eric mar will be here shortly, the clerk is derek evans and i would like to thank sfgtv staff who are covering this meeting. we have one item on the agenda today. let's begin, mr. clerk,. >> please be sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. >> thank you rkts, if you could

eric mar will be here shortly, the clerk is derek evans and i

and the clerk of the committee is derek evans and we want to the following members of sfgtv for helping to cover the meeting today, mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> thank you, mr. chair, please be sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices and completed speaker cards to be included in the file and should be submitted to the clerk and the items acted on upon should appear on the board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> this is an item that is introduced by supervisor weiner and i am proud to be a co-sponsor, before i turn it over to supervisor weiner so that he can make his remarks and i will make mine after he does, i want to begin by simply thanking... >> sorry mr. chair, but we need to call the item. >> call item one. >> hearing to formally accept the recommendations of the lgbt aging task force for the board of supervisors and consist of final recommendations and include action plans for implementations of recommendation and time lines and estimated cost and potential funding sources and additional information to implementation. >> once again, th

eric mar will be here shortly, the clerk is derek evans and i would like to thank sfgtv staff who are covering this meeting. we have one item on the agenda today. let's begin, mr. clerk,. >> please be sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. >> thank you rkts, if you could call our item. >> ordinance revising the healthcare security to require all healthcare,ordinance revising the health care security ordinance to require all health care expenditures to be made irrevocably; to establish a city public benefit program known as the health care access assistance program (hcaap); to describe the public benefits available under each of hcaap's three component programs, healthy san francisco, covered san francisco, and health care access accounts; to set certain eligibility requirements for program participants; and to set an operative date of october 1, 2014. >> thank you very much. and i like to like to begin by thanking all of the members of the audience who are here on this item. but i also want to acknowledge all of