hilary ronan, chair of the committee and sitting to my left is supervisor marr and to my right is matt hainey. our clerk

hilary ronan, chair of the committee and sitting to my left is supervisor marr and to my right is matt hainey. our clerk is victor young and i would like to thank lawrence brian for starting this meeting. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones, complete speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. >> and before we get started, can we have a motion to excuse supervisor walton? >> so moved. >> without objection? >> thank you. >> without objection that motion passes. there clerk, please read item number one. >> item number one is a hearing to considered the proposed ordinance by four more supervisors to the march 3, 2020 election to establish mental health sf to provide mental health services and psychiatric medication to all adult residents of san francisco with mental illness and/or substance abuse disorders, homeless, you uninsured or healthy sf. >> thank you so much. i could not be more excited to be where we are here today. we just came from an incredible rally with over 600 people, healthcare workers, frontline social workers, conservatives and famil

everyone who is part of the fight to save the arf and who work closely with myself, supervisor matt hainey, my staff and supervisor hainey's staff to bring us where we are today. i especially want to thank the workers at the behavioral health centre who have fought is hard for their health patients and for jennifer who lit the fire under all of under the all of ue issue because we wouldn't have known about this to let us know what was happening. i also want to give a special shout-out to amy wong, connie chung, and the er nurses and julie muleter, to the conservatives, including michelle giordina, the profit providers, sarah short, roma guy and to staff lisa merowski who came out to support the worker's. thank you to the residents and families for being so courageous in telling stories. marcus housman, donna mateer and judith klein who have made all of the difference in the world getting us where we are today. i want to thank the amazing leaders in local 21, especially vivian aruyo, deborah gorval, jason klum and, of course, tim kavaloni for being there with us to the beginning is to the m