first of all, i want to thank community housing partnership and gail gilman for hosting us here today. i want to thank the mayor of san francisco, mark farrell, and the president of the board of supervisors, london breed, for being with us today and partnering with us to move this important effort forward. sb-1045 will expand public conservatorships. this is not about public conservatorships or probate conservatorships where a child steps in for a parent with alzheimers. this is about public conservatorships, so stiesk -- francisco can step in for people and get them into services. we want these people on our streets who are dying to get the housing and the care they need. we don't want them to end up in the criminal justice system, which unfortunately is what often happens now. we're often paralyzed by what we see every day on our streets, and it's easy to become numb, but we can't be numb. these are human beings, these are san francisco residents. these are people who need help, and we need to help them. the current public conservatorship laws are simply too rigid to allow counties

we have gail gilman. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is gail gilman, i'm the c.e.o. of community housing partnership and i just wanted to come up to express how excited we are to get through this hurdle today so we can begin working collaborate ratively with the community, with the commission and with staff at ocii to bring this project to fruition. we developed for the commission two other parcels that are under your jurisdiction. we did richardson apartments in hayes valley that opened back in 2012 and we also did apartments in transbay, another site overseen by this commission. we're your largest provider of permanent housing in san francisco both as operator and owner and we have enjoyed working with the commission and ocii staff. we're excited to begin engagement with the mission bay community and we look forward to seeing this project move forward. i'm available if you have any questions. thank you. >> smitha chaudhry. >> good afternoon. i'm from bridge housing. i just want to thank you for taking time today to hear about our project. we were here last fall, as

my name is gail gilman. i'm the president of housing partnership, and a proud resident of district three. i'm here to ask that you send milicent forward with a full recommendation. i had the honor to introduce her to the late mayor ed lee, back this summer, when he was considering making the switch on the planning commission. the reasons milicent came to my mind when i had learned that mayor lee was considering putting a new person on the planning commission to replace christine johnson was her diligence. she looks at all sides of a community issue. she looked at community input, what's best for the city, and she played that role both at tipping point, also when she worked at the sharing economy, and her role at the women's collaborative. i am impressed by her dill jeps -- diligence and thoughtfulness on matters. her dedication to spend one week -- one day every week at commission meetings, i will say is dedicatition in itself. i really hope this commission sends her forward unanimously, and i hope she gets