sarah larson, adam, you can let us know if i mispronounce this. natalie, and jenna. >> hello, commissioners. my name is zeo. i'm a pediatrician in san francisco. i am also a black resident of san francisco, born and raised here. is in that capacity that i am speaking to you today because i want to make a request that you please find a director who is really ready to take black health outcomes serious in this city. we need somebody who will prioritize resources and operationalize an ambitious racial health equity plan for this department. here in san francisco, of the ten leading causes of death, black people have the highest rates in nine of those calls is. black children in san francisco have two and a half times the right of hospitalization related to asthma. of the ten maternal deaths that we have had in the city over the last few years, six of those women have been black and that is pretty striking when you consider that the population of san francisco is only three% black. black women have twice the right of preterm births as white women as a

i'm sarah larson from the department of public health, and what i wanted to say was, you know, there's a lot of hand wringing about homelessness and especially elder indigent homelessness. i'd like to know what the plans are for the old laguna honda hospital. i was originally built for indigent people, it wasn't built for a hospital. i just feel like for a 1200 bed facility, if it's good enough to house offices for people, i feel like this is a huge resource that's going to waste, that we wouldn't have to involve developers in, you know? i just feel like it's really -- i never hear anybody talking about it, and it's a fantastic building. so i'd just like to say that, and i don't know if anybody can comment on that. i would love to hear anything regarding that. >> thank you. could you repeat what building you were talking about. >> the old laguna honda hospital, which housed 1200 people and at one time had a working farm. >> oh, sure, our old building. >> yeah, the old building. >> the old buildings, and while we do not generally respond to public comment, those buildings are under stud