The older military spouses, or retired military spoice spouses. And their problem wasnt that i was wrong. It was that i had said something publicly. So i wonder how we combat that. Wonderful, wonderful comment. What do you feel about what do you see in this case . Its ral statement here but its not just the military. I grew up a military dependent. My mother was a military spouse. And the whole rule in our household was never make waves. Dont make waves. Because if you make wavings, if you stand up, youre the nail thats going to get whacked. But that i think is even beyond the military. I think that i was just thinking too, you know, we have a president right now who was he sun of a single mother. First of all, its an interesting moment with this. The role of women in silencing other women, and i think what you said, 90 of the letters were very positive. 10 really goes in of why are other women doing that . And i think thats its not you know, nobodys named the culture. Im just wonderin
Down, gabriel found work as an auto mechanic making less than minimum wage. It was at that time that we knew we were in trouble. For the longest time, we tried not to go on public assistance. Not us. But one day i found myself at the kitchen stove trying to stretch a little pasta and tomato sauce and i swallowed my pride and applied for food stamps. It was at that same time that i heard about head start. At first i must admit, i thought, head start, isnt that that Poverty Program for lowincome families . Granted, we were at the worst times in our life economically, financially. So then we went to head start for help. Broken and ashamed. And enrolled our secondborn into the head start program. I enrolled in college and i can , the r my first essay woman comes alive at 35. Our son eventually got his masters degree and on that same day i received my bachelors degree. [applause] had this triggers a chain of educational events that led to my children, some of them receiving College Degrees,
Sorry one more. So good afternoon, supervisors. Im really thrilled to be here today. When i first heard about this legislation being introduced i had a strong emotional reaction this issue this be flexibility issue it is important ive been here 19 years and theres no way i would have lasted without this flexibility. Ive personally benefited. In the last few years i found out my husband had cancer and it was stage iv so i economy that was going to be difficult. I was given the opportunity to take a leaf and adjust my scheduled during the four months and knowing that i have a job to come back to and knowing that i had a Supportive Office again made all the difference so this kind of flexibility it critical. Im also a single mom with a kid in college. Ive been raising him for the last 20 years so i started out working part time and ive always worked parliament and had a lot of flexibility. Im a child of the 60s so ive had the ability to be there and watch him grow up and still he work a p
Had the ability to be there and watch him grow up and still he work a professional line of work. So thats kind of the introduction. I dont a usually talk about myself and thats where this legislation came from. You have with you im sorry theres legislation already on the book. In 1998, 15 years ago San Francisco adopted the human rights treaty for womens and girls that San Francisco has funded and adopted. Part of the legislation actually calls for paid leave which we did in 2003 by giving paid leave to parents with when they have a child and this legislation specifically mentions family to where possible fund the Work Life Balance. Part of what were doing it fulfilling the dream of the seed a statute from 15 years ago. The last 15 years of work theres a timeline that outlines the work weve done on the issue including some of the work in the city. Part of our seed a outreach weve department the guidelines for city departments to do a gender analysis of their policies. And when we did t
Date, other than july 22nd for this agenda item. Commissioner dwight . I do want to be sure that we have an opportunity to hear comments at another meeting before the Planning Commissioner is schedule to look at this. Because i have personally done some research on this to educate myself. And i do definitely want to hear from the local merchants. Second . Any other comments . So, do we know then . The Planning Commission . There is still not a date. We need to make it the 22nd or a date that staff finds that we can get everybody together and what is convenient. Is there any reason why we would not make it the 22nd . I think just to make sure that we are most flexible in dealing with the matter that we have on the agenda today, if we do need to. I am not sure what the timing of that is. So, and it may. You know, it may be staff will take or make sure that we take the best effort in mind to work with the schedule of the commission. And the Planning Commission. Okay. In scheduling it. As