latonia, that councilmember was talking about your efforts in the lions club. >> latonia, i wanted to touch upon a comment that you made earlier regarding service animals and some of your clients experienced barriers to housing with animals. i want to say that is against the law under the housing amendments act. there are resources out there from our office. if a client is trying to get housing through a city program or city housing, they can file a complaint with our office and there is another city office to help mediate issues with disabilities at the human rights commission. i'm not sure if you have already worked with them or referred clients to them, but there is another great resource and there is another non-profit called "the housing equality law project" but they are a legal law office that offers free consultations and another important thing for clients to know is what their legal rights are and the reasonable accommodation process that takes place in housing. so even though housing might have a no pets policy, service animals can be exempt from that and even support anima

latonia, that councilmember was talking about your efforts in the lions club. >> latonia, i wanted to touch upon a comment that you made earlier regarding service animals and

it's latonia dixon. she's very active in the community. >> thank you very much. >> with that, we will adjourn for a short break. we'll be back in 10 minutes, thank you.

it's latonia dixon. she's very active in the community. >> thank you very much. >> with that, we will adjourn for a a >> next item. information item. recommendation for employers highering veterans. if you want to hold public comment to ensure that all three presentations. if anyone would like to make a comment. so we can recognize you. >> good afternoon. my name is christopher dame. workforce liaison for plow shares as well as my experience as a swords client. i transitioned out of the military january 2012. i went to school, i had a family. in fact let me preface that by saying that i deployed twice. i was in the army for four 4 years. 50 months, i served in active duty. during those months, 27 of them were spent in iraq. i spent 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011. i come home and i think i can get a job and take care of my family and be a productive person in society. that didn't happen. i ended up homeless with my family, we were pending homelessness twice, i was with va and different community resources. i have