how she will know if we are tenants and also to force the land lords to force to keep up to you like they should. next speaker. i am a counselor with the san francisco union.. san franciscoan woulds say that they love the city and it was diversity. as counselor with the san francisco tenant union i am a diverse group and i must say that i disagree with the comment that the tic owners are the true middle class, it is true that the middle class is shrinking but i can tell you that if you are most concerned about protecting that group you will find them among the tenants in san francisco. along with the groups they are the victims of bogas evictions and it saddens me when i see productive, talented responsible citizens that are driven out by the attacks on the affordable rents. and we elect our supervisors with the hope that they have the wisdom and the vision to preserve the city that is loved by citizens and also others all over the world. >> today we ask you to be the supervisors for the true, san francisco. not the supervisors for the real estate speculators. preserve the essence of san francisco, and keep our city diverse, and by stopping the loss of af

tenant organizations that have worked with my office and our supervisors on this from the san francisco tenants union to the affordable housing alliance, ccdc, to the housing rights committee, the tenderloin housing clinic, just cause, and many other organizations that have been passionate on this topic and have really helped to shape i think many of our thinking on it. i also want to take a moment and thank supervisor farrell for his leadership as well as the tic owners and representatives at the real estate community. i believe that they have worked in good faith in the discussions that we've had in recent weeks and i do look forward to the discussion we'll have today as well as in the coming weeks on this. and i want to also thank supervisor yee for the work that he and his staff had done with my aide judson true and i to move this forward and i also should thank our city attorney john malmud who has spent many, many weeks and many, many hours particularly over this weekend in getting the amendments that we have in front of us today. so, as far as sort of a high level on what it is we are trying t

. >> good afternoon, ted, san francisco tenant union we have been hearing a lot about soaring rents and rising evictions during this dot, com crisis in an ideal world we will be sitting here or standing here and talking about a ten year moratorium just to cool off the market and to take a step to see what we can do about all of this. and we are willing to work with the people in the real estate industry and some supervisors to craft a solution to the problem that some tic are having in a way that they can see the speculations and conversions addressed in the future, it is very important that a keystone of this compromise is that ten-year moratorium and we need to preserve that. it is important to give us room to be in on working on the ellis act and we are seeing the movement towards a moratorium tenant legislature and so this ten years is extremely important to us and we urge the supervisors to move this to the board and to pass it out to the board without changing any of key components. and thank you for your work >> is there any additional public comment? >> yes, welcome? >> good aft

thank the tenants union the housing rights committee and the mayors housing and i hope we'll move forward with this legislation today. i want to make sure that ail our buildings in san francisco will save when the next earthquake hits us. i want to commend the overall legislation we all agree on preserving our older buildings. this is important for our middle class and working class in san francisco. i personally had a preference rather from the certify pass through. i understand that we're going to work with the mayor's offense under president chiu and this will be people who have been living in rent control units for a long time. i'm happy to see we're working toward the application process. as chu mentioned some of what will be in the improvements process is will be incredible important. i've heard from many folks that those applications take about 6 to 7 hours for the application. that's getting all the information together. and when you sit before the board it's an incredibly naitd process. ii think it's incredibly important we amendment this process to be a little less invase i have. a good prospective of those who will be applying for this application i was hoping tail

tenants union and other groups where i organize poets, writers and artists. i want to thank the supervisors for their support of poetry literature and the great history of cultural arts in san francisco during national poetry month. i want to thank supervisors mar -- supervisor mar for his kind comments, and supervisor avalos for fine reading of a wonderful poem and the haiku to the mayor during question time which i saw. and all the supervisors for considering that the legacy of san francisco in a way depends upon the continuation of the legacy of the poetry arts in san francisco. also to my fellow poets and other kind comments and contributions today, and to the laureate alejandro magia, i poem today is a third of the traditional trip let of haikus that form a traditional haiku, just a small one, written after i read the agenda. public interest. the winds and blossoms of spring have no lobbyists. one more time. public interest. the winds and blossoms of spring have no lobbyists. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> hello, good afternoon. my name is douglas [speaker not understood]. just for the record, the sacred heart teams were staring at you. i did notice all 11