Coalition, and david harness, and kim and brewstre. , tony from senior and disability action, and wendy as well. James from senior disability and peter from the immigrant legal resource center, nancy cross, don nunly from the aims project, coline from the cap pain for a better nutrition and mopsy from the center of health and uc beckerry Public Health next speaker . Good morning, my name is alex and i am a senior disability action. And even though there are meal sites and home delivered meals for seniors and people with disabilities that demand that such meals as stated in the funding can provide. And in 2006, the cap between the number of meals served and the number needed was between 6 and 9 million needs. Annually. And the last three years, the budget for the home delivered meals has been cut and what needs to happen is that the money needs to be increased. And there is a long waiting list and it has to be paid with young people with disabilities and they tend to fall through the cr
Consider one of these solutions that was proposed today and mainly the, and we do not accept the Government Funds and we are supported by the people who see the role in the community as being part of that network of support. And although, we think that it is important that the government does provide a safety net for the poor. And we appreciate support, and actually demand that your work in providing that safety net. Particularly the hungry are falling through the holes in that safety net. And yesterday, we can prove that again in our dining room. And it is the twenth of the month, and that is when we begin to see those people who have been able to make it up to that point in the month, but then, they have no longer the resources to provide the meals for their families. For their children. And themselves and end up using the facilities and others. Dr. Jones elaborated on those who are not eligible. We believe that if it was allowed, and that would be a way of mending that safety net an
Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is teresa lee, i have been an employee for the Housing Authority for over 20 years. Though i stand here united with my union members, i speak to you as a union member but also a member that is a product of Public Housing. My siblings and i was raised by our parents that were responsible for the First Successful Public Housing rent strikes in San Francisco at chinatown housing development, i share this bit of my Family History to illustrate my commitment to the residents of Public Housing. And the concerns i have for the future, should the rad program with its Public Private approach not succeed for the residents. At this point we still know lett letter know little about the rad program. And to the employees of the Housing Authority its presented as the only way to keep the agency solvent. What is not presented to any of us, is just how all of this will really work. From the beginning the participation in the rad Program Strategic working grou
Strategy to having the labors involved and one of the first High Priorities is acting for the Resource Centers and i am sure, that we could get that program to give the board of supervisors an update on their activities, and i have just went to a meeting on it last week and so they are hiring for the coordinator and they already have their work planned for the year. When it comes to the food retail, i think that one of the challenges is just consolidation, in that sector in general, so we dont have a lot of independent operators of grocery stores, and i think that there has been a lot of work to attract them to the tender loin and to the bay view and Hunters Point and that is just one challenge that we dont have a lot of operators locally. You, thank you, dr. Jones. I want to turn it over to Public Comment because i know that people have been waiting to speak. And i have a question about what is happening at the Public Schools and i see that my good friend keefe who is the director of
Funded for the benefit of the public. And the public doesnt have any meaningful say about what is happening here. And i will illustrate by this Public Private partnership in relation to the inaudible and the shelters in the city in relation to smoking. When you consider what the hotels want and the hotel users in the tourist trade. You say, we wish for the hotels to preserve 75 of their room dedicated to nonsmoking. Not what happens on separate floors with separate elevators. But when it comes to shelters and sros, we allow smoking and provide smoking patios. And we dont enforce no smoking in front of the shelter on polk street. And if you look at the statistics you feel, you find this is a primary cause of death. And that the people that are homeless have 20 year shorter Life Expectancy in the circumstances they are put. None of the developers will devel developer, and you spread the epidemic and you impose welfare costs of smoking through the shelters. And sros [mic turned off] thank