one is the commitment that these task force members have had and made to this process. it was very seldom that we at the hrc facilitated the meetings from the very beginning and was very seldom there was an absence at these meetings. and it was very vibrant and very committed group and a group that brought not only knowledge but a lot of emotion to the process. one statistic that i can't seem to get out of my mind and i am probably going to miss quote the number. but it is still, i think, significant. is there is a relatively high percentage as we know, of lgbt youth who have contemplated suicide. the number of seniors and i think that the report actually states in the last year, that have contemplated suicide, is almost equal to that number. and that is within the last year. and i think that what that demonstrates is a substantial and a tremendous sense of

desperation and a lack of hope in this community and it is something that we need to look at immediately. because for every month we don't look at these issues, we may lose more seniors and we may lose more individuals, who take their own lives. >> the other thing is come is cultural come pentcy and we have done a lot of work in the community in the various communities of various culture thes the latino community and the emensa community and others. and we find tremendous lack of cultural competency within each one of those cultures. on the lgbt issues, and i think that part of it is or was demonstrated by the only limited success that the task force had in reaching out to the russian communities and others in getting response back. and so i think that we need to very, and we need to really

focus on cultural competency in communities that may discriminate within their own culture. and it is not only the predominant communities in the city, but also, it is other communities as well. and i think that this is extremely important. and the started as one something mentioned early on and the first speaker at the human rights commission early on bill abrams has been involved in it since the beginning and i am happy to announce that the california association of human rights organizations is giving bill an award next friday for his human rights work and it is only one of four awards given in the entire state of california and i want to congratulate bill on that honor. but i want to thank the supervisors for your support and you saw the out pouring at the first hearing and it was tremendous and it packed the room and it went into overflow and this is a tremendous

community of passionate people and i hope that we will move forward as quickly as possible and the human rights commission will continue to support this effort however we can in the future. >> thank you, director sparks. and so, colleagues, and i don't know if you want to add that supervisor weiner. >> thank you. and thank you to everyone for your comments today. and the feedback. and i wanted to mention a few things, first of all, i think that i wanted to clarify, in terms of what we are moving forward with quickly and the two main components are what he was talking about requiring the data collection. and also, cultural training. and making sure that we have those standards and training in place and it is not the ends but those are two of the very tangible things that we already have a drafting request in the city attorney's office and we will move forward as quickly as we can and it should have been

done a long time ago but better late than never. and i appreciate i think two that i thinks are enter twined and one key part is the architectal barriers which they are full of the barriers in terms of a lot of steps and really inaccessible homes and more senior housing and whatever form it takes in the castro. and i think that it is, we are all very focused on the convictions and that is critical, but the issue goes well beyond elis act convictions and there are a lot of reasons why people either have to move or choose to move. or can't say, where they are. and frankly, architect barriers are one of those things and the board of supervisors on the second reading, passed and to allow the people to add the ml

units in the castro and they are one form of the piece of the puzzle and not the only thing that we need to do but one of the advantages is that they tend to be on the ground floor and more than one person, has over time, a number of people approach me and say that i own a house, and i want to turn my garage into a unit and live there and then rent out the top floor and i know that the people that have done that sometimes not legally because we have the other legislation that will allow them to legalize those units and i think that as the population ages morris yous around those barriers in terms of keeping the people in the castro or anywhere else in their homes. and we want to be sure that they don't have a choice between becoming isolated in their home even if they have stability and become isolated or having to move, i also and

if you can join to the mayor's housing and i think that i have really been pushing mo to prioritize, more senior housing in particular in the castro, over the market area and it is wonderful that we are getting the 110 units from the open house and that is great, but that is only a start. and it is a major frustration to me that we are not getting more affordable housing generally in the castro or the market area, and but the senior housing in particular, and this is a neighborhood, that where, we are adding affordable housing is not controversial and some neighborhood and some towns and cities can it be controversial and this is a neighborhood that really wants it and will embrace it and i hope that you will join me in advocating to the mayor's office of housing that this needs to be a priority to bring in the more affordable housing in the market area, and finally, one item on that, and i think that it was mentioned in the report that i was scrolling on time today and i could not put my fingers on it

at the moment but i have been talking to bill, from the referral panel about it and that is an issue that exists now and i think that it is growing, and around a long term hiv, survivors, and who have been living for years, on employment based disability insurance where they are getting two-thirds of the salary, or whatever the percentages, and once they hit, 65, or there abouts. and having being taken off of their employer based disability and put on the social security which is how the issues work which can be a significant drop in income and so you have the people who have been on disability but the disability has allowed them to pay their rent and to be able to live in the community and also looking basically at a fiscal cliff and i know that there is a proposal to do the funding this year in our budget to start addressing that issue, but we don't even know the scope of the issue and so yesterday, i requested that

our budget and legislative analysts working with the folks in the community but also with the dos and other departments start to put together an analysis of what is the scope of this population that are either have experience this or are over the coming years going to experience this? and how many people or what the average loss of income is going to be and how we can address that. and because it is a population and so it is not one of those unending problems. and we want to make sure that people have access to resources because that is the last thing that we need on top of everything else to have people start to lose their housing because they simply can't make the rent because they turned 65 and are pushed on to social security from there and thank you everyone for all of the work. >> thank you, very much, and this is simply, a hearing, request. for the purpose of listening to the recommendations and discussing the recommendations, and one additional pitch to that is members to the audience

is that one of the challenges as we are facing the affordablebility crisis there are many things about the city that are expensive and impacting our senior and one proposal that is currently before the mta which over sees the muni, and it is to provide free public transit, and free muni for low income and little income seniors and to the extent that is going to help many members of the lgbt senior community and i would encourage you to contact the mta and advocate for that program. and so with that, if we can have this item filed, so we have a motion to file and again, i want to thank all of the members of the task force for your tremendous work and we look forward to making sure that we deliver on the recommendations that have been provided. >> thank you and without objection, item is filed. >> mr. clerk, if you could take a quick two minute break? yeah, and we will proceed to the next item shortly.

>> we are back. >> item two. >>hearing to consider that the issuance of a type 21 off-sale general license to mouhannad mannaa and jim saxton for financial district fine wine, inc., located at 300 kearny street (district 3), >> in i may ask the applicant for this request to come up and make a brief presentation. >> hi everybody. and so, i have a type 20

license, and i am trying to improve the business and get a full liquor license. and the neighborhood does not have any of the... and offered the liquor license while joining and it was a block away from me and they closed two and a half years ago. and so, all of my clients and all of my customers, they always are asking to the liquor and i have to send them three or four blocks to market street or china town, china town is closer to us and they are having issues of the stores not accepting the credit cards and stuff like that and i am just trying to offer a nice collection of high end hard liquor and spirits to my customers. and that is... >> great, thank you. >> if you could talk a little bit about that, sort of what

kind of out reach that you have done. and i know that you have spoken to the district supervisor. if you could talk about that a little bit, please? >> the hours? >> the out reach. >> out reach to the community in terms of it. >> we out reach to you want me to tell you the name of the... >> could you tell me a little bit about the kind of out reach that you have done? >> well, we out reach for the associations and the union square business improvement district and san francisco council, and the district merchant association and the san francisco chamber of commerce. and immediate business neighbors. and supervisors of district three. and san francisco department of central station and permit and code enforcement and san francisco police departments of abc. and the unit. >> great, thank you very much. >> i will appreciate the out reach. and i know that this district

three supervisor is okay with this request. why don't we now hear from our police department officer. >> good morning, mr. chair, and supervisors. director of the liaison unit and mr. mana has filed an application with the california beverages seeking a type 21 license for 300 kearny street and he has been operating with a type 20 which is just a beer and wine. the application has profp to be with the community and he reaches the people that live in the area and the residents of the hotels in the area. during the 2013 january to december, police calls reflect that had only had four police calls and they mostly involved trespassing, which he needed

some assistance and just a removal of patrons. and the police reports and the plot is 160, which is considered to be a high crime area. and the census tract is 117, which has a minimum population of 1783. the off price licenses both for on sale and off sale, prove to be undue concentration, and however, there were no letters of protest filed with the department of alcoholic beverage control and besides the retail operating standards and the san francisco deemed approve ordinance and we are not putting any special conditions on this license, and the alu recommends an approval. >> thank you very much officer, colleagues any questions for our alu? seeing no questions, thank you very much. thank you. >> why don't we open it up to public comment, is there any member of the public that would like to speak on this item? please come forward.

>> either one. >> community leadership alliance and i just want to give kutos, to the chamber of commerce and they provided a resource list as did the planning department and supervisor chiu's office and we dpot a lot of help from the department and who were in support of this application as well. >> thank you very much. >> and is there any other member of the public seeing none, public comment is closed. and again i want to thank mr. mana for reaching out to the community and to all that were helpful and that including the chamber of commerce and to the police department and so if we could have a motion on this item and we have a motion. >> right. >> sure. and i don't see any reason why we would not want to pass this out of the positive recommendation and so i make the motion. >> so we have a motion by supervisor yee, if we could take that without objection. and then item will be forwarded to the rest of the board with a positive recommendation. >> thank you very much and

congratulations, mr. clerk, is there any other business before the committee. >> it concludes today's business, mr. chair. >> meeting adjourned. thank you.