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 volunteers. We provide a lot for people in need and do a lot with the dollars we receive from the city. The st. Francis living room contract will exspire june 30. We didnt make a submittal for a new contract and funding will cease july 1. We respectfully request that you consider the plight of the people that we use and use your discretion to restore funding. We need 78,000 a year to survive. Thank you for your help. Thank you. Next speaker please. I am eric booker and the manager of st. Francis living room. Like peter was saying we d
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 shoe string budget and any other cuts will disable what were doing anyway. Veronica who is one of our stars, one of the team leaders wants to speak of what we do at the center also. Thank you. Hello i am veronica. I just kind of want to talk about project level as an organization. Its not only just music. Its a family base where somewhere you feel comfortable where youre out of the difficults that our teenagers and young people are going through, an
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 volunteers. We provide a lot for people in need and do a lot with the dollars we receive from the city. The st. Francis living room contract will exspire june 30. We didnt make a submittal for a new contract and funding will cease july 1. We respectfully request that you consider the plight of the people that we use and use your