like to on another note just send our support out to the senior action network for the loss of jazzy collins. i'm sorry about that loss. she was a good advocate for people with disabilities. don't play with me. she was out there. sorry you guys lost a very good advocate there. next in my report is we have a lot of free opportunities at the library. i would like to say take advantage of them because they're very good. we have in our own voices that i do at the public library and you can go on the website or the public library is right here on 100 and larkin. check it out. i'll be going overall the different libraries, teaching mental health courses. very good courses and they'll all free. okay. free, free, free, san francisco the best place in the world. okay. i do want to remind you that your comments are welcome. public comment is welcome, but when we have a multiple of people we wish that you would only stick to the agenda items and reserve the limited of time to one to two minutes. we really appreciate that. that's if we have a lot which i don't see a lot today. we got a good meeting and

we are very delighted to have jazzie collins works with us and we are excited about the task force and on housing and thank you for your work. i wanted to speak today about a study and work that we're doing with seniors with disability and sro's. we have a couple of people to talk about some of the other housing work, but we have been aware this has been a real problem. the issues affecting seniors and people living in sro hotels and we worked together with the senior action network and one that merged to become the group and along with the collaboratives came together and surveyed about 150 seniors and people with disabilities living in sro hotels and were in various languages. san francisco what more than 500sro hotels and 19,000 units and i am surprised by that figure and the estimate is and this is a couple years old there are 8,000 living in sro's. we don't have data how many are lgbt but we have reason to think it's a pretty large proportion and one thing that we do know is that one of the survey results was that seniors and people with disabilities in sro's and two issues were i

jazzy collins. >> present. >> jorge rodriquez. >> present. >> stu smith. >> present. >> and myself present are there public comment for items not on the agenda? what's on the agenda is senior lgbt housing needs and concerns, so if anybody has comments on anything other than lgbt senior housing concerns and needs they should come up to the podium now. okay. seeing no comments we will proceed to regular business, and there is only one item on the jernd and if anybody would like an agenda. why don't you pass them out craig if you could and also if you could bring a couple up here as well, so the discussion item for today is -- we're holding i will read the official announcement. the housing sub some of the san francisco lgbt aging task force is having a hearing into the concerns of lgbt seniors. this is part of the investigation of the housing needs of lgbt seniors. all lgbt seniors are welcome to testify about their housing concerns no matter the type they live in, rent control, or other subsidized units, a sro, a shelter, a home that they own, et cetera. seniors are welcome to talk about th