ms. courtney. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you president melgar for allowing us to speak on this item. yes, i want to reiterate the same points that ms. courtney brought up. i also want to -- i am indignant and i find this insulting, frankly. we worked on this with the commission and with the planning department. i personally remember last year a whole bunch of activists part of our neighborhood organization came here, spent the time to testify about the perils of these roof decks that are going up and we have to come her as part of dr. spend the entire day to argue against them. nine out of 10 times you side with us. these are not good uses of roofs and not good planning. we decided on this in may, august. imagine my surprise when i find the memo dated march 28th. i have no idea how this came out. this is definitely an abuse of discretionary power, and at this point we have no choice but talking to our supervisors and asking for change in planning code. if policies could come and go and this is bait and switch at some p

ms. roberts said seat number four, but i'm seeing seat number three here. >> i believe there was an advised agenda. >> thank you. perfect. >> chairwoman: thank you so much. next, can we hear from courtney brown? >> good morning, supervisors. i'm really honored to be here today, and honored to be part of the s.r.o. housing justice slate, along with ms. davis and mr. meika. we're an entirely queer slate, providing a space to better advocate for our lgbt members of the community. when i moved to san francisco 10 years ago, i had no idea what an s.r.o. was. i found out by repeatedly joining the community in volunteer efforts. i volunteered with the san francisco suicide hot line before i became the hotline director a few years ago. i volunteered at the aids foundation with the harm reduction center. i volunteered treating hospice patients, and i found out almost all of the services are used primarily by s.r.o. tenants. i think something we really need to improve in this community is opportunity to hear from the members, the tenants of these organizations of s.r.o.s. i think that there hasn't been enough opportunity to listen to them, and that's something that i'm very good at doing. since