Of Confidential Services to their status as lyric employees would be critically concerning especially information to include residential addresses and the legal means of transgender youth not yet gone through the process of legal name change. Developing leadership skills and create opportunities for civic highly marginalized and disenfranchised youth can be shared priority. These adults already have enough barriers to overcome please do not create another one and those of us dedicated to seeing them thrive. Lastly which the state and support for the amendment to the language to be later presented by peter cohen. Thank you. Good evening. My name is ken tried. Q of united educators of San Francisco. We are about 6300 para educators . He caters counselors and so on who make sure our Public Schools run day in and day out. So, i was a civics teacher, government teacher for most of my career. I stepped out of the classroom to take my role as political director and guess what. Virtually, ever
Pablum. Dr. Derek kirk. January meeting for a view expressed resistance to the mayors directive to cut your budget by 3 over two years. It is troubling that your funding depends on the good graces of the same city hall folks that youre supposed to monitor. That inhibits your independence. If you like to sharply into city corruption your funds can be choked off because your budget is your leash. There is enough control just by having your appointments made by elected city officials. Compare your funding to that of the controllers City Services auditor program. It also was placed on the ballot and approved by the board and the voters, but its funding is a guarantee 0. 2 of the total city budget. That makes it fiscally independent from city hall. Since you are the cities ethics auditor, why is in your budget sat like this City Services auditors . So, consider a Charter Amendment to liberate the Ethics Commission. Ask for an automatic fraction of the citys total budget instead of having to
Meeting . We talked about the needs to increase afterschool program. We talked about the problems with special ed, and the number of teachers there and staff who are freaked out by their inability to stay in San Francisco, and thus, as their political director became a amateur parttime housing advocate. Now, lets say a few months from now we are in melia cohens office talking about the plight of teachers in their inability to afford to stay in San Francisco. Them i supposed to go back in to the meeting i had last week at Burton High School and say, lets see, i spent half an hour talking about housing issues and then we spent another 20 min. On special ed issues. The only folks that you would create a burden, if you continue down this path of reporting staff time is, the nonprofits and the labor unions that make our democracy work, which ironically, standing in the path of the cocoa brothers and their ilk from turning our democracy into something else. Thank you. Thank you. If theres an