we're hear from micky callahan from the department of human resource and linda simon the director of equal employment opportunity programs and representatives from various organizations, several other department heads have also been invite and will join us in answering comments from colleagues as they arise. i want to understand a handful of things i'll lay out. i'm hopeful you'll be able to answer the specific question. first, if there is a dedicated person in human resources for dealing with issues of diversity, discrimination and training. what steps the department has taken since september to address the issues and what's the road map. what's your road map over the next year to improve the hiring, retention and data collection and morale of african american workers in city of san francisco and i want to recognize the reverend doctor amos brown, senior pastor of third baptist church as well as the chrch for the national organization vancement of colored people and the naacp the san francisco chapter and recognize the leadership joseph bryant and david kenam and member leaders that

i would also like to acknowledge director mickey callahan for her team and her leadership and linda simon from d.h.r. dr. emily murase and debi mesereau and i would like to thank my legislative aide for assisting us in this conversation. colleagues, i see no other names on the roster. i'd like to take this same house, same call. looks like we can take it same house, same call. without objection, this ordinance is passed and it's passed on the first reading. thank you. madam clerk, next item. >> clerk: item 36, ordinance to amend the administrative code to prohibit landlords of single-family homes and condominiums covered by eviction controls by circumventing controls by rent increase and clarify that rent increase intended to intimidate and defraud may qualify as tenant harassment. >> supervisor ronen: colleagues, in july i introduced this legislation to end the egregious tactics that some landlords are using. we put it on pause soon after introduction with fingers crossed for the success of proposition 10 and repeal of the state law. since that didn't happen, i'm moving forward with it n

simon was speaking to our reporter graham satchell. jonining us now is linda that is why our facebook page has been so popular, people need to connect, as simon says, faint hope. we offer help by directing people to counselling, or it should be a phone line, it could be the samaritans all the local coffee shop, whatever is right for you. i started the good grief trust because i got no choice, i was given one leaflet which was not right for me. what was your situation? i lost my partner graham, we we re situation? i lost my partner graham, we were together for eight years and he died of cancer four years ago and i really struggle to find the right support for me, and i didn't understand why the gp or hospital could not sign post me. what they did not have was a resource like the good grief trust that we have now achieved can click a button and find support wherever you live in the country, that is what they struggle with. what does support look like? for example, if a parent has lost a child and has other children, sometimes parents are tackling how doi sometim