. >> linda chapman representing nob hill neighbors. together with nob hill together with chinatown, the original legislation passed back in the day when [indiscernible] housing committee. i would very much like to be able to participate in this and have other people who have maybe even more direct and recent experience than i do. on nob hill. we have thousands of sros. on my block are three sro buildings with over 200 units. the rest of us in flats and apartments, there are no more than 30 or 32. many of our sros have been lost to unlawful conversions, including at least one and maybe two on my block. only the chinatown one was saved. 1499 california, which used to contain nob hill residents. they became a hotel. now, i see that they are leasing, and in talking with one of the women who actually lived there, she says, well, they were caught and they restored part of it but not all. i have to say that when i -- i acted as paralegal to the author of the legislation back then, and i have to say i was young. it was an experiment. certainly

>> linda chapman. this is absolutely a critical measure, and i did contact the offices of the two sponsors and ask to talk to the aides who are involved in this, because in my profession and working for the army and the navy, i worked for the inspector general, and i conducted investigations. when i looked at the measure originally, obviously, people don't understand that these restrictions that are being placed on what information is being released and federal investigators and -- [inaudible] >> -- and that also, you know, there are many provisions where they would be sending somebody packing -- often, the person comes to them from some other agency prematurely. those are matters that are handled very differently -- [inaudible] >> i think that the sponsors know this. for example, the i.g. will investigate, it may turn out -- [inaudible] >> -- and turned away because it's a crime. now, i would like to -- if i can access to e-mail, i'd still go, but i have wifi and no computer. when i asked it of the tw

. >> linda chapman. linda chapman.i mention that supervisor walton's ordinance calls to mind penalties for abusers of the disoriented men who are victimizing my neighbors just because they're passing along market street, and i want to report that there was already a good impact on saturday, when i came upon an incident again with my neighbor's lawyer threatening a young man -- in this case, a young man who was black -- but he's an equal opportunity oppressor, this guy, and he was saying to him, are you going to call the police? now, what was he doing? he was a nice looking young man, very polite, and well dressed, even, but confused mentally, and he was about to enter this device that was left by a contractor -- somebody else's contractor that had big signs on all side that said honey bucket. so he thought he was going to use it for the intended purpose. down comes my neighbor from the fourth floor, shouting that's private property, and i'm going to lock it, etc. i came along just in time for the question, and i said h

. >> linda chapman. linda chapman.i mention that supervisor walton's ordinance calls to mind penalties for abusers of the disoriented men who are victimizing my neighbors just because they're passing along market street, and i want to report that there was already a good impact on saturday, when i came upon an incident again with my neighbor's lawyer threatening a young man -- in this case, a young man who was black -- but he's an equal opportunity oppressor, this guy, and he was saying to him, are you going to call the police? now, what was he doing? he was a nice looking young man, very polite, and well dressed, even, but confused mentally, and he was about to enter this device that was left by a contractor -- somebody else's contractor that had big signs on all side that said honey bucket. so he thought he was going to use it for the intended purpose. down comes my neighbor from the fourth floor, shouting that's private property, and i'm going to lock it, etc. i came along just in time for the question, and i said h

. >> linda chapman. linda chapman.i mention that supervisor walton's ordinance calls to mind penalties for abusers of the disoriented men who are victimizing my neighbors just because they're passing along market street, and i want to report that there was already a good impact on saturday, when i came upon an incident again with my neighbor's lawyer threatening a young man -- in this case, a young man who was black -- but he's an equal opportunity oppressor, this guy, and he was saying to him, are you going to call the police? now, what was he doing? he was a nice looking young man, very polite, and well dressed, even, but confused mentally, and he was about to enter this device that was left by a contractor -- somebody else's contractor that had big signs on all side that said honey bucket. so he thought he was going to use it for the intended purpose. down comes my neighbor from the fourth floor, shouting that's private property, and i'm going to lock it, etc. i came along just in time for the question, and i said h

. >> question: linda chapman. i have to mention today when i tried to call in, i ran into a problem but at this time, there was someone in the clerk's office to help. so regarding the public advocate which is just critical, i think, if you understood the way that the equal opportunity staff in federal agencies felt, they did not have their hands tied in the way that the language of this public does. you coordinate with an agency. similarly grievance mechanism and our contract, you know, the benefits of the union -- >> thank you for your comments. pair operato(indiscernible). >> welcome caller. (indiscernible). >> operations, did we lose that caller? >> question: still here. >> please continue, sir. you still have the floor. you have a minute and nine seconds left. did you get the gist of anything i said? >> we are listening and i'll restart your time. >> question: i'm just calling to echo mr. hagler's comments and in support of item 10, the resolution to support the aquatic park. (indiscernible). >> next caller, p

. >> caller: linda chapman. you know, i really want to thani really want to thank the sponsors and supervisor haney for having the special hearing to monitor what was happening on april 30th. and everything came out. i realize that maybe you -- it may look normal to have people living on the streets. but before the 1980s, nobody did. anybody who was receiving public benefits, whether it was from the county or from the federal government, veterans, you know, social security, s.s.i. or whatever was housed. now we have a situation that we've created, first by the homeless coalition as randy shaw has described, you know. creating an affirmative action class. and then the city managers, programs, they have such a distorted view. who knew until they actually disclosed at the hearing that supervisor haney called that we believe that people could not seek care in hotels. we were not worthy. that was why they were paying for rooms, hundreds of rooms, 40,000 a night i think supervisor peskin said and leaving them empty. a

. >> question: linda chapman. have to mention today when i tried to call in, i ran into a problem but at this time, there was someone in the clerk's office to help. so regarding the public advocate which is just critical, i think, if you understood the way that the equal opportunity staff in federal agencies felt, they did not have their hands tied in the way that the language of this public does. you coordinate with an agency. similarly grievance mechanism and our contract, you know, the benefits of the union -- >> thank you for your comments. pair operato(indiscernible). >> welcome caller. (indiscernible). >> operations, did we lose that caller? >> question: still here. >> please continue, sir. you still have the floor. you have a minute and nine seconds left. did you get the gist of anything i said? >> we are listening and i'll restart your time. >> question: i'm just calling to echo mr. hagler's comments and in support of item 10, the resolution to support the aquatic park. (indiscernible). >> next caller, ple

linda chapman is right. we have had a lot of sites east of vanness gobbled up by people that want to make a little fortune on those sites. we have to go back to look at the area plans that were developed with a different set of assumptions about the cost of housing and the need for housing in the east neighborhoods. there has been push back from the south of market and mission because the presumptions in that plan are really out-of-date. it is still a deadweight on the city. operator: next speaker. members of the public on item 4 and 5 today call the numbers on the screen. >> caller: hi, i am senior and disabilities action. i am so glad, supervisor mar, that you called this very important hearing. i am disappointed the housing balance report wasn't more detailed. we know we ar we are losing buis with many units due to the loopholes in buyout legislation over the past few years. the other result is that the units have been turned into luxury units expanding upward and out word. these are no longer units affor

. >> caller: linda chapman. you know, i really want to thani really want to thank the sponsors and supervisor haney for having the special hearing to monitor what was happening on april 30th. and everything came out. i realize that maybe you -- it may look normal to have people living on the streets. but before the 1980s, nobody did. anybody who was receiving public benefits, whether it was from the county or from the federal government, veterans, you know, social security, s.s.i. or whatever was housed. now we have a situation that we've created, first by the homeless coalition as randy shaw has described, you know. creating an affirmative action class. and then the city managers, programs, they have such a distorted view. who knew until they actually disclosed at the hearing that supervisor haney called that we believe that people could not seek care in hotels. we were not worthy. that was why they were paying for rooms, hundreds of rooms, 40,000 a night i think supervisor peskin said and leaving them empty. a

. >> linda chapman. by the way, remember months ago, i warned you when our urban canopy which was planted by nob hill neighbors that was destroyed? that's not what i called about, nor did i call you to tell you about how i lost my home due to the corruption of d.b.i., my second home on nob hill, art deco home that i loved. any way, what i really called about was the appalling results of the hearing that you -- that you held on april 30 of the contracts, the crazy contracting that was done with the hotels and that were then left empty. and, you know, again, i've said that i believe that the controller, the city attorney ought to be able to recover some of that money. i want to mention that, you know, what you could do is look at the way the federal government handles contracting, for example. you know, it's like hiring. the line managers and the program managers, like i was, we don't sign the contracts. i would go to hotels to make arrangements for contracts and so forth, but only the warranted contractin

. >> linda chapman. [inaudible] >> -- completely uncalled for. i'm looking further on your agenda -- [inaudible] >> clerk: thank you, miss chapman, for your comments. we have 16 individuals listening and six members of the public in the queue. if you are listening, this is a good time to press star-three so that you can get in line. operations, please, next caller. welcome, caller. you have up to two minutes. hello, caller? have you joined us? star-three will get you in line. hello, caller, have you joined us? >> hello? >> clerk: hello, welcome. >> hi. can i list can you listen to me? >> clerk: yes. >> i'm calling to voice my concern about a resolution passed last week. the resolution in question is number 20073, which is medical and scientific relations between san francisco and cuba. i'm a cuban sittecitizen, and e lived in san francisco for the past 16 years. i am calling here today and spending my time here because i already e-mailed the board of supervisors. i e-mailed supervisors ronen and peskins with my concerns, and i received a one-line

>> caller: linda chapman, again supervisor walton has introduced a measure that has another measure inparallel and i urge you all to do a parallel to the measure that would protect another class which would be people with disabilities, especially mental disabilities. if i had an opportunity i would like to tell you about the incident that i was caught up in when i was approaching my home earlier this year. and a young man who was delusional, alone and afraid, and very gentle and polite asked me for a glass of milk. and my neighbor upstairs saw this and he created this report to report this man as a dangerous threat. but i can't go into that right now. i want to suggest that we would need slightly different penalties. it could have lawsuits and so forth but obviously a lot of people with mental illness would not do that. there is a parallel in like in the past at least, where a department would issue a fine if people routinely called them because they were locked out, you know, once or twice was okay and so there could be like a citation with a fine imposed if it wasn't something entire

. >> linda chapman. by the way, remember months ago, i warned you when our urban canopy which was planted by nob hill neighbors that was destroyed? that's not what i called about, nor did i call you to tell you about how i lost my home due to the corruption of d.b.i., my second home on nob hill, art deco home that i loved. any way, what i really called about was the appalling results of the hearing that you -- that you held on april 30 of the contracts, the crazy contracting that was done with the hotels and that were then left empty. and, you know, again, i've said that i believe that the controller, the city attorney ought to be able to recover some of that money. i want to mention that, you know, what you could do is look at the way the federal government handles contracting, for example. you know, it's like hiring. the line managers and the program managers, like i was, we don't sign the contracts. i would go to hotels to make arrangements for contracts and so forth, but only the warranted contractin

. >> caller: linda chapman. you know, i really want to thani really want to thank the sponsors and supervisor haney for having the special hearing to monitor what was happening on april 30th. and everything came out. i realize that maybe you -- it may look normal to have people living on the streets. but before the 1980s, nobody did. anybody who was receiving public benefits, whether it was from the county or from the federal government, veterans, you know, social security, s.s.i. or whatever was housed. now we have a situation that we've created, first by the homeless coalition as randy shaw has described, you know. creating an affirmative action class. and then the city managers, programs, they have such a distorted view. who knew until they actually disclosed at the hearing that supervisor haney called that we believe that people could not seek care in hotels. we were not worthy. that was why they were paying for rooms, hundreds of rooms, 40,000 a night i think supervisor peskin said and leaving them empty. a

linda chapman is right. we have had a lot of sites east of vanness gobbled up by people that want to make a little fortune on those sites. we have to go back to look at the area plans that were developed with a different set of assumptions about the cost of housing and the need for housing in the east neighborhoods. there has been push back from the south of market and mission because the presumptions in that plan are really out-of-date. it is still a deadweight on the city. operator: next speaker. members of the public on item 4 and 5 today call the numbers on the screen. >> caller: hi, i am senior and disabilities action. i am so glad, supervisor mar, that you called this very important hearing. i am disappointed the housing balance report wasn't more detailed. we know we ar we are losing buis with many units due to the loopholes in buyout legislation over the past few years. the other result is that the units have been turned into luxury units expanding upward and out word. these are no longer units affor