. >> caller: linda chapman. again, i want to urge the board of supervisors, have the city attorney or the controller or both consult the federal guidelines and then consider following that model. when i worked for the army, they said it was the largest corporation in the world and other corporations followed the example. even more so, the federal government, we didn't have these kinds of problems. you know, it's very shocking because the city charter of is san francisco was designed in order to avoid corruption as you know and yet all of these practices have crept in. they couldn't happen in the federal government because there were rules. you didn't have to get into all of these things like can i do this or that or whatever. you couldn't. you know, if you were a federal civil servant, manager, not manager, decider, not decider, you did not use your position. you did not solicit money in the office for your favorite charity. you are not prevented from soliciting money for your favorite charity outside of work. y

we have four in queue. >> caller: linda chapman. i'm so grateful to hear some consideration by the people giving this hearing. last week, i was at a town hall of csfn and the subject came up in both cases that mta and the other hearings, there's very little representation usually as elders and disabled people. the people who know about the online surveys are the organized people like the bicycle coalition. so they all call in and if somebody like me comes along and tries to speak for seniors or families with small children, you know, we get called out. people will call in and say, well, you know, if you were smart, those little toddlers and your disabled mother would have learned to drive bicycles like us. they actually called in and said that i mean, it's just heartless, the disconsideration. i as a child of a polio mother walking her small amount. her ticket to freedom was having a car with a hand control and i was a long time even so. i didn't realize i developed a spinal cord problem. the agony of going each step where the bus s

. >> caller: linda chapman. i'm here for a different item but i was so impressed by the supervisorpresentation and it is important to commemorate this school . it would have been my district school i guess. i grew up in the inner sunset near the park and outside the boundary forlincoln and i coul have gone to polytechnic . i chose to go to washington instead which i hope will be your next landmark . but youknow, all the members of my family went to lowell other than me . but polly was an important institution and especially the industrial part of it. and things i'm proud of is we have that also. we were comprehensive school. not like lowell those silly industrial sciences were important and they are important.there are so few qualified blue-collar workers compared to theopportunities and the wages that they can make. that is the kind of thingthat polly did inits time. then there was a huge controversy about what was going to replace housing and so forth . by thattime i was living ,i'm uphill i guess i used to ta

. >> linda chapman. as a problem with remote meetings trying to speak, i was trying to call in and could not get through. it happened again today when the secretary advised the time to comment on the items before the board of supervisors. it's just impossible for the public to have any kind of ability to respond. i cannot see what's in the file -- for example, on the grubstake project, i tried to open that file for months. i know they were having problems, showing up at the community hearing, saying that they were bullied and pressured. when the correspondence that you never see was released to me, they suppressed the e-mail contact information. what can i say? the process works, but you have to do it, and i do want a chance to comment on the matters before the board of supervisors when the item is called because i was not able to get through on the phone. thanks. >> hi. this is buffy [indiscernible], and i'm calling in to agree with the caller that asked for in-person meeting. i think we have the polici

we have four in queue. >> caller: linda chapman. i'm so grateful to hear some consideration by the people giving this hearing. last week, i was at a town hall of csfn and the subject came up in both cases that mta and the other hearings, there's very little representation usually as elders and disabled people. the people who know about the online surveys are the organized people like the bicycle coalition. so they all call in and if somebody like me comes along and tries to speak for seniors or families with small children, you know, we get called out. people will call in and say, well, you know, if you were smart, those little toddlers and your disabled mother would have learned to drive bicycles like us. they actually called in and said that i mean, it's just heartless, the disconsideration. i as a child of a polio mother walking her small amount. her ticket to freedom was having a car with a hand control and i was a long time even so. i didn't realize i developed a spinal cord problem. the agony of going each step where the bus s

. >> caller: linda chapman, i'm working with the coalition to stop the sip closures but i'm speakings a retired enteral civil servant who worked in the war on poverty and knows absolutely nobody went unhoused was receiving benefits whether it was afpc or any federal benefits . it was against the law. unfortunately now we have a huge establishment of people who are paid to manage homelessness, to keep people homeless and and manage it. the one happy note i'veheard is you hired an anthropologist so maybe things will be looked at differently and we can change that . look at the budget.$7000 it costs to keep a sip hotel room. counts are reported that vast numbersof rooms were empty and the ones that were rented rented for $62 a night . remember april 30 hearing. the hsa people came in and said they had to empty out all the staff who worked in the hotels who couldn't use the jobs, who knew what to do and had people from alltheirs. >> sorry to cut you off , linda chapman. currently we have just as an update we have 28 members of the public listening with 10 waiting to speak. if you have no

. >> caller: linda chapman. as the own are of a co-op until i was driven from the develop and as the owner of a condo now, i'm taking time out from a lawsuit against me that was instituted by the board president, life in these situations is not all happy and hard missed is the operative word. reform is the operative word. if you're going to put people into these situations luke my friends here which is one of the one thing you need to have funding for, the huge special assessments that will be coming that they will not be able to pay and they will lose their home. this is not theory, you know. the woman $60,000. in the $100,000. and those are just three places and they have four months or six months to come up with them. my building was the same and at that time, i knew people in seven buildings where there were assessments of a million and $1.5 million a community land trust came in and likely said, what are you talking about? and they were going to buy buildings like this and put people with limited resources

. >> caller: linda chapman.ere for a different item but i was so impressed by the supervisorpresentation and it is important to commemorate this school . it would have been my district school i guess. i grew up in the inner sunset near the park and outside the boundary forlincoln and i coul have gone to polytechnic . i chose to go to washington instead which i hope will be your next landmark . but youknow, all the members of my family went to lowell other than me . but polly was an important institution and especially the industrial part of it. and things i'm proud of is we have that also. we were comprehensive school. not like lowell those silly industrial sciences were important and they are important.there are so few qualified blue-collar workers compared to theopportunities and the wages that they can make. that is the kind of thingthat polly did inits time. then there was a huge controversy about what was going to replace housing and so forth . by thattime i was living ,i'm uphill i guess i used to take the

. >> linda chapman. speaking for what happened in the neighborhood commercial district of nob hill when they turnid into entertainment district this. is a terrible mistake. 450 sutter is a medical building. i would expect anything in there is controlled and at 5:00 or 6:00 it closes and there are guards. in my neighborhood when the bars took over and the chief shut down some of that operation. we were flooded with massage parlors. they call themselves foot massage that didn't require conditional use. at 2:00 in the morning when i heard the loud music around the corner and not a bar, what was it? massage parlor, right? big van full of men to get inside. i have no objection to women selling their bodies on their own terms. i worked in welfare rights. friends in the legal secretaries were in the export business. that is different. when you say hotels, you are talking about a commercial hotel. what about residential hotels. on van ness there was a brothel in the residential hotel there. all of these women on