Afternoon. Welcome to the december 17, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer . Fewer not present. Supervisor haney . Haney present. Supervisor mandelman . Mandelman present. Supervisor mar. Mar present. Supervisor peskin . Peskin present. Supervisor preston. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Supervisor stefani present. Supervisor walton present. Supervisor yee . President. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv. Lawrence and michael. Who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk,
The city is pioneering Free Education in america, removing 5780 seats from classes is not savings we tolerate. Were watching. President yee thank you. [bell ringing] hello, im esl instructor at city college. And im here again to encourage everybody to support the bridge funding. Youve heard it from the students. Youve been talking about the homelessness problem. We have the homeless in our classes. If you cut these programs, there is no bridge for them to get jobs. The vocational cutting is just a nightmare. The 90 cut of the older Adult Education is faith nightmare. Thats another vulnerable population that can become homeless. Youre a great city, doing great things. Youre progressive. Keep it up. Because Public Education is in danger. We have to look out for everybody. Were connected with each other. We provide the employees for many of the jobs here in the hotel, the culinary business. We also we deserve to be treated with respect. The students, the teachers. Theyve got emails and wo
That a Superintendent Search and brought a divided school together. I believe you bring the pieces of usf together too because you have personal experience. You know what its like to be a student. You attended that campus before. So i understand that you can sympathize with how the students need to have a place to learn, to navigate and develop alongside others. But you can also sympathize with the teachers, too, right . Because you not only were a k12 teacher, youre also a Community College instructor as well. You know what its like to teach with care, to have colleagues supporting the school and to help students. And i believe you care about education, because you have a degree in education and served on the board of education, too. The cuts are not inconsequential to you. Mostly i believe in you because ocean campus is in your district. Since you have gone from being a student to a Community College teacher to finally a San Francisco supervisor, i believe you wont turn us away. Be t
Dozens of phone calls and emails of people complaining theyre not feeling safe, that there are fires being lit in tent encampments, that there is needles, human waste, that there are people in Mental Health crisis. Supervisor haney and i passed this so we have a permanent longterm solution to the problem. What is the city is doing is moving people from one corner to the next. Im glad that some supervisors dont have to deal with those problems, but those of us that do every day, its not just, you know, a natural phenomenon that all people who are experiencing homelessness feel that the only places that they can go are district 6, 9 and 10 with some in 8 and some in 5. Its a manmade phenomenon. Its the fact that police let things happen that the Homeless Department let things happen in certain neighborhoods and dont in others. If were serious about all being part of the solution in solving this problem, then please dont put that responsibility on three or four supervisors. Please stand u
The Fashion Department walks in. Oh my god, they just told us were gone, were gone. And its not okay. So you do need to have a hearing. We do want accountability. We should have a comp troller. We want to be sustainable, but we want to be here for everybody. Were going to kill our vulnerable population if you make these cuts. Its sickening. And i saw those students when we brought those papers. In minutes, theyre like, sign it, sign it. They said city college is our home. We love city college. Thats the place for them. We want to work with the city on this. So please support it. Hello supervisors. I came at the last meeting. Im an Emergency Department nurse at San Francisco general. And i am also a shop steward for cisu1021 for nurses. So i was a little star struck last night and i met a few amazing supervisors at a get together at our party with a little wine in my system. And i just wanted to say that im really excited i got to meet some of new person. And the reason why im actually