Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you. My name is peter demeris. Im a volunteer and serve on the board for the st. Francis living room on golden gate avenue in the heart of the tenderloin. St. Francis living room monday through friday provides hot nutritious breakfast, activities and a place to congregate off the streets for the elderly poor of the tenderloin. We serve about 100 clients each day and the numbers keep growing. We are a Secular Organization governed by a board of directors that volunteer, a volunteer board and financial officers. Volunteers serve our clients each and everyday. We have two part time employees that assist us. These employees like those before them are economically disadvantaged individuals who are graduates of the st. Anthonys recovery program. Our annual budget is approximately 100,000 of which only 41,000 is paid in salaries. St. Francis living room is very efficient in the ri
Francisco International Faith council is having a talk on racial profiling in the 21st century. Prolaris society. You can call the San Francisco International Faith community, but being here today something i heard a lot about being young, gay, old, gay, black so many different diversity of San Francisco i think this budget it covers us all, and just like i know that in the sro in district 6 we dont have representation for violence, bullying, the way that other districts have it because like i want i will put just to show you this monday im going to be in court at 10 00 a. M. At 514 dealing with home phobia racist, bullying right in district 6 where all of the drugs often when i hear people talk about young people district 6 has a lot of drugs, young and old. There is a relationship between young and old. Young have money. Old have the drugs. We need to make there there say peoples budget along with the mayors and conference and the board of supervisors. I think we should have a three
President chiu, Board Members and the Empowerment Network and the District Supervisor norman yee, thank you very much for this recognition. This is really a shared award with many members of the merced extension triangle who work tirelessly to work in our city that we can be proud of. This is a collaborative effort with dpw, puc, mta, recs and parks, the Fire Department and Police Department and other public agencies. We work together. Our goal has been to make the city a better place to live, work, play and travel within. I thank you to those public agencies and individuals who have done just that. Thank you very much for this recollection. [ applause ] president david chiu thank you supervisor yee. Our next is by supervisor cohen and myself. Supervisor cohen do you want to make introductory comments. Supervisor malia cohen thank you very much. Please come to the podium. Thanks. So, happy mentor ship month, everyone. January is National Mentor ship month and we are taking a moment to
Tang present, wiener present, supervisor yee. Present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. Pledge of allegiance. President david chiu colleagues we have our december 10, 2013, Board Meeting minutes. Motioned by breed and campos. Those minutes are approved. Madam clerk, do we have any communications . There are no communications today, mr. President. Can you read our special order. The first item is the policy discussion by mayor edwin lee. Sfitem 140022 [formal policy discussions january 14, 2014] pursuant to charter, sections 2. 103 and 3. 100077, and administrative code, section 2. 11, the mayor shall answer the following eligible questions submitted from supervisors representing districts 1, 5, and 9. The mayor may address the board initially for up to five minutes. Discussion shall not exceed five minutes per supervisor. 1. Mayor lee, we are in the midst of a Housing Affordability and evictions crisis not se
President. Supervisor avalos, present, breed, present, campos present, chiu present, supervisor cohen, present, farrell present, supervisor kim, kim absent. Mar absent. Tang present, wiener present, supervisor yee. Present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you ladies and gentlemen. Please join us in the pledge of allegiance. Pledge of allegiance. President david chiu colleagues we have our december 10, 2013, Board Meeting minutes. Motioned by breed and campos. Those minutes are approved. Madam clerk, do we have any communications . There are no communications today, mr. President. Can you read our special order. The first item is the policy discussion by mayor edwin lee. Sfitem 140022 [formal policy discussions january 14, 2014] pursuant to charter, sections 2. 103 and 3. 100077, and administrative code, section 2. 11, the mayor shall answer the following eligible questions submitted from supervisors representing districts 1, 5, and 9. The mayor may address the board initially