And a house, but it was just really hard and i could only imagine for people who have more kids than my mom or anything like that, who has a lot of felonies and arent able to work. So, yeah, im done. Thank you. Thank you, ms. [speaker not understood], for sharing your story. Hi, my name is jeannetta johnson. Im the director of programs at transgender [speaker not understood] also known as ttijp and im also a proud member of all of us or none. And i just wanted to come up and just say that i work with transgender people that are getting out of prison and its been really challenging to find employment and housing and its almost like being transgender and you have the other like stripe on your back or other different franchisement on you. We would like to eliminate if we could at least eliminate that, that would be really, really great. So we could possibly have better opportunities at housing and employment. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Johnson. Hello, my name is cynthia cruz. I am a proud
To go, not being able to find a job where they could pay the rent and stay in San Francisco. Few of the women have family out here. When they get out they feel like theyre a burden to their family. A lotful them are single mothers. Thinking about the choices they have to make about their life experiences. They have children but they feel safer in a way returning, being able to be out and have the opportunities to have, you know, a being able to afford housing and find a good job. Its was really difficult to hear, but something we wanted to help support this community. National statistic show that 50 of black men and 50 40 of latino men will be incarcerated at some point in their life ~. Those percentage numbers are very high so we need to support communities of color and having access to jobs and housing so that they can build themselves a future. Thank you. Thank you. Im going to call up the last set of name cards before the last speaker that i had already previously called. Jeanette
[gavel] good afternoon, welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, february 4, 2014. Madam clerk, could you call the roll . Yes. [speaker not understood]. Campos present. President chiu . Chiu present. Supervisor cohen . Cohen not present. Supervisor farrell . Farrell present. Supervisor kim . Kim present. Supervisor mar . Here. Mar present. Supervisor tang. Present. Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Present. Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Present. Yee present. And supervisor cohen. Present. Cohen present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk, are there any communicationses . I have no communications today, mr. President. And could you read our consent jedv . Items 1 through 11 compr