College. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, there. My name is hawn. I teach at city college in the english department. I also want to thank the Community Members who have spoken in favor of reparations, and i stand in favor of reparations. And thank you for bringing that forward. So i am a lifelong student educator and Community Member in our Public Education system. And Public Education is the best thing thats ever happened to me and my family. And i want to just affirm that education is our right. I tell my students who come to my classes that they deserve the same opportunities as any stanford student. They just dont have the same resources. They deserve a library thats open till midnight. Their Library Closes at 6 45. And weve cut back on librarians. I want to talk about love. Because in my english 1 class, my freshman composition class, we read bell hooks all about love. We do a semester long investigation in love, on love and what is love. We learn that love is a choice. We
That say, you know, i cant because i want another opportunity to do it. Now you are supposed to do it in this semester and i say i dont have the class. And i dont want to say please i need your support to everybody to culminate together. Thats what i see, working with them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Im a 2121 member, chapter president , San Francisco general first. I want to say that the staffing in Public Health needs to be fixed. Its outrageous what we are going through right now, even people in my classification, its terrible. People are calling in sick more, their productivity is going down. We are losing money, because things arent getting done properly because you dont have enough people to fix that problem. But im really here, aside from that, as a black person, who started my early life living up in the projects in ernest point who family got pushed out because my father couldnt get a house in San Francisco. He couldnt get a loan. We ended up in bay leaf city.
Privatization scheme. So no matter how progressive we consider ourselves in San Francisco, we need to look at chile as an example in terms of whatnot to do, including the issue of our pensions, which have become privatized, and which are trying to they are trying to do that to us as well as working as well, privatize our pension systems whereas the [off mic] thank you. Next speaker. Thank you. Next speaker. Right behind you. Thank you. Hello. Members of the board, supervisors, i am aurelius walker, pastor of True Hope Church in bayview point. A pastor for 15 years and San Francisco leaders demand San Francisco create a Reparation Fund with hotel and marijuana taxes. The city must make amend for the past injustice with support for education, housing and economical opportunity. Martin luther king said the arc of a moral universe is long but it bends toward love, compassion, mercy and justice. We go forever and justice lives, creating crashes that will drive the power structure to change.
Good afternoon good afternoon to some this is just block six, a place in sunnydale. To others, it is a Public Housing community. But to the residents, this represents hope, this represents home, this represents a community where many promises have been made over the past. I am excited to see the second building, the second homes go up here at sunnydale. Youve heard from a lot of the leaders who have been working on this for years. Ive been fortunate enough to work on this project as executive director of w. C. D. , working to make sure that people in this community actually got to work on the projects here in their community. It is exciting, as i look around and see some of the residents that live in other hope s. F. Communities that came to support, because they know and understand what this represents here today. And as i look around, i see phil, and we talk about the hudd that were going to bring to this community, a World Class Community center, basketball courts, things that make
Ladies and gentlemen, friends, distinguished stakeholders, welcome to this historic sunnydale classic groundbreaking. [applause] we are honored to bring up our most distinguished guest, the leader of the city and county of franchise, please give a warm welcome to mayor london breed. [applause] mayor good afternoon, sunnydale are you here . [laughter] mayor all right. Im excited to be here today. I feel like i spend a lot of time here doing some amazing things. We know this is a long time coming. And, in fact, i keep going back every time we come to any of our Public Housing locations i continue to go back to when i grew up in the Western Addition in plaza east, and there were 300 units there that were torn down and only 200 built. And all over the city, we brought forth a program, through the federal government, called hope fix. You remember hope fix ran out of money, ran out of resources. And the people who were promised in places like sunnydale and all over the city, there was no sup