One specific thing. Our department has been involved in with many others building city academy which is helping many young people of color get into the Building Trades and weve been working with trustee Chris Jackson and folks in the neighborhood. Im replicating that model with culinary Hospitality Training program that will bring young folks into the neighborhood into the culinary and hospitality industry. We cant do that without a Community Trustee who speaks of and for that community. Mr. Ar dwell a doesnt know that community. We need our elected board back. Thank you so much. Thank you, mr. [speaker not understood]. applause i have three more names. Martin [speaker not understood]. Tomasita [speaker not understood]. And alisa messer. My name is martin trinidad lopez [speaker not understood] and i served four tours of duty in iraqi freedom as a sergeant in the United States army. As a math major applause and elected student ar and chicano resident, it is a shame our noncredit educat
Undocumented status. It is very, very difficult for this community to go to school. I find it ridiculous that the administration is not holding up the values of this city. Theyre basically saying, yes he, you can come to this city and we allow you to work, but in this [speaker not understood] youre not allowed to be educated. This administration has to get rid of [speaker not understood]. Thank you. Thank you. [cheering and applauding] thank you. Thank you, lalo, for your leadership. Next speaker. Hello, my name is carlos reyes. I am currently a student at the mission center. I am an immigrant and [speaker not understood]. About the values of Lifelong Learning education and it what a program that helped single mothers. And theyre turning people like myself because and i told them a lot of friends when i start going to school, it wasnt because i enrolled in bad things. I just leave it at that. But because i had to go to work. And when i came back to school, i was really irritated [speak
I am a fulltime student taking 16 units working full time with two jobs. I am a [speaker not understood] and yesterday what happened was that we occupied the building and they forced the payment policy on us so we forced our way into the building. Thats our school because [speaker not understood]. So, as a testimonial from one of my [speaker not understood], she was affected by the payment policy and i would quickly quote her. She said, i didnt qualify for Financial Aid i figured i would just be able to swing two classes at least. But when they changed the payment policy it was making it impossible for me to pay for my classes and i was one month from oh, my god. I wish they didnt do that because the people like me working paycheck to paycheck, it is way too much. And you have to understand that the people that were there all night, even the people sleeping outside, we are in support of each other and you cant do this to us. We are experienced at working hard. You cant treat us like cr
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to a special meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors Neighborhood Services and Safety Committee. My name is david campos. I am chair of the committee. We are joined today by supervisor norman yee and the supervisor eric mar is in route and will be here shortly. The clerk of the committee is derek evans and we also want to thank the following members of sfgovtv staff who are covering the meeting today. Bill dylan and mark bunch. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copies of documents to be included in the legislative file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 25th, 2014 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. If you can please call the one item that we have on the agenda today. The item is the resolution urging state Community College chance
Before. And also contract with good people, people that are professional. Im happy to see bevan dufty here in the audience. Thank you for your leadership on this. That we contract with professional people that are able to manage not only their shelter, but the occupants. I have constituents email me today of a homeless man peeing in front of their business. So, we have a lot of work to do to get to address the challenge. Thank you. Supervisor farrell. Thank you, president chiu. And colleagues, i want to thank everyone for their comments. And quite frankly, the discussion as well. They werent here when i first started talking, but i want to acknowledge bevan dufty, [speaker not understood] who runs the outreach team. Thank you for all your efforts in this regard. And for working together and offering to continue to Work Together on what were discussing here today. So, thank you both. You are indisposable for our city, and thank you so much. I also want to acknowledge something i believe