Model of providing services and that is now figuring out which of those services that need to be returned in person and its been a very challenging time for our agency. And being in this shelter mostly telehealth model now has so altered our Service Delivery clerk your time is ended. Thank you for your comments. Thank you for your call. Next speaker. Caller good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you for your leadership on the city budget and for looking out for communities and all of San Francisco during these very challenging times. My name is christian ascalante and i lead the workers right program and we have seen the impacts of the Health Pandemic and the challenging to our most Vulnerable Community members. We serve mostly low income immigrant filipino families who are struggling to city in the city due to the high cost of housing and the ongoing displacement of our community from manila town to soma, mission, Bernal Heights and the excelsior. And we have Domestic Workers in care homes and theyre facing a reduction in hours or have been laid off all together. And now were worried how they will make ends meet. Every day were doing our best to address our Community Members urgent needs and filling out unomaha Employment Unemployment applications and building capacity among filipinos and in partnership with other low income communities and organizations. We have always been an essential bridge between the city and our Community Members who would otherwise not know where to go to access resources or services in San Francisco. We have helped to have Language Access for filipinos throughout the city. As you look at budget investments at this time its important that the city keep whole and prioritize communities like the Filipino Community that is already so vulnerable and now with covid19 are at the highest risk of further displacement. Thank you. Clerk next speaker, please. Caller hi, good afternoon. Thank you, supervisor fewer, for holding this extremely important hearing on nonprofit sustainability. My name is lina schotts and i Welcome Health institute today. And providing Early Education and senior and social services. While theres been longstanding issues that have seen to increased costs and recruitment challenges and others that have been discussed during this hearing, one critical issue that we feel and have felt during this covid19 period is the availability of cash to sustain us through this uncertain period. Particularly as we move to the end of the school year. So we successfully applied for the Small BusinessAssistance Program through the federal government, a paycheck plan, and p. P. O. Loans, not grants, from the federal government. And now with weve gotten guidance from the controller level, and were getting instructions that are to not dwell on city contracts because it is viewed as double dipping. I think that some of our concern is that this is a loan and it is forgivable if we are able to prove that it is forgivable. But it is clearly not a grant at this time. And so given the upcoming federal legislation we need to determine what part is loan and what part is forgivable. And from your direction as a county controller, we could actually technically receive a loan from any other Lending Institution and not a bank in that instance and not be given this direction. Ill just kind of share with you some of the challenges that were feeling because of this sort of endofyear crunch. So the San FranciscoSuicide Prevention which i directed as an interim director last year emerged with indiscernible Institute Last year. It took us several months to negotiate in terms to the contract in the early fall but the contract was drawn up and completed and still have carried 1. 2 of burden. So the reason that we felt we needed the p. P. E. Is that the county clerk thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, can you hear me now . Clerk yes. Caller hello . Clerk hello am. Caller i have interpretation and im interpreting for juanita so we request two additional minutes. [speaking spanish] voice of translator good afternoon to all of the supervisors and thank you for providing a space for me to talk today. [speaking spanish] voice of translator and also acknowledging that you have done a lot of work to support our communities. [speaking spanish] voice of translator my name is kwana, and we support women and lowincome families. [speaking spanish] voice of translator and even before the covid19 pandemic, many of our members, theyre single mothers and mothers with children that have suffered a lot of challenges coming into this country and living here. [speaking spanish] voice of translator after the covid19 pandemic we saw that many of our Community Members, may be of them mothers and latina were cleaning houses and they lost their job and many of them were out of work. [speaking spanish] voice of translator the story of many of them is that once they lost their job they didnt know how to access the Government Resources and they were really left behind in this. [speaking spanish] voice of translator this is hugely impactful because since they didnt know where to Access Services and how to seek support, we were the ones that connected them to food, connected them to resources that would help them in this difficult time. [speaking spanish] voice of translator and without having the documentation or the Language Access, they cant access supports. [speaking spanish] voice of translator the most threatening part of this right now is housing. They dont know if they will be kicked out of their house if they cant make rent. [speaking spanish] voice of translator these communities need a lot of attention and a lot of resources and guidance right now and they have been left out and we are the ones that are providing them. And we ask that you continue to fund these programs and these organizations that are the lifeline for these Community Members right now. Thank you so much for your attention and for letting us speak today. Chair fewer thank you. Clerk thank you. There are approximately 26 callers in the queue. I wanted to mention that. Next caller, please. Chair fewer thank you very much. Caller i was having a conversation about the hello . Chair fewer hello, speaker caller i am joyce lamb, the codirector indiscernible [broken audio] and we have worked with lowincome families and across the city. And indiscernible our community has been hit by indiscernible since the beginning of the year. So, you know, lowered Small Business activities compounded gentrification and high cost of housing, our members have been living in fear of losing their jobs and housing for all of 2020. Now with covid19 were very worried that well be pushed out of the city all together. Our community is prostly comprised the hospitality workers and theyre largely unemployed. We have families who lost all of their income in march and theyre not sure if theyll have a job to return to. We have Domestic Workers who still go to work every day as part of the essential workforce and concerned about their health and safety and desperately needing protection and information about their workplace. Since indiscernible and Unemployment Insurance and we have received over 600 calls since march. Responsible in this time especially in this time when we have unprecedented need and the city departments are overwhelmed, nonprofit organizations like ourselves are an essential bridge between the city and those who would otherwise be disconnected to services. So what were asking is that, you know, as you consider the budget cuts and budget investments at this time that its really important that the city prioritize and to keep hold with the organizations that are directly serving their community that were already vulnerable and are at the highest risk of displacement. And to guarantee everyones success and wellbeing i urge the community to apply a Racial Justice lens and think about clerk thank you for your call. Next speaker, please. Hello, caller. You can caller caller chair fewer hello, caller. indiscernible . Caller caller hello . Hello. Caller hello. Yes, you can speak for Public Comment. Go ahead. Caller hi, this is farrah short with the Community Housing partnership and were a nonprofit Supportive Housing provider. We house over 1,700 residents and employ over 230 staff members. And i just wanted to thank the board for taking this issue on today and for truly examining it and caring about, you know, the future of nonprofits in San Francisco. And i wanted to point out just a little irony that i think that is relevant that many of our staff who are employed serving residents of our supportive lowincome housing, themselves they do not have housing stability. And that is because of the wages that were able to provide in the Nonprofit Sector right now in a market like San Francisco where many, many of our staff are not far really from the Living Conditions of the folks that they are serving. And that is something that is it should be shocking. And it should be certainly be addressed. And we need to have a system of sustainability. We need to provide for workers who are doing essential work on the frontlines, providing services that, frankly, the city should be providing. And we are stepping in to do the good work and folks need to be compensated fairly. Were unable to do that and you know, not just us but im speaking speaking on behalf of a lot of nonprofits in this city that are plagued with things like high turnover and retention issues. And hiring problems in terms of getting quality and qualified staff. And that all has to do with the in fact were being undercompensated. And that we dont have a sense of the longterm sustainability knowing that well be supported wholly. So we just encourage the board to continue. Clerk thank you, your time is ended. Next speaker, please. Hello . Hello, speaker . Caller hello . Clerk yes, please begin. Caller good afternoon, supervisors. Thank you for your leadership and advocacy in these tough, trying times. Im with the Community Services and our organization is a member of emphasizing and hedge funds. We provide social services and Leadership Development and Community Engagement and advocacy for the immigrants and working class. They have been marge marginalized and a vulnerable population. And covid19 has exacerbated their hardship and put their housing at risk. Our organization is hearing from a large number of our members that they are worried that they will be evicted from their housing, that they are harassed by their landlords for lack of rent, of payment. And it is critical for our latin and immigrant communities to be able to remain residents of San Francisco because of the protections that our sanctuary city affords them. A working class that is deeply impacted by covid19. Some who immediately lost their only source of income and theyre uncertain if theyll have a job after this order is lifted. Others found themselves working essential jobs and have exposed them to covid19. Many of our Domestic Workers who are often single mothers found themselves unable to provide food for the children. Our day lane laborers too koirk thank thank. Clerk thank you, your time is ended. Next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon, chair fewer and supervisors. And thank you for your leadership and making sure that the needs of the most vulnerable residents in San Francisco are being addressed at this extremely difficult time. My name is antonio diaz and im the organizations director and a member of San Francisco rising. And the organize with the latino families and youth in the mission, excelsior and other San Francisco neighborhoods. These families were already facing challenges to surviving in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the country prior to covid19. It has been well documented that communities of general in color have been disproportionately impacted by the covid19 pandemic and its Public Health and economic impacts. And as essential workers who live in overcrowded housing, and the citys lowincome latina population has been particularly been vulnerable with high infection rates. Our members have been impacted by job losses and inability to pay rents and covid infections. In one instance a whole household of our members were diagnosed with the coronavirus. As an organization we have visited to provide essential Service Support work for our members and we believe that we, along with the Community Organizations in San Francisco, are trying to meet the needs of the most vulnerable residents. As you look at decisions its crucial to uplift justice and the austerity is made worse by the covid19 pandemic. To prioritize the communities that are the most vulnerable and at the highest risk of displacement. We ask that you look at the budget and deprioritize those things that have questionable value like police and enforcement. Thank you, supervisors. Caller thank you, chair fewer and supervisors walton and yee and ronen. And chair fewer and supervisor walton and yee and ronen, thank you. Im the executive director of for health and wellness. Im speaking on behalf of the San Francisco black coalition. And s. F. Black is a coalition of African American and indiscernible churches that are concerned about current and previous funding that existing within black led organizations. Organizations led by black people that have less funding than our nonblack counterparts. And rebuilding the communities that are deeply harmed by the Structural Racism of this city will only be when black communities are centered and prioritizes. In the midst of this pandemic we must be included in that process as a people with a history of exclusion and Structural Racism, if were not included, then were not in the conversation. There must be equity in this process because there definitely wasnt equity before covid19. And if our s. F. Black agencies are cut there will be no equity for black African Americans. We must be part of this process now. I thank you so much for this time. Clerk thank you. Currently there are approximately 23 callers in the queue. Next speaker, please. Caller hello, i am with the Mental Health association of San Francisco and im the outreach manager for our agency. We have been around since 1947, and i like a lot of the discussion that i have heard today. I appreciate the opportunity that the supervisors are giving us to comment on what has been talked about. And we share a lot of the same values that i have heard mentioned. We are i say a 90 run pure agency and i hear a lot about Peer Development and thats a priority for us. And we also last year had a conference, redefining crazy conference, with the idea that our system is broken and i feel like everything that im hearing today that is being confirmed more than ever. We are a lot of our funding right now we actually administer the california peer line. And we are hiring peers and so if people know of candidates that might be interested they can contact us at our with website at mentalhealthsf. Org. And our wages are competitive. And like mentioned earlier a lot of peers are just theyve experienced homelessness already and Mental Health challenges and so that theyre also part of a vulnerable population. So we also have questions about the funding. I realize that some of the contracts have been funded through the end of this year and were wondering what will happen after that. And our shelterinplace services have been expanded and the need is very great. So thank you so much for this opportunity and i look forward to more discussions. Thank you. Clerk hello, next speaker, please. Caller hello, can you hear me . Clerk yes, please begin. Caller thank you. Hi, good afternoon. My name is jenny pearlman, im the associate director of Strategic Partnerships and policies from safe and sound. And im here today representing the Family Resource alliance which is a unique network of 26 Resource Centers that reach at least 13,000 children, youth and parents and caregivers each year. Families who are the most vulnerable families in our city and we reach them in every neighborhood. With families in San Francisco already struggling before the outbreak of covid19, we have