Board of supervisors i think when you sell a property, it should be the default that it no longer has all of these other agreements on the lien of the property. In this particular case, i would be hoping that the recreation and Park Department in light of this going on can we yes, sir can we as a body of people here in San Francisco county, citizenry, can we try to Eminent Domain of this particular piece of property . Do we have a Strong Enough supervisor as we had formally at northeast in chinatown, can we get that kind of leg work going . I hope so, because this kind of timeline that they are trying to run over and over, im not too much in favor of. Thank you, mark. Thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comment on this item . Being none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner low. We have shared the same goal with the developer is to build open space and provide new open space opportunities for what is the border of chinatown and the financial district, which
The community here but if you have the power instead of picking like the easy target, which may not be too much work for you, but choose a target, maybe put work in it and look at it from a different perspective. Theres one more small item i want your attention on. You can use muni fast pass as a tool to teacher students accountability, responsibility and also you can use it to inspire their parents to guide the youth and the other main point is dont use it as a tool to criminalize youth like those being done in San Francisco. Thanks. Supervisor wiener thank you. Next speaker. Good morning, speakers. Tenderloin Youth Leadership program. As part of my job i go to all high schools all over the l city recruiting kids to join the program and i hear all too much the common stories of students who cant afford to go to school, actually students that end up missing several days a year, costing the San Francisco a lot of money, as were not getting paid when theyre not in school. Also, so many t
Getting paid when theyre not in school. Also, so many teachers tell me how they have to take so many to help students get to school and back home to commute. Its a very unfortunate thing that i hear all too much. The 70 youth discount is just not enough. Every other city provides Free Public Transportation to and from school except this city. Also, its very difficult for a family of four to send their kids to school when theyre low income and they have to send all four children to school. That becomes very, very difficult. Also, some students end up not going to school because theyre too embarrassed to ask for the school. We have the resources, we have the support from the community, we have the support from the ftma. All we need is for you to make the right decision and to invest in the children. Although you might not have five children of your own and you might not be low income yourself we expect you to have compassion for those that are. Thank you. You. Next speaker. Good morning.
But working in collaboration with the mayors office, supervisor and members of the community to address those needs. If you look at how transit is currently affecting youth yud know there are tremendous needs out there. Increases incessant coupled with budget cuts is putting our youth further behind. We know these needs exist and we know theyre obvious. We saw ed2mj[u risken present te is a 40 drop in ridership. If you needed more evidence that this is an issue youth is experiencing its there before you. We want to emphasize on behalf of the Youth Commission that access to transit month should not only be privileges for those who can afford them but are a right that should be enjoyed and benefited by everybody in the city and county of San Francisco. We also feel that by supporting the muni for Youth Program what you are doing is investing in a new generation of transit ridership. If we are a transitfirst city then we need to own up to that and this is an exact opportunity that we can
Populations. Weve been doing that by, you know, producing courses that engage atrisk students, students that are atrisk before they even start school by attracting immigrants to take our courses. And weve been doing a really, really good job. We serve latin american latino studies serves around 20,000 students at city college. The diversity departments probably serve the students of color which probably represent 60 to 70 of the entire population of city college. So, this attack is forgetting the fact that the majority of the small departments are base their curriculum on grass root connectionses with the students. None of the small departments have received anything over the last 30 years for free. We fought for every single class that we teach. And its not a fight where we receive money from the district to allow us to teach. Its fights that come from the bottom up. The Department Chair structure is exactly well suited for that kind of environment where we have a little bit more inpu