Residents require anyway. The Botanical Garden is a museum that is living and breathing that requires care and maintenance for the collections to survive and thrive and to consider it merely as a place to picnic is doing it a disservice. Its far more than that. I urge you to support the Lease Management agreement and the non precedent fee. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hello supervisors. I am big rich and represent project level and we occupy and operate the Recording Studio of africanamerican art and culture complex. We could stay up here all day and talk about our list of accomplishments. We are a musicking Programming Program in a safe environment that the africanamerican Cultural Center has provided for the youth. This is a small fraction of us here but i wanted to speak on behalf actually we were requested by the District Attorneys Office to write the theme song and we performed it today on the steps here and we have been operating for the last year on a sho
Name. Dr. Joe barbachi i serve as a educational dosant and educator in the program. I want to relate several of my recent experiences in the garden. Yesterday morning i gave an educational walk for 10 of our Summer Enterprise high school and College Interns and their mentor. Theyre working with one of gardeners using a staff design plan to install the first mediterranean basin program. We discuss the importance of plants. We talked about the difficult problem of global warming. Its my firm conclusion that the fee has maintained the Botanical Garden and i am concerned that the lack of the understanding of the importance of the collection and our educational role in the crucial relationship in plants and people. I want to urge you to support the new lease and Management Agreement and the continuance of the fee thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is joseph mack. I am a Botanical Garden society volunteer. Im speaking as an individual. I want to briefly go into my personal ar
Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you. My name is peter demeris. Im a volunteer and serve on the board for the st. Francis living room on golden gate avenue in the heart of the tenderloin. St. Francis living room monday through friday provides hot nutritious breakfast, activities and a place to congregate off the streets for the elderly poor of the tenderloin. We serve about 100 clients each day and the numbers keep growing. We are a Secular Organization governed by a board of directors that volunteer, a volunteer board and financial officers. Volunteers serve our clients each and everyday. We have two part time employees that assist us. These employees like those before them are economically disadvantaged individuals who are graduates of the st. Anthonys recovery program. Our annual budget is approximately 100,000 of which only 41,000 is paid in salaries. St. Francis living room is very efficient in the ri
Position im Administrative Assistant case manager. We deal with youth from the age 14 through 17. From there we go to 18 to 24 and from there we go on to 25 to 105. It doesnt matter. If you can work you can work. Were not just district here and there were city wide. We do what we do. I love my job and until you guys can give us the funding i appreciate it if you do. I will continue to volunteer my services because i am needed and i feel important to the people and i am appreciated. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. My name is keith. Im one of the volunteers for these people, and i volunteer all the time, everyday, five days a week, and they do a lot of things real good for these people, black, brown, blue, whatever, you know what i am saying . Really you all need to really look into these people and really looking into how the way they work, and a lot of the people need to be around these people man. We try to do a lot of stuff for our community and try to have these
Speaker please. Good afternoon. Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you. My name is peter demeris. Im a volunteer and serve on the board for the st. Francis living room on golden gate avenue in the heart of the tenderloin. St. Francis living room monday through friday provides hot nutritious breakfast, activities and a place to congregate off the streets for the elderly poor of the tenderloin. We serve about 100 clients each day and the numbers keep growing. We are a Secular Organization governed by a board of directors that volunteer, a volunteer board and financial officers. Volunteers serve our clients each and everyday. We have two part time employees that assist us. These employees like those before them are economically disadvantaged individuals who are graduates of the st. Anthonys recovery program. Our annual budget is approximately 100,000 of which only 41,000 is paid in salaries. St. Francis living room is very efficient in the riewses of funds because it focuses on