Good afternoon, everybody. Im cherie miller. Im located in district 5, and also, i am an originating member of the African American art and cultural district in district 10. The San Francisco board of supervisors historic use of laws and policies have targeted and harmed the African American community intentionally and the eventually, and its the cause of Police Brutality and the loss of black lives, and our health and wellness in our community. Defund sfpd. The Police Department has not used the public funding for all of the public good. Greater funding should be directed more intentionally to Community Programs and spaces to strengthen us. No more intentional racist laws and policies . Find subprime loan lenders. I want to thank all of the supervisors for their work. I look forward to meeting dean preston. I have not met him yet. Shamann supervisor shamann walton, thank you for your work and your excellence. We want to continue fighting for our health and wellness and our prosperity.
And security. We stand in solidarity with the budget Justice Organization that prioritizes and stands with the vulnerable Filipino Community of San Francisco, and i urge you to fund the entire v. J. C. List. Clerk thank you for your comments. Good morning, supervisors. Thank you for your time of leadership during this covid19 pandemic and providing services for our indigenous, black, and people of color in San Francisco. We are fiscally sponsored by the american developmefilipino Development Coalition or fadc. Since the shelter in place order back in march, the f. C. C. , along with fellow fadc organizations had to swiftly just our skills to support those suffering increased unemployment, homelessness, severe food insecurity, increased policing and tenant harassments and evictions. More than 20 of registered nurses are filipino, and many more of our hidden frontliners are filipino senior caregivers, nannies, and housekeepers. Our Community Organizations continue to respond by adapting
The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting of the San Francisco rules committee occurring may 11, 2015, will begin shortly. Good morning and welcome to the rules committee, and of the San Francisco board of supervisors and, my name is john avalos, and i am the chair of the committee and joined to my right by vice chair tang and to my left by supervisor cohen and our clerk is lisa somera, and do we have announcements . Please be sure to silence all cell phones and completed documents to be included in submitted to the clerk and items today will be on the may 19th board of supervisors item one, to consider appointing one member, term, ending april 30 and i want to thank you for your patient and for his patience as well in scheduling and i wanted to make sure that while we are in this moment, that where, there is an opening for reappointment, that we could actually, have a greater discussion about what it is that we want to be able to have or what are the qualities and qualifications that we
Somera, and do we have announcements . Please be sure to silence all cell phones and completed documents to be included in submitted to the clerk and items today will be on the may 19th board of supervisors item one, to consider appointing one member, term, ending april 30 and i want to thank you for your patient and for his patience as well in scheduling and i wanted to make sure that while we are in this moment, that where, there is an opening for reappointment, that we could actually, have a greater discussion about what it is that we want to be able to have or what are the qualities and qualifications that we want to have in the Police Commissioner, board and i think that we need a little bit more time than we had to do that. And having said that, today, this item can get forwarded to the full board, as a committee report, so that the board can make the final approval tomorrow, and that will allow him to be pointed and sit in on the Police Commission meeting on wednesday and we wan
Have worked already, with the African American Faith Community and the naacp and the other organizations and including the officers for justice, and i also will just appeal on the issues related around these types of issues to make sure that the conversation is ongoing between these organizations, and i believe that we need to elicit these voices because we need to have more Community Involvement around what they think the Community Policing is and what we can see from the officers within each of the many districts here in california. And so take the greater training and the greater diversity and sensitivity and implicit training is necessary because we need to understand how to talk to each other and how to relate to each other, and how we can Work Together to accomplish goals. And there are as, specifically within the African American community, i am proud to say that the chief and the and the members of that African American community have just reached an agreement to reconfigure an