my name is lonnie kent, i'm with the mayor's office [speaker not understood].ve been working on this very closely for the last couple months and just to give you a little bit of background we were notified in early may that residents at university mount ladies home have received eviction notices. we immediately got on the phone with our city partners and tried to leverage our resource he around the city to see what we can do to stave off the closure and to keep these residents in place. our health department, our human services agency, the ombudsman, were all involved and we are checking in with long with laura ling to make sure that we are understanding -- understanding kind of what we were dealing with and what were our available options. human services agency and department of public health is here today to provide better details about the specifics, but i can provide you sort of the high level. we have been available throughout the process and indicated that we can provide assistance toward any efforts that would keep this facility open and the residents in

i'd like to thank lonnie kent with the mayor's office, colleen and kelly with the department of public health and hidden and [inaudible] with doss, as well as benson, the san francisco long term care [inaudible]. these individuals have worked tirelessly over the last 7 a days to attempt to save this facility. as we examine the zoning control in this neighborhood i'm grateful for the assistance of the planning department. i want to thank the city's attorney's office that has stepped in and acted very quickly to put the controls together. it is with that that i would like to now proceed with the hearing and i look forward, especially to hearing from the residents and the community members who are here to speak on this item. >> at this time why don't we open up the hearing. i want to thank the members of the public who have been waiting patiently. if we could, unless there are any speaker cards, i'd like to ask members of the public that wish to speak on this item, please approach the podium. each member of the public will have up to two minutes and please line up on the right hand side o