San Francisco City college. I never knew that i would one day grow up and oversee the Free City College program at the department of children, youth, and their families, increasing access to Educational Opportunities for our Community Every day. In this role, i also monitoring the entire budget for the program. My passion for education started at a young age. I grew up in a lowincome household and have experienced firsthand the transformative nature of education both as a student and teacher. But over time, i realized how Education Systems failed our most vulnerable students. As a former legislative aide, i worked on legislation to ban the box on private college applications, making San Francisco the first city in the nation to do so. During this time of a Global Pandemic and a social movement to dismantle systemic racism, city College Needs a new voice and a proven leader in education. My lifes mission has been to ensure institutions are accountable to the people they are built to ser
A virtual rally, senator Kamala Harris will be speaking, hosted by bernie sanders. You are watching live coverage on cspan. We deserve to be protected and demand the protection we need to get through this. Many of us dont have pto or six time. We are struggling to get paid time off to take care of our families. If i took unpaid time off to protect myself, i could be penalized or fired. The American People are sick and tired of subsidizing the largest some of the corporations in this country. Workers fighting for a higher minimum wage. To providehe ability for my family. Trying to balance between meals today. Then i can go to work or i skip a meal and i can pay my rent. Does it scare you . Billionaires while my family struggles to know where our next meal was coming from. It is sad. Pay your workers. A living wage is 15 an hour. Mr. Sanders good evening and thank you for joining us for what i think is going to be a very interesting discussion. Let me think the workers that have particip
Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 29, special meeting of government audit and oversight. I am the chair of the committee joined by vice chair and Committee Member haney. Thank you to the clerk and i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements. To protect the public, Board Members and City Employees the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to all various local, state orders and directive. Committee members are participating in video conference. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Sfgovtv has the calling number on the screen. Provide comments by phone calling 4156550001. Once connected into the meeting id is 146 6994959. When prompted press pound twice to be connected to the meeting. When connected you will hear the meeting discussions but your line will be in his senning need only. When your item comes up dial star three to
Staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements. To protect the public, Board Members and City Employees the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. This is taken pursuant to all various local, state orders and directive. Committee members are participating in Video Conference. Public comment is available for each item on the agenda. Sfgovtv has the calling number on the screen. Provide comments by phone calling 4156550001. Once connected into the meeting id is 146 6994959. When prompted press pound twice to be connected to the meeting. When connected you will hear the meeting discussions but your line will be in his senning need only. When your item comes up dial star three to be added to the speaker line. The speaker prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. When you are unmuted you may begin. Best practices call from quiet location and speak clearly and turndown television or radio or streaming device. Behind full of potential ti
We are in the midst of this terrible pandemic. So many people have lost their jobs and income. We are worried about climate change, systemic racism. We are worried about so many things. Tonight, we are going to be asking, how does this happen . In the richest country in the history of the world, half the people are living paychecktopaycheck. The billionaires are doing well. Does that make sense . How does it happen in our great country, we have millions of workers earning starvation wages. You just heard that on the video. You cant make it on 10 an hour. You cant pay your rent. You cant feed your kids or take care of yourself. How does it happen that the United States of america, our great nation, is the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a human right . Were spending twice as much per capita on health care than any other nation. 90 million are uninsured or underinsured. How does it happen that today in the midst of a pandemic, becomes because Rep