nickel, jim illig, michael costa, dr. edellman. but i was asked to speak on behalf of stu smith. he, like me, he's a native san franciscan. you know, he has seen the tra trajectory of our community, has seen what has gone on in the history of the gay community here in san francisco. and i think that perspective is important. i don't come out here a lot to speak on behalf of anybody but i'm delighted to be here to speak on his behalf. he's a member of the disabled community, the hiv community, he's a small business leader, understands housing, is a wonderful volunteer at shanti, just is an incredible human being and i'm thrilled to speak on his behalf and also offer my recommendation to the folks i already mentioned. thanks so much. >> chair kim: thank you for being here. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is martha knutson chairs of the democratic club. i want to thank you for creating this important task force. i got to sit here for a while and it's just awesome what is happening here in this historic moment. i want to acknowledge we're sharing that feeling today and i'm su

my name is jim illig and i am a lgbt senior, resident of district 9. i've worked with lgbt seniors my entire professional career in san francisco starting with the medical center, continuum hiv surfaces and project open hand but more importantly from your perspective is you're looking for people with experience with community planning bodies, policy bodies, dealing with the public, arriving at consensus. i just completed eight years on the health commission, including three years as its president, and a year as its vice president. before that i served on two planning bodies, created by this board of supervisors, the living wage task force that i chaired, and the nonprofit contract streamlining task force. both of those task forces were like this one proposed, time limited with the specifics -- recommendations and i'm looking forward to bringing you policy suggestions. one in particular that i mentioned at the last hearing, department of public health has an excellent process of assuring competency by requiring every service provider to certify their cu

i'd like to follow up martha by saying we're here to support two of our long-term board mtious, jim illigand michael costa. they've given so much to this community. and that this concept that you're promoting today is something very important to our club. in fact, we have a meeting next week, where we're joining with the milk club on lgbt seniors issues. and so thank you for putting all this together. >> chair kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is james -- and i'm with senior and disability action, formerly senior action network and planning for elders. we're moving forward, just like you're moving forward, just like san francisco is moving forward with this amazing task force that's being created. i would like to emphatically urge you to appoint two members that we are endorsing, that being senior disability action, those two members are adam parness and jazzie collins. there are many quawched candidates, a lot of them bring very rich policy experience, and administrative experience. what is very critical is to have on the ground, on the sidewalk, community relations

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