and we would like to recommend that you appoint jessica lehman, jennifer esteen and sara short to the board. jessica because of her rights with disability and the work at s.d.a. on this you shall shoe and jennifer because of the direct experience in health care and particularly providing health care to people with mental health disabilities and substance abuse. and sara for many years of work on housing and homelessness issues. thank you for considering them. >> superviser ronen: thank you. >> looks back i am again. jordan davis, i am speaking in support of jessica lehman, jennifer esteen and sara short. jessica i know from various contexts and working with the voluntary services first. me and her have like, you know, really good working relationship. and she has a good working. jennifer esteen and i know her from save the ark. and sara short, come on, she is a legend in the city. anyway, just want to say i didn't want to have to come here. i didn't want this item to be in consideration because i was really, really [bleep] opposed to 1045 and the local implementation. but we got to ha

. >> item 29 is a motion to appoint and waive the residency requirement for jessica lehman, jennifer esteen and to appoint sarah short to the housing conservative ship working group. >> i'm sorry, residential wafers fowaivers for two of the three? >> 29, yes, i called 29. >> and did you mention -- >> yes, mr. president, i did mention the residency requirement to be waived. >> for who. >> jessica lehman and jennifer esteen. >> is there a reason why we're getting waivers for two of the fly appointees on this? and i ask this question consistently when i see so many people get waivers for residency purposes. there's a lot of people in san francisco that live here and why can't we find anybody? and i'm not saying tease people aren't qualified. so i don't know if you want to -- >> sure. as the chair of the rule's committee, i'm happy to respond. if i remember and remind me, there were five applicants for these three seats. so we didn't get an overwhelming response to the request for applicants. that's number one and number two, the sad reality in san francisco these days is that the people often

i also really wanted to thank jennifer esteen who led this and helped this happen. really grateful to dph to hearing the front line workers, hearing the clients, hearing the people with feet on the ground. it is very, very powerful. this just offerings a lot of hope that both sides are able to come to this agreement. it gives us a lot of hope. allowing these beds to reopen allows people, for people to maintain their homes, allows people to not just get homes then need but to receive care throughout the city and flow throughout the city. this is beyond be the arf. thank you very much for all of your work on this. >> thank you. >> good morning. i am connie. i work at the behavioral health center for 20 years. i also come down to the arf to help when needed. so many clients in the arf are former clients of us. i come today to show my appreciation to your support to save the beds at the arf and save our clients from being moved away from their homes for many years. thank you, supervisor ronen and mandelman for coming to see what a great program we have at the arf and th