a responsible party in the abatement of the bugs and clarified the disclosure form does not apply to tourist hotels and realigned the inspection of the unit to the standards of the directors rules and regulations and changed the collection of our pco data, pest control operator data by census rather than zip code and the review by the department every two years for revision. these amendments came up with follow-up meetings with the hotel council and our apartment owners as well, who gave us feedback. so i'm seeing no further comments or questions from colleagues at this time. i will open it up for public comment. i do have a number of cards for the item and i will call up the first five speakers. [ reading speakers' names ] so

please just line up and come up. two minutes. thank you. thank you for being here. >> good afternoon. my name is ernestine waters weis and i walk up one day to blood-stained sheets and a sofa bed and my first reaction was am i bleeding? the shock was awful. as a victim i suffered extreme disruption of my life. had to vacate my apartment for a week, causing great inconvenience in order for management to rip out carpeting and drapes and destroy my clothes. i had to destroy the clothes that i wore. the so-called security that they had in their apartment didn't do their job and they

stole several of my possessions. it was just horrifying. the whole key to this is prevention. this is simultaneous to your passing 41a amendment about conversion of apartments in residential buildings. my landlord is the worst violator of all of these rules. so 41a should have included banning corporate rentals. this is the cause of bedbug infestations that i suffered and many other people have suffered. this should not be allowed. why was it left out of legislation? it has no teeth. you have got go back to the drawing board and put in that they have to ban corporate rentals in apartment buildings. this is very, very important

and it's the key to everything. enough of the violations of the slum lords. i thrived 25 years and never had a problem until the hotel people came in and out. we don't know who is living next door to us and had a they are about, et cetera. thank you. >> thank you, miss weis. >> we doing translation, so four minutes. >> if you have translations, it's four minutes. >> translator: as i mention in english i live in the senior building affordable housing in russian hill. it's very beautiful.

[tr*-frpblts/] >> translator: we had a recent outbreak and we didn't think it could happen to us.

>> translator: so our seniors, i have seen my neighbors, they can't eat or sleep. bites everywhere, all over their bodies and some infections. you know, the thing is that our seniors are very self-sufficient and their kids

are not always around to take care of eh them and they have been enduring a lot of suffering. they can't move items in their room and they don't really know what to do. i also want to add that there really should be -- i hope there would be more data collection. i support that and funding of services to help the seniors. >> translator: so ipt want to thank you and close by saying really to think about the

single, the frail elderly and the challenge that they face in bed bug mitigation and treatment and also that we support -- i support that there is the data, the findings and processings to make this process much better for everyone. thank you. >> thank you. [ applause ]

>> translator: good afternoon, supervisors, my name -- my family and i live on stockton street in clinton. recently when we have bud bug they are confused what to do. none of them spoke english and did not know who to turn to besides property management. they did nothing. they threw out all of their belongings. i support supervisor kim's proposed legislation because it would provide a curriculum for

property manners to know messengers managers to know what to do -- [speaker not understood] thank you. >> thank you; >> hi. >> translator: supervisor, my name is bing long tam and live in chinatown. also my father-in-law is in

chinatown sro, too. my father-in-law's building had this bed bug infestation. when he goes to bed, all the bed bugs come out at night. so he got bitten pretty badly all over the neck, the head. he reported to the manager.

the manager just did a real routine thing about the bed bugs. so my father-in-law went to chinatown cdc for help. so that was brought to the attention of the health department. so he couldn't even sleep well

at night. so we are really hopeful that the legislation will help people to understand how they are treated and get better. we are living in a pretty bad situation once you have bed bugs. so we hope that we could get this legislation done really fast, so things will get better for us. we thank the supervisors to put

such an emphasis on improving the environment for us. thank you. >> thank you. i'm going to call up a couple more name cards. [ reading speakers' names ] >> good afternoon supervisors, thank you, my name is jorge potio, a lifetime resident of san francisco and i want to start by recognizing the hard work that has been put into the legislation. to those affects and to those who are supporting the people affected by this issue, really, it's serving as kind of a buffer to what could have been a real crisis. as a housing rights advocate for the mission collaborative for the past five years and a friend of many people who have had bed bugs i have wintered

firsthand the devastating affects on lives. and so i can really appreciate this a[pro-rb/] and thank you to the working group that put this together. it puts in place procedures and policies that make it easier for housing advocates and tenant communitis to navigate this process, but we know we can put what we like on paper and promise to follow it to the best our abilitis and commit to the law whenever necessary, but unless fund exists to support this work, what we say what we commit to is different than what we can do. many of those severely affected by this issue represent some of

the more marginalized and disenfranchised groups in our community. so much of this work as you see requires also dollars outside of just writing this policy. in the past, supervisors the san francisco department of public health and environmental health division used to provide this kind of funding. this funding was used by the collaboratives and was spread very, very far and we used it for the last two years. unfortunately our ability to use this funding is coming to an end. so i would urge the supervisors to in considering what this policy actually does consider what it takes to make this policy happen. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is reggie reed. i am a tenant and an sro in the

tenderloin. i have had personal experience with bed bugs before. the affects of having bed bugs cannot be expressed in words. trust me. you would have to experience it for yourself. being awakened in the middle of the night, the ing and all of the biting. i have had sleepness nights that affected by day-to-day living. and outreach organizer at central city collaborative, i have the opportunity and if they had known before they would have made a different choice. this legislation will help

prospective tenants by knowing the two-year history of the unit. i thank supervisors kim and campos for introducing this legislation and i wanted to take this opportunity to ask everyone who worked and support this legislation to please stand up and be recognized. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, mr. reed >> hello. my name is mr. barros and live in an sro and we had an outbreak in the building. no new movie-ins basically their rooms were infested and the management actually moved the people knowing that it was infested. the two prior tenants basically

left because of that situation. as for myself i had sleepness night because of this. i'm on administrative leave without pay right now from my job, due to the fact that i had bed bugs and i got treatment basically i'm waiting for the final inspection from the health inspector. so that is not until november 1st. so all together this is going to basically be about close to two months for me. basically being without work. and that hinders me personally. when i first got the bed bugs in my room, basically i called management. management came in -- management also is best pest control and what they did was basically came and sprayed the surrounding bed area and left. i had to call them back at

10:00 to basically come and re-spray. unfortunately i had to throw away more than half of the thingings of my belongings. so fortunately for the sro collaborative they helped me wash the remaining clothes that i do have. thank you very much. one other thing, proper disposal, management did not do that and basically put those items on the streets. >> thank you. mr. barrios. >> good afternoon supervisors. cynthia graduate from mission sro collaborative and i want to thank supervisors kim, campos and farrell. i have not experienced bed bugs

in my building. i live in the 16th street hotel. many other people have. this bed bug legislation will cause a manager -- will ensure the managers will have train curriculum on exactly what and how to deal with bed bugs, inspectors and the dph to make sure managers don't just say that they took care of. it they will have to prove that they took care of it. this legislation would give tenants peace of mind. managers would have to fulfill their obligations or be issued a violation from the dph and i would be on their tails to make sure that they do their jobs. as a tenants' right organizer i'm known in the mission district as the tro for the sro from hell. thank you. [ laughter ] >> thank you. i'm going to call a few more

speakers. rd. >> good afternoon my name is michael harrington with the mission sro collaborative on dolores street and live in the dog patch area in the mission. i have been living there for over ten years and i have had bed bugs twice in that period of time in 2007 and in 2011. i'm a very clean person. but as we all know bed bugs don't discriminate. the last time i had bed bugs was off and on through 2011. i did everything that i was supposed to do. if the manager and the owner cared a little more i might not have had them for so long. plus, what can you do if other tenants don't speak up?

in my case a couple other tenants complained and it was not taken seriously. i had to call the department of public health, and the department of building inspection and now i am hated my owner for telling the truth. i got the otherwise the division of inspection and the pest control operator to find that half of the rooms had them. they had sprayed and so far as of right now there is no evidence of bed bugs in my unit, but that can change in a second. it only takes one. so i'm asking you the council to please pass this legislation, make sure that the managers, owners, dph, dbi and pest control companies responsible to fix this growing problem spreading throughout the united states and who else knows where? if this problem is not

fixed, the world will be overrun by bed bugs. again, bed bugs do not discriminate. anyone can get them, rich, poor, dirty, clean. the bed bugs, they don't care. they just want to feed. >> thank you. [ applause ] next speaker. >> hi. my name is kathy galvez, i wanted to show people what it looks like to be attacked by bed bugs. see all of these marks here on my arm? let me see if i can turn it around so you can see. let me see where the camera is? >> we can see it. thank you. >> and i got them on my legs, my arms, my back and they hit me on my head. and i didn't know what to do so i notified management.

they sent an email to the owners of and nothing has happened exempt i have been harassed since friday of last week. my slipping through the cracks part, your legislation is aimed at other than where i am living. i have been evicted from my house for 40 years and i'm living at travel lodge hotel, a choice place. so you are not going to tourist places, but people that live there, if they stay in san francisco, they end up going to other places and if they have bed bugs in their luggage or something, they are bringing to the places that you are trying to rid of bed bugs or have rid of bed bugs. i didn't even know what bed bugs were until i got to the travel lodge hotel. i'm 63 years old, born and raised in san francisco. never

been attacked by bed bugs before in my life and my whole body is bitten. i have scars. the second room i got bit as you saw my rooms and the scars did not go away and then i got bit in my head, ankles, and fingers. i captured three bed bugs. so i would like you guys to also at least think about the choice -- >> i want to clarify, this legislation does apply to tourist hotels, just not the disclosure requirements. that is only for tenants where the tenant can require the disclosure. the actual enforcement will

still apply to tourist hotels. >> good, i'm glad the department of public health has that instruction book because the place i'm at they have no clue how to get rid of bed bugs and they are trying to sweep it under the rug, too. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> hello supervisors and thank you very much for this limition. my name is kim meadows and i have spoken many times and i thought i would do something a little different. good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite. whoever thought in our lifetime we would be afflicted by a childhood rhyme. you can clean and be, but you can't run and hide once these suckers get inside. don't stress too much or you will connect the dots.

greedy slum lords don't care. it's not as if they live there. if [tkp*-r/] dph gave training in eradation, they would have shared the education. now is the time for some real legislation. thank you. >> i have one more speaker card, brenda washington and if you would like to speak, please line up behind miss washington. mr. james, i already called your name. >> hello rules committee. i just have something small to say. my name is walter jameses and

i'm from the central city sro collaborative. to me it's important because i guess the disclosure and treatment reporting, i think the main thing, i guess, what this would do is push forward more the research effect. so for me to point out to the people that don't have bed bugs, i have been living at the mission hotel for eight years. i want to point out to you, when i first lived i remember getting bed bugs and after being there for eight years, had sores and i would say how did that happen? they are so small, they are so small that they go in one sore and come back on the same sore, but you don't notice it. now i have been there eight years, it's on my legs and you can see gaping holes from them checking in and checking out. you don't