who needs to be in the room to be able to navigate those processes. and i think that we have got a very good start. to be able to say that let's not setting up competing systems let's set up a system certainly, it is of the interest of administratively at san francisco general hospital. to not only be a center for or within our own network and to look at this at the opportunity to be a center of excellence because all of the counties in california are facing the same issue of patients who require these medically necessary procedures and not a whole lot of resources in those counties to be able to provide those surgeries and okay. and we have got the surgical at san francisco general hospital to be able to train up our surgeons to be able to do this and possibly do this in a way that is helpful to our other counties and frankly helpful in a way to as a business model. >> so... that is i think it answers that. >> and also, because we when we adopt a resolutions we have brought up this is, you know, like we support this entire process because we believe

to assess is that individual still able to live and thrive in the community and in their home.can see with case loads of about 390 we are on time with our assessments in a little less than half of our cases. this isn't putting clients at risk, it's simply not meeting the state mandates around annual reassessments. client are seen, they are just not seen within a year so they could be seen at 15 or 16 month intervals and that sort of thing. so what we're proposing is adding 8 social workers, 2 social worker techs and an ihhs nurse to be able to catch up with the need for annual assessments. >> can i ask through the chair, mr. rourke, miss hinton is here as well that the projections for the senior prop police station are exploding and i'm just wondering why the numbers of case load are not going up higher given the baby boomers turning into seniors really really rapidly and it just seems like we need to project out as the baby boom generation will fill out in about 10 years. >> right. >> so that we are ready for the huge increase in seniors. >> that's correct, supervisor. san fra

were you able to hear my question? i know that they told us that they're trying to regain contact but they've not been able to get those pings after hearing it once for two hours, over two hours then another time for 13 minutes. how crucial is it for them to find it any time now in the next 24 hours or even in the days to come? >> i think it's very crucial. and i don't know if you heard my previous answer. but if the pingers die -- >> boxers emit an ultrasonic pulse or pinging. the pulse is typically picked up by sonar. >> sorry about that video there. go ahead. continue, please. >> is lost because the batteries die, we are now looking at a search that may take years, not months. so it is critical that they attempt to locate that pinger signal again. in addition, you have acoustic anomalies in which the pinger in very deep water, the signal can bend 90 degrees and travel great, great distances. so it's very important that within the next few days, they narrow down the search area more. >> all right. certainly a turning

i will not be able to support this amendment for a couple of reasons as suppose or cohn just pointed out that this means that home owners within those areas that have in law units that those in law units won't be able to be voluntarily legalized. and this still leaves those individuals in those neighborhoods in the legal limbo that we've been talking about. let me mention another issue that are raised by those neighbors covenants and agreement on what they permit and don't permit . there was a concern from my legislation that those would impact those. i included to make it clear that my ordinance does not supercedes those and my addressing the concerns by supervisor yee and his concerns for the district. the other thing i would say is that i think it's important that we apply this fairly throughout the entire city because essentially with supervisor yee's amendment this would be saying in 10 or 11 districts we are moving forward with this but a portion of supervisor yee's district we won't be doing that. we have existing in laws in every district in every neighborhood. those foegz --

. >> we're in and fifth year and be able to expand out and tonight is your ungrammatical truck food for thought. food truck for thought is an opportunity to eat from a variety of different vendor that are supporting the mission graduates by coming and representing at the parks >> we're giving a prude of our to give people the opportunity to get an education. people come back and can you tell me and enjoy our food. all the vendor are xooment a portion of their precedes the money is going back in >> what's the best thing to do in terms of moving the needle for the folks we thought higher education is the tool to move young people. >> i'm also a college student i go to berkley and 90 percent of our folks are staying in college that's 40 percent hire than the afternoon. >> i'm politically to clemdz and ucla. >> just knowing we're giving back to the community. >> especially the spanish speaking population it hits home. >> people get hungry why not eat and give . >> welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors for wednesday, april 23, 2014. my name is mark farrell, i will be chairing thi

what would i need to do to potentially be able to live infinitely?the idea is to live long enough to take advantage of a technological change coming down the line. humans will have the ability to look at life expectancies of whatever they want. >> that's crazy. >> so how old are you? >> 43. >> and your diet? >> i mean, my diet's -- >> do you snack at all? >> who doesn't love a good cookie. pie. >> sugar is one of the biggest dietary health hazards. >> apple pie. blueberry pie. >> we refer to sugar as the white satan. >> coconut cream pie. >> just say no. >> cut it out. >> cut it out completely. so that you get to 75 -- >> i could be the thin svelte specimen i'm meant to be. >> six-pack. >> right now i've got a 12-pack. 24-pack. >> we're going to be doing a number of tests on you to figure out how you can live long enough to live forever. >> great. >> we'll go do your physical exam. >> dr. grossman's battery of tests leave no stone unturned. >> f-e-o-l-p-z-d. >> are you sure you didn't memorize this? >> there's a lot of tubes going on. can see all the

that we are able to hear them. that we are able to intercept them. ultimately they will be looking to see our political reaction to the snowden revelations. so, has the reaction, in our three democracies, been to say that this is outrageous? that this is treason? that this must be dealt with either full weight of the law? or it has not been a beltway discussion where the media is congratulating itself for being able to tell the public just what a big security risk they have been exposed to. i think they will come to the conclusion that we are self absorbed in a way that puts abstract political ideas ahead of the security of our country. if we don't put the security of our country is our first priority, what message are we sending to the people who want to do us harm? i think that we need to remember that this is not, as i say, some smug, self-congratulatory political bubble that we live in. what we say is listened to by people outside, enemies as well as friends. i think we need to be fully cognizant of the encouragement that they will now have been

and we were able to make some estimates. and we also had challenges in terms of these are scarce and all of our healthcare is scarce resources and the political process determined how these funds would be spent within the public health. the question of and challenge of whether or not the people would come to san francisco specifically for this service, and had a manage that. became a challenge. and some key decisions and i won't make anyone read through the small print but i will point to it and a few of our ski decisions and we have established a community advisory board for our transgender health project, and we have created a transgender health portal within the san francisco dph, website, and which is kept updated with the current information for the potential clients for the people who are patients in the system and for providers through the system and that is kept updated with the resources and with the current policies. we decided that the criteria for uninsured patients for surgery would be the same as the criteria b

and fy '16 we had two line item we were able to reduce. we went through and decided not to fund some of the new program requests and/or departments -- i mean divisions did take them back. we also had -- we also were able to increase our attrition fy '16 because we had most of our new staff are going to be hired in fy quarter 16 so we factored in hiring delay for the additional staff. sustainable streets we were able to fund sick of our $6 million in '15, [speaker not understood] in fy '16. we're also looking at doing more and more work in our capital side of the house. so, we're expecting ~ fy '16 that many of our staff that is in the operating budget will be grant funded program. we have to charge grants starting in fy '16. we also reduced contracts. we had a couple of contracts, three or four contracts that were shorter term contracts and we're going to be carried forward fy '16 so we're able to reduce the fy '16 budget. [speaker not understood] service increase fy 15 and fy 16. once again, the fy 16 is contingent on your fiscal review i

what would i need to do to potentially be able to live not finance-itly?the idea is to live long enough to take advantage of a technological change coming down the line. humans will have the ability to look at life expectancies of whatever they want. >> that's crazy. >> so how old are you? >> 43. >> and your diet? >> i mean, my diet's -- >> do you snack at all? >> who doesn't love a good cookie. pie. >> sugar is one of the biggest dietary health hazards. >> apple pie. blueberry pie. >> we refer to sugar as the white satan. >> coconut cream pie. >> just say no. >> cut it out. >> cut it out completely. so that you get to 75 -- >> i could be the thin svelte specimen i'm meant to be. >> six-pack. >> right now i've got a 12-pack. 24-pack. >> we're going to be doing a number of tests on you to figure out how you can live long enough to live forever. >> great. >> we'll go do your physical exam. >> dr. grossman's battery of tests leave no stone unturned. >> f-e-o-l-p-z-d. >> are you sure you didn't memorize this? >> there's a lot of tubes going on. can see all the

we were able to keep him in his housing and got the landlord to dismiss the case after we were able to investigate. there are several other examples i could go on about. we definitely add value as attorneys. when a tenant does not have an attorney they have to move and pay to move. we have a lot of rent controlled units. i would encourage supervisors to ip crease funding for eviction defense services. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> hello. i'm madelein [speaker not understood] from hayes valley. i am now the community board member of legal assistance to the elderly. i became their board member from the community because they saved my housing. i am low-income. i am disabled and i am a senior which doesn't mean that i don't do anything. in 2008 i was woman of the year in district 5. i cofounded the hayes valley art coalition. i helped to get the freeway torn down. i started a lot of the shops. i was one of the pioneers. however, along the way i forgot to make money so i could buy a house. anyway, i still contribute and do what i can. i'm extremely grateful to legal ass

to go forward to, to be able to do some work in san francisco. heretofore, i don't believe there's been an effort to actually access some of that 800 million. certainly cleanpowersf, it's possible wondering what the [speaker not understood] in the public utilities commission. >> i'm happy to share with you a memo that we prepared for our commission that addresses the options here. from memory, i can report that, you know, san francisco does take advantage of some of the funding that's available through our department of environment. the department of environment has a contract with pg&e to spend some of those energy efficiency dollars. they are part of the every three-year reassessment and reengagement with pg&e on those programs in doing research on the balance of the fund available, we are aware once you are cca, you can access those funds. you don't have to be -- you don't have to have cca customer to access though funds. but it did you the california administratored at the sfpuc do expect you to operate a community aretion ~ aggregate [speake

so we are able to act this morning? >> chairman, nolan, the answer is yes you can up until an appeal is cal endared by the board of supervisors. you can take action. >> great. call the items. city clerk: item 6: 6. approval of the transit effectiveness project, including a service policy framework and, at a programmatic and conceptual level, the service improvements, service-related capital improvements, and travel time reduction proposals, including a transit preferential streets "toolkit" described in the final environmental impact report, and adoption of ceqa findings, including a statement of overriding considerations, and a mitigation monitoring and reporting program under the california environmental quality act. explanatory documents include the feir, a staff report, resolution, findings and program.. city clerk: sf 61234 item 7: 7. approving proposed service and route changes as part of the transit effectiveness project including frequency increases and decreases, new routes, expanded limited-stop service, reali

those folks are not able to do this because there are venues that are hard to find and hard to use. it's our hope this will start in san francisco and it will be an excellent resource that will continue to make san francisco one of the most progressive cities when it comes to the disability community and the aging population and i welcome any questions you might have. >> are there any comments or questions from councilmembers? i would like to make one. this is great. it's just amazing. it's such a better way for people to choose care workers than over the phone and it gives a lot of information before you ever to have ask a question directly to the person and it narrows down the time you have to we've through people get the personal care that you have to do. i really appreciate this. >> thank you. we are very excited about this. it's something that is very much within our wheel house and something we have very strong competency in. all of our providers know what they are doing and they are expensed and have passed or graduated from a training program and you nailed it on the head, b

i was able to speak to demonstrations and lectures and this and that. there is not a chance in the world that snowden would have been allowed to do that. he knew it from looking at chelsea manning. he would be in an isolation cell for the rest of his life. no journalist to this day, 3.5 out, noter this came journalist has spoken to chelsea manning. no journalist has spoken to chelsea manning.

would he have to be able, would you be able to check with the faa to see if he's a citizen or noncitizen? >> i don't know the answer to the faa question. i mean, i think it's actually going to be probably regulate. whatever the agency is, it's going to be regulated by whatever the regulations are regulating the particular agency. if there's a license requirement, whether state or federal requirement, then i think you would foia them for the application but i don't know again that they would issue that -- i don't know that the status quo shall be a requirement. so, therefore, that information might not even be there. >> all the federal government is controlled by both the freedom of information act and the federal privacy act. no matter what federal agency want to go to, you are going to be governed by the same rules and the same law. >> thank you. any other questions? >> no more questions? i'd like to know also how, if we could just sum up. anne touched a little bit on remedies available, but as far as malpractice more generally, in these kind of situations we discussed today, or within

we will be able to add between 70 and 100 private sector subsidized employment slots and then we're going to leepbten public sector trainee slots from 6 months to a year and this is especially important because one of the exit strategies for the public sector subsidized employment program is actually entrance into city employment. we have been very successful, for example, in the human services agency, folks who have been in the subsector program being hired out of public assistance and into an agency that's helping folks navigate the public assistance system. so it's a great way to get sort of a peer to peer type employment client relationship which we think is really beneficial for our clients. anyway, by extending from 6 months to a year it allows them to meet those minimum qualifications for many city jobs including clerks and eligibility positions and the like. >> so, mr. rourke, what is on average the suction diper employee? >> we have been kind of an iterate process. we've been adjusting it back and forth, but right now i believe it's $5,000 and it's spread over a number of months.

he was able to do four continuous flips.he water is bouncing him up. ♪ everything is going to be all right he whispers to herself ♪ >> that voice is coming from an 18 year old girl. this is a story, a heart felt story. the first time i heard this song i started weeping uncontrollableably. it gets in your heart and emotions. i want you to hear the chorus sdpl if there's a god out there, listening to my prayers, i'm scared and i've got nowhere else to go ♪ >> my gosh this is so powerful. it is -- you are right. >> she sounds amazing and she is in her room. it looks like she has a webcam and her piano and her voice. to tell us about the song we have molly via skype. from austin, minnesota welcome to the show molly. wow. you are an incredible song writer. what inspired the story? >> i have had a great live and i can't tell how many people who have messaged me and said that's my story. or encouragement. it has legs online now and reaching people and touching people. >> it motivates you. seeing how many people it is reaching and i

i was able to walk, jump, and run.>> the next day aaron and his sister abby went with their parents to a red sox game. the whole family sang along to sweet care loline. >> they put us on the jumbo tron. >> weeks of rehab and determination got him back to playing baseball. in august in a tournament in cooperstown new york, he stepped up to the plate. >> i hit it and i saw it going really far. >> he swings and i see the outfielder run and i went he just hit a home run. >> i was so happy. i came in to home and my coach hugged me and he picked me up and he was ballining.wling. >> what a sweet story. and one programming note for you. you can see a special edition of dream on, stories of boston's strongest which airs tomorrow night at 7:00. i have seen it, it's great and i highly recommend it. abc news will have full coverage of the anniversary. thank you for watching nightline. i'm dan harris. good night. hey. hey. [doorbell rings] what's this? it's u-verse live tv. with at&t u-verse... you can watch live tv from your devic

a source of revenue to be able to do it. we can't just say there is money and it's there. the reality of it is every penny is accounted for and we need to find a new source of revenue and need to rejiger the way we do our operations so that we can make revenue available to be able to apply for these revenues to go toward something like free muni for people with disabilities and/or seniors. we are all supportive of it. we just need to be able to get the money to do it. which brings me to the sunday meters. i think that frankly that could have been a vehicle to be able to fund something like this, but it's clear that we don't have a majority support for this. i think that people who are smart about transit and understand the impact that that has on our system and the capacity to generate revenues understand that connection. but we have failed frankly to convince the great majority of people [speaker not understood] matty ross and the papers and the general sentiment that it is a negative one. and, so, we have to stake a few st

to move their toes and knees and they are able to function. what's important is some of them can actually stand up as a result of this, so this is a revolutionary breakthrough in this field. have about 3 million people in america that are going through this kind of paralysis, 12,000 per year, so this can change the way we're going to treat these. we're also finding out that those nerves after injury are still alive and they are able to function. through physical therapy, through this kind of pacemaking therapy they are able to function. this is big news for spinal injury field. >> i agree this is big news. last year i reported on a device developed by the army that took paralyzed people and made a robot device and made them walk again, and i think that there will be able to go together with that because this is also allowing people who have had paralysis, total muscle paralysis, they still have some sensation, most of them, and they studied four people one of them they have been studying since 2009. you know what they talked about most, return

and part of being able to shelter in place in your home is to be able to find a place nearby where you get the services that you might not have in your home. and that's what this little neighborhood support center is for. >> that's right. >> what are some of the services that might be provided in a neighborhood center like this? >> yeah. so, we think of the neighborhood support centers as really being homes away from home. so, after a major earthquake there is going to be a lot of confusion. people are going to need to try to meet up with other people. they're going to need a lot of information. so, a lot of what the neighborhood support center is going to provide is that information. basically we're going to be like a hub where people can come to get services, help, information, et cetera. what you see here on this table are a whole variety of did you ever rent things from tools, some walki-talkies. this helps people know what is going on in their neighborhood. over here you have a whole variety of water and canned goods. we're really hoping that people will stock up for themselves at

oh, yeah, but sure we'll be able to down load the brain. there's a bit of hubris there.ve a lot more to learn about the brain. if we're talking about that already, we're being kind of nutty. >> and maybe he has a point. after all, lots of technologies haven't quite worked out the way the futurists thought they would. >> you know, the digital world has spawned what's basically a new religion. and there's nothing wrong with that. i don't feel like it's my place to judge somebody else's religion. >> when you hear about the sing lairty, you hear that much more as a religious movement versus a technological movement? >> it's really similar to traditional religion. we have the secret to control death, to cure death, you can live forever because you'll be uploaded into the machine. if you miss out, oh, my god, then you're going to be left to die and you won't be uploaded when the sing lairty happens. you know, it's in the eye of the beholder. if you want to believe in it, i can't tell you not to. >> maybe it is more a matter of faith rather than fact whether technology will hel

we're much envied for being able to be both. we're not behind fences, as other ports around the world are. one of the things we do for the city that's probably of the most value is our historic sea wall so i'll talk about that in a little bit. just to do a quick refresher, the port's mission is codified in law and we have a couple at attributes that date back to our founding in 1860s. the first is to promote te merry time and the fourth is to be a self supporting enterprise, which we have been since inception, even when we were a state agency. today the port is a diverse tenant mix of uses. the historical uses are very much still there. we've been able to capital ize not only on the city's tourism industry, but on our great location on san francisco bay and our a jay sen location to the pacific ocean. one of our greatest missions was to based on just 2013 alone i would say that we are fairly reunited with the city. today the water front is teaming with school kids going to explore tore yum, as well as kids coming out to enjoy th

and also, for helping with incidents if there is an incident and to be able to manage them better and get the system back on track again. >> thank you. >> so, with the 6 to 1.8 million dollar contribution, it is the largest funding source for the project and allocations made in 2007 and 2009, and however of the 18.4 million dollars expended today, only a (inaudible) and there are reasons for this. and the first one, of course is that the three year delay that happened. and the separate one which is an interesting one is the type of contract, and instead of looking at payments and just the most common way of contracting for construction, and muni was able to negotiate and a milestone based contract and where the contractor is paid on the quauters with the schedule and only when that milestone is reached, then the payment is made. there is no monthly payments and therefore, muni, is able to allow payments later, and in the process. and finally, afmta has been using other grants with earlier expiration dates and the authority policy that the other funds be used first whenever possible. u

they have not been able to access it. the difficult part is trying to break through the glass to get in to the ship. there have been additional bodies found. so hope is beginning to dim. the odds are certainly against all of the families but we are hearing them still ask the coast guard will they search for survivors. are there still air pockets? >> i understand, kyung, that each of the divers, i think we have a graphic of it. they have airlines going to the surface which must make any efforts to navigate under that 50-feet deep in to this multilayers of that ship extremely difficult. >> very difficult. let's talk about the conditions of the water. the yellow sea is extremely frigid. yes, they are wearing wet suits. yes, they are wearing protection. yes, they are trained divers, but it's extremely cold. the waves, the tides have been very high the last couple of days. it is murky water, it is not crystal clear mediterranean sea. they are 12 miles behind me. it is not ideal conditions. even though the weather improved from

we were able to cut $224 million, about 30 percent of our capital plan to a chieve a balanced budget. these are two things we were able to continue to provide $50 million of savings to the general departments and others. this is a slide that talks about what the cuts were and here, $224 million in cuts and deferrals looks like . so you can see we had to cut energy efficiency and also city renewables as well to achieve a balanced budget. we figured out how to balance it two years ago, but the structural challenge remains and so we have some additional challenges these next two years, in the next two year budget. we have new capital and operation needs that have been identified. the one i talked about is mount tunnel rehab, which is $519 million increase of what we had in our prior capital plan. we also have an additional pge transmission and distribution and street lights. we have additional costs associated to regulatory compliance that comes to about $32 million increase. and on top of these we are seeing a decrease in supply power sales which represents about $13 million in lost rev

students are able to earn 2.5 credits for this program. we have stipends funded by comcast. this is sprout funding the teachers. we're excited to talk about our students success structure. one thing that we're careful about is making sure all of our students receive an orientation prior to being placed in summer internship program. we're going to have a week long orientation that's 20 hours long and that's going to focus on professionalism and literacy since this is the first paid organization for our students. all of our students will have a work site visit by their summer internship counselor and check on the students and the host to make sure both parties are mutually satisfied with the placement. it's important for us to get feedback from students and from the employers. this feedback was done last year and we were able to make recommended changes so we can have a better program for this summer. and i apologize. i think we have run out of time on this item. >> so what i'm going to do is open up for questions from board members and then open up for comments. commissioners

being able to go up and downstairs makes it difficult. on the right is harry and sitting down and age 90 and his caretaker partner is 86 years young, and in his building there's no elevator and of course he's pretty much gets around in his home in his walker and rarely leaves outside the building. now the meals for seniors and adults with disability what are the needs? our department conducted nutrition needs assessment and our findings from a 2012 there are -- for seniors 60 and above under 200% the federal poverty level they're over 126,000 average meals needed and currently we are providing a little over 42,000 meals and this is through both public and private programs, and you can do the math as how many there's a gap there. 1/3 to one fourth of the seniors and adults live under the 200% federal poverty level. a third of the seniors 60 and above there is 38% of those 65 and above and about a quarter of the adults with disability are living under 200% federal poverty level so the numbers are pretty large. >> may i ask a quick question?

when it comes to the data we are making more detailed information for our schools we're not only able to track the e l but able to talk about the comparison group within the school and the same and how it performs in the district. so again 0 those are some slow down that we have available. since this is the season for school action plans you'll see that from preto post with those do not schools are able to be more specific about their strategies within their pathway. and here are examples of two schools how it was before the data was given and as a result of data how the eye strategies within their pathways. just an example of the data of the school action plans. i'm going to turn it over to christen for program impact >> we're continuing to expand the respectable and that's been critical one could he finding is there a gap between the achievement of which they think so and latino students it's reflective of the sate state and across the country we're being proactively to recruit to staff the pathway expansions to make sure we have teachers that have the high-level proficiency we need

if we were able to get an actual physical reason, policy reason about the type of residential housing that makes it difficult for them to legalize it would make sense. this is purely coming from a motion that the neighborhood would like to see and i think it's completely reasonable for supervisor yee to make that request on behalf of the residents that he represents. i think that's where that comes from. on the second motion that supervisor yee has moved forward i do plan on supporting a pilot program. i actually appreciate the work that has gone into a path way to legalize in law units. it's something that has vexed the city for decades and it's clearly a source of income for many single family home owners and d, a source of affordable units here in san francisco. however, i have a lot of concerns about the legislation that is being introduced in having unintended consequences and mine is a scenario that i brought up at land use committee which again is that as we know many of the tennants that live in in law units has been as articulated as a shadow economy and therefore because of

or at least we will want them to able toat we are disrupt them. that we are able to hear them. that we are able to intercept them. ultimately they will be looking to see our political reaction to the snowden revelations. so, has the reaction, in our three democracies, been to say that this is outrageous? that this is treason? that this must be dealt with either full weight of the law? or it has not been a beltway discussion where the media is congratulating itself for being able to tell the public just what a big security risk they have been exposed to. i think they will come to the conclusion that we are self absorbed in a way that puts abstract political ideas ahead of the security of our country. if we don't put the security of our country is our first priority, what message are we sending to the people who want to do us harm? i think that we need to remember somethis is not, as i say, smug, self-congratulatory political bubble that we live in. what we say is listened to by people outside, enemies as well as friends. i think we need to be fully cognizant of the encouragement

and i ended up taking off a year from work to be able tore care for her. it was both rewarding and challenging. i've never had a job that was as demanding, and yet as fulfilling being muslim and south asian american, i think that it was really difficult to find, and being able to care for her in her home is most suitable and appropriate. and she's there with my family right now. >> torre, in listening to sadaf, the need to not make what she has gone through the center of attention. and i wonder if you come across that with a lot of caregivers that, because they are so caring in nature that they're not going to stand up and say, i need help. this has been so hard and that's affected my life across the board. and it seems they're very reluctant to say that because they have such big heart. >> absolutely. i have had the blessing of being in contact with thousands of caregivers over the years. and hearing their stories, and helping them share their stories, and it's a universal message that i'm hearing, yes, it's very difficult. and like she was saying, it is

new appointees and i'm just supporting them not only personally but as far as professionally being able to work together on the committee. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, my name is javier florez, i'm here in support of these two gentlemen. as you know our organization is working with the community all the time and these two individuals, they have been proving themselves being able to work with us and also with the community. here we are supporting them as well as they do with us. mr. eddie ahn and miguel penn. i respectfully ask you to reappoint eddie ahn and miguel penn to the committee. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. supervisor campos? >> thank you, mr. chair. i want to thank the applicants for their willingness to serve the city and, you know, as a general rule i usually support the appointment of these kinds of vacancies where the person has served but i have to say that i am ready today to support the reappointment of miguel penn but i am not ready to move on the other one and it's nothing personal against eddie ah

it is so crucial to be able to communicate. and i only realize that when i met people like oj and holly because it's that self expression. what was really moving to me when i met holly was that she was talking to me using the sin th thesized voice but when she hits on phrases that she had p prerecorded where she was inviting her dog to come fetch a biscuit, you know, her dog responded to her voice. it was just so emotional to actually experience, you know, animal respond to go her real voice. >> that's when i realized just how crucial this technology is. >> now, absolutely loved the photos that you took on this trip. can you share them? >> yeah. i mean i was just so moved by meeting oj and i just had to post this picture because i felt privileged to meet someone who is so amazing. >> if you guys wants to see more posts like that from the field, be sure to check us out on instagram. lined see, what do you have next? >> imagine you are in a collapsed building, buried beneath a pile of rubble with no way to communicate to anyone o