one of our franchised communities. thank you. >> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> all right. hello, i'm marian. i need the light. this shows you a picture back in 1903. i'm sorry, i mean 2003. read the progress. and now today, we have ever greens. so that's 15 years. and this shows us the talented 25 and what they're going to do for us. i want to thank you all for being here on saint patrick's day because the reason i'm here and dressed like this is the greatest irish

man who took us to the millennium marijuana and that's why they have it in multiple states, it came out of here. that's not martin luther's king's face, but it's still civil rights. he said aids was never a problem as much as racism. his biggest fight was racism. we know our police and fire men, san francisco, we're tracking and something is going on. the things we know should not be going on, dealing with people's sexualities, we're not dealing with it in the right way. we expect the city, the mayor and the police to stand up to san francisco. thank you.

>> thank you, very much. next speaker, please. >> thank you. tom berkley. why do we educate? why do we educate? to learn. and to learn is something we do, hopefully, all of our lives. and with respect to a woman's month, history month, i'm going to kind of go back a little bit and say for probably the last time about the books that i've read, the one that's called dr. mary's monkey. overhead, please. can we close that up at all? >> i don't think so. sfgtv, could you zoom in, please?

thank you. >> it kind of goes away.back up a little bit guys. hello. anyway, dr. mary's monkeys. it's a story about a woman who ran laboratories for cancer in new orleans in the late 50's and 60's, world renown mysterious death. she hires a gal, /kraouts a gal who is like our intel scholar winner from last week. this young gal could keep cancer alive the longest of anyone in the country. that girl turns out to be lee. they're both very talented women and both good stories. the next one as i mentioned the warning, if you can pick this

up, see how one loan woman plays gary trooper. we are losing. the country is losing. and we are still losing. thank you >> are there any public members that want to provide comments at this time? seeing none, public close. >> items 9 through 22 comprised of the calendar may be enacted by a single roll call vote unless a member obtains. it can be removed and considered separately. >> supervisor christensen. >> i would like to pull out the city college item. >> 30? >> yes. >> >> madam clerk, can you

please call the roll for 31 and 32? >> mar. >> yea. >> tang. >> yea. >> yee. >> yea. >> avalos. >> yea. >> breed. >> yea. >> campos. >> yea. >> christensen. >> yea. >> cohen. >> yea. >> farrell. >> yea. >> kim. >> yea. >> kim yea. there are ten yeas. >> okay. those items passed unanimously. madam clerk, can we go back to item 29. >> item 29 is a resolution to declare. it is the intention of the board of supervisors to work with other cities to sell these at risk loans to qualify non-profits that have the funding and infrastructure to purchase and structure and withhold the property and help /kwaoep struggling home owners

in their homes. >> supervisors avalos. >> thank you supervisor breed. the seatbelt southeast part of san francisco, there are millions of distressed mortgages, of course, not millions in our part of san francisco but many thousands. there's been a plan in place to assure there can be greater local control and support from nonprofit organizations to help households struggling with their mortgages. right now, there are many banks who own these distressed struggling mortgages. often, they sell these mortgages on wall street taken over by hedge funds which don't have the intent of helping home owners. they have the intent of making money off of distressed mortgages. we negotiate these mortgages to be sold to the community development financial institutions, nonprofit organizations. they have the goal of not making money, but helping households struggling

with their mortgages to stay in their homes, keep their property and maintain their wealth in their communities. that's what it was about. when we found there was major banks across the country that got bailed out of $800 million. with that bail out, they did not translate that money into raising and supporting local economies and families with for /khroersz. they took that money and was very stingy about helping households modify their loans. we're trying to see if there's other cities around the country that are able to get the banks to help the members to keep their homes, that need to be able to thrive in our cities, maintain their property and their homes and what little wealth they can have in their homes. so colleagues, i hope

you support on this measure. some of you have already indicated that you will do so. we hope to actually move this forward with other cities around the country. already, the cities of richmond california, newark, /tphupblgz are already on board. we need to write a letter to the housing /tkwopt department to get the f h a director to encourage fanny may and fanny mac to not sell the distressed mortgages to wall street but to the institutions as well. if that one effort is done, we can make sure that many households can thrive and not lose their property to wall street speculators. it makes sense that we use or bail out that

the federal government has done for these banks years ago in ways to actually support the working people here in san francisco and across the country. colleagues, i hope to have your support. thank you. >> thank you. /khraoebgs, can we take this item, same house, same call? without objections, it is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, can you please call item 30. >> item 30 is a resolution to urge the administration of city college of san francisco to present the campus at 750 eddie street in the classrooms for all classes that have been displayed by the student and to pursue higher education. >> supervisors christensen. >> i'll try to be brief. i just wanted to thank supervisor kim for bringing this matter to our attention and for me to be a cosponsor to it which i'm

happy to do. i looked further into the matter and i think it is stressing. we talked about how important it is and the effort to draw the need to save it. this situation is distressing all, not only because of the abrupt closing but there was before knowledge of this happening but not much action to mend it and litigate it with no notice to the students. as two of the students mentioned, there is an effort on the way to provide a temporary location but if there's something we can do as supervisors on the board to encourage a more permanent solution, we should do it. another supervisors stated there's a significant amount of money at risk if the building is not opened in 3 years. it seems like a plan should be in place now to keep that building open and that funding secure. thank you supervisor kim and

i'm happy to add my boost to this effort. >> thank you. supervisor kim. >> thank you. i did speak about this last week and i think supervisor christensen summarized what is going on really well in the campus in the tender loin neighborhood and how distressing this was for so many of our residents that depend on this campus to be able to take english as a second language class and other skill set training classes that go hand and hand and their employist here in the city. i just wanted to recognize some supervisors who will be cosponsoring and i wanted to recognize them. i want to thank supervisor mar and campos supervisors yee, christensen and avalos who want to add their names to the cosponsor. it's really nice to have broad support for this resolution. >> thank you. supervisor mar. >> i just wanted to say thank you to supervisor campos and

kim and others but essentially to the central city coalition for public education for creating an education campaign around this so that not just the city college students but the families and everybody that city college /pweftsz not on old in the tender loin area but everyone around the community that this is important to. so the hearing is in 3 weeks and hopefully that's enough time to hear in many ways what will happen to 750 eddie and the timeline and the other demands of the /koelgsz. so i just thank the people for testifying today and my colleagues for supporting this today as well. >> thank you. supervisor yee. >> yeah. just a quick word. thanks to supervisor kim for presenting this resolution to us. there's several campuses

spread out throughout san francisco and if this had happened in any of the other campuses -- well, first of all, this wouldn't have happened. it's outrageous. there was no notice to students or teachers. it was just a sign posted and people showed up and said oh my god, there's nothing here. there was nothing done and i continue to support the people in san francisco. so i urge everybody to strongly support this resolution. >> thank you. seeing no other names on the roster, can we take this item same house, same call? with no objection, this resolution passes naply. can you please read the imperative agenda item. >> offered by supervisor farrell, a resolution declaring

march 25, 2015 in the county of san francisco. >> okay. colleagues, we have an imperative item which requires the board to adopt two separate finding by 2/3 votes of the finding itself. so let's take the findings either purely commendtory which is my understanding from supervisor mar, this is commendtory and also the need to take action came to the board after the agenda was posted. so supervisor farrell, would you like that we move forward with those two particular findings? >> i would like to make that motion. >> moved by farrell, seconded by supervisor tang. without objection, we can move forward unanimously. on the substance of the under lying o-item, can

we take it without objection? without objections, it is adopted unanimously. are there any other items before us today? >> i have two memoriams by supervisor mar for mr. alfred yee and behalf of supervisor campos on the late /sha hiby. >> madam clerk, is there anymore business before us today? >> that is all for the business for today. >> okay. thank you madam clerk. everyone, we are adjourned.

>> good morning, we'll get started. so, you need to have a conversation please go outside and have it. excuse me, we would like to get started. this meeting will quh to ord. this is a oversight and audit committee for march

19, 2015. i'm supervisor year and [inaudible] supervisor bree is on her way and we are joined today by supervisor wiener. so, the committee clerk is erica major and the committee would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv. joe smith and jen local who record each of our meetings and make the transscripts available to the public on line. clerk, do wru have any announcement >> police make sure to silence cell phones and all computer devices [inaudible] will appear on the march 31, board of supervisor agenda unless otherwise stated. >> okay. madam clerk please call item number 1 >> item 1 is ordinance to

[inaudible] residence or patients at long term care facilities on the basis of sexual orientation >> supervisor wiener is the sponsor of the ordinance do you have any remark >> thank you for scheduling this item today and for hearing. the legislation is sponsored by myself and by supervisor compose, i want to thank him for the co sponsorship. before you today is a legislation for bill of rights for long term care facilities in the city and county of san francisco whether nursing home or senior living facility. this is the first of the kind in the cuntsry, once againsuch will lead the way in

insureing the seniors are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. these are the people who have gotten us where we are today as a lgb community. it is sometimes easy to forget with all the successs we had in this country in terms of advancing the civil rights of the lgbt community, it waebt that long ago when we were living in a very very different world and the amount of discrimination and arassment and violence themunity had to 234der, but it still exists today, it was dramatically worse. these are people who went to hell and back multiple times through the hiv epidemic and the trials and tribulations of the community. the least we can do for them and make sure

as they age they do so as part of the community and with all the respect they deserve. this legislation will put protections in place for seniors living in facilities where they are vulnerable because they rely on others for service squz no long er have the privacy of thaur own home or own room. legislation will make it illegal to discriminate against sexual orientation, gender or hiv status. you may call in 2012, you may not recall, supervisor comps nob nub and i authored legislation to create a task force to make recommendations to the board

regarding the scene population. the board of supervisors selected 15 highly qualified people to surfb on the task force which spent about 18 months studying the issues and coming up with a tremendous report of the 25 thousand older adults living in san francisco who yife at lgbt. there was a report issues entitled lgbt naurks naurks the task force found seniors faced discrimination and mistreatment in long term care facilities. scenes are particularly vulnerable to the margealization that place them at greater isolation, homelessness. in addition as seniors enter long term care

facilities alt times staff however well meaning may lack the training and protocols for addressing the specific needs of l knrks bt population. while stand law mandates in a sense non discrimination, this legislation goes one step beyond by being specific about what non discrimination means. the ord nnss will set clear guidelines for long term care facilities to help them be fully embracing of this population. the legislation amends the police code to prohibit discrimination and ways it does so. it requires facilities to [inaudible] leozonwho have to undergo training to work with lgbt people and help comply. theolog slaigz will require

that facilities respect residence wishes in terms of the pronouns to be used in addressing them. the legislation will require requests be required if 2 residence share to share a room and [inaudible] the legislation will require access to appropriate and cultural comp tent medical care spinge to the needs of the residence. the legislation will require that residence be allowed to use the restrooms available to other residence of the same gender identify. the legislation will also provide individuals with the right to seek investigation and mediation by the human rights commission and [inaudible] publish a manual to

assist facilities in complying with the law and the legislation will create a private right of action for peoples whos rights have been [inaudible] this legislation will provide the seniors with the tools they need to be fully functioning and thriving members of the senior community. so, colleagues, with that i want to note i distributed a packet of letters that we received from various civil rights organizations supporting the legislation including the national center for lesbian rights and, transgender lawsenter and transgender equality and [inaudible] open house, the aclu of northern cal. cal advocates for nourishing home reform [inaudible] if there are

no additional or questions or comments we do have a few speakers before we get to public comment and first i want to invite amie wailen who is a senior staff attorney for the national center for lesbian rights. >> good morning. as supervisor wiener said, i'm amie wailen and work for the national center for lez biben rights chblt nclr [inaudible] as we have repeatedly learned lgbt seniors are particularly at risk for isolation and early institutionization. this is because they are more likely than their straight counter

parts to be single and live alone and not have childrens fwauz seniors tend to rely on families of choice composed of family or friends rb problems arise. friends and love ones not related by blood our marriage lack legal institution. problems can quickly get worse because institution teend refer to those relatives ovother people. many seniors also fear discrimination by service providers. lgbt seniors grew up in a time of extreme discrimination and biases. in the 1950 and 60 thousands of gay and lesbian employees lost their jobs. [inaudible] thought to have severe mental

illness. many people were forces into mental institutions or subjected to conversion therapy in a effect to cure cume. by the time the aids epidemic hit in the 1980's the u.s. government ignoreed the crisis forcing lgbt people to start their own support. [inaudible] particularly of lgbt seniors of color who live in poverty or marginalized fear disclosing their identity. the problems we have seen can be devastating chblt we had a client who was forcibly separated from his partner of 7 years when they were put in separate facilities. the partner died alone 13 months later and our client was

prevented to be at his side. at another case a hospital facility admitted [inaudible] as a jane dough patient. once they found her scr reunited a couple and moved them to another facility it was clear well meaning staff would be a problem. we learned at one point the facility had been dressing our butch lesbian client in dresses and make up. she felt uncomfortable and humiliated, but suffered in silence because of her dependents on staff for day to day care. a similar situation happened with a lez bygone client suffering from alzheimer's who was dressed in feminine clothe. advocateed for a transgender womeen who was prevented from

transitioning. nclr received a call from a gay man. the partner had cancer and the partners family moved him to a undisclosed facility. we found the partner 2 days later and found out he died in the facility and had fooinform the partner. we advocate for laws [inaudible] insure futility forms, training materials and marketing dauments are lgbt inclusive and impose duty on staff to provide treatment and care consistent with the gender identify. by passing these bill of rights san francisco will [inaudible] thank you >> thank you. before you go to the next speaker i wds like to acknowledge supervisor bree has joined us

>> next i would like to invite daniel redman. daniel is a attorney that does a lot of work around elder issues and was a member of the lgbt task force and played a critical role in helping us prepare this legislation. daniel, thank you for your service >> thank you, scott. thank you for the opportunity to speak and the task force. bill [inaudible] supervisor wiener and campus. my name is daniel redman and attorney [inaudible] here in the city. and with regard to the ordinance, the task force report aging at the golden gate lgbt seniors are a vulnerable population and given to premature institutional. i think