Im michelle levis, soma resident. As you all know, soma has been in development for San Francisco and has become a neighborhood of ultra rich and ultra poor. I would like to advocate for an increased range of affordability. We have families where two families work minimum wage jobs and they dont qualify for the affordability, making too much. I have a struggle between talking about the new dream community when across the street, part pardon my language is a [beep] show. Its hard to not think about what is happening on the other side of sixth street. The school is in crisis. We have one school in our district and talking about a new school is ridiculous to me. We had to get pinterest to pay for a second social worker because we have the highest number of homeless kids. 85 of middle schoolers were reading below grade levels. We know that means they will drop out and become incarcerated. For us, its a huger issue, instead of just what is happening in the footprint of this plan area, but w
I dont have to acknowledge him because he is not my boss anymore. [laughter] but i do want to give a special shoutout to tom nolan. Under his leadership of the board that we brought forward the central subway and brought forward this procurement and we would not be here but for not his leadership. Thank you for that. [applause] and so with all of the fire power that youve heard from represented here that put together the money, that put together the leadership, that authorized and approved all of this to happen, someone actually had to do the work. And that is where some might say the part really begins. Somebody had to execute on this promise that we made to our funders, to our policymakers, most importantly to our rider and to the public. The person who is at the tip of the spear for our agency, but even coordinating beyond our agency, with the fire department, police department, the Mayors Office on disabilities, the rest of the city family is our transit director whos made this pro
Jesse larson and i cannot read it. We record each of our meetings and make the transcripts Available Online madam clerk any announcements. Silence cellphones and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk, thank you. Before we begin can we have a motion to excuse supervisor ma leah cohen and katie katy tang from this meeting. Motion passes. No object object. Madam clerk can you call item number one. Clerk declaring a homeless shelter emergency and authorize ing the direct offer public work to improve facilities and the director of the department of homelessness and support of housing to contract for Homeless Services and officer services to protect the health, safety and welfare of individuals effected by homelessness and all San Francisco citizens. We have jeff kazski department of homelessness and department of public works here to present. Good afternoon, supervisors, jeff, director of the department of homelessness
December 11th, 2017. I am norman yee and i will chair this committee as soon as everyone is quiet. Thank you, very much. I am joined by supervisor jeff sheehy and ahsha safai. These are my Committee Members and today is ms. Linda the clerk is miss linda wong. The committee would also like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, jesse larson and i cannot read it. We record each of our meetings and make the transcripts Available Online madam clerk any announcements. Silence cellphones and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk, thank you. Before we begin can we have a motion to excuse supervisor ma leah cohen and katie katy tang from this meeting. Motion passes. No object object. Madam clerk can you call item number one. Clerk declaring a homeless shelter emergency and authorize ing the direct offer public work to improve facilities and the director of the department of homelessness and support of housing to contract for
Ok, lets get started. Welcome to our special, special, special budget and finance Committee Meeting for monday, december 11th, 2017. I am norman yee and i will chair this committee as soon as everyone is quiet. Thank you, very much. I am joined by supervisor jeff sheehy and ahsha safai. These are my Committee Members and today is ms. Linda the clerk is miss linda wong. The committee would also like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, jesse larson and i cannot read it. We record each of our meetings and make the transcripts Available Online madam clerk any announcements. Silence cellphones and Electronic Devices and completed speaker cards to be included as part of the file to be submitted to the clerk, thank you. Before we begin can we have a motion to excuse supervisor ma leah cohen and katie katy tang from this meeting. Motion passes. No object object. Madam clerk can you call item number one. Clerk declaring a homeless shelter emergency and authorize ing the direct offer public work