applicant, and we have anakh sul rama? >> hi i am a community organizer with the community housing partnership and i moved to the city in 2007 as an lgbtq, hiv positive refugee from texas i got a job when i first got here and just for different reasons i was not able to get housing, and i lived in my office for a bit of time, there was really stressful at work, and difficult for it and i ended up losing the job and ended up becoming home sxls staying in the shelters, and as a person that was lived most of my life in the south, we are as gay people where we think of san francisco as a place where we can come to and find community and find like minded people and find healthy situations to lift ourselfs in and when i got here i found i went to the lgbtq

center to try to get some help and most ways they have a snap program which is the san francisco assistance program and it is set up for the people who already have jobs and networks already here. there is really nothing like that for lgbtq people and so they end up out on the streets and the latest homeless count is that there is a large percentage of our homeless people are lgbtq. and i had some really interesting, experiences when i was in the shelters, and i had a difficult time, trying to get a six month bed at next door. and i finally was able to get it, and you know, some of the things that i noticed was there was a menu of breakfast, and i think and lunch, or a breakfast and dinner that was put up, for the month that next door, but, we never received anything that was on that menu and my

question was always, that if somebody was able to make a menu for a month, that means that they must have known, what their inventory was, but if they were not receiving that food and what happened to that inventory, there or one of the things that i would like to see us address, in our shelters, is the lgbtq people is also the senior and disabled people, and a person in the wheelchair should never be assigned a bed that is in the middle of the area where that wheelchair can't get to. i also think that we are doing our folks a disservice when we have a limit of 6 months for a shelter bed and most of our low income residents and opportunities are to your wait list and i think that there has to be some sort of innovative conversations about how our shelters system actually works. and so that we are acknowledging the fact that nobody is going to be able to

move into an sro or, an affordable housing situation. and within 6 months. and in addition to that, i also there is a really, prison-like atmosphere in the shelter and i experienced ptsd from my homeless experience and would i like to make the shelters an environment where the people can agree, and i think as a community organizer, with a community housing partnership, which strives to provide affordable housing and opportunities for the people and build them to self-sufficiency, i think that we could start working on that self-sufficiency and stability in the shelters by offering the adult centers on skills of opportunities and just to be mindful of working on, on bringing people a sense of stability before they move into our low income community so that we can have, and you know,

some peace and civilty in those communities. >> great. >> thanks, thank you. >> real quick before. >> cohen. >> did you reach out to every member of this body's office? >> so unfortunately, i did not get a chance to do that. i left a letter from the board and the urban habitat and leadership institute which i will be graduating from next month and i left a letter and a personal letter with your office. and for turning that in a little bit late, and i just want to know what i like to know is that people like to select who they want to reach out and to and who they don't want to reach out to. >> so. >> okay. >> in my assumption that you sent the letters to the other two? >> yes, i sent to all three of you and i apologize, but i actually have been gearing up to send our far laous residents lead tore sacramento today and

so i have been focused on that guys, sorry. >> thank you for your interest with chp and for the people looking for self-sufficiency, thank you so much. >> so we will open this item for the public comment, and any member of the public who wants to come up, come forward and i have a few cards and if you are interested in commenting you can line up here along the wall. >> good afternoon, my name is thomas and i am a former member of the city shelter committee, and i am here today to support mr. rama for seat six. and i have known him for the past 12 months. and i have done some work with him dealing with chp site issues and i think that he brings compassion, and intelligence and he would be

more than qualified for seat six. thank you. >> thank you, very much. >> next speaker, please? >> hi, my name is camar and i am the chair of the shelter committee and i do have confidence in all three of these applicants for each of these seats. and i have met with all of them or i have not worked with all of them, i have met with them and i do like mico and so, i have a vote of confidence for all three of them. >> thank you. >> you know that you asked a question that i didn't get to answer about transition. and i think that she showed some concern for it, when the people go in the shelters, they should be met with on an individual basis, to find out why they are there, and then, you can come up with a transition, plan, and because, i live the shelter that i was in there is 347 people and they are there for all different kind of reasons and the people need a job and need to get back

and find out what the needs are and then find the resource to meet them, and it would be better, some people would never, went to, and never finished high school and people have never had a job and so you you can lead them down to road to get a ged and job training and what might take six or seven months to get them it meet their needs, so that they can make that transition, but everybody has a different reason, and 347 people and there is 347 different reasons, but if you can get them to the resources, that they need to make a transition, because there is a lot of research that the hope office has a 28-page, tablet of all of the resources that are available to the low and homeless people and they can go through that and say that this organization can help you and that is what ill think would help with the transition because the people come there and don't know resources and i know that they have a problem with the case manage sxment don't have enough of them and so maybe they can find some volunteer case management where

the people can come and tap into and get the direction that they need to make a transition and i am big on transition, i think that who, what, where, when and why, we know the what, it is homelessness, why are you there? >> why did you end up homeless and let's see if we can find you a way out, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker please? >> i am rail and speaking in favor for rama for the seat six appoint sxment i am in favor of his appointment because of his own homeless experience as a gay man with disabling hiv and mental illness and his experience staying in the shelters with that and well as his experience of waiting in line for hours just to be told there is no shelter bed and having to sleep on the streets and be criminalized, and those are equally valuable experiences and also his homeless experience kind of overlaps with mine, and i am a

transsexual male and so he really got to see first hand what it was like to be transin the shelter knowing from my percent and from the other transpeople that were there when i was there, and i do feel like transvoices sometimes are under represented, and so i am excited that somebody kind of really understands what it is like to be transin the shelter and saw what i went there and the discrimination and that specifically is faced by the transpeople, and also, you know, just because of who he is, he took his experiences as a homeless person, and wanted to give back and so you know, he got housing, he got hel ygt, both mentally and physically and went to work as a community housing with the partnership where he continues to work with the homeless and formally homeless, and low income and people of color and disabled as well as the people who are working and trying to go back to work and so i feel like that speaks a lot about who he is and he does want to give back. and i feel like this is

pointment will help him to continue on that path as giving back, i don't know them, but as a homeless person, share stories hit me and i am also speaking in favor of their appointments too. >> thank you very much. >> i have one card, mone and the other card was royal who just spoke. >> come forward. >> hello, supervisors and i did not submit a card, my name is scott nelson and i am here to support, jackson for his appointment to seat two. and i am a resident of next door shelter and i got to know him over the past few months and he is quite qualified for the position and we have been discussing a few things and he brings an interesting perspective and he is working on hopefully bringing in the technology and some computers and wi-fi, and with some other community partners, and excuse me, and i think that also, his experience, in some of the homeless, experience in, and

right now, actually is going to culinary school and he is trying to sans transition out of the shelter what he spoke about the transitioning saying that i have been in the shelter and although i am transition og my own i have not seen them working as much as they should to help the people transition out, and i understand that being san francisco, shelters should not be a place for the people, you know, seek to live in for the rest of their lives but that they want to move on to the next phase of their lives and so once again, i think that mr. jackson would be a good member for seat two. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> okay, any other member of the public who would like to comment come forward? i did read monet name and i am not sure if that person is here, please come forward. >> hello, i am here speaking

against mr. rama. i just want to start with, we need to make sure that the shelter haves a culture diversity. and i think that i attended maybe 7 months ago, and i didn't see any black members, so, and it is a violation of the san francisco ordinance 2305. and i think that the other problem that i am having is, he has been with these organizations like the community housing partnership long enough that he should have been properly trained about the shelter the sunshine ordinance and the ordinance creating the committee and the standards of care and he should have known that and he did not mention any of those documents. the report or the shelter shock created by the homelessness and i am just saying that if he prepared for this and especially if he prepared time

wise, this is an extremely long, it is almost a part time job. with very little pay and he has also got to work and he is doing this other program and maybe he is talking about, and i just feel like he has been very sickly in that he has had to take a loot of time off and so wondering if he is, you know, physically able to even do it. >> now the other problem is agencies like they take pride in that. they are not, they are exempt from the san francisco sunshine ordinance. so, i have had problems getting information from them. and i have had problems getting locked out of meetings and just your basic 67 section of the sunshine ordinance, and he has run and he is over the, and he is over the counsels and they have been mostly a failure and so that is what he is

responsible for and the failures of ordinances. >> that is your time. >> thank you. >> any other member of the public who would like to comment? please come forward. >> and seeing no other member of the public come forward we will close public comment and colleagues we, have these items before us, i actually have been very impressed with each of the them, and i would in support of moving all three to the full board. >> could we have a motion to take that e >> so moved. >> okay >> and we will take that without objection, all three candidates to the full board with recommendation. >> madam clerk, do we have any other items before us? >> that concludes our business for today. >> that will end our meeting and would i like to thank, is the sfgtv staff for the work on this committee. thank you. we are adjourned.

[adjourned] test. >> good afternoon, everyone wow. first of all thank you, everybody friends, family appointees to our boards and commissions it is my pleasure to join all of you and issue the oath of office but a celebration of more people that share responsibility thank you to our supervisors here supervisor breed formerly supervisor and new carmen chu

jane kim thank you very much for being here our city administrator thank you for being here and commission thank you and tom hugh and mr. puc guy >> thank you all of you for being here today let me say at the outset we're giving the oath of office for 32 people 118 bodies and commissions that help me deal with the policy challenges but more and more most importantly and the most important thing the commission and advisory bodies do we reach out to people and engage them and bring that diversity of opinion and culture into the way we around government and this is what the exciting to me and let me tell you i'm excited today because the 18 different

commissioners and advisors bodies are very important to me let's look at who ear appointing people to when we look at our diverse city i have to say and it is not because it begins an organization but art it is important to our city on a local and international level so the arts commissions e commission deals with our diversity and culture and on the eave of the completion of novm the beginning of the maeks the reestablishment of moob and the museums we traditionally have and now a really big opening of community arts that is revienlts has been the reason why we've been able to revitalize market street in

the tenderloin lead by the arts and the asian arts my name is a big part of that not only because their across the street today but i i think so you have an indulging exhibition it is a sud dusk infection i don't want to talk about that too much but our building inspection commission will be appointed to you don't think them we have serious fires in the city in the past two months over one hundred units of affordable housing we've got to make sure that everybody lives safely in our city and we don't lose housing, in fact, we need to net new build housing in the city to the building inspection commission will make sure that happens commission on the status of women and equal pay of advisors

board are important nor many, many reasons many of you know you'll be co-sponsors with libby shaft on women's economic empowerment this october we'll bring together all of you and anyone that is have read or interested in making sure that women have no gooblz to economic opportunity and less barriers and those two commissioners will do that i'm excited about the individuals appointed there it is a lot of great talent and high commitment brought to the bodies with respect to equal pay that's a fairly new board they're going to be 4r50k9sd the actual data so we understand what the economic gaps are between men and women in our city and what we need to do that about it and, of course the status of women take that data address revolve it through

policy oriented discussions and ultimately legislation we need to consider our historic preservation commission and hiv council wow. what they've done to make improvements with the ac a, with 5 hospitals being built with health care being the number one impact driver in this city their incredibly important and wanted to say to you a big that's correct to the health commission they're there day to day to help us with issues of mental health and all kinds of health problems in the community the hiv health services planning council i'm very proud of them we're joining as angle inspire industry to make sure we get to zero infections in the city we are

about to launch the opening of the wednesday center in the castro this is successful such a great state of the art to help us going get to zero in a short amount of time this year is a one hundred year celebration of our world fair it, of course, allows us to think back a hundred years ago the innovators in our city i mentioned that in a context of this historic preservation commission as part of they're great work to understand and make sure that our city's history is connected to us this building is part of that history but so many other buildings give us that link to the history so it shouldn't intries you one hundred years ago people were doing it and how

we're doing it today is understood that by our kids that's what the historic preempt will do i told you earlier we're on the ground with making sure we end as much poverty and misery for people as possible we're challenging ourselves by oifsz the 5 hundred most impoverished families in the city and giving them the most intense support to end intergenerational poverty for them i can't do that without the wisdom and guidance of our human services commission and bay the appointee to this commission today george is now going to begin pious o his 40th year on the commission thank you, george for a lifetime worth ever work (clapping.) you know my passion important

local business when we appoint local business enterprise committee we're making more local businesses to be start and successful to engage in this strong economy we have because for me, the local businesses is really what it is all about and yes we want to grow local businesses to international businesses as well long term care for the couldn't a vital to our ability to delivery services to people that are challenged in the city we need a functioning body to give us the populated considerations whether it's more nutrition and food or more sports for the staffing or the people of the industry that is helping us do long-term care retirement board r rent board wow. what a commission but the

careful ability to balance between landlord and tenants very, very important to the city it is a sensitive position one we trust of those we appointed to make the right decisions sf that hopefully in most cases is a win-win we can't have strife within landlord and tenants more harmony in the city there is a housing crisis we are doing something about that we are making sure we were the good k345e78gsz going on our conservatism core they're being called up because we video a drought and a lot of open spaces to rehab and change to make sure their drought tolerant work is being done on the open spaces and we also need a conservatism core to help us do that our mta

advisory committee we invested greatly last year and will continue to do that because the voters said, yes it's important to pass a $500 million bond for a transportation system a great museum is for pedestrian safety the sizing had will help the priorities that vision zero and all the others have as part of our great transportation and walking and bicycle riding city southeast community facilities commission they transition going on in the southeast part of our city i want to make sure the people that little there for generations are directly involved in the future development of that area that's what the southeast sector will do they themselves and their facilities are going on changes we need good leadership to make sure the community is directly involved in that that

conversation wow. urban forestry council meeting we need to have admonish trees and we need to make sure that is clear who is responsible for them because those trees are commonplace and part of our investment we need to do better as a city we need a you have been talking about council to guide us in the potentially conflicting things we all care about we care when our common place trees your workforce investment in important nowadays people need to sustain for the future we don't want people victimized by the economy and the workforce is required their looking at around the corner and understanding the emerging

industries making sure we have a workforce that is ready for the industry and finally the most unknown body today is called an oversight board it is kind of like a whistle blower investigator it is a body where former redevelopment agencies are own e organizing to make sure we get it right we're not violating our tax obligations or financial obligations to the public i'm sure that is sun shining something that carmen is interested in; right? carmen see i'm going to catch them all anyway, i went over bayshore's these because their incredibly important to the function of our city i again want to say too all

he each of the appointees today thank you for your commitment and volunteering rhythm and the love of our city and with that i'd like to ask all off appointees to please stand up and raise your right hand as i say i, i would like each think one of you to say loudly this is the only time you can yell added me after you get sworn in people will yell at you and sigh loudly to the commission you're being appointed and we'll precede with the rest of the oath are you ready? i >> (repeated.) very good thank you

loudly thank you

>> i. >> do solemnly swear. >> ( repeated.) >> that i will support and defend. >> (repeated.) >> the constitution of the united states. >> (repeated.) >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> (repeated.) >> against all enemies. >> (repeated.) >> foreign and domestic. >> (repeated.) >> and that i will bear true faith and allegiance. >> (repeated.) >> to the constitution of the united states. >> (repeated.) >> and to the constitution of the state of california.