coming together to reach this important together and last but not least to our deputy city attorney, ann pearson, for putting so much work into into legislation. i'll make my motion after supervisor safaye. >> just please add my name. >> great. >> and you can add my name, too. >> ok. add my name as a cosponsor. >> supervisor peskin. >> i want to thank and congratulate supervisor ronan and i just want to note this is one of unfortunate revelations at the department of public health. what i'm about to say, i did personally express to dr. colfax but supervisor yi called a hearing last week to further discuss the revelations at la golaguna honda and i was disturd the department of health issued a statement wherein they indicated the things they said on the record at that hearing were not correct and so it's like the arf revisited. >> i hopewhatever resources theo discharge their duty to the department of sanfrancisco be granted and made that clear to dr. kofax in no uncertain terms. we will award the amendments that i stated into the record and. >> is there a second? >> made by supervisor safaye. th

. >> thank you so much and i just wanted to thank the city attorney's office and ann pearson who worked on the hundreds of drafts that i talked about with us. they gave us important feedback to give to us. with that, let's hear from you all. we're about to open this up for public comment. please come forward feel free to line up and every speaker will have two minutes. feel free to get us started. >> i'm a me member of a volunter organization of psychiatrists, therapists, attorneys, family members and others on behalf the severely mentally ill. demanding treatment before tragedy and i find it encouraging that attention is finally focused on improvement but both bills right now failed to tang int take into accounts y aspects of why our system is dysfunctional. there's less visible severely mentally ill who live with family members and attempt to ward off disaster for their loved ones and bear the brunts of death threats, visible and physical abuse and disruption of their entire lives attempting to protect their family members. yet, we have advised by representatives of the department of

city attorney ann pearson who has not only been the city attorney on these ordinances but also on mental health sf and those ordinances. as city attorney when there are different parties at the board of supervisors you have to draft all versions of the same thing. that gets hard and overwhelming. i found it strange because normally that would be a conflict of interest. in government, it is not. i have always found it strange as an attorney myself you have to represent th the dualing sids with confidentiality in a timely manner. i hope you are watching, ann, you have done an incredible job. i know you worked weekends and i wanted to also acknowledge your extraordinary work and thank you so much. >> i want to thank supervisors haney and reaso ronan and manden and i want to thank the staff at the arf unit and the families and advocates for raising your voice to find the best solution. it has been really a great learning experience for me inning our complicated mental health and behavioral health system, and just learning from all of you and just yesterday i had a chance to visit a wonderful