and it is very unique and so i will be very glad to support legislation that supervisor weiner and supervisor campos will be forwarded. >> thank you supervisor yee. and as i noted before i am proud to join supervisor weiner today in holding this hearing. the san francisco lgbt aging policy task force and this report, truly a product of a community effort. to raise the profile of issues effecting lgbt seniors in san francisco. and i also want to acknowledge the work that former supervisor kristine and the three of us and the lgbt caucus of the board at the time that created this task force in october of 2012, the task force is final report, aging at the golden gate, and quite frankly has far surpassed my expectations and it bring to light the critical issues that are facing san francisco's aging lgbt community. and the efforts by the task force are truly admirable, before the task force what is established, the lgbt community in san francisco, had really not made it a priority to advocate for seniors, and quite frankly, speaking about aging in the lgbt community can be a difficult thing to do. we rec

economists and i had the pleasure of serving on the task force and i want to thank supervisors weiner and campos and former supervisor olague for your vision in putting this together because it would not have happened unless you would have done that, i also want to thank bill in particular on the task force and i very much appreciated my colleagues but bill put this together and pulled it together in an effective way and we would not have had the report that we had without his guidance. and so, one of the things that we quickly realizes is that there are many issues facing our community and we tried to do things and stagger them a little bit and some of the recommendations that we made are what we could call the low hanging fruit and expanding access to existing services by leveraging an examining program in dos does not require much money and easily doable and could reach out to a lot of people and where it began to get more difficult is when we got into the housing issues because that is for aging lgbt is for everyone else in the city, and the 800 pound gorilla, and i looked at what other citi

force and chaired the legal work group on the task force and first i wanted to thank supervisor weiner and campos and the board of supervisors for this hearing today and for their work to make this task force happen. and i urge the board to seriously consider our recommendations and take steps to implement them. and as bill and others have said, all of the recommendations passed unanimously by the task force and all of them deserve your full attention and i want to speak about two of the recommendations and all of the care recommendation and the life plan and document recommendation, which were the focal point of the legal work group. lgbt seniors are at risk in care facilities across the country, 80 percent of the respondents said that they will not feel safe coming out in a facility and, 50 percent of respondents say that they or someone that they knew had faced discrimination in a care facility. and the seniors and care facilities are some of the most vulnerable in our community and for those who lack the capacity or have disability effecting communication they can be literally voiceless. and