has saved other people s lives. it s become one of the biggest part of my life and i am asking you to please fund lyric. hi everyone especially all of you over there. i am eddy and i identify as queer, gender queer, . i m an emerging activist and transfeminist. i came in front of you all to talk about and emphasize the ideas of lyric s school base program which kind of like i wish their school based program was in my school because they teach a lot of. sm s and how to combat them and racism and sexual and all of those and transphobia. they try to find a way to empower youth and make them better independent individual and i want to ask that lyric just say it gets better and lyric makes it better for all youth, especially queer youth and if you want to think about funding lyric is not just for queer youth but youth of different identities, race, color, class, like abilities, anything you name it. lyric will support you with that. thank you. good afternoon supervisors. my
piano, singing and classes to people in the area and especially for those that cannot afford high pricing private lessons. since more musical instruments are available for children under third grade in public school our program has been acting as a breech filling the learning gap and providing lessons to the children from kindergarten to the second graders. since our location geary [inaudible] our success has incomed and registration doubled. however, with 60% budget cut we won t be able to accept the new students, but currently registered students and also teachers who has been working with us for the last 12 years. please let us continue our program and serve our community better and also consider our proposal. thank you. hello i am lata and here as a parent representing the various families that came out through the reach out program. i have two girls now nine and 11 that have beenful individual in the program over a period of seven years. what i love about the program i
will find out their opportunity to help them. i encourage you please reconsider. thank you. peace be with you. [applause] next speaker please. good afternoon supervisors. i am jacklyn zimmer jones and the director of next village san francisco and i want to thank you for the opportunity to speak today. i am speaking today on behalf of the board of directors, our volunteers and the members who benefit from their participation in next village san francisco, and quite honestly if our members account could drive themselves here and park and wait in the chambers to testify they probably wouldn t be our members. this is a national movement to provide alternatives to seniors as they want to age in place and we re one of five villages in the country and there are 20 in progress. we are located in district 3 with some of the highest density of population of seniors in the city and we try to provide them with the confidence to live safely and happily in their homes. we pride oursel
called the massachusetts government appointments project which put the list together before romney was even elected. so for him to say he requested groups of qualified women is a flat-out lie. romney did hire several new women but by the end of his term, the number of women in top positions was actually lower than it was when he took office. romney s going after the president nonetheless saying there are more women in poverty now than when obama took office but the president is hammering home on romney s views on fair pay. here he was yesterday in eye what. when young women graduate, they should get equal pay for equal work. when governor romney was asked about it, his campaign said we ll get back to you. in addition to women s issues and the binders a few other parts of the debates are catching on. see if this sounds familiar. governor romney was a little how can i say it? sketchy. last night. biden s own terms are catching on, too. in a rally in reno, the crowd
board. pete wilson is a dirty word. you first put him on the ticket. what did romney do? he made in his co-chair. outrageous. there s a lot that mitt romney is going to have to answer for. he promised to veto the dream act, which is something a huge majority of americans want support. i think you re issue on rubio and what he presents is some version of the dream act or a first step toward some immigration reform. have to see if romney can except it. he basically laid out vague markets. he does not want to see a path to citizenships. you will make it so difficult for an immigrant to survive that they have to pack their bags and leave. he will make the issue about the economy. one of the first ads that mitt romney put on line was called bumps in the road. the president said there would be bumps in the road. but the faces look at the faces in the ad. the row be some sort of watered-down dream act there will be some kind of watered-down dream act to deal with the total