for this opportunity to address you. my name is jeff jones. i m the development director of career cultural center. and i m not here like everyone else to urge that there be more money poured into various programs. instead, i m really here to urge you to consider how you invest the money you re spending. the demographic changes sweeping the bay area will continue. the census bureau now pre-difficultthtion ~ predicts in the bay area 20 50, 20% of the region s residents will be white, and 72 of the residents will be people of color. ~ 72% and what we see in your investments in the arts is that you re still investing in audiences that have the demographics of the 1950s when 83% of the city was white. and i think that is like problematic. you re pouring a lot of money into something that doesn t look sustainable to me. just in the last year we ve seen the san diego yeah, the san diego opera and [speaker not understood] merge with mozart, close down. the sacramento [speaker not
my name is kim lim. i am her case manager and also her translator for today. so, i ve been working with ms. vicky law for the past 2-1/2 years and her husband died in 2012 during christmastime. at that time she lost that part of his income and she was on the verge of eviction because of the place they were living does not consider lowering her rent, so, that s the case. so, she s really thankful the city was able to provide her case management services such as myself. i was able to help her with applying for other benefits that she qualified for such as food stamps and paratransit which is able to get her to her adult based center. so, even though her income is lacking and she doesn t have really enough to really live by, but she is just happy just to, you know, maintain able to be maintained to stay at her home. so, thank you. and, so, i m going to speak, breakaway. i m the case manager for [speaker not understood] department of adult and aging services. unfortunately, a l
they are very far, living at home by themselves, and i m the person who really go and, you know, be with them and sit next to their bedside, listen to their stories and try to help them the best i can. however, you know, due to the current funding, that s impossible for me to really kind of step up the services i want to do because it s just not possible. i m like one person. i m the only person in the program, so, we try to request for additional $500,000 to the department of adult aging services so that we can perhaps hire and we re able to provide more services to these adults. [speaker not understood]. she said [speaker not understood] the case manager, it s going to be really helpful to the seniors. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. good morning, and thank you for this opportunity to address you. my name is jeff jones. i m the development director of career cultural center. and i m not here like everyone else to urge that there be more money poured into
to their bedside, listen to their stories and try to help them the best i can. however, you know, due to the current funding, that s impossible for me to really kind of step up the services i want to do because it s just not possible. i m like one person. i m the only person in the program, so, we try to request for additional $500,000 to the department of adult aging services so that we can perhaps hire and we re able to provide more services to these adults. [speaker not understood]. she said [speaker not understood] the case manager, it s going to be really helpful to the seniors. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. good morning, and thank you for this opportunity to address you. my name is jeff jones. i m the development director of career cultural center. and i m not here like everyone else to urge that there be more money poured into various programs. instead, i m really here to urge you to consider how you invest the money you re spending. the demographic
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