Take a minute to encourage you to please approve all the supplemental programming. We are a web of services ranging from the District Attorneys efforts down through the civil courts or up through the civil courts depending how you rate your civil courts. With the Legal Services specifically, i just wanted to legality you know that the funding that would come to us to volunteer Legal Services program would fund legal representation for mono lingual women who are victims of [tkroeufpls ]. Domestic violence. And they are often involved in custody matters in which they have no access to the civil court simply because they do not speak english and were able to provide them with an attorney and interpreter, who can stand beside them as they must go up against their abuser to ensure that they retain custody of their children. What you may not know is that often abusers use the civil legal system as another way to continue the abuse of a women who has already obtained a restraining order again
Those show up in court. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon a anna flores the codirector of muhas. So we wanted to touch a little bit on the decline or the decrease of calls to the police to Domestic Violence because a lot of it due to the Political Climate that is happening. We know when a woman is afraid to call the police, it increases the level of violence in the home and a lot of this is due because of the policy of secure communities where women are afraid to call the police, but luckily we have been able to work directly with the d. A. s office and have a legal advocate present at our office, once a week, which has really helped to connect the women with Legal Services. And finally we would like to thank the other organizations that we work with that help us provide Legal Services directly to the women that we work with. Thank you. Thank you, before i call the next speaker i have a few other cards, if you want to line up. [ reading speakers names ] next speaker, in any order
National organization of women. The resolution im introducing today will request that San Francisco become a member of cavo and join efforts to make open source voting a reality. Thank you, madam clerk. Thank you, supervisor wiener. Supervisor avalos. Thank you, madam clerk. A couple items for introduction. One, the first one is related to our efforts around Climate Change, which is actually one of the most serious issues that face the world if not the most serious issue that faces the world this century. Today im introducing an ordinance for gas stations to post labels on gas pumps to [speaker not understood]. This is an initiative created by 350 bay area. They are calling it beyond the pump. The Berkeley City Council is also considering requiring these label. We continue to work on collective solutions to Climate Change like promoting transit and cleanpowersf, we can also encourage people to take individual action. Putting information labels on gas nozzles would remind each of us tha
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Taken care of during the criminal Justice System as we move through the criminal proceedings. I think its very important that that portion of the appropriations also be supported. Back to you, mr. Chair. Thank you, president chiu. Colleagues any other questions of staff . Seeing none, i will open it up to public comment. I have a number of speaker cards. If you want to fill out a speaker card, we have them available here. Otherwise you can line up after these folks are called. So if you will speak in this order [ reading speakers names ] good afternoon, supervisor, ads serves survivors of Domestic Violence and other forms of violence against women and both trafficking within our shelter, as well as for outside clients. Most of our [speaker not understood] we see women on the streets and living in cars and they need to be brought into shelters and greeted with appropriate services. And recently i watched a survivor and her children playing a game of tag in the backyard and i reflected o