We come walking through it thats our commitment weve seen the millstones just a year ago we were here celebrating the instruments decision an dermoand prop 8 and a if i months ago we celebrated 10 years of w45er7 doing here to lay the foundation for change across the country lovd 18 its in the United States of america have seen it theres more to be done clapping today, this forever stamp puts us and harvey milk stamp autonomy face and name in history but your culture of of tolerance and acceptance for the world to understand we have to educate more people and bring more people along and keep the doors of opportunity open and its centered right here in this wonderful, wonderful city of San Francisco so thank you, again. And ann and stuart to the positively services and all of who you who are here youll see a stamp that youll have to reproduce more of those stamps im in line because i want to be part of this exhibition of history but the reminder lets keep working together and making sur
And i could go there are so symmany city starves calling names there so many people that contributed to this project im hoping to go into detail about the rec and park but i hope they know how much we appreciate their efforts. In our neighborhood we have neighborhood organizations that come together not for power but for service we have neighborhood organizations that serve not only their constituents but everyone in the neighborhood even people they dont know we have neighborhood organizations that serve the people in the neighborhood not only today but years from now. People we may never meet the people after us this project required the cooperation getting the land and making this happen the friends of joe demay this and the friends of the Community Center and the russian hill and the p t o or every Single School in the area theyve called people to meetings and written letters and lobbied for supervisor chiu and lobbied the mayor those people and organizations have used the clot and
Census so weve incurred some savings there and we also have some savings from our delays in hiring. I wanted to point this out because this is something thats come up at a couple of the last commissioner meetings and its also come up extensively in our meetings with our Nursing Union as weve talked about their contract. We have despite the salary savings, that is not coming from our inability to fill our clinical positions, although that is a very serious issue for us. We have about 80 nursing positions at San Francisco general that are unfilled and we are working overtime to fill those positions, however, from a financial perspective we are back filling those shifts with per diem and registry, so thats not whats driving these savings. Its the units below census and the other positions we are having trouble back filling, which are things like our information technology, weve had a hard time hiring there, clerical positions, interpreters, etc. I want to point that out in particular beca
Supporting the recommendations, i am particularly want to be supportive at the fiscal level of making sure that there is a budget process to include that position. Certainly, would be supportive of deactivating the Advisor Group and in particular, i think that it was supervisor chius comment of one of the biggest reasons why i would like the supervisor to be put together again is to gather, or to come up with ideas in which we could as a city, legally, gather better data around people with disabilities and aging. And who is employed and who is not employed and that is where i would be standing, and once again, thank you, thank you for the public, for coming today. And thank you supervisor mar for hosting this hearing. Thank you, supervisor yee. And i also wanted to acknowledge, i have learned a lot, i think that the stories that people have told have just shed tremendous light on the challenges and the ongoing discrimination and how much more the city needs to do to insure equality and
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