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i think the unfortunate part is that when we have issues and budget we often time end up having seeing our communities pit against each other. much in percentage in dollars. did you reduce to funding? oh, and if you don't have it right now, i just i know sorry, thank you. through the chair, actually, after doing the analysis, we don't believe that we've made any reductions to tae
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funding. now, what i think our our cbos are saying is that there have been shifts to those dollars, and that is part of the review that we're going through right now in terms of, where did those shifts happen and, and the gaps that was created when those shifts were, were made during the rfp. and then just selfishly, i noticed when you talked about safety and the work , you didn't mention the district ten safety plan. so i was just wondering, i am was that an accident? so sorry. that was definitely an accident. and a huge oversight on my part, one of the one of our partners is working very closely with the district ten safety planning group. that is led by supervisor walton. no, thank you. and i only brought that up because we also have a lot of folks in community that are doing the
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work with the department. and i just want to make sure that they know and feel that they're they're part of the team as well. thank you, i do have a question for moseyed. supervisor. thank you, i know on i think it was the second to the last slide you just talked about, no proposed general fund decreases and i know the mayor makes the final decision. do you anticipate that the mayor accepting your recommendation? yes yes. thank you. and then. my supervisor. how are you doing
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today? very good. so i noticed the biggest portion of cuts for that you propose are in the workforce development portfolio. they're about commensurate to cd and to workforce on our overall budget. yes, cd, we anticipate a cut of 1.79 and workforce is 1.85. and i'm wondering why that portion is larger, our budget and i'm going to look to our cfo to probably get into the math if we want that. but workforce is overall budget is the largest. and so we take we typically take proportionate cuts, across the organization. but if you want more information. well, no, i mean we'll obviously have time for conversation. i think for me just, you know, as we focus on trying to reduce the unemployment rate and make sure folks aren't homeless and make sure folks can maintain, a certain level of, of security
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here in the city. that workforce obviously is a big portion of that. so i just wanted to make sure that that was noted. okay. and we can set up a briefing with our workforce team to go through those cuts. thank you. thank you. chair chan. supervisor melgar, thank you so much, chair chan, i just wanted to make a couple remarks, i know the hour is late, and, folks are tired, i think that, there are very few things that are more important than our kids, so i represent district seven, it's a little more suburban. suburban, a little farther out, but it's full of kids, and what we saw after the pandemic, is a lot of need, a lot of social, emotional needs, a lot of kids who are coming out of a couple of years being, in zoom school, we're having mental health issues. we
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quantifiably have that evidence. so to me, you know, slashing youth leadership programs, more importantly, youth employment programs makes no sense. we just did so much work to try to get violence under control at stonestown shopping mall and other places where kids were congregating and engaging in behavior. that's not conducive to success. so, seeing the youth leadership programs being cut from my district is really like it hurts. and so, i will fight for that, and i think it's really important that we support that, i also want to say that, you know, as chair chan remarked, it's easy to pit communities against each other, you know, when dollars are scarce and it'll be up to us to leave, live up to our san francisco values to make sure we prioritize the things that are important, safety is important.
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safety for youth is important. safety for seniors is important. but, you know, and we have the unenviable task of putting together a budget, you know, during a deficit year. but we will do our best. i just wanted to, you know, just be be on the roster as someone who thinks, kids are really important and that in, short ing some of the things that we know work because your department has for years, provided evidence of what it is that does work. and, you know, we've been pretty good at doing those things or cutting the things that we know work, will set us up for not being successful later. and i don't think it's going to take that long. it only takes like one summer when the kids are unemployed without something to do for things to go wrong. so, that is what i will say. i want to thank everyone for coming today and for providing
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testimony and for letting us know what you're thinking and feeling, and thank you, chair chan, for calling for this hearing. supervisor walton, thank you, chair chan. and my apologies. i do just want to state this and i was going to save this for later. and what i appreciate all the public comment. i want to thank everyone from community that came in today, but i definitely think that obviously when we go through a budget process, budget season, they're going to be trade offs, there are going to be hard decisions that we have to make as a committee and as a board of supervisors, but i think it is absolutely disgusting to go after organizations of color. i think it's disgusting to attack organized actions that employ so many black people, that employ so many people of color. and if you're trying to balance the budget on the backs of saying, let's get rid of people who do great work in community, i find that problematic. and so as much as i love labor, as much as i
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love, our community attacking another organization to me is not productive because at the end of the day, the focus should be making sure we do everything we can to avoid these cuts and reductions. there will be trade offs, but it's disgusting for me to see all these attacks on organizations of color and people of color. thank you. thank you, i think my question is, i think first of all, i, the mqd questions, was answered really about really where the cuts are going to come from and whether, you know, you think that the mayor is going to not to agree not to reduce, the budget, i do look forward to hearing more about the workforce reduction from i think eventually i get it. there's a lot of, you know, factors and many things are going on right now, but i think today's hearing
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goal is to you can hear that workforce development is key. really. it's key to edwards work. but, specifically really about the transitional age youth, workforce development, funding being reduced is challenging for us, in terms of the future investments of, of the city, i think overall, i think that today, at least for me, a lot of that focus and it sounds like it's similar to supervisor melgar, is really the desire, if overall grant funding proposal. i think there is, some discrepancy between, what is listed, which is about $92 million for this upcoming fiscal year or this, this round of rfp for the next five fiscal years. but at the same time, it seems like there's discrepancy or conflicting information listed.
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the grant dollar at $145 million on the website of dcf. but i'm going to figure out, at some point, like unless you have an answer right now, to that. but i think we will continue to discuss the discrepancy between what stakeholder is think that the total of grant funding for rfp was anticipated or projected versus what was actually awarded or, you know, wrote out and awarded if there is any difference between the $2 amount. chair chan, thank you so much for the question. i actually just pulled up our website, and if there is a number that is over $92 million, that is error, if you if you pull up our if you pull up the website, you will actually see, lots of different types of data regarding who got funded, what
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area did they get funded in? you can actually even go and read their proposal and read all the comments that were made for those proposals, you can actually even look at the performance, year end performance reports that we have for, all agencies. but. apply.
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