Around safe sexual materials. Barriers to access prevents people from receiving necessary care which harms the community. We must do better for our Community Members. The antichoice harassment invades the personal safe and privacy of the patients. I myself am at planned parenthood. I can imagine how uncomfortable it is for those trying to receive the Many Services that planned parenthood survive. Intrusive interactions are the very things that cause someone to not enter. I urge the board of supervisors to fund a Security Guard to ensure Patient Safety during heightened protesters periods. Thank you for your time. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is keith robert. This is the first time ive ever used that name to announce myself but ive recently come out as transgender. As a transgender personal, ive experienced a lot of hatred towards myself in my life, but planned parenthood was somewhere i could go to get safe and solid health care. When one of my younger relatives behave pregnant under horrible circumstances, she decided to have an abortion, and when she went to the clinic to have this treatment done, not only was she harassed and dehumanized, but she was threatened, and that was a horrible experience for her and for me to have to watch, and she grew up with that on her conscience, and her heart, and i believe that that experience is still with her today. Thats completely not something that she should have ever had to deal with or something that anybody else should ever have to deal with. Its completely unacceptable. This community is so strong and has such a phenomenal idea of progressive and forward thinking ideals and thinking and ideas that i embody. You as leaders that have created this environment can help us create an environment where we all thrive. By putting a Security Guard outside the San Francisco clinic it ensures that me, my family, and people that come after me feel safe and secured in our community. Thank you so much for your time. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoonevening. My name is claudia, and i am the president of the chapter of planned parenthood of San Francisco state university. This organization has allowed me to give back to the community that i moved here that welcomed me with open arms. At times when i have shown up to work at the health center, ive experienced individuals trying to make me feel shame for the type of work that im doing at planned parenthood . Im at extra high alert when protesters are present, especially during high protesting times, especially during the last lent period. Someone followed me until i was at the door, and im shaking as im talking about it. I had to take a deep breath, and calm myself and try to get myself together, and thats something no one should experience as theyre trying to get services at planned parenthood. It is important to me that my peers, young people in need of quality and Affordable Care are able to access the needed services of planned parenthood without the threat of violence. I ask for the funding of a Security Guard to assist during these times of heightened violence. Thank you for your time, have a great day. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Do in my position is help victims access justice by accompany them to the police station, acting as their support station and making sure that their right to an interpreter is honored by Law Enforcement. This often involves waiting for hours with a victim and her children until an officer is able to sit with her to take her report, hours she would not be likely to wait if she did not have an advocate there to make her feel safe. I know youre all aware of the homicide for Domestic Violence victims. The work of Domestic Violence agencies in San Francisco is really homicide prevention, helping victims and their children escape from the violence in their lives, and helping victims feel safer for reaching out to Law Enforcement when they need it. I know you all support the work of Domestic Violence agencies in San Francisco, and we appreciate your continued budgetary support. Thank you so much for your time. Chair fewer thank you. Next s next speaker, please. 42 of Asian Pacific islanders in San Francisco live in poverty. A third are seniors. Selfhelp for the elderly is a Community Organization serving over 45,000 seniors a year. Today, we are requesting help for our 3133 taraval location. Because of the growing need for services in the park side neighborhood, our existing senior south side locations are unable to expand our services to meet this need. For example, our meals program, champs, continues to grow with over 2,000 seniors attending who may need other services and never accessed ageing services before. Fortunately, our donor donated a home at 3133 taraval street into a center to serve seniors with a focus on asian immigrant seniors and other seniors on the south side of San Francisco. We are requesting for 3 million to complete this facility and to help more seniors. Thank you very much for your time today and your consideration. Chair fewer thank you very much. Next speaker. Hello, brenda. Thank you for listening to us. Thank you for missing lunch. I am here for first voice. We present, produce and perform the stories and praise songs of our people. My grandfather was a founder of japantown in the 1800s. My grandmother was a leader of the chinatown the first chinatown garment union. The work that we do is deeply rooted in San Francisco, all of San Francisco. Were considered thought leaders in the arts field, nationally, regionally and locally. We gave the National Address to the state of utahs annual arts complex. Im a Committee Member of apapa 2020, held in new york. Its the largest convening of arts producers in if the english in the English Speaking world. We do this because we know from our work nationally that artists of color must not be marginalized. We must be made part of americas culture and identity so we can ultimately impact her psychology to embrace all of us who live her. 45, the number live here. 45, the number of artists that weve produced here. 1,000, the number of people this year including women in recovery, seniors who took classes, rehearsed or performed in our studio in the richmond district. 2021, the year we premier and tour a new work about San Francisco commissioned by the hewlett and commissioned by the art fund. We pass forward her history, the people who guilbuilt and ft for this children. We are a member of the a. P. I. Council. Although we have funding and grants. We are asking for 22,500 to help us with organizational support. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you, brenda. Next speaker, please. Hello. I work at lyric which supports lgbt and trans youth. I am calling on the board of supervisors to show their support. The lyric fellowship is about growing leadership to ensure that lgbt and trans youth have a voice to impact their lives. We are asking you to continue fulling lyric at the full ask of 200,000. The majority of fellows and people of color who live with disabilities, two thirds have experienced violence in the past year. A third struggle with addiction and none have finished college. We have an obligation to uplift trans young adults who are at a critical moment in development, both in terms of being transgender and in terms of transitioning into adulthood. Lyric fellows are already a part of supporting their community. Theyve worked on trans and youth elder brunch. One is a youth commissioner. Another recently got signed to a hiphop label. Another created a short film that aired last weekend. One is a member of the justice coalition. We ask the supervisors to affirm the Budget Justice Coalition ask. Thank you so much. Chair fewer thank you. Good afternoon. My name is joejoe. Im on the Trans Committee for the Mayors Office on trans initiatives, and impart of the lyric fellowship for youth, and i still access their services today. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is michelle carington. I am a lifer in bayview, and i am a member of local 261. I am here to speak on behalf of open door legal. Open door legal i was a client five years ago when they first came to my community, a community where had no legal help whatsoever as far as housing, evictions, whatever the case was. We had no help. These were two people who graduated from law school who chose out of all the opportunities in San Francisco, to help in the Bayview Community bayviewhunters point community, and they have been a god send. We are now reaching out to expand our services, free level and Civil Services to excelsior and to the fillmore districts. This money i feel will be very well spent in helping us do this expansion and help people like they helped myself and many others here in my community. I am now a threeyear board member, and i am on the westbrook apartments tenants association. Im the treasurer. So i dont know what to say about this organization, but they have been a god send, so i appreciate you listening to us and hope that you will consider us on the budget. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is claudia, and i am going to talk in behalf of open door legal, as well. I had a case with them. I am a witness of what they can do for someone that needs legal help. I my kids were really complicated because it involves different type of things like Domestic Violence, restraining order, homelessness, and also i was about to lose my kids, and i was i came to hope door legal, like, two, three days before think child they took my kids, and they did an amazing job. After looking for help for more than five organizations that we have in San Francisco, the day that i came to open door legal, i obviously had no hope, but i had it in my mind that maybe i was not going to be turned away like the other organizations, but open door legal did not do that. They took my situation and they helped me, and they were very, very effective on everything that they did. Im a witness that they worked overnight to have a you know, to win my case. And not only that, they changed my whole career. They helped me get my house back, helped me get my kids back, which is really important in my whole life. I would like to say it would be a really big blessing if you guys keep supporting and funding this organization that has been so much help for bayview. Ive been living in bayview for more than 18 years and have never seen a group that works like that with that passion, and its young people that they really want to do good with the community. Thank you so much. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker. Bless you. Hi. My name isle lina, and im her on behalf of open door legal, as well. Im a former client, as well, and i cannot express to you the Great Service that open door legal has provided for me and my family. Beyond just me and my family, ive also seen the work that theyve done within the community. And if i tell you ive lived in San Francisco all my life, and there has been multiple opportunities that i have given to the legal system in my case of Families Court as well as dealing with unfairness, being a tenant within San Franciscos judicial system. And i most definitely believe that they come from more than just a legal background, they come from a heart of justice. They believe in advocating and doing things for people that no one else in this community does. No one else in San Francisco even tries to take the opportunity to put themselves and place themes in the shoes of their and place themselves in the shoes of their client. I am asking you guys to please, please, please fund them because their so many people that have there are so many people that have cases like me and claudia and have gone unnoticed. And im advocating for, and im telling you with my whole heart, i am i believe in them with my whole heart, more than i can tell you in two minutes. But please believe that these people are genuinely involved in truth and justice for all. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Well, good afternoon. My names adrian. Im the executive director and cofounder at open door legal. We are an Award Winning nonprofit pioneering the truth that everybody is more access if youre able to access the law. When we opened in 2013, homelessness declined 56 or 65 . Weve documented a 21 1 social return on investment and returned millions of dollars in cancelled debt and damages to very lowincome individuals in district 10. Other research has demonstrated that each legal aid attorney has eight times the influence on reducing property crimes as one police officer, and that statistically, legal aid is the only intervention that reduces Domestic Violence in a community. And, you know, we know there is a lot of budget asks, and funding is very limited. Thats why i think its very important that the board Fund Interventions based on comprehensive outcomebased data. And the data shows, if you really dig into it, that legal aid is the most effective way to reduce poverty in San Francisco. So this year, were asking for funding to help us expand in the western and northern neighborhoods, and hopefully well make San Francisco the first countity in the Country Access to universal legal access. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is jodi, and i am the director of walk San Francisco. We are the only pedestrian organization working to make San Francisco more pedestrian friendly and safer walking streets. Walk San Francisco was instrumental in 2014 in getting our city to adopt vision zero, the policy goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2024. Im here today to ask you for Financial Support to help because we are in a Public Health crisis. With only six months into the year, we have already had 18 fatalities. Out of those, 10 have been pedestrians, and one was a senior. 50 have been people of color. These crashes have happened in every corner of the city in every district. Walk San Francisco has made vision zero our organizational career goal. We run the senior and people with disabilities subgroup of that will cooition as well as the coalition as well as the bay area families for safe streets. These are the people that we have lost due to street violence, and its going to take help to get to vision zero, and this is where we need funding, education, fund raising, and really let people know firsthand what its like to live with traffic violence and the impact of that, and were asking for your help with this work. I really know and im hopeful that all of you remain as committed to vision zero in reducing the number of seniors, immigrants, children, and people of color impacted by this the moment. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Gerald Miller and im here to ask you for help with the ddap program at juvenile hall. Theres an ask on the table for 300,000. I would like to show my support for the Panel Attorneys at juvenile hall, which we work very closely with, and i would ask for your support and full funding for them, as well. Thank you. Chair fewer thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, everybody, and its a miracle i made it through this. My name is jordan davis. Im a district 6 resident, and despite what some haters think, i am actually speaking for myself right now. I come to you today because im on an extended Hunger Strike for rent relief for Supportive Housing tenants. Lets just say for a number of days or years, it would have reached adult hood. Yep, 18 days, and im still up and walking around. I am one of the tenants in my neighborhood who are rent burdened. Director kosinski predicted that 8 million will be able to cure this by lowering our rents to 30 . Im willing to address it all, and shame on you for not addressing it in the budget. This is a longstanding issue, 20 years that needs to be addressed. While i know this is an uphill battle, we need some relief. And we cant get it all here, there are some supervisors with big visionary plans to address this. Finally, i want to say if this is the last time i speak before you ever, know that you have a responsibility to close this gap and make this right. Find some ways to fund nonlife affirming programs. Grow the pie because unlike my slum lord randy shaw, i dont pit organizations against each other. Grow the fucking pie. Peace out. Chair fewer next speaker, please. Hello, guys. Im nicholas parise, and im coming at you because i was homeless when i was 15 because my mom went to prison. I spent 20 years on the streets and then ten years in if prosecu in prison. And i used these p