Dee cellyman. Come on up. Good morning, supervisors, thank you. I want to my name is dee cellyman, i want to congratulate supervisor farrell and the committee on improving the draft. And i have one piece of text that i feel should be submitted. Changing page 12, line 3. I believe it should be changed as follows i will explain why, rec and parks guidelines for new open space and renovations shall be reviewed and adopted by the rec and Department Park commission. The reason i believe this, that the environmental and Design Guidelines are currently entirely in the hands of rec and park. There is no required review by the rec and park commission, who are in fact the ones tasked with representing the publics viewpoint. This is a very important point, design assumes policies. Let me say that one more time, and let you think about it. Any design assumes policies. What happens if recs and park calls for more grass lands in open spaces and the nonnative trees that they feel less desirable. Shou
Available to them. I do want to say that with your questions about what i want to do now . I think its become really important for all of us that do this work to get together and know what everybody else does. Create some kind of a way that we can Access Services from everyone, and so im sitting on two subcommittees for the Reentry Council right now. Its amazing work. I love my job and i would love to be part of the council. I have done it before, but im really more into it right now and would i like to have the opportunity to serve again. Thank you. Thank you very much. Last up would be Ernest Kirkwood. Good afternoon. I welcome and greatly appreciate this opportunity to appear before you today. Because if i receive reappoint to the Reentry Council it will grant me opportunity to continue my work in the council. Reentry is not an event. It is a process. The reentry process started for me many years ago when i was well into my second prison terms and continues as i stand before you tod
Tenderloin market area and i believe we would be wellserved to have johns voice on the cac. Thank you. Hello, my name is greg and im a clinical social worker working in the city for west Side Community services and in that capacity for the last 2. 5 years i know john. I think john was pretty nervous today and i think the setting has something to do with that. But more than that, i think it really talks to his humility. You can see from his qualifications he is a highlyskillful person in many facets. But more than that, i think johns greatest gifts are his empathy and his regard for others, and as joe just hinted at, he has a real stewardship, not only for the tenderloin neighborhood, but for the people in his neighborhood. When you walk through the tenderloin with john, its hard to go more than a half a block or so without running into someone who recognizes him and he is saying hello to him and who he is checking in on. So i also would like to endorse and recommend to you john for tha
Thank you. Thank you. Hi. My name is jean yetta johnson for the transgender Justice Project and i was recently released. I have been out almost two years and getting out of prison and accessing services, having a difficult time, but also being mindful that the minute i knew i was going to be going to prison i focused on reentry and how that works within the Transgender Community. Im an africanamerican transgender person and found that Reentry Services have been very, very hard for me and had to pave my own way with very little support. I have been denied reentry programs, having the same background as everybody else and the program and having to really advocate for myself and go two, three, four times through people to say hey, i feel i deserve this opportunity. I deserve this opportunity and not given this opportunity and i wanted to advocate for Dominique Leslie because she has worked in the community for a long time. She has really good work. She works well with all populations, its
When asking questions, robs name always comes up. And i can just only speak about my love for the city and the importance of being able to be an inclusive city, where people of all different backgrounds, socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds can be together and share in the good fortune of this city. And over the years i have been able to see rob navigate a lot of difficult situations and he is also someone who has compassion and dignity and treats his kids, our kids, i like to refer to them as our kids, im a mom of three teenagers and in the event that something catastrophic would happen to a child who might happen to fall through the cracks and end up on the street, it gives me a lot of comfort to know there are people like rob and his team that unwaveringly walk the streets, five nights a week in some pretty rough streets to be able to form relationships and to gain trust with these kids. So he knows everything about the tl and where the kids are hanging out. He knows them by name, a