Pantry and Community Center and regularly attended meetings for causes she supported and she was committed to raising awareness to issues affecting the Transgender Community especially issues that involved health and disparity in that community. Taja was known for being a charismatic and out spoken person for life challenges. Taja loved music and fashion. She had a first job and was a fan of madonna and prince. She was strong, independent and selfless. She worked hard and never hesitated to give whatever she had to people. She will be remembered for here work, generosity her fighting spirit for social justice. Her mother described her as having been beautiful inside and out. Taja is the transgender woman of color. The most recent reported over an hour ago i know that name of that individual was announced at the transgender deliberation which a number of us attended. In 2013 transgender women were the victims of hiv lgbt motivated hate violence homicides. 67 of those victims were transg
It also makes it really complicated because you have in any one grant year, 50, 60 different organizations receiving grants but thats the way we do it and i think that kind of patch quilt is a good thing in San Francisco and that covers a whole lot of work in housing for example, there is tenant counseling, theres first time Home Ownership, its done a lot to support the housing programs, the hope sf x the envisioning program, we have Small Business assistance, we have child care services, so its supporting a lot of different organize sashes doing different work and i hear some of the previous speakers, its hard to know whats doing what but i would argue it gets there better when you do it through this model of a dissevered decentralized funding rather than when you put it into centralized agencies. My second point is on the role of the citizens committee, i think a lot of us would see us as more a policy body, were setting Economic Development policy for this city. Its not really a pod
Nine years. A lot of friendships developed outside of Law Enforcement than prosecution, defense, of lot of friends that way. But i felt it was my job to do what i could as the victim. Just thought i would put that out there. [laughter] but if my role the was approached to go out and solve mysteries on americas most wanted. There is a certain amount of risk brethren that somebody comes back at you but that is the way things worked in metabolizes street troupers of that is how i grew up so i appreciated what it offered me so when you are in the middle of that it is my job to get up to say you have a voice. I came away from the experience with a couple of thoughts. The think terry would agree that you have to constantly reexamine your assumptions. There were so many false leads in this case and instances we thought we had him on the line has to be the guy or with the acquisitions that cannot be explained away. His neighbor explained away. So i hold that with me with investigations after t
Are bigger yet the federal Government Cut 16 of cdbg this year and 20 of our [inaudible] fund, we had to deal with that fact because some people are not going the get their grants. What we did this last month was to take a compelling argument to the mayor and it will come to you hopefully too to backfill that lost funding, its essential to Keep Community development stable because the other option is to cut those critical grants to the ground. I would say that its a critical time to do that because were seeing widening disparities in wealth and it is a time when the federal government is giving back, we have to add more and this is a critical time to do that. We crafted a letter and it was framed around that, supervisor avalos, in a time of prosperity, the last thing we can do is start cutting critical Community Development grants, so unfortunately in so many ways, it falls to local government. That is whats happening at the federal and state level, its a retrenchment that is dishearte
Turned down. Theyre socially and economically disadvantaged organizations and i would like the see more work witching the nonprofit environment as opposed to working with the Small Business community, theres some private and Nonprofit Organizations, they collect this money under the mckinney veto act and provide transitional housing but theyre only obligated to provide it for 12 years and then they can go private and turn it into a condominium so theyre telling their president s to get on the Public Housing waiting list because they want to convert. Then you have some thats just trying to say they want to get out of the contract before 12 years so they say all the residents are not paying rent so they can get out of the contract before 12 years and its not helping with the homeless crisis. I know a lot of people, ive even been in a shelt e my sons father chasers vase me, i was a property manager, he harassed me simply because he wanted his girlfriend wanted my position as manager or so