and because of that work we now have more volunteers and more parents interested in giving back to their parks and back to their libraries. i just wanted to say thank you very much. and i want you to continue working and we will continue to respond to your investment in us by working as communities to support support our neighbors. thank you very much. thank you. al thank you fothank you for mat the community of folks that we all represent get served. thank you. next speaker. thank you, guy, for coming. my name is ken. i m an organizer for a chinese organization. in the community that we work in, the service cuts are hurting working families the most. unemployment is 30% in the chinese community alone, and also our the low-income communities rely on some of the essential services that are being cut, such as healthcare, and they re also not able to find a job, because the job is just not out there. so the budget cuts are no longer the deficit is no longer like a spen
[speaking foreign language] thank you. good afternoon. i m from chinatown. i m happy through these programs i also get to light rain english, also known the resource for training for the families, and we hope that you can save the resources for families, for children, for all of us here today. thank you. hi. my name is mimi. my son s been going to the asian human resource center for a couple of years. the family workshop is very important for all the families, whether it s for the kids, nutritional, or talk about what the discipline. so i want the city to consider to extend the budget for us. thank you. good afternoon. my name is gloria. i represent the asian resources center. i m here to speak of two priorities. one would be the importance of preserving affordable housing. the past two months i ve had the challenging project of trying to relocate 23 of my women to find a relocation units in chinatown because of upcoming construction in our building. and it s been one
chinatown. if our add-back is cut in chinatown, for example, we will be completely unable to do any programming here. we work year-round with literally hundreds of children, have planted trees and gardens, dug up as fought and concrete. not only are we creating a cost effective program for and delivering it, a very powerful educational program for children and youth, but we re also improving the neighborhood of chinatown. it s also a very modest budget. so i urge you to put money back in to the add-back, however you re going to do it, so we can continue. i urge also you to support the other youth programs, because it s absolutely needed. it s our past, present, and certainly our future. thank you. thank you very much. next speaker. i just want say hello to my san francisco chinese family. i want to say i have a lot of respect for the chinese community in chinatown, because i feel it s a beacon of where the communities in san francisco need to go to become communities th
loopholes, stopping corporate tax breaks. thank you. thank you. next speaker. thank you very much for being here. i m specifically with the china living library, where we re literally working with hundreds, probably thousands, over the past few years, of children and youth in chinatown to breen to n chinatown. if our add-back is cut in chinatown, for example, we will be completely unable to do any programming here. we work year-round with literally hundreds of children, have planted trees and gardens, dug up as fought and concrete. not only are we creating a cost effective program for and delivering it, a very powerful educational program for children and youth, but we re also improving the neighborhood of chinatown. it s also a very modest budget. so i urge you to put money back in to the add-back, however you re going to do it, so we can continue. i urge also you to support the other youth programs, because it s absolutely needed. it s our past, present, and certainly
chinatown. if our add-back is cut in chinatown, for example, we will be completely unable to do any programming here. we work year-round with literally hundreds of children, have planted trees and gardens, dug up as fought and concrete. not only are we creating a cost effective program for and delivering it, a very powerful educational program for children and youth, but we re also improving the neighborhood of chinatown. it s also a very modest budget. so i urge you to put money back in to the add-back, however you re going to do it, so we can continue. i urge also you to support the other youth programs, because it s absolutely needed. it s our past, present, and certainly our future. thank you. thank you very much. next speaker. i just want say hello to my san francisco chinese family. i want to say i have a lot of respect for the chinese community in chinatown, because i feel it s a beacon of where the communities in san francisco need to go to become communities th