Appreciate the slides showing the journey of someone who is receiving care and their experience and how we can provide services to them. It helps visualize and understand what the experiences from sort of a client perspective so thank you for that as well. Commissioner christian raised her hand after you began speaking. Thank you president bernal and thank you mark. I just want to say thank you and how grateful i am as a person who lives in San Francisco and someone who works in the criminaljustice system and has spent a number of years working with the population that people who need and and seeing up close and firsthand what a difference it makes to have these great emphasis on providing the care that the person needs and a coordinated way in a way that is collaborative with who do work closely with some people in the population and i wanted to know, i know there would be written 237 in the i dont know if you call it a pilot originning thor theinitiative what about bg in more people
Shelter, education and healthcare. Please invest in these resources by keeping us all safe and invest in the community. Thank you. Next speaker please. Im born and raised in the city. Calling in on behalf of my community. Im calling on behalf of the lives lost by sfpd. One of the things that need to change about the Police Department, i will echo the same thoughts about reduce running the Police Budget. We need higher budget cuts. Next speaker please. I live in district 4. Im calling to ask defund and disband sfpd and the Sheriffs Department. We need to cut the Police Department by at least 50 . We need a budget that fires sheriffs deputies and cut overtime. You take that money to invest in the community, police dont keep us safe. That was made apparent again. We need to make drastic changes nationwide and San Francisco can lead the way. Communities are those with better acts with housing and healthcare and education. Invest in people and communities, not cops. Thank you. Next speaker
Racial equity, that im sure we can all proud to see the Planning Commission pass the resolution. And when we talked about the groundfloor retail space and what were going to do in terms of this pandemic and how its hurting our Small Businesses. I appreciated our conversation around that. I dont want to prolong this, because i dont have any questions because im supporting you. I just think youre a great addition to the Planning Commission and i want to emphasize, too, that often, ive been around for awhile and i know chair ronen can attest to this, as well, is that the Planning Commission getting along so well like this. There are differences of opinions, but i think the respect all of you have for one another and how youre working together is something good for all of us to see and i just, fen, your leadership has been great on the Planning Commission and thank you so much and i am thrilled to support your reappointment today. Thank you, supervisor. Thank you so much, supervisor stepha
Clearly, his bright light will continue to shine. Rest in peace, ronnie chapman. You will be missed. Clerk supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, im introducing a resolution along with supervisor ronen urging the association of bay area governments, abag, in its up coming Regional Housing needs allocation, or rhna, to maintain their current housing level needs in San Francisco. The California Department of housing and Community Development recently assigned the bay area a new region wide rhna Housing Production goal that is 2. 35 times more than our existing one, or our goal of producing nearly 500,000 new homes in eight years throughout the bay area. San francisco should take a position on how the numbers will be allocated to local jurisdictions, as it will have a real impact on Speculative Development in our city if the goals are not met. If our housing goal is artificially too high, it will trigger s. B. 35. We know that socalled streamlining woul
I am sorry about that entrance. I wasnt doing it for theatrics but i do have a brandnew hip. [laughter] [applause] i love it. But the rest of the body hasnt caught up yet. [laughter] we go slow. Nobody is moderating us. We are just talking. We are talking about douglas and liberation . Absolutely. Let me start. To stop, i want other people to know about this. Im interested obviously in literacy. I am impressed with what i only recently discovered, which is this country is unique in the world in terms of the distribution distribution of libraries throughout the country. You cannot go in rural areas in europe or africa asia, rural areas and find libraries the way you can hear. Huge University Libraries that jump up out of nowhere in indiana or someplace. Pennsylvania, go for 100 miles and there it is. Enormous university with more books than cambridge. So its an extraordinary thing. The other thing is, something im interested in is on the one hand, the power of reading and of course, und