in 1983, diane feinstine appointed her to the rent board and for the neck three decades, more than three decades, she put her legal acumen to use appearing before that board helping generations of san francisco renters assert their rights and achieve just resolutions. as a result of her work, she has received awards, numerous a words including senior action network and the northern california association for non-profit housing unhung hero award and she's been inducted into the san francisco tenant hall of fame. policy marshal, you are a civic treasure. in 2009, policy took up a different fight when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. the experience motivated policy to do more for others struggling with the disease so when she retired from gold farb in 2014, seeking a healthier work-life balance she began working as a breast cancer prevention advocate focusing on the environmental causes of the breast cancer. she founded breast cancer overtime in 2014 and serves as a executive director and is the principle investigator on two community-based breast cancer prevention study funded by the

on the rent board that was a real shame to lose you but man, were we luckily and i didn't know diane feinstine appointed you which says a lot. we were lucky to have you for throw and a half decades and can't thank you if you have for that work. >> supervisor yee: supervisor fewer. >> yes, i just wanted to thank you for your decades of service to the people of san francisco and in particular to our tenants community. thank you for being the light shining hope and assistance to renters in san francisco. thank you for your decades' long work of advocacy and activism which is rare nowadays actually in san francisco and i just want to say on behalf of my neighborhood, 65 of which. >> thank you to everybody who came. i have mixed feelings for being honored on the rent board because i'm not done. i refuse to fade into the background. i will still here and i will work to save the homes of the thousands and thousands of people protected by rent control that are the heart and soul of the city i love. i was 22-years-old in 1979 when i fought alongside and worked for proposition r. precursor of today's re