Employment, housing, healthcare and professional licensing. Today the United States leads the world incarceration locking up a larger share of population 1 5 california residents currently has a criminal record. Our economy depends on the labor of these currently incarcerated people to introduce everything from military equipment to mcdonalds uniforms and safety depends on the thousands of incarcerated people who put their lives on the line to fight last years devastating wildfires. According to the american bar association, our occupational and Business Licenses laws contain over 27,000 restrictions on formally incarcerated people and argues of exclusionary language only adds to the barriers they face. Changing the way we speak about these individuals is far from a cureall for the isle o i will thank you to his leadership, the department of corrections, the wash Ton Department of corrections inside the United States department of justice have all adopted resolutions committing to use
And i further like to see them expand and build Affordable Housing for low income and very low income bracket people. These that come from me by the time they get to you it takes several years for you to wake up and smell the coffee and doing what i propose. Just like this 600 milliondollar tax by for low income housing. Ive been talking to you about this for years and now you are doing something about t i dont want you to wait that long to take care of this problem here. These organizations are doing to help people in low income and put them to work. Id like to see you expand and build Affordable Housing for those very same incomes of people that you employ. Because you are in position to do so and you can be a leader and theyll follow your lead. Its hard for them to follow my lead. It took me four and a half years to get them to stop giving that multi billion dollar tax breaks to twitter and several other hitech companies. I dont want it to take that long to transact business with yo
Lead. It took me four and a half years to get them to stop giving that multi billion dollar tax breaks to twitter and several other hitech companies. I dont want it to take that long to transact business with you. So i gro agree with them. Any other speakers that want to speak in support . Madam clerk, theres still going to be later Public Comment. Is that correct . Is there still going to be the later general Public Comment . Yes, thats later. Im going to speak out are you going to speak in support of this item . The last negro is playing at the roxy, its a brilliant film. Anyone else wants to speak in support . It was mentioned earlier that there are 9,000 needles found on the sidewalks to be picked up every morning. There are as well 9,000 cases of bloodborn rep titus using those using illicit substances in the city so i believe you can contribute by eliminating the needle Waste Program which i would greatly encourage. Supervisor yee come on up. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name
You to vote to keep the bid and keep it a safe place to visit, live and work. You it. Good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you for your time and sum or the. My name is ton thomas. I love on the board of directors. For the club donna tell owes association, part of the building at beautiful corner of the post and mayson. We took a step of faith 10 years ago when we said well tax ourselves more money in order to improve our neighborhood. I did not know what i was getting myself into when karen and a few others said don we would like you to serve. Ive been serving on the board. I volunteered to serve on the clean and save committee. If you really want to get involved in the boots on the ground experience, we have meetings every other month. Between the sfpd, d. P. W. , block by block, neighbor streets team, miracle messages and a number of other people, were beginning to change peoples lives one day at a time, one life at a time. Im excited about the future and so were going to take another
Recognizing the harmful impacts of the institutionalization of the youth of language to refer to formally incarcerated people surgerying all agencies in departments of the city and county of San Francisco to adopted personfirst language. Examples of personfirst language includes, formally incarcerated person, currently incarcerated persons, returning residents, and justice involved person ininstead of convict, fell on and everyday this job reminds me this job as power. As part of the plan the city describes traffic fatalities as occurring during collisions instead of accidents. As settled difference on the surface but important recommend indications. And accident is a responsibility of the individual and the result of a mistake and a system that depends on perfect behavior to produce ideal outcomes. A collision on the other hand is considered through a Public Safety lens and addressed to a comprehensive Public Policy and labels such as fell on, convict, offender parolee assign fault to