want to continue to make it beautiful. i noticed you need a fee waiver? >> residency. >> residency waiver? >> at-large member is a reses densey waiver seats. there are two residency waiver seats 17 and 18. >> so you don't live in san francisco. >> no, but my family arrived in san francisco? 1904. >> that's okay. there are real reasons why people don't live here. i don't want to put you on the defense. but i do just want to acknowledge that i think it's a priority to appoint people that are living here in san francisco. and i say that is incredibly important. i look forward to hear mg mor ing more discussion. >> we have one more applicant.

mr. gregory dillon. >> i did want to add, greg has been awesome as a public participant. he comes to our meetings an has valuable recommendations and input. we have been trying to figure out awe way to get hem him on the board for a while now. even though we're both vying for the same see the, i look forward to himming to be involved in the board. >> would you be willing to step aside and let him serve? >> no. >> let's let mr. dillon come up first. i have a lot of things on the plate that i have ee been working on and i love the group people that i work with. it's a wonderful experience. >> thank you. >> >> i'm greg dillon, good afternoon supervisors. i'm applying for see the 18 on

the graffiti board. the advisory board is to advise the board of supervisors and mayor about graffiti in san francisco. they're supposed to provide a report to the mayor and board of supervisors every six months. that hasn't been happening. you know, so i'm going in there and the see the 18 is a new position. it was opened up because mta, doesn't go to the meetings and there are issues with mta's performance on graffiti. they have the parking meters and signs and things and they're not getting cleaned up. tales a reason to connect with the board because someone needs to push mta to show p you and it doesn't team that dpw and the board has been ail to do that. also, i am a resident. although i think she has been a great asset to the board and behaves reasonably, i agree that it's not a requirement of the see the.

there needs to be a waiver for that. it says the charter says -- there is no explicit way. if you threek legislative mystery, itsn't say anything like this is a see the that you're supposed to be a resident. you're supposed to be a resident unless no one else wants the see the. so where i live in san francisco is important in this. i live on the west -- or the mission edge of district eight. it's been a very heavily-graffitied area. it's ground zero for graffiti is. it gives you a feeling of what graffiti is to san francisco than living in a different suburb does because you talk to your neighbors about it. you sphee it gets cleaned up

what. if it doesn't get cleaned up, it stays longer. you're in a part of the city where there are other crimes. you git the discussion with other people. should the police be prioritizing fra feet graffiti more or less? should we prioritize graffiti higher? or is it something that in effect doesn't matter so much? i think like that's wiercioch the things that living there in an area of high graffiti that i bring diversity to the board. i'm afraid too much of the mind set of the board is it's too much of a police matter. and yet, it's a police matter, but if you look during the meeting today, i got a tweet of an article coming in. woman who had a 200,000-dollar thing, she's out there still graffitiing police cars and stuff. there is only so much the police

can do no matter how good they are and the judges, they see everything. they say we can't just fine people more for this. i think a lot of is the people of san francisco having the same point of view. it's not really a view of the efficient hearing on the board. there is too much of going there. the other thing i want to say about myself is i made myself an expert. i'm probably the top expert in going to the sf-one or data portal and getting all the informatio information out there. so last year, there were 58,000 graffiti reports into the 3-1-1 system. 58,000! it's a lot of graffiti for a city the size of san francisco. the numbers are going up. that was 11,000 more graffiti reports than in 2014.

just three months so far in this year we're already 5,500 graffiti reports higher than last year. can you go to the graffiti advisory report? they're supposed to send to the mayor and ask them what is happening? no. the report hasn't happened. they're doing good things but the main thing they -- main task is on page three and five of the packet for you isn't happening. what is happening is it's not so much -- i have the expertise that i'd like to use. what is happening is the app. on the phone now you can go and put in a report graffiti an the quality of data is so much better than when people call up. phone calls are calling like 4, 5 and $6 per phone call. it's lower on this. plus you get g.p.s. and a goat.

whaother things like that. you see a lot of the youtubeer typ -- the uber tieb thing anububer type of thing. that's where we ought to be as a graffiti thing putting our efforts into using this great data that is now available through the app and have them cleaned up. and some of the commercial organizations are the worst offenders. yes, we can look at the graffiti vandals, but we have to look at who are the institutions or large governmental people or the pg&e, at&t, u.s. postal offices that have a lot of property in

san francisco and a lot of graffiti and it's not cloned up quickly enough. chairman tang, i wept to your office and spoke with the people trying to say why it is. i heard back the constituents are calling in and saying we're reporting the graffiti and it's not being cleaned up. that's where the anger point on this is. that should be another thing that very much the board should be doing. the technology is there. the pictures are there. it's not like before when it was called in and someone would say it's new graffiti. if you have the picture and time stamp, it's closed. i sent -- 30 times it was handwritten sent to pg&e and it wasn't cleaned up. there are groups out there that are not responding when the graffiti is done. i have this hope, like graffiti and crime is collocating.

maybe it's a bit of a dream if you clean up the streets and that, that there will be less crime, but some of it is there. if we keep the data cleaner, we can find out, is it true if you clean up the graffiti quickly, you check that it's been cleaned up quickly, tack be done. i'm a resident, i feel, i've made myself an expert on it. i believe the res depsy required is there. jana brings a good voice out there. what she says is correct, but i think i bring another voice that needs to be heard. as a group, the advisory board doesn't hear my voice. the people who have my voice live in an area with graffiti afternoo often if you have. >> thank you very much. any questions?

commissioner cohen. >> i'm in agreement with mr. dillon's assessment of priority given to folks that live in san francisco. i agree that that should be a priority. given my policy, i've sat on rules committee for a long time and i prioritize those that live in san francisco. i agree with your assessment if you're outside san francisco and want to serve an there is no one interested in the san francisco, it should be given a priority. i'm in agreement with mr. dillon. i am concerned about miss amy landgraph. she applied for the see the but indicated she's never attended a meeting. in past, i'm uncomfortable appointing someone to a body -- >> call on her though answer that question. >> that has not attended a meeting even developed a deep understanding for the public

process. and so, -- >> i'd lick to address that. at the time of the application i hadn't been to a meeting but i've been to a couple meetings so far. so i've been a part of the board and trying to get involved and also a part of subcommittee as well for the fight the blight in may. >> with all due respect, attending a meeting, a couple of meetings doesn't really give me the confidence about your understanding of the dynamics of how things are ton in san francisco or the different subject matters this commission takes up. president breed has taken a great interest in the graffiti task force and has done a lot of work. passing legislation.

issues penalties around this issue. i at that share the concerns. i represent the southeastern neighborhoods. they are affected by graffiti. i would love to see a more aggressive approach to punishment for graffiti artists that continue to deface both public and private property. i agree with mr. dillon it's not a police matter. police have their handsful. and it's hard to capture and prosecute graffiti artists. that means that the commission becomes even more -- the commission and task force becomes more relevant and important in this role. that's all i have. >> i would say that for see the 17, i hear you soop viers cohen. for see the 17, the callfication is that person must represent

the contracting agency for municipal railway shelters. so it's a pretty specific role, although generally speaking we'd love to have the previous experience, this calls for a representative fom that particular company. >> fair enough, but that's -- >> you could speak during public comment, actually. supervisor mar. >> i'm in agreement with supervisor cohen on both issues of a local resident for see the 18 though i really appreciate miss lord's many years and vice chairmanship and years of service on the body and i agree with chair tang that it's basically the contracting agency for the municipal railway shelters that the appointee for see the 17 and the ep enthusiasm and experience from miss landgraph is appreciated and i'll be supportive of you for

that. i believe mr. dillon as the local resident with so much involvement in the mission and a lot of issues that he brought up. i appreciate of your watchdog approach and your g.i.s. and mapping effort to bring that to the body as well. >> thank you. so if there are no further questions, i'm going to open up item five to public comment. >> thank you. >> my name is jana lord. points ever claire if i case and comment. point of clarification on that large se seat. mrgs ta had two seats on the board and they were having trouble filling both. we decided t decide consolidate and create. we were talking about a large seat before we discussed the would seats on the boord, then

it became an issue they couldn't get a second person. we decided instead of creating an additional seat and keeping two mta seat, we let go of one mta. district that greg is from is represented by a resident of the city of san francisco. also, another thing is almost every single person on the board and we are ea talking about 25 members seat 17 has always been non-resident because of clear channel and seat 18. the board is well represented by residence. we allow everyone from the public to join our meeting. that's how greg is involved. he comes to the meetings and given the opportunity to speak or provide input that can help us. he's more than welcome to help us on our sub committees and

huddle conference that we're having in may. he can be involved, i just wanted to point out the clarification on seat 18. the original purpose was there are board members on -- there are seats on the board that are not necessarily represented by each district. what if that person who has been seriously involved is no longer a member of sfr we'd want to retain that person. academy of arts as well. she is ate reason that we considered the at-large member seat originally. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> >> i wanted to say that. ♪ graffiti walls ♪ all look the same 12349 only the wright has been changed ♪ ♪ fix it up ♪ like a miracle ♪ a true blue ♪ spectacle ♪ miracle

♪ and pick a pick a good candidate ♪ ♪ won't you >> any members of public who wish to speak on item five. seeing none, public comment is now closed. >> if i may -- >> supervisor cohen. >> miss lord thank you for the explaining the seat at large for seat 18. it was actually -- it has softened my position. i will be supporting you. the reason why i'll support you is because you have strong recommendations from staff. and also, it's interesting. if the majority of body compli complies with san francisco, i think we can take a reverse perspective of diversity from someone on outside coming in toe vied a different perspective. i value that. it's different from my normal thinking. usually i think san franciscans

we have it all and figure it out and do the best. there might be some value in having two outsider, pardon the expression, and amy, i will be supporting your request to be placed in seat 17. thank you. >> supervisor mar. >> i'm shifting, again as first feeling that miss lord's continuity of the years of experience, but having two people so connected with clear channel, really one of the large corporations worries me. though i know miss lord has left the organization, i believe. i think we need neighborhood-based at advocate advocates like mr. dillon to be represented. though i support miss lord for seat 17, i would support

mr. dillon as a watchdog and experienced person who has been involved even though he's thot a member. i think it's important that we reward his governmen involvement on the body even though tees' not a member. it helps to empower him and the neighborhood he comes from as appointing another person from l lafayette on this body. >> obviously for seat 17, i'm in support of miss landgraph moving forward will. for seat 18, i have a preference for mr. dillon because he's attended meetings for the last would years even being not on the board. i'd love for him toen continue on that board. nothing to take away from miss lord, she's done great things for the board. it's a matter of two seats with

three applicants. >> i move miss landgraph for seat 17 and mr. dilling for seat 18. >> we take that without objection. congratulations. we can call item six now. >> item six is a hearing to consider three members ending january 21st, 2019 to the mental health board. >> we had to do a residency waiver, correct? >> yes. >> may we hve a vote to rescind the vote for item five. for seat 17 we need a residentsy waiver. >> i second. >> thank you. now item six. so we have three seats three applicants. angela wong and adelle wilson and [inaudible]

are you hear? if you are hear, come on up. thawmption fothank you for your patience. >> thank you for the important decisions you're making. my goodness. good afternoon, supervisors i'm angela pawn. i'm seeking the appointment to the board as a family member of someone who is a consumer. mental illness. account the past five years, they have been very eye-opening, challenging, arduous, scary journey. my 27-year-old daughter was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. and she -- we've helped her with her struggle to recovery. to survival. it's been, as i said, very frightening at times.

so mental illness came out of nowhere. with no family history, no no one family history. we had no previous knowledge or education about all the ramifications of a diagnosis like this of mental illness. probably the same for those in the dark. we continue to be challenged as she learns to live under a new normal. which all the family members do. all her friend, all her communities. networks that she's volunteered a lot for. namely namy and dbsa who are wonderful networks for us who don't know who to talk to or

where to go and they're wonderful resources for the consumer, for the family members and for the community at large. i credit them largely for our sanity. i have no experience, actually, i'm not an expert in mental illness with all that i've tried to learn, what we've experienced. but i do want to say that our experiences, my experience i've gained with her bipolar disorder, her struggles has given me a sensitive perspective about the realm of mental illness. so i hope to possibly help however i can. on the board. to positively impact those who also seek guidance and help.

i have attended a meeting, and i know a bit of how it works although i've only attended the one so i have to put that up pront. i' -- up front. i'm here on behalf of my doctor because she said, mom, you need to be a family member on board. >> thank you. supervisor mar. >> i wanted to thank miss pawn for being willing to serve. having family members that are bipolar, having the groups like nami who are so helpful for families grappling with mental illness. thank you for sharing your story. >> supervisor cohen. >> mrs. pawn, i too have family members active in nami.

i wanted to ask you if you had any experience with attending previous meetings. >> with mental health board? >> yes, ma'am. >> yes i have. i attended one. but it gives me a good inkling into how things work and i hope that i can join some of the committees and try to help to bring along -- or better the existing projects and maybe bring to the forefront some really needed issues. projects address the issues. >> in your application, you list as a very interesting experience that you're retire retired from retire from ciezer in 2015. your insight into the psychiatric department was insightful can you tell us what you saw? >> it was really ironic in

hindsight when i took the transfer to psychiatry, i had no linkling of what was -- inkling of what was to come. i took it because it gave me 40 hours. i was part time and wanted to go full-time. >> what was your role? at kaiser? >> i was administrative assist tan. >> okay. thank you. >> i took on challenge not realizing what was to come. and so with what i learned there, and then to be hit with the diagnosis, my daughter's struggle, i don't know, it was meant to be, i hi. >> was your daughter diagnosed during your time working why the psychiatry department? >> yes, the latter part part. then i transferred to determin

dermatology. i wanted to go back but things didn't work out. >> you're now retired and ready to roll up your sleaves for the second part of your life. >> i thought what do i want to do when i grow up? i wanted something worthy. >> thank you for your interest. >> is adelle wilson here? do you want to explain adelle's -- >> i'm helen burke and i'm the executive director. i got a call from adelle. she wasn't feeling well. show has served a first timer term on the board adds a family member and she's a valued member of the team. she chaired a committee in the past year to totally revamp our forms and the way we do site

visits to the many programs to make them run smoothly and more effective. i hope you will consider reappointing her to a second term. >> thank you very much for letting us know. we did receive word from ulash dunlap who is a constituent. she was not able to extend teand. but i had met with her previously when her appointment was up as well. so, again, we have two people who are not here. at this time i think we're going to ep open up item six to public comment. >> yes, ma'am. commissioners, i'm sending a strong message that the medical team are low grade. they're not effective in mental health problems. more than ever, the system [inaudible] forcing medications against the will of patients.

they lock them up in hospital. and we have further control financially on the mental health patients. i'm a pi pioneer on eastern religious pathologies who are helping our people with mental and physical well-beings in addition of the methodologies. i put myself at the street level of chinatown hanging out with the chinese people, chinese folks if chinatown. almost every one of them fold up my paper [inaudible] of good planning for the improvement formula for body and heart. i will continue my work on this pathway until such new studies will become the central core of

applications for the system. one medical doctor in this chinatown, clinic actually [inaudible] my paper to the patient. my words were in chinese only but i'm trying to translate it into english. thank you very much. >> any other members of public item six. >> first, you might be up ♪ ♪ then you're down ♪ then you might be ♪ all around ♪ just like a yoa yo yo-yo ♪ ♪ just like a yo-yo ♪ there is one thing i want you to do ♪ ♪ fix those mental health blues ♪ ♪ like a yo-yo ♪ and ring you can ring adelle ♪ ♪ ring adelle

♪ ding a dl ling ♪ ♪ you're looking swell adelle ♪ we can del ♪ make us well ♪ pick adelle ♪ pick adelle >> thank you very much. any other members of the public item six? seeing none, you be lick comments closed. >> i move approval of angela pawn for seat 14. ulash seat 15 and [inaudible] seat 16. >> item seven is a hearing to appoint the term ending april 18th 2018. there is one seat and one applicant. >> is sufficientlyia deporto

here? no. i see -- >> silia was hear this morning but had to leave. she had appointments with the judges around her cases. she wrote me a little bit of a note. she's currently deputy director of family services division and has been for the last three years. prior to that, she was the assistant director for children and family services. the department of public and soarnl services for riverside county. and then has spent 21 yers in child welfare in riverside. while in riverside, sylvia served as a commissioner there for two years. this is an appointed position by the head of aha.

we have a an appointed member from human services agency from the public health department. her interest to serve is to focus on the development of a robust prevention system for the diversified age groups because she sees this entering san francisco at high rates. we feel like the work of first five is area aligned what she strifes to do. she'll value added. >> thank you for letting us know. >> supervisor mar. >> i wanted to thank the first five commission and all the staff for amazing work from preschool for all the help equity work done from firth to five. i wanted to -- from birth to five. it's hard shoes to fill, but i

know that trent roors appointment will be another great person on the first five commission. i know supervisor cohen served on first five also like i did. >> seeing no other questions or comments, public comment www.we'll open it up for item seven. seeing none, public comments closed. if we could get a motion to move sylvia deporto. we'll take that without objection. congratulations to sylvia. call item eight. >> hearing to consider appointing one member term ending october 19th 2017 to the eastern neighborhood citizen's advisory compete. one seat, one applicant. >> is shrug bucktell here? thank you for waiting.

>> good morning -- it's good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for having me here today and a special thanks to the office for putting me up for appointment. my name is [inaudible] bucktell, i work for the community street services. i believe i should be appointed to the eastern neighborhood citizen's advisory committee because of the unique and distinct perspective i can bring to the body. to me, the eastern neighborhoods are not just designated lines on a map. they exist at the same time as geographic and cultural segment of my life growing up and working professionally in san francisco. i don't just live and work in the eastern neighborhoods, i was made there. i'm a product of d-6. i within the to elementary school in solma. my first official job was

working near mission bay, and today, i'm in d-9 every single day workerring. when agencies present about street improvements and park improvement in the new parks, they're talking about the streets i've walked on for years. the parks, i hope to have my children play in one day. my current job adds the outreach and campaign engagement coordinator has allowed me to professionally work on many of the topics that eastern neighborhoods discuss and provides input on and votes on. every day, i'm involved in policy discussions with regarding land use which has become perhaps the most citical policy area in the entirety of this city. ground just broke at a new park on 17 st. and folsom. this happened due to funds allocated by the eastern neighborhood cac. and our organization was there. when the connections between the

mission and mission bay are completed, it will be the people i work with an work for who will be there. ful appoint, i thot onl -- not only intend to but promise that relevant thftion is brought back to community spaces. i will understand my rol role as a community organizer and member to make sure that my seat is the most grassroots-based seat on the committee and further more, i promise to review each project that comes through through the lens of not only those coming into the city but those coming here. i understand this appointment is not to be taken lightly. let me assure you on the record that i pledge to be an active member of this committee if appointed. i take this with the utmost amount of seriousness, on this, you have my word.

thank you. >> thank you very much. >> supervisor mar. >> i wanted to say to mr. bucta, i appreciate the passion that you bring. you talk about be rooted in district six, your commitment to organizing the neighborhood to speak for themselves and empower them, i appreciate that. joining others on the committee, giving that voice to this important eastern neighborhood, cac is so important. so much respect for your work empowering people from our neighborhoods. it's great to have you here. >> seeing no other members -- no other questions or comments from our committee, i'm going to open it up to public comment. i have a couple of comment cards here. la tonya jones. [inaudible] marti martinez.

>> i'm here to speak before you because i was scared to speak. this is one of the guys that will speaker it you but i have to speak for myself. i was the kind of person that was deciding i like to speak in front of people. i'm blessed to have [inaudible] as one the stets for the citizens. please, he is a good guy. he is the kind of guy you'll want on your board. thank you. >> please come on up. >> >> good afternoon, supervisors. [through the interpreter]

>> he says that i've been doing a lot of work with mission clab arive and with the lower street community services i'm here to support his appointment because he makes leaders out of us. nothing more than i want to share my support for him. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other members? come on up. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm cynthia citizen and i'm with sro collaborative and i'm with the internship. i'm here to support [inaudible] for the appointment of citizen advisory. i've known terag for a number of years. not only him before before i got into th the internship.

he's an silent outreach coordinator. not only is he an asset to the board but to the community in general. to appointment him would be a benefit to our community. not appointing sheeraz would be a loss. his work speaks for himself. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public? >> good afternoon, i'm dinea martinez. i work with the commission collaborative and dlor ez street community service as long with chirrack bakta. what i've witnessed over the time that with we've spent working together is chirraz doing everything to educate

himself on all sides of the issue. he not only looks toward the representatives from our community, and opinions of elected officials and people who have had a lot of experience if the situation, but he looks at the experiences of those of the most vulnerable populations of san francisco. those who don't always have the opportunity to share their voice. the immigrant populations, sro, low income populations. lgbtq members and people who are on disability or things that have nature. so it's really important to have somebody on this committee who has ties with people who are actually being affected most by a lot of things that are happening in the city. he cares a lot about diversity and the effects on everybody in this city. and also, does so much research

and a lot of thorough investigation to figure out historical context and important effects of projects. so thank you very much for hearing out what the community has to say about his appointment and i really think that it would be a great asset to this committee to have him. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other members of the public who wish to speak on item eight? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues. >> i move appointment to seat 1 of chirrazz bakta so seat 8. >> i support that. >> seconded by supervisor cohen. before we move on to item nine, we're going to tack a bit of a recess, if we can meet back here at 2:00 if that works. thank you. we're in recess. our community.

and our community. the disability community and the transgender community share challenges. we experience discrimination because our normal may look a little different from yours, but that's the point. we come in so many different shapes and sizes, but all of us are equal under the law. and the fundamental principal under lines this legislation is

the application of civil rights and human rights to those transgender, gender non conforming or questioning. as you pointed out, supervisor campos, everybody deserves the dignity and the assurance of safety when they use the restroom and no one should be harassed by choosing a gender specific bathroom. what i love about this legislation is how brilliant it is. and how inexpensive it's going to be in its application because all that's required is to change out a sign to extend this human rights to people. gender neutral bathrooms have benefits. you mentioned it supervisor. it provides access to people who have children and people with disabilities who rely on care

assistance. by redesignating the restrooms as gender neutral, you have doubled the number of accessible restrooms for people with disabilities so i thank you for that. i want to extend my thanks also to all of our partners on this. to teresa, to richard, to sasha especially and to caroline. i'm going to look forward to walking into a restroom without being told, this is the women's restroom. you need to go to the men's. thank you. >> next we'll hear from the department of building and inspection. the director is here. we couldn't do this without your department. mr. haloran who has been talking about this for years, so director, thank you. >> >> good afternoon, supervisor campos. thank you forgiving us the opportunity to work with you closely,

listen to rick and our staff. the input we have, tries to significant the legislation and more efficiently. this can be more successful. thank you and then i would like to have rick haron to see a few words. >> great. >> supervisor, thank you very much for this. this is, as you say, very timely. and i don't know -- you may not be aware, but this is extremely timely in that the california plumbing code was recently altered in a way that enables this to happen without worrying about the california plumbing code. it's timely in that respect, and although we may not be the best i intend we'll have the best ordinance. we're working. we anticipate

that will become law soon, and we're currently working to help everybody transition to this seamlessly. we have developed brochure and we're working with sasha to develop principals that we hope will be accepted state wide on how to adopt signage that will be compliant, and tasteful. we're looking forward to this, and i wanted to point out that we have been -- we have a memo originated by my predecessor in 2005, we would be granting these. we have granted them under duress. we can do it openly and freely. that's great. thank you and i thank the director for his encouragement in this and we look forward to being of assistance to you. >> thank you very much and this is exciting. i'm going to call on members of the public who have signed up to speak, but anyone, any member

of the public who would like to speak, please come up. if you don't mind lining up on the right side. your right, my left. so jordan davis, sasha, jessica lamond and anyone who would like to speak, please come forward. you each have two minutes. >> good afternoon, my name is jordan davis and i'd like to thank you for introducing and working on this legislation. i'm a transgender rielt's activist in san francisco. i speak in support of bill $160024 which requires restroom to be gender neutral, but city buildings have restrooms built. i have been advocating for gender neutral restrooms since i was advocating in -- i volunteered on a bill, and one of the

positions was requiring that all new construction on reconstruction would -- i push because it shows philadelphia was committed to providing a less -- and we hope that gender neutral restrooms can be brauth to sor as well since this is a big issue. i would like to address legislation, currently pending in the state capitol. ab 1732 introduced by is assembly member which would require all restrooms to be gender neutral. there's nothing around state buildings. to this end, i would like to urge the assembly member to include similar -- bring what we're proposing to california. this should be a new standard for legislation to

other states and cities going forward. please pass this as soon as possible and without hesitation. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. we have another speaker len. i want to say the billions of this legislation is because of this woman who is about to speak. >> thank you, supervisor campos and thank you for championing this ordinance. i really appreciate it and thank you teresa and richard for moving this forward for so many years. this ordinance will be literally life saving. they face discrimination and vaer ball harassment and physical assaults in restrooms so this will meet a huge need in our community. so i want to thank you for that. and it will reduce the long term

health care associated when folks have to not go to the bathroom or have the long term psychological effects of that harassment. i want to flag one thing that has been moving for me especially in contrast to what happened in north carolina yesterday is i wanted to applaud the supervisor and your staff especially caroline for the work that went into drafting this ordinance. there was a very deliberate conversations with all of the stakeholders including the disability community, including trans women of color and the business community and it was just a really amazing experience to be apart of it and i want to applaud you and your staff for the great work you have done. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, commissioner, supervisor. let's be free, gender free from discrimination. gay,

lesbian, transgender. i'm a man. let's [inaudible]. let them be guilt free from being themselves. not just for toilet, but for everything. this is the old fashion end of china or the -- [inaudible]. this is america, we have opened liberal. i'm a liberal. anything sexually, we should have -- of all -- guilt free. all should be guilt free. yes, nobody actually -- i'm not gay, i'm not lesbian, but i open support them. because it's good for your [inaudible] mental health and all that. we

don't too much harm and control. too much harm and control. natural health, natural health. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is lynn ross. i want you to know in new york city, i partnered with a few other people such as the east coast collaborative like barbara and moses and hoffman, and we put together and we lobby for it in up state new york, and we need to do a strong lobby for things in general like that. but i want to emphasize safety, okay when it come to gender neutral because before that, i used to go to a single bathroom, you know.

because i was -- i wasn't at a [inaudible] state. those were the days i used to go to the neutral bathroom. when i started to transition, i transitioned and i went to a woman's bathroom. and we lobby for that. that i won't get harassed base i go to a woman's bathroom and i live as a woman, but i think we need to emphasize safety, okay. people who are woman who dress like boys need to be -- and people transitioning need to be safe, so i would like to, you know, emphasize, thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. is there any member of the public, yes, please come forward.

>> we want to thank senior disability action. >> thank you so much. so we're here as seniors and people with disabilities to support this legislation, to support the transgender and gender non conforming people apart of the disability community and the transgender community broadly. it has been mentioned how this is useful for people with disabilities or seniors who may have a different gender to use the bathroom. that's one reason we support it. one thing that hasn't been mentioned, people are beautiful. if you don't fit the mold, you're not seen that way. this is about honoring all bodies and a whole spectrum of people. that means honoring people who are gender and gender non conforming and honoring senior bodies and all of us.

thank you to supervisor campos and caroline for helping all those use the bathrooms, but helping all bodies and people. speaker: that was beautiful, thank you. seeing no other speakers, that concludes public comment on this item. let me say that i know we have another big item coming up that i'm proud of this, i mean, sadly i mean, the timing illustrates the times we live in as south carolina tries to take rights away from a community and a group of people. you have san francisco going the opposite way. we're on the right side of history, and they'll come a time as it is with issues that we'll be wondering, five, ten, 20, 30 years, why was this