i'm really excited about this, so -- [laughter] supervisor kim: we appreciate the enthusiasm. at this time i will now open up for public comment. is there any public comment on this item? please come up. >> good afternoon. my name is joe, and i'm a student at the college. i'm a first-year horticulture student. when i started last fall i wasn't sure what direction or what i'd encounter at city college, and malcolm is the type of person i had hoped for. he is inspirational. his base of knowledge in horticulture is amazing. my head is usually bursting after four hours of lecture, so he's very thorough and very knowledgeable.

you can see other students being very inspired by this in our class, students much younger than myself. we're going to have very long careers in horticulture, and you just see them being influenced by him. and for the last six weeks of class this semester, we have a team project where we're already going out in the field. we're volunteering as teams. my team has worked right on campus restoring natural plant life, so this is our experience right now. thank you. >> thank you so much for being here. you have some great students. all right. any other public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel pounds] colleagues, any suggestions or thoughts? we have three applicants for two seats. mr. hillen and ms. shirttor

seat one and ms. suths land for seat three. it's my understanding that mr. hilland does not qualify for seat three, since his certification has lapsed. >> thanks, supervisor kim. i think, once again, we have a lot of great applicants here. for both seats. it seems to me that megan is the only one qualified for seat three, so i think that is, at least in my opinion, an easy one. the first one is obviously much tougher. two people who are currently assigned and one person who couldn't be here the last time. that means that in the future we'd love to find a way to get bonnie back on. but right now i find it difficult, and mr. hilland is a strong candidate to continue to serve and so would support him continuing in seat one and then megan for seat three. supervisor kim: so we have a

motion to move forward. mr. hilland for seat one and ms. suts land for seat three, with recommendation to the full board. i see no objection. i just really want to add, again, this is the tough part of being on rules committee is how qualified our applicants are and continue every week at the level of expertise and enthusiasm for the folks that come on for a variety of activities and task forces that have knowledge. i'm not an expert in that area. i want to work with miss sharp on potentially bringing you back in some other capacity. i think in terms of fulfilling the education seat, which is seat one, mr. hilland is clearly an instructor and teaches many classes seems perfect. ms. sut they areland, it's great to have you, and we appointed another new member and it's good to have new membership on the committee as well.

we really appreciate your enthusiasm coming to our commiment. i think we have no objections to this mocks with recommendation to the full board. thank you so much for coming to rules committee. madam clerk, can you please call item number four. >> item number four, considering appointing two members to the in-home supportive services public authority. there are two seats and two applicants. supervisor kim: thank you. i believe that both applicants are here today. i actually think that one applicant informed us she would not be able to be here today due to a prior conflict. and we have mr. boyd here. please come up. again, both of these seats are re-appointments and they both sit on this committee currently. thank you so much for your

service in this committee thus far. >> is that it? >> if you'd like to share a little bit about yourself, your interests on this committee and your qualifications, you can be very brief. >> ok, i'll just briefly impress you. i worked for many years with ed roberts, who is probably the greatest figure in disability history. he was just given a day, all california children and public education and state employees as of this year and from now on will be educated as to his life work. he basically put in-home care and independent living on the map. he was paralyzed from the neck down for 45 years, got a ph.d. at u.c. after having to sue him in 1962 because they wouldn't allow disabled people to attend higher education. when he died his obituary in los angeles said he was the caesar chavez of disability.

washington, d.c. called him the martin luther king of disability. they said he was the national mahatma gandhi on disability. as of next year everyone in california and possibly across the country, as george miller introduced the bill, a national day. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. boyd. at this time we'll open it up for public comment. two minutes. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm patrick from the san francisco public authority. i thought since mike said so much about ed, i'd say a little bit about mike. mike, as you know, has been on our board for many years. he's been involved in disability politics for about 40 years. he's a home-care worker

himself. he was a specialist assistant to ed roberts and traveled all over the world with him teaching disability politics. he's also been a union steward. he represents -- continues to represent the public authority at many conferences, and i wanted to add he also has the full support of -- of staff liaison and also his fellow board members. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you so much for being here. we really appreciate the work that ihsf does for our city. any other public comment at this time? seeing none, public comments is now closed. colleagues, we have two applicant for two seats and we have a motion. >> sure. i'd say mr. boyd, thank you for your service. i think the motion to move mr. boyd forward with recommendation for seat one and continue seat 13 to the call of the chair. without hearing from someone in person, it's a little bit challenging. supervisor kim: we'll hear from

the department, yes, please. >> yeah, i just wanted to add, i think alice wanted to extends to all of you a statement. maybe i could read that. supervisor kim: we actually have the statement, so -- >> well, alice has been on our board for many years. she served and is currently serving her third term as board president. she's a staff research associate at ucsf working on person care assistance and issues. unfortunately, she apologized for not being able to be here today, but she's been a great asset to our board and continues to be, so i'd also like to add, of course, that she has the full support of staff and her fellow board members. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you. is there any issue, if we do continue this item, in terms of meetings or quorum? i know that she chairs the task committee, for us to continue it to a time where she can be here in front of us? >> i don't know of any.

she has a regular job, so i don't know if that was the conflict or what, but -- supervisor kim: ok, thank you. i'm happy to move forward, mr. boyd, for seat one. i'm happy to continue seat 13. and i'm also happy to move forward with the recommendation as well. >> i'd suggest we move her forward. there are no other applicants. if there were other applicants, maybe, but her history would be good, so i suggest we move both names forward with recommendations. supervisor kim: ok. so without objection, we will move forward. both mr. boyd for seat one and ms. wong for seat 13 with recommendation to the full board without objection. madam clerk, can you please call item number five. >> ordinance amending

coordination in the code enforcement efforts of city departments and to establish code enforcement activities. supervisor kim: thank you. we have heard from the sponsor of this legislation that it's his intent to file this ordinance. before that, we do need to hear public comment on the motion to file. any public comment at this time on this item? seeing none, public comments is now closed. may we have a motion to file this item? thank you. can we do this without objection? so we will move this item forward -- i'm sorry. we will file this ordinance. madam clerk, do you have any further announcements? >> no, madam chair. supervisor kim: seeing none, this meeting is now adjourned. thank you colleagues and members of the public. [meeting adjourned at 5:40 p.m..]

>> good morning, volunteers. good morning. can everyone hear me? yes, good, good. this is really exciting for me. this is my very first project connect, and i and the new director, so i look forward to getting to know each of you. just today, we want to thank you for your help. there's no way this project would exist without you guys. you are the lifeblood for this program, and that just want to thank you from the bottom of my heart. we had a couple of speakers who

are here to support the program today, so the first one i'm going to introduce -- i'm not the world's greatest public speaker, so bear with me. first of all, let me start by giving thanks to a few different organizations that have helped out. one is trader joe's. they have given us bags throughout the years. next is san francisco food bank, one of the greatest assets that we have as well, so thanks to them. [applause] walden house and also a big thanks to our event sponsor, who i will be introducing in a second. not only did a financially sponsor the event, they bring many doctors and volunteers here today, which make the event happened. today, warren browner is the ceo of the largest hospital here in san francisco. he is part of better health. he has lived in san francisco

since 1975, so he is still pretty young, right? he has two children who were born and raised here. he is trained in internal medicine. you can find him in his gym clothes moths that is around 1:00, buying produce at the farmers' markets in early rally, which is exactly where i am at the same time, just not-jim close, so welcome, dr. browner. [applause] >> thanks so much for that introduction, which was a little bit too revealing, perhaps. anyway, welcome, everybody. i am delighted that we have the chance to sponsor this event. again, we have been here almost from the inception, and i think we're going to have about 100 of our folks here. in fact, do the wave if you are from cpmc. great. thanks, everybody, for coming. this is a really important thing

that everybody in the city has a chance to do. it is kind of a yucky day, so i'm sure that people waiting outside are in a hurry to get in here and get the services we are providing today. this is a meaningful opportunity to do things we do not often get to do, but to go with those of us working in more administrative or non-clinical roles, so roll up your sleeves, and thanks so much for turning out. thank you. [applause] >> the next person i get to introduce has become one of my favorite people, having just moved to san francisco. she is a visionary who believes in what we are doing and really believes in making services client-based, and that is the director of the department of public health, barbara garcia. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. this is number 38. [applause] how many of you are first- timers?

all right. i want to thank all of you. it is a great honor for me today to present to you our new mayor, ed lee. he is new to some of you, but he has been very much involved since the beginning. mayor lee. [applause] >> good morning. look at all of you. it is wonderful. in 2004, when dad and newsom -- when gavin newsom became mayor, he had a heart to heart talk with all of us about homelessness, and he wanted to something different, something that would touch the lives of people on the street, and -- because there were so many of them, and they were all hopeless. he gathered a lot of us together and talked very seriously about what really can we do. there has been a lot of things

in his life that he appreciated, as well as mine and others that worked with him, and that is, of course, the way we have been able to gather volunteers. volunteers -- for you today to do what you are going to be doing all day today is something that i think is part of the history of this great city. we have always found a different way to do things. back in 2004 when we started project homeless, and now, this is the 38th time -- you are making and continuing a piece of history that over 220 other cities in this country are trying to copy. 220 other cities. we helped out over 31 dallas -- 31,000 homeless people. we had over 20,000 volunteers like yourself today, and i want you to take a moment and looked at each other, look at

yourselves. this is the duty of san francisco and the bay area right here in this room. i love you all for doing this. a large part of my life has really been to work with volunteers. you get the greatest things done when you do it from the heart. not doing it for money. not for fame or politics. today, what you are going to be doing is offering probably one of the few smiles that people on the streets get. a genuine look directly into the eye. an offer of assistance of how i can help you. what do you need? what can we do today to make their life a little easier? and then, hopefully, with all of this great service that we have today sponsored by cpmc, and i think all the volunteers here today, but i also want to note that there will be a moment today, hopefully, that you will be able to talk to somebody who

is on the streets and maybe suggest that there is a way out in the long term. that is what these opportunities have suggested to us. there is always a way out. you do not have to be stopped, and you can get the services here today, but you can also get them every day. a life can be changed. you are part of that great opportunity. you are going to be part of that direct opportunity to talk with someone, to give them resourced, f, hopefully, they will receive that with the amount of care and the amount of compassion that you have. so i want to just say to the bottom of my heart, thank you very much for volunteering to give. thank you for being part of this historic event, and i know that one of these days, our lieutenant governor is going to come back and see us, and he will be very proud of all of you. thank you very much for volunteering today. [applause]

>> today, it is really exciting because together, we have created a solution. we are coming together to make one-stop event where people can come together for holistic services, and that is because of your work. again, thank you, and have a wonderful day. [applause]