Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Appropriations 20240712

Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Appropriations 20240712

Renter of district 5 and member of the senior and disability actions housing collaborative. There is so much stuff from displacement and high rents before the pandemic. And now, illness and income loss and inability to pay rent due to the virus. Thousands of seniors, people with disabilities, other low income folks, and families of color are most vulnerable to the homes. I urge expanded support for the Legal Council programs and these are life lines to keep us in our homes. We rely greatly on the temporary rental assistance programs and also the permanent rent sub subsidiaries and we need them to be expanded especially now. So, less money for the police and more money for 100 affordable housing, no more market rates luxury housing and it contains just a trickle of affordable. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller hi, my name is chris and im working at San Francisco general and im on San Francisco native as well as a member of s. Sciu2021. Im asking the board of supervisors to reconsider and not pass the mayors budget as presented. We are definitely out here every day as front line essential workers, where Disaster Service workers and weve been coming in regularly every day as is called on or deployed when needed and its time the city recognizes our hard work and dedication and assisting the city when needed, when the budget is needed to be balanced or when called on that they finally recognize our hard work and honor their commitment and their agreement for our payouts in our budgets. Im calling on the board of supervisors to recognize and support all labor unions and getting their fair share and not balance the budgets on the backs of the frontline workers that have been out here everyday in these hotels and in these clinics at the hospitals giving out food in the shelters and the command centers down at moscni. Were asking and pleading for you guys to clerk your time has elapsed. Thank you thank you so much for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller my name is andrew and aim voter and residents in district 9. I urge you to defund, disarm and disband the sfpd and Sheriffs Department. The budget is a reflection of values and priorities. San francisco residents supervisors and the mayor cut fund ago cross the board and except no a oppressive system designed to punish people. What does it say about our values and priorities . Your personal values and when we fund the place over school, healthcare and building up our communities rather than force it into submission. This proposal one where the sfpd and sheriff is have needed cuts and see budget increases next year and its a thought to the clear message. Everyone is aware of the challenge we see mace and on the top of my head, housing being healthcare, particularly in the Global Pandemic and the fires that are currently burning. This isnt going to be easy but how are the sfpd or Sheriffs Department equipped to solve these issues. Theyre with the real issues. And practice systemically theyre ineffective and oppressive to our neighbors who are black indigenous and people of color. These funds are much better served elsewhere in our budget. A failure to recognize a we heard you say black lives matter so use your power to make the budget reflect that. This year and fire and. Thank you, mr. Dye. Next speaker, please. Caller do we have another speaker . Caller hi, thank you so much for being willing to people. Im a San Francisco resident and also a white male and even a capitalist with a wellbaiag job. So from that perspective i understand how one can consider the request to did he fund the police to be a radical notion. I used inform feel the same way thinking the police were here to protect us and care for our safety. Sometimes back i ended up spending 10 years of my life working amongst and around the homeless of this amazing city and i was shocked to see a completely different side to the police. It was night and day to see how the same police force had treat medicine with respect and courtesy had turned into a terrifying and threatening force. All that changed was the polices view of what groups of people they thought i belonged to. I want to make it very clear, during this time, i had not committed crimes or had the appearance of illegal activity. I seemed to be of a group with the Police Department was more than willing to a ras, attack and destroy. They destroyed my property and they pointed their weapons at me and clearly were not here to protect me or the people around me. Its easy and say for a board member to look to reform and easy to ignore those problems that dont effect us who live a professional lifestyle or have the ability to sit on the board but we have learned through decades that reform of a system cannot work when the system is fundamentally broken to avoid any repair. There are better options. I beg of you to take the brave and powerful choice to not just pass this issue onto the next board or the next politician or mayor, but show the world that San Francisco can take a leadership role and learning how to give everyone i live in a neighborhood ignored by police and they do show up or protect or put energies towards solving crimes here and we are still here. In this case the Fire Department has disproved the myth that we cant live without the thin blueline. I would have sent it back for a refund if this was from, im not just asking for a defund of the police and i have taken my backs. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is inaudible and mother of two children. Im calling like many others to urge to you aggressively deopportunitdefundthe sfpd. To listen to the recommendation of mega blacks and wealth and disparity to the black community and ininstead invest in the black communities institutions not a agency ignoring black lives. They process at long last and this is the First Step Towards long overdue reparations. Do we still have you, caller . Sorry, did you not hear that . I was just wondering, yes, do you want to continue . Caller yes. Sorry. Im finished. Have a good night. Thank you so much. Next speaker, please. This is Martin Steinman and im a d9 receipt debt and i worked in Central America Resource Center and first i would like to thank the board and for fully funding San Francisco and Legal Defense class and also the San Francisco and network and im working and i see everyday and especially in the context of the Current Administration on relenting assault on immigrants. Just today, there was news of daca flaunting clearly the Supreme Court and trying to get rid of daca illegally. Tomorrow theres another rule coming down regarding Work Authorization for asylum applicants so thank you for continuing this fund. In addition i would like to consider please, to row store full funding to Rapid Response networks and it pushes barks. In like they said, you dont take your umbrella down during a train storm because you are not getting wet solv. Theres been expecting more of that and we need a rapid respect network to keep things safe and please consider funding the Rapid Response network and thank you for your time. Onto the next person. Next speaker, please. Caller hola. [ speaking spanish ] i can translate. Sure. Im an immigrant worker and we are facing an emergency situation where we dont qualify for government assistance. We need your help and i wanted you to know we really appreciate your work and i hope you have a nice night. Thank you for the speaker. No problem. Next caller, please. Hello. Yes, my name is roger scott. This meeting is the longest civics lesson of my lifetime. Im a retired city College Teacher and member of local 2121 delegate to the San Francisco labor council. I feel obligated to criticize the recent and shameful board of trustees decision to proceed with the balboa reservoir housing projects which repeatedly in my vow two humane concepts that public land should remain in public hands and that housing built on public lands should be 100 affordable. Your committee cant grant the demands for social and Economic Justice to good people are urging and i would suggest that you recognize those that the convergence of the pandemic and the cool but historically familiar murder of george floyd has awakened the conscience of the people and change the word in ways that well never go back to. You are appropriate budget and Appropriations Committee doesnt have the power and resources to prosecute racist killer cops and disband Law Enforcement organizations but you have the power to do several things, three that recommend or one substantially reduce the Police Budget and social workers and other unarmed Public Servants. They help people who need it. Two, increase funding to raise to the minimum compensation or the salaries of the low paid workers who provide essential services to most Vulnerable Community members. Three, increase funding to the people trying to survive in the streets and are dying every day. Listen to the people and you will do much better. Thank you. Thank you so much for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller good evening. My name is laura tang and executive director of cameroon womens residents. Im here to advocate for funding has been cut to provide Family Support services for children zero to fiveyearsold in district one and in district four. And you know, especially during this time of covid19 its so important that we continue to engage with our families and the younger children hoping that we can did not. [please stand by] im asking board of supervisors to be brave and take us into the future where city of San Francisco cares for vulnerable neighbors. Just be better humans. Thats it. Its that easy. Thank you. Thank you much for your comments. Next speaker please. Hello. Good evening. I was in district 9. Im calling to urge this committee to divest from the San Francisco Sheriffs Department presence in the d. P. H. And defund sfpd. Today the video shooting of another black general made National News again. Theres no evidence that the system is in effective way towards the law and prevent crime. We continue to pile on more and more money. Theres mounting Evidence Police [indiscernible] i keep Hearing Police is not perfect. How is this acceptable . When its matter of life and death we cannot settle for less. I ask that you reallocate funds to make San Francisco and hospital safer place for everyone. Defund sfpd thank you. [indiscernible] before we call the next speaker, just little update. We have 79 members of the public on the call, 54 of which are in queue to speak. We do appreciate your participation. Please be patient. Next speaker please. Thank you for this all day phone in session for public. Its beneficial to know how constituencies feel. Im on registered nurse and organizer. Im a city worker. I truly believe in good work and everybody San Francisco and city and county stands for. I call for defunding the sfpd and the sheriff in order to fund Public Services. I like to say that while those are great calls for changing the face of Public Safety, funding Public Services should be done through revenue measures because there are 75 billionaires who live in San Francisco. They need to pay their fair share to fund Public Services. I would hate to see Public Servants suffer in order to benefit the residents in the city. Defunding the police is an honorable aim we they had to put in place policies that benefit the resident and see the same for the essential workers who provide Public Services every single day. We need to make sure that our Public Servants are honored and accepted in all respects and all mean and for all the work they do, whether its picking up our garbage, driving our buses or caring for our love ones in the hospital. We need to pass the ceo tax measure. We need to reform our businesses and we need continue to protect all residents of 46 wh san frano who are renters. Thank you. Have a good night. Next speaker please. My name ben. Im a resident of San Francisco. I want to thank everybody for the very thoughtful and heart felt comments today and board of supervisors for asking this time to listening. I echo lot of comments. P. R. Campaign is reimagining policing really seems disingenuous and seeing board of supervisors continue to just nibble around the edges with this budget. Defunding policing and end years of failed austerity. The police are never going to ask for less. They fail to meet basic calls to reform. You seen p. O. A. As public menace. Must defund, disarm and fire Police Officers. We must invest with confidence and vision and Community Safety, health and dignity. Are you going to wait until theres less Public Engagement on these issues to decide to act . I do not believe you will. If you missed this moment it will not come again. History will not forget. San franciscans will not forget. Minimal cuts will not be tolerated. All eyes are on you. Reforms dud does not work. The police are not essential workers. They do not create Public Safety. They enforce gentrification, white supremacy. You heard from some many amazing people today advocating for service. Please wake up. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Hi. Im a latino organizer and activist. Im asking my first year in San Francisco i created housing. One night i couldnt get a shelter bed this is why we should expand shelter to Lgbtq Community. During this pandemic [indiscernible] we must Fund Community organizing and fund city college. Please invest in Public Community dollars and city wide public wifi and 41 million in emergency funds for undocumented residents. Also i ask invest 1 million in nonprofits. Thank you. I live in district 5. I live in a city where residents and politicians agree that all black lives matter. Mayor breed said she was moving 100 million to community funding. Thats why she is advertising the same. Current budget does not fire a single officer. We need to cut overtime. Reinvesting in communities includes having fewer Police Officers. We all want Public Safety. You supervisors are the ones with the power to make that happen. Im talking about reinvesting in community, you increased funding over the last four years, homelessness increased. 50 of adults who experience homelessness in San Francisco had their First Experience homelessness by the age of 25. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hi, im a front line worker at lagune hospital. Im calling to ask the board of supervisors to continue to support front line workers. To continue to support the services we deliver every member of seiu represent the people who are giving the services that are necessary to keep San Francisco going. The workers at laguana honda are protecting that hospital. That longterm care facility from having a pandemic. Its the workers who came up with the idea and insisted that management follow. It want the other way around. Its the same worker making sure emergency room is well staffed so we can deliver the services. We are delivering the services. Not only are we delivering the services but we are also giving back some of our paychecks we gave back 50 million in july. The union did that. Union workers did that. We are saying that we are prepared to give back next year if theres a deficit. The contract was built to manage a situation like this. It was built around that. We will give up some of our paycheck, we will give up some of our moneys that we have in that contract by deferring our wages. We have already met that condition. We have done that. We are giving our lives. We are giving back. More and more healthcare workers, more and more contract workers coming up positive for covid. Thank you so much for your comments. Next speaker please. Im a resident of district 8 calling to implore to reject the proposed budget and defund the Police Department. Im also a black man who has been pulled over by the police for simple act of walking while black. Ive been wrongfully profiled because color of my skin. I seen that among many patient i treated. Tiny 2 cut to budget is not sufficient. It will be disheartening to hear black lives matter while watching your calls to the budget contradict the movement. We need to hole our leaders accountable

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