but like many of you here today, i just want to express my excitement and my gratitude to you, jesse ruiz navado, for submitting your application, that you've come here to speak to the committee. jesse would be the first transgender woman, person, to serve on this commission. and i believe would bring a very perspective and voice to this body. additionally, you're a limited english speaker, and believe it or not, on the immigrants rights commission, you would be one of our first committee members that dominantly is in english, and i think that is really an important perspective to bring to the commission as one of the cities with the strongest language justice policies in the nation. we need your direct experience with being a limited english speaker on a body serving the immigrant community. so i really think those two historic firsts are incredibly important, and i'm very, very excited today to support your nomination. before i speak on other appointments, i wanted to see if either of my colleagues had any comments on motions. supervisor mar? >> yeah, well, i just wanted to thank all of

my name is jesse ruiz navado. i migrated 18 years ago from my country.and i lived for about 16 years in north carolina. and i've been in san francisco for the past couple of years. and i have been working with trans latinos, an organization here. it's an entity that serves transgender women who are latino. and i want to tell you a little bit more about me. i am a lyft driver. and i volunteer with ella about twice a week. where, for example, we go to different organizations and foundation, trying to fund raise money for the organization, to serve the community. >and the reason i am here and i would like to join the commission is, out on the streets, what we see is a lot of transgender latino women who don't have access to dignified housing. and all of the members of the immigrant community have many needs, but we have particular vulnerability within the transgender community. me, for example, i'm standing here before you, and i don't have health insurance. and i am close to being kicked out from my home. and this is why i'm here, because there are many ri

and i would move that we appoint jesse ruiz navado to seat one, and paul monte, who i've had the pleasure of working with for decades and just hold in the highest regard, to seat four. >> one moment, please. i'm trying to find the names. >> chairwoman: jesse, the last person listed, and paul, fourth down on the list, for seat four. >> found it. >> chairwoman: great. i'll take that without objection. without objection, that motion passes. thank you so much, everyone. i really appreciate it. [applause] >> chairwoman: i'm really hoping that the rest of you reapply in june. >> and i will be contacting you with the new seat descriptions, and asking you if you would like to reapply for the additional seats. >> chairwoman: thank you. thank you so much. mr. clerk, can you please call item number three. >> item three is a hearing consider appointing nine members in definite terms to the single room occupancy taskforce. the s.r.o. taskforce. >> chairman: thank you so much. i know that jamie bonmatsu is here today, who is the chief housing inspector with d.b.i., and the official chair of the taskfor

. >> i would like to give my personal recommendation to jesse ruiz, who would bring a special per perspectiveor public comment because i have to go to work, i want to recommend the s.r.o o. slate for agenda item number three. >> chairwoman: way to take advantage of the mic. thank you ochthank you so much. next we'll hear from paul munihe. >> good morning, supervisors, it is a pleasure to be here before you today. i've had the privilege of working with you all over the course of several years, but i want to offer a little more about my background. when my parents fled civil war in el salvador in the early 1980s, they gave up everything they knew and had in hopes of finding safety and sanctuary in the united states. my parents were able to find that sanctuary right here in san francisco, we churches that were willing to house them, with schools that were willing to teach them, and with a community that was willing to take them in as one of their own. for generations, san francisco has offered sanctuary to thousands of immigrant families like mean. but sadly, as you all well know, we're in the m