tello and mr. mason. thank you very much. and the other items before us? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor avalos: we are adjourned. thank you.

>> hello. you're watching the show that explores san francisco's love

affair with food. there are at least 18 farmers markets in san francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the farmers' market challenge. we find someone who loves to cook, give them $20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the farmer's market. who did we find for today's challenge?

>> today with regard to made a pot greater thanchapino. >> you only have $20 to spend. >> i know peter it is going to be tough, but i think i can do it. it is a san francisco classic. we are celebrating bay area food. we have nice beautiful plum tomatoes here. we have some beautiful fresh fish here. it will come together beautifully. >> many to cut out all this talk, and let's go shop. yeah. ♪ >> what makes your dish unique? >> i like it spicy and smoky. i will take fresh italian tomatoes and the fresh seafood, and will bring them to other with some nice spoked paprika and some nice smoked jalapeno peppers.

i am going to stew them up and get a nice savory, smoky, fishy, tomatoy, spicy broth. >> bring it on. how are you feeling? >> i feel good. i spent the $20 and have a few pennies less. i am going to go home and cook. i will text message u.n. is done. >> excellent and really looking forward to it. >> today we're going to make the san francisco classic dish invented by italian and portuguese fishermen. it'll be like a nice spaghetti sauce. then we will put in the fish soup. the last thing is the dungeon as crab, let it all blend together. it will be delicious. when i could, i will try to make healthy meals with fresh ingredients, whatever is in season and local. those juicy, fresh tomatoes will take about an hour to cook down

into a nice sauce. this is a good time to make our fish stock. we will take a step that seems like trash and boil it up in water and make a delicious and they speed up my parents were great clerics, and we had wonderful food. family dinners are very important. any chance you can sit down together and have a meal together, it is great communal atmosphere. one of the things i like the most is the opportunity to be creative. hello. anybody with sets their mind to it can cut. always nice to start chopping some vegetables and x and the delicious. all this double in view is this broth with great flavor. but your heart into it. make something that you, family, and friends will really enjoy. >> i am here with a manager at the heart of the city farmer's market in san francisco. thank you for joining us. tell us a little bit about the organization. >> we're 30 years old now.

we started with 14 farmers, and it has grown out to over 80. >> what is the mission of the organization? >> this area has no grocery store spiller it is all mom-and- pop stores. we have this because it is needed. we knew it was needed. and the plaza needed somebody. it was empty. beautiful with city hall in the background. >> thank you for speaking with us. are you on the web? >> yes, hocfarmersmarket.org. >> check them out. thank you. >> welcome. the dish is ready. >> it looks and smells amazing. >> thank you. it was not easy to meet the $20 budget. i checked everybody out and found some great produce. really lovely seafood. i think that you are going to love it. >> do not be shy.

cyou know this can run you $35 to $45 for a bowl, so it is great you did this for $20. >> this will feed four to six people. >> not if you invite me over for dinner. i am ready to dig in. >> i hope you'll love it. >> mmm. >> what do you think? >> i think i am going to need more. perhaps you can have all you want. >> i am produce the that you have crushed this farmer's market challenge by a landslide. the first, we're going to have to tally of your shopping list and see what you actually spend that the farmer's market. >> and go for it. >> incredible. you have shown us how to make super healthy, refresh chapino

from the farmers market on the budget, that for the whole family. that is outstanding. >> thank you peter i am glad that you like it. i think anybody can do it. >> if you like the recipe for this dish, you can e-mail us at sfgtv@sfgov.org or reach out to us on facebook or twitter and we

>> all right, good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the thursday, january 26, 2012 meeting of the government and all the site -- government audit and oversight committee. i am supervisor farrell.

supervisor chu, out of deference with the other supervisors who want to be here, is in his office walking attentively. i'm also joined by supervisor scott wenner, supervisor olague, and supervisor campos. i want to thank the committee and also the members of sfgtv that are covering this hearing. madam clerk, can you please make any announcements? >> yes, turn off all cell phones. please present speaker card as there will be included as part of the file. mahnke. supervisor farrell: okay, colleagues, are there any comments to begin? madam clerk, please call the first item. >> item one, hearing of the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender seniors.

supervisor campos: thank you for hearing this item today. let me begin by thanking my colleagues at it, supervisor scott wiener and supervisor christina olive new -- olague, who have helped. this is a very important issue, and i want to thank everyone for taking time out of your busy schedules to be here with us. i think it is a testament to how engaged not only the lgbt community, the entire san francisco community is, and i am very proud of that. there are about 25,000 lgbt people who are 65 years or older. live in san francisco.

in fact, given the baby boomer generation, that generation is aging, and we know that number will continue to increase. this is often a population, lgbt seniors, who, frankly, and i say this as an lgbt man, we do not get -- i know it has taken some time perhaps to get the attention this issue deserves, but the reason why i am so proud that we are here is because we have the lgbt members of the board of supervisors working together to make sure that we shed light on this important issue. and i'm very proud to have been able to work with supervisor wiener, who has taken a very key leadership role in this. and, of course, we have been

joined by our newly appointed supervisor, supervisor olague, who has hit the ground running. one of the first thing she did was co-sponsored this hearing. we know that lgbt seniors face a number of issues. depending on their health status, housing situation, immigration status, or family situation, those issues can be compounded and complicated. we are part of a very diverse community, we who are lgbt. today, what we wanted to do in this complicated and important issue, we wanted to frame the discussion by inviting to the hearing experts on the issue have have been working on this for some years. you'll be hearing today from people who have been doing this for a long time and who know the specific challenges that this community faces. week as a kenyan elite are not monolithic.

i'm a gay latino man who also happens to be an immigrant. there are socio-economic issues that come into play. it is important that we are honest about how we talk about the needs of this perverse community. and the beginning of this discussion, not the end. our hope is that out of this discussion we can also think about specific steps that can be taken at the local city government level to address this issue. i like to especially thank bill from the human-rights commission for helping to coordinate this hearing, and i also want to acknowledge and the audience to recent parks, it was the director of the human rights commission for the city and county of san francisco for her leadership -- to reset parks. and with that, i will turn it over to a supervisor winner. i want to think supervisor

winner and supervisor olague for their great work on this. supervisor wiener: thank you, and what a pleasure is to have three members of the lgbt community on the board of supervisors. we have increased our ranks by 50%. when i was sworn in, i had spoken about my aunt who is now 70, and who came out before stonewall. she was helping take care of people through the height of the hiv aids crisis, some of the worst days, and she was always a mentor to me as a young gay man coming out so many years ago. when i think about all of the people who really were at the vanguard of the lgbt civil

rights movement, helping us survive through the early days of a chevy-aids, -- hiv aids, these are people who we actually need to cherish and make sure that as people age, we as a community are sticking together and do with what we need to do. aging is a growing issue in san francisco generally as our population within the lgbt committee, there are some unique issues. we know about issues around and come and jobs. of course, for all seniors, including lgbt seniors, issues around discrimination unique to lgbt seniors. we heard stories of people had to go back into the closet when they go into retirement communities or nursing homes. issues are around housing, the expense of housing, issues around people losing an

apartment and not being able to afford to stay in the city. but also another issue have been trying to raise and have more front and center, issues around architectural barriers. we want seniors to be about to age in place and be up to stay in their homes. for some seniors to have stable housing, they own their homes or have an apartment there secure in, but more and more it becomes difficult for them to stay there because of stairs or other architectural barriers, and i represent other neighborhoods including the castros, which is a huge concentration of lgbt people, and it is an aging population. castro is expensive. that are not as many young that lgbt people as there were before, and we have a wonderful and beautiful housing stock that is not particularly accessible. i selfishly, as representative to this neighborhood, but to

make sure that holder lgbt people can stay in the caster. it is really situated in that neighborhood. i hope that we bring the issue of architectural barriers more to the forefront, because it is a key issue around aging in place. finally, health care. we now have more and more people living with hiv who are aging, and there are some unique issues around growing older, living with hiv, and some of it is learning. so we need to focus on that. and also the broader issue of hiv, we're going to be really struggling next year with the $4 $25 million -- $4.25 million it cut to the ryan white budget

process. we have to fight to make our commitment. before i start bringing up some of our speakers, i want to give supervisor olague an opportunity to make some comments. supervisor olague: thank you to supervisor wiener and campos for giving me the opportunity speak tonight. i'm used to being on the side. members of the shack collaborative, which is the senior housing action collaborative. one of the issues we have raised is the time centered around the condition of seniors who are aging in place, particularly those who live in single room occupancy hotels.

what i was funny when i was working as a senior advocate network advocate, it was impossible to find immediately available housing for people who were trying to transition from homelessness into housing or or in homes that were may be rent- controlled places 20, 30 years, had been here since the 1970's, 1980's. we have a lot of that that kind of prohibits what we can do sometimes locally, but we have lost a lot of folks to evictions and things in the past few years. what we found that was most of the housing that was immediately available was affordable housing and single occupancy hotels, so we started looking at the conditions there and the quality of life and the circumstances of the people who reside there. so i am hoping at some point that we will have