating working group to address wage compression and wage equity, and also by passing a resolution saying this is a priority. After analyzing the data, the working Group Recommended an allocation of 27 million for the mco. Enough to provide a modest one dollar per hour rate to all San Francisco workers at city funded nonprofit making up to 30 per hour. We appreciate that the mayor funded 3. 3 million per year, and that the board is considering more. That is only 1 8 of the need. That is enough for workers making up to 20 per hour, 42,000 a year. Median rent on a one bedroom apartment is 44,000 year. Nonprofits to cover the cost of the necessary and reasonable vertical Wage Structure and to pay employees who do not happen to be paid with city general fund dollars to get i challenge you, supervisors, how can sentences go depend on the Nonprofit Sector to provide Frontline Services in limit of growing recruitment and retention crisis . When will the city get serious about breaking the funding model that does not cover the cost of professional Service Contract . Why is it okay to pay desperate wages to City Employees and nonprofit workers doing the same job . Thank you very much. Good evening, supervisors. I live and work is when the mission neighborhood. I wish for the Mission Economic development agency. The San Francisco latino parity and coalition. Im here to urge you to support our collect of Budget Priorities areas typically, the expansion of integrated community model, to the proper neighborhoods which will serve 1900 students. We provide a comprehensive integrated framework of cradle to career Wraparound Services our model works because we actively with schools and Early Learning centers. Your support of our proposal will provide Mental Health consultation support services to use, prekk Transition Services family case management, transition to college and career, retention and Reentry Services get thank you, and we value your partnership. Thank you very much. Thank you, supervisors, what is now a very, very long day. I am jordan decker. The executive director of trans hartline. We are located on the campus of San Franciscos theological sanctuary. We are a safe post op recovery house folks having gender affirmation surgery. It is a very needed service area we would just like a place at the table. Were not even ask for money today. Coming up under the guise of the cherokee nation, the chief that i grew up under said the government will give us the money, and about 20 years they will take it away. His idea is when they take it away, we should not live on their terms, we should live on our terms. We are collaborating with the bar center, we are collaborating with the center for domestic descent nonprofits and the seminary which is now becoming redmond university and also extrafood. Org. We are a nonprofit helping other nonprofits. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you for your patience, and your listing, and we are all tired and we are almost in homestretch. Emily lee with San Francisco rising. We represent low income communities of color sentences. Many of whom benefit from the benefits and programs that you heard from today. They rely on them. If these programs are not funded, literally will go homeless and not get the care they need or be able to provide for their families we are part of the Budget Justice Coalition and urge whatever you can do with the mayor to make these asks a priority. We know as our representatives inside city hall you all are working hard to make it stretch and to find every Fund Available so we can make sure our families are able to say in San Francisco. You heard a lot of people testify today, a lot of young people talking about homelessness, not being able to have a safe ways to sleep at night. One of the folks we organize with San Francisco are College Students on all three campuses get most people are surprised to find out what time College Students are also homeless. They are either couch surfing or living in their cars. [inaudible] this is an epidemic on the campus as well. Homelessness affects our farreaching all across the city. People who are full time employed, and even students. As we are working in the population to know youre doing your best to meet the needs, we are doing our best as advocates on folks in the community. We are excited to be going into this next week with you all strategizing and brainstorming how we can really cover everybody who deserves to be covered. Thank you so much. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is emberley cross, the coordinating attorney at the restraining order clinic. I want to thank you for always being supportive of the v. A. W programs that provide i also want to thank you for this, for setting aside an entire day to hear from your community, and to hear from your community for hours and hours on end area that is not easy for you. Thank you. I know you have already heard from many of the 39 programs that we funded. I know you have always heard about Domestic Violence is a Common Thread in the lives of many of the of her own liberal communities who have spoken to you today. You arty know about the connections between Domestic Violence on homelessness, Domestic Violence and child care. Domestic violence, Sexual Assault and stalking, cut across all communities and our languages, all districts, all genders, all sexual orientations, all religions, all races of it densities, everybody. Again, i know you arty know that. I just want to say again, thank you for your time and thank you for always being there for Domestic ViolenceSexual Assault and stalking survivors. Thank you very much. My name is stephanie, i am supervising attorney at the justice and Diversity FundBar Association of San Francisco. Our agency is a member of the Domestic Violence consortium and we are trying for funded. One of the things that we that is important to our funding is is important to our dv agencies. Working incredibly hard, we are working incredibly hard together. About 22,000 phone calls are made, from the san franciscans, to the community on an annual basis. For each call, that doesnt mean that they are getting one service. For instance, i represent clients in family law matter, when its related to Domestic Violence. I cant do my job without the shelters, the 24 hour hotline, the supportive services. My clients cannot fight for custody of her children if she doesnt have a place to bring her children home. Finding all of us is incredibly important. I know we are asking for something that sounds like a lot. It is over 39 programs and over 27 agencies. Each dollar means a huge world of difference to our clients. Thank you for your support in the past. You guys have been incredibly supportive of our Domestic Violence community. Thank you for that. Good evening. My name is gloria. Executive director. Im here collectively, also one of the agencies funded under violence against women and the department of status of women. We do get funding to support housing. Through the housing grant we are able to ensure that at least 16 asian immigrant women who are survivors of Human Trafficking and Domestic Violence are able to ensure that they have a stable and safe housing for at least two years. Ants, weve heard many stories about how housing can be difficult in the city of San Francisco. For all of these women to make sure that they have safe housing, many of them have been able to move forward with getting education trying to find parttime jobs, and also have, as a result, the support, we also have many stories that we can share. Most recent, in may, survivor of Human Trafficking, she graduated in a degree. Its just an inspiring story that continues to inspire myself, my staff, depending on what we do, and also thank you for giving us this opportunity to be able to continue this work. I would like to collectively ask you to fund 1. 3 million that we are asking for. Thank you. Good evening. [inaudible] im asking you to support the full budget, because it represents the needs of everyone in attendance, who are in need of counseling and support, but to look in the community in San Francisco is underserved and under resourced and lacking support. The overall number of filipinos the time by nearly 10 from 2,0002013 and continue to decline. Sustained work in the community, we see most latinos are being forced out of their longtime homes because of market rate developments causing evictions buying out landlord estimates and Security Issues due to neglect. [inaudible] several housing issues faced by filipinos in the city. The city has 10,000 limited English Speaking residents over one in four filipinos has limited english capacity. Since 2014, the filipino language has been a requested language for the city. Interpretations and translations are easily accessible. [inaudible] our Filipino Community needs more language accessible counselors. Now we only have one filipino counselor. Thank you very much. Good evening supervisors. Thank you for staying here tonight. My name is gabriel medina. The coordinator for the San Francisco parity coalition. I want to thank you for taking the time to listen to community about all of the different needs. Several leads, our coalition formed in 2016 to respond a twopronged threat, hardship that has befallen the community Filipino Community in San Francisco to displacement and the refugee crisis we have is a Great Century city here in california. Currently our organizations we represent over 21, serving 900 employees and 80,000 constituent served per year. Just asking that you support our prioritize collective impact budget. In this budget you will see, San Francisco has done a great job Funding Legal defense for our asylumseekers, california has an 820,000 case backlog. We have dph has seen an increase in refugees that are going to the emergency room getting medical care through insurance. Weve also seen asylumseekers of the california border doubled from 2,0172018. When these asylumseekers are looking for services and waiting for their cases, looking for justice. They need these essential social Services Area we also have an education ask that helps us to support newly arrived youth. We also have sustaining which is under threat which has been commercial free regarded worldwide as one of the most cultural events. Please support our ask at our sustainability for our buildings thank you very much. Next speaker. Good evening, supervisors. I know it has been a long day. I came here earlier and cannot get answer i went back to work in return. I feel it is important for me to tell you how we feel, how i feel as an executive director of the homeless prenatal program. The importance of passing the budget justice budgets. I am also here to speak on behalf of family Resource Centers. 30 years ago when i founded the homeless prenatal program, families were the Fastest Growing subset of the population. They continue to grow today. More and more families are coming in to family Resource Centers seeking services. Through the 26th family Resource Centers, we serve 15,000 children, youth and caregivers annually. As you all know, studies have shown, the early years are critical to childrens Cognitive Brain Development and call and poverty can have a longterm adverse effect. Ranging from decreased rates of High School Completion to increased rates in chronic diseases like heart disease. Family resources provide Early Intervention to families struggling with poverty and homelessness thus making it a Lasting Impact on the public health, and wellbeing of our community. Given the wealth and disparities in in San Francisco, as well as the political climate, family Resource Centers divide a critical service. Family Resource Centers are embedded in the community. They are trusted, valued places for people to go. They understand family needs, and challenges, as well as their strength and resilience. In order to break this intergenerational cycle of poverty, and family homelessness we must go upstream. Invest in pregnant moms and families with young children. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is lorenzo, i am a Community Organizer [inaudible] i have been organizing for the past 10 years. I am also a resident of tenderloin. Things i would urge for you to support, one is like the 24 hour pitstop. We know it is so important for us to have this in our neighborhood like in the tenderloins how to market. We have thousands of homeless neighbors, and 60 of them are found in the street. We know they would be like seven pitstops that would be set up. Only one would be actually 24 hours. We know that its not enough. We hope that you can find for more 24 hour pitstop. This is what we need for help, and you know, human dignity. I have been organizing and fighting, [inaudible] we were able to successfully prevent them from being affected from the housing. The only sustainable thing to do is to convert that into nonprofit ownerships. It should be owned and no big part of the nonprofit housing. I hope you will be able to support like funding more for acquisition of rent control bidding and market areas. Thank you very much. Good evening. I am sarah short. Community Housing Partnership is a housing provider. We support the Budget Justice Coalition asked, and this is why. Our residents are folks in poverty and people trying to get up out of poverty. We do a lot of work to support them to get there. All of these budget items, as requested by these Community Groups do that work helping people to address their pressing issues, and needs. Hopefully rise up out of poverty and be self sufficient members of our community. Behavioral health services, treatment services, all of the housing programs that we very much support and not only do our residents a benefit from the low income san franciscans across the Board Benefit from. Particularly, we are also a member of the treatment on demand coalition, and within the e raff funding there are specific asks around increasing treatment programs. We very much support that. We are also a nonprofit, and we are trying to make sure that our workers, too, are provided with the same types of support so they are not left out of the picture. As a member of the Supportive Housing network providers, as well as the Human Service network. They are also very concerned about the minimum compensation ordinance. We do not see it as a nonprofit issue. Thank you, sarah. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Hello, supervisors. I am here on behalf of San Francisco pretrial diversion project. My request is based on a pending decision by federal judge. Initially they were going to eliminate the bell schedule. Once they realized they illuminate the bell schedule, they discovered that people that normally would have been able to bail out would not have been able to build out. As a result requiring the city and county to process releases within eight hours. Our agency is going to be in a position where we have to go from our Current Operations from 6 am until 4 pm. A 24 7 operation of process and releases so we can meet federal requirements to get people out of jail as quickly as possible. It is a great outcome in many ways, because increasing days and means more work on our end. An increase of processing incident reports. We are all going to have to connect and meet this requirement as judgment is passed on. Meet this requirement, and having us staffing so we can operate 24 7 to process bookings as they come into county jail. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is andrew, i am a member of the Budget Justice Coalition. I am asking for your full support of the asks as they represent the needs of everyone, such as tenants living in rent control buildings. As we celebrate with your leadership, or we should thank you, we are need holding up the capacity of neighborhoods, districts to be able to compete and purchase rent control buildings and take them out of the hands of speculators and profit driven vultures. Though we already have a few nonprofits doing said acquisitions, we still need more so that neighborhoods and districts are equipped with this kind of work. Dealing with landlords selling their buildings takes a lot of labor. We need to be able to respond. With that, i urge you to support Capacity Building for project manager dedicated to the stock market so we can build our neighborhood services. We hope to be able to develop and provide this for all of these for in the future. Thank you for your time, and please support the full Budget Coalition asked. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none further comment. Now closed. I want to thank the public that came out and waited their turn to speak, to share with us their opinion about how our public money should be spent. I think today, i think i can speak for my colleagues that we all learned a lot today. Some of the testimony we heard was heartbreaking. What we did here, overall, is that the community has many needs. Anyway, thank you very much we will continue this until wednesday. Wednesdays meeting of the budget and finance committee. Any comments or questions . Seeing none. Make your motions to continue this . Do we have any other thank you very much. Thank you very much to the Budget Department on the controller. And also, especially, thank you so much to the Clerks Office and all of your staff for having this go so smoothly. We could not have done it without you. Do we have anything else . No other items. No other items. This meeting is working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city thats on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. Our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. After all, were at the meeting of land and sea. Our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and world class style. Its the birthplace of blue jeans, and where the rock holds court over the largest natural harbor on the west coast. The citys Information Technology professionals work on revolutionary projects, like providing free wifi to residents and visitors, developing new programs to keep sfo humming, and ensuring Patient Safety at San Francisco general. Our it professionals make government accessible through awardwinning mobile apps, and support vital Infrastructure Projects like the hetch hetchy Regional Water system. Our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. But most importantly, working for the city and county of San Francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the citys future. Thank you for considering a career with the city and county of San Francisco. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. By supporting local Services Within our neighborhoods, we help San Francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . My name is ray behr. I am the owner of chief plus. Its a destination Specialty Foods store, and its also a Corner Grocery store, as well. We call it cheese plus because theres a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. From fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. You can have a casual meeting if you want to. Its a Real Community gathering place. What makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, its a great pedestrian street. Theres people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. The businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. It harkens back to supporting local. Polk street doesnt look like anywhere u. S. A. It has its own businesses and personality. We have Clothing Stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. Theres a music studio across the street. Its raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. I think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. Again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, its very important that you do so. As a society weve basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people dont have any of those im mr. Cookie cant speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. Open the door and walk through that dont just stand looking out. As they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure im david one of the cofounder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didnt know how to cook. I heard about the Cooking School through the Larkin Academy a. Their noting no way to feed themselves so theyre eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. As i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. Particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is Charity Foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this Charity Foundations and she said, yes. Im a cofound and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday theyre really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city theyre our stand alone colas we had a series or series still city of Attorneys Office style of classes our final are night life diners. Santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and ive been here about a year. We want to be sure to serve as many as we can. The San FranciscoCooking School is an amazing amazing partner. It is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. Im sutro sue set im a chief 2, 3, 4 San Francisco. Thats what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like its there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. Hi, im antonio the chief in San Francisco. The majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. I like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like its a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. I go for vera toilet so someone cant do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they cant use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me youre not successful. We made a vegetable stirfry indicators hed ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen id cook more. Some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasnt taught how to cook. I have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. The more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify theyre not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. It is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. Well have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 were really excited. A lot of the of the conditions in San Francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the San Francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. Wed never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case thats something people are 2rrd in doing. You cant buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids dont have this you have to instill they can do it theyre good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for the goal is simple. Its to raise womens voices. Learn a little bit about what you should be thinking about in the future. We had own over 300 over 300 people who signed up for the oneonone counseling today. I think in the world of leading, people sometimes discount the ability to lead quietly and effectively. The Assessors Office is a big one. There are 58 counties in the state of california and every single county has one elected assessor in the county. Our job is to look at property taxes and make sure that we are fairly taxing every single property in San Francisco. One of the big things that we do is as a result of our work, we bring in a lot of revenue, about 2. 6 billion worth of revenue to the city. Often, people will say, what do you do with that money, and i like to share what we do with property taxes. For every dollar we collect in property taxes, about 68 cents of it goes to support public sstss, our police officers, our fire departments, our streets, our cleaning that happens in the city. But i think what most people dont know is 34 cents of the dollar goes to public education. So it goes to the state of california and in turn gets allocated back to our local school districts. So this is an incredibly important part of what we do in this office. Its an interesting place to be, i have to say. My colleagues across the state have been wonderful and have been very welcoming and share their knowledge with me. In my daytoday life, i dont think about that role, being the only Asian American assessor in the state, i just focus on being the best i can be, representing my city very well, representing the county of San Francisco well. By being the only Asian American assessor, i think you have a job to try to lift up and bring as many people on board, as well. I hope by doing the best that you can as an individual, people will start to see that your assessor is your elected leaders, the people that are making important decisions can look like you, can be like you, can be from your background. I grew up with a family where most of my relatives, my aunties, my uncles, my parents, were immigrants to the united states. When my parents first came here, they came without any relatives or friends in the united states. They had very little money, and they didnt know how to speak english very well. They came to a place that was completely foreign, a place where they had absolutely nobody here to help them, and i cant imagine what that must have been like, how brave it was for them to take that step because they were doing this in order to create an opportunity for their family. So my parents had odd jobs, my dad worked in the kitchens, my mom worked as a seamstress sewing. As we grew up, we eventually had a small business. I very much grew up in a family of immigrants, where we helped to translate. We went to the restaurant every weekend helping out, rolling egg rolls, eating egg rolls, and doing whatever we need to do to help the family out. It really was an experience growing up that helped me be the person that i am and viewing Public Service the way that i do. One of the events that really stuck with me when i was growing up was actually the rodney king riots. We lived in Southern California at the time, and my parents had a restaurant in inglewood, california. I can remember smelling smoke, seeing ashes where we lived. It was incredibly scary because we didnt know if we were going to lose that restaurant, if it was going to be burned down, if it was going to be damaged, and it was our entire livelihood. And i remember there were a lot of conversations at that time around what it was that government to do to create more opportunities or help people be more successful, and that stuck with me. It stuck with me because i remain believe government has a role, government has a responsibility to change the outcomes for communities, to create opportunities, to help people go to school, to help people open businesses and be successful. Make sure to be safe, and of course to have fun. And then, i think as you continue to serve in government, you realize that those convictions and the persons that you are really help to inform you, and so long as you go back to your core, and you remember why youre doing what youre doing, you know, i think you cant go wrong. Its funny, because, you know, i never had thought i would do this. I became a supervisor first for the city under very unusual circumstances, and i can remember one day, im shopping with friends and really not having a care in the world about politics or running for office or being in a public position, and the next day, im sworn in and serving on the board of supervisors. For many of us who are going through our Public Service, its very interesting, i think, what people view as a leader. Sometimes people say, well, maybe the person who is most outspoken, the person who yells the loudest or who speaks the loudest is going to be the best leader. And i think how i was raised, i like to listen first, and i like to try to figure outweighs to work with out ways to work with people to get things done. I hope that time goes on, you can see that you can have all sorts of different leaders whether at the top of City Government or leading organizations or leading teams, that there are really different kinds of leadership styles that we should really foster because it makes us stronger as organizations. Take advantage of all the wonderful information that you have here, at the vendor booth, at our seminars and also the oneonone counseling. I wouldnt be where i was if i didnt have very strong people who believed in me. And even at times when i didnt believe in my own abilities or my own skills, i had a lot of people who trusted and believed i either had the passion or skills to accomplish and do what i did. If there was one thing that i can tell young women, girls, who are thinking about and dreaming about the things they want to be, whether its being a doctor or being in politics, running an organization, being in business, whatever it is, i think its really to just trust yourself and believe that who you are is enough, that you are enough to make it work and to make things successful. Chair fewer hello, everyone. [gavel]. Chair fewer hello, everyone. I am sandra lee fewer. The meeting will now come to order. This is the june