[laughter] [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, im not sure you can ban that box. Good afternoon, im pete riley with the California Partnership and were a statewide coalition of antipoverty organization. Thank you to you, supervisor kim, and your cosponsors, for bringing this forward. We see poverty is created by a bunch of big things but can be aloe limb nayedth by little things. We strongly encourage you to make a big move on. We do work at the state level and have been heavily involved in the conversations around recidivism and correction spending and we think a unanimous vote from the San Francisco board of supervisors would go a long way. There is an open conversation in sacramento about what are resolutions, how can we get to incarcerating less people and bringing people home safely. This would take a huge step and really send up a flag to put the energy into that conversation in sacramento. So, wed love to have that wind at our backs when were having this conversation. Also
Kim and cohen for their leadership on this important Economic Justice issue. As a part of the Fair Chance Campaign hospitality house surveyed nearly 400 residents about their experience with housing and job discrimination. Of those with arrest or conviction records, nearly 80 experienced job discrimination and 60 housing discrimination. Clearly the fair chance act affects a lot of san franciscans. Its about fairness, its p justice and its about time. So, thank you. ~ thank you, ms. Davis. Oh, [speaker not understood], just come right up. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is [speaker not understood] and im here in my capacity as policy advisor for the National Center for lesbian rights. Thank you, supervisor kim, for sponsoring this crucial piece of legislation. As a former public defender for almost 12 years in the city and county of San Francisco i can only tell you how crucial this type of legislation is for those who are formerly incarcerated. I wanted to underscore that although
Chance ordinance. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Stokes. Good afternoon, my name is [speaker not understood] and im here with power, people organized for employment rights. And we are also here to support the fair chance ordinance. We started a project a little over a year ago that in collaboration with [speaker not understood] advocates, a number of groups called the black priorities project and we conducted a bunch of listening sessions all over the bay area. Many of them in San Francisco and the top three issues that came out of those were housing, employment, and criminalization as the number one causes that were leading to the displacement of africanamerican families. Were excited about the fair chance ordinance is that it links all those issues, removes some of the really critical structural barriers that are impacting our communities. It still is elusive when you dont get hired for a job so i think all the enforement pieces that are in here are critical. Theyre going to still be diff