balton kukox. jen ruhau and kevin chin. and maria. it doesn t have to be in the order. if your name was called, please come forward. and try to keep leo chi up here for the time. hi, good morning. my name is kay lee erickson. i work here at the richmond village. began at washington high school. my question and sort of comment is one about youth workers rights and my question is to mayor ed lee, do you have a plan regarding undocumented youth and their access to jobs during this budget year? because one of the issues that we come across daily and annually is the access our youth have to jobs even if they re not documented and legal. so, thank you. thank you, kay lee. we re going to have comments towards the end, but people can point pose questions or make comments, but thank you. next speaker. hi, my name is jen. i am a student here at george washington high school. i m a junior. i also work for the beacon at presidio middle school nyca. yeah, i just wanted to mention
where we re doing community clean ups. (applause) i want to thank the ambassadors for being here. they re one of our newer programs. we hire people from the community to be eyes and ear in the areas where we feel unsafe, but where we may not need necessarily the attention of a police officer, but they work together. they actually train our ambassadors to become additional extensions with our community. but we won t forget that the community is the most important thing. if we build strong communities, then i believe very well that our whole community policing will work just as it does with so many of our other departments that rely on the community to get their projects or their work done. so, again, thank you for coming out this morning and i look forward to hearing your comments this morning. thank you. (applause) thank you. i m also so happy that we have many people, the new leaders of our neighborhood from young people to the elders and seniors with so much experience
germ an wigins. ricky rawlins. darrel rushing. peter oliver. michael sierra. kerri winford. barry wo o. fonshi sin. and wilson bangs. congratulations to all of our graduates. [ applause ] thank you, arcadia and thank you graduates. i would quickly like to acknowledge udo and david dalatory from the labor area here today and i have the pleasure of introducing our fearless leader the director of city build pat mulligan thank you. thanks. i want to thank everybody that participated in this event. it is really heartwarming after the end of 18 weeks to go through this process and i want to congratulate the class that each of the student completed the 18-week section of training but now you embark on a new career. and so the work now begins in earnest really. it is just the beginning, endure, preserver and work hard and there are opportunities and money to be had, go out and take them, you know? i want to thank all of the contractors who really looked to s
to be very fortunate to have the funding for a program called a generating leadership opportunity work force. however, at this round of funding we don t get to fund that. it directly shows from the department youth and families, there s no need employment programs for the api population in the city of san francisco. especially target high-risk youth, many youth from the ages 14 to 21 involved in the criminal justice system who have a lot of charges. and the other one i want to encourage some support in is that we need to have a courageous conversation, you know. starting with ourselves about racial dialogues in the community. thank you, mr. chang. now we have linda merly to speak on student services. good morning, supervisors. my name is april. i m presenting the seniors in the community, especially from [speaker not understood] for the elderly in district 1 and 4. (applause) in the past 46 years, south park has been providing a comprehensive range of services designed
breakers. this year we have a deficit that s smaller than in past years. a year ago we were facing $170 million deficit. we have a 7.6% unemployment rate. this year and the next we do two-year budgets, by the way. this year it s about 123 million deficit for this next fiscal year. the following year of 14-15, is about $256 million deficit. so, we plan for two years, but we ll meet every year just to talk through it. and then we re doing really well on our employment. we have about a 6.3 unemployment rate. so, it s gone down another big percentage point. i want to keep driving that down. my goal is to get to the 5 or even below. that means a lot more people have jobs and create their own destinies. and i need to have that happen because government can t do everything. we ll do the gaps. we ll help, of course, with our seniors, our low-income families, our children need us to provide the programs. but we have to invest really smartly these days. and i think if there s any the