Suffering, including during this, yet another christmas season. Please work harder. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is lisa. Im a proud district 5 resident. And im here on behalf of my friends and neighbors and as a board member of the Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition to thank supervisor brown for her Wonderful Service for district 5. She has always led with her heart and with her head as a pragmatic progressive. We are so thankful for everything shes done for our district, for district 5 and advocating for the people who are most vulnerable in securing Affordable Housing for those who need it and honestly, every weekend and weeknight, just picking up the trash and cleaning up graffiti, talking with everybody and really making connections with everybody in our district. We are so appreciative. And we will really miss supervisor vallie brown. Thank you for your service. Thank you. Next speaker. My, im kathy. Im coming to talk about city colleg
Here and i would really, really hope that, you know, any of us who are qualified to be able to serve on the seat and i will be so happy. Jennifer is great. Ive been watching her and shes my neighbor. A lot of people, william, who couldnt be here. And anybody who could serve, i would love it, with all of the qualified people. But if i could have that chance, i would be more than happy to give of myself to do this work. Anybody have any questions . Im so nervous. [ laughter ] youre all do such a great job. No reason to be nervous. Are there any questions . No, it was perfect, thank you so much. And next is charelle jackson. I know its just passed thanksgiving so happy thanksgiving. Ive been doing any soulfood cooking. I have a fasters degree in political science, Public Policy and i have a bachelors degree in psych and sociology and i work for connor house, a nonprofit organization. We serve Mental Health and Substance Abuse as well as supportive housing, as well as i work on the health
Im a long time resident of district 5, i to california in 1947, and i watched all the things that have happened over the years. Met anyone who cared so much to pick up the garbage, to pick up the people, try to find places for people to live, try to help all of us to develop new relationships and understanding here in our district. And i would like, again, to thank you so very much for what you have done. I want to say, im with you all on the city college. But i came here to talk about the Reparations Initiative. And i also came here to not necessarily talk about racism and those type of things, but to talk about acknowledgement and being overlooked. Most of the time when black people are hired, you know, except for franklin, most of the time when black people are its about us struggling against something and fighting some oppression, but you never acknowledge this, and i understand the city, you never acknowledge this for our contribution. We actually contributed to the fabric of this
It did take a village. I was really lucky when i was 14 years old to get an internship. The difference that it made for me is i had a job, but there were other people who didnt have a job, who, unfortunately, needed money. And they were shown to commit illegal acts to get money. That is what i want to prevent. [ ] today we are here to officially kick off the first class of opportunities for all. [applause]. Opportunities for all is a program that mayor breed launched in october of 2018. It really was a vision of mayor breed to get to all of the young people in San Francisco, but with an intention to focus on young people that have typically not being able to access opportunities such as internships or workbased learning opportunities. Money should never be a barrier to your ability to succeed in life and that is what this program is about. Theres always these conversations about young people not being prepared and not having experience for work and if they dont get an opportunity to wo
Neighborhood commercial districts would not be part of the vacancy tax if it is passed by the voters, and the merchants of bernal and the portola who responded to quickly to confirm that they indeed do support this action, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor stefani . Thank you. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you. I have three items that we will be introducing today. For the first, along with my cosponsors, supervisor mar and supervisor haney, im introducing a supplemental budget appropriation ordinance to help restore the 300 classes proposed to be cut for the spring 2020 semester. I know firsthand how important city college is [applause] [gavel]. Supervisor walton i know firsthand how important city college is to San Francisco. Every year, thousands of district 10 residents and san franciscans across the city rely on city college and its various programs for jobs and skills trai