leon schmidt. >> good morning, commissioner, and commissioners and deputy director. and the advisory council met on wednesday february 18th. and at that time we had a really great visit from mr. john franklin from the san francisco mental health association, on collecting behaviors. and he actually brought a staff person in to really give a face to what collecting behavior really is all about. and it was really an insightful presentation and i think that everyone in the room really got something from it. and will learn from it and will be able to take it back to the communities and mr. franklin, they are always looking for referrals to assist people with this behavior. we continue to look for folks who are interested on becoming part of the advisory council. and there are 22 positions that are on the council and right now, we are down a few. and so we are always looking for folks who are interested. and our person who is our chair person, cathy, and is always, looking for the good referrals for the people who are would be good on the advisory council. >> we are conti

leon schmidt >> good morning, executive director hinton on january 21 the advisory council met and our first order of business was to present a citation from the mayor to mrs. marini reed for her service to the commission for many many years. also i gave the executive director report that the cda spoke with the representative of the advisory council to make sure that we and the commission were in synch with our communications around the guidelines that are taking place in our communications and i was very pleased to hear that we are and do very well. also mr. emmett nelson from muni came to share information about the free muni program and as he spoke with the council everyone was very excited and very pleased to hear that this will come into effect march 1. also deputy director mcspadden came and shared the information about the new hub program that's taking place and wanted the council to come to some of the group meetings and we were able to send representatives to those meetings. we had a report from our site visit committee and two sites were visited, the 30th center site and the