the sro's a lot of them are incredibly old and sometimes it's legitimate and takes a couple of weeks to get the parts and these are different from modern elevators and that is a problem and we feel people struggling to get down the stairs and risky and people do it and people physically can't and stuck in their rooms for weeks or months at a time. that's why we have a committee on it. there is no easy solution but we are hoping to bring the heads together with people that experienced this and figured out what to do. >> great. >> good morning jessica. doing the surveys was there a demographic of the hotels that the seniors are living in such as floor wise or second from the lower floor to the highest? >>i am glad you bring that up. i don't believe our report documents exactly what floor people live on but that came up as one solution to the issue of elevator maintenance and thank you. as far as looking at when somebody is moving into an sro can they get the option of living on a lower floor if that would be an issue? and this is a little complicated too because we don't want to spread

the sro's a lot of them are incredibly old and sometimes it's legitimate and takes a couple of weeks to get the parts and these are different from modern elevators and that is a problem and we feel people struggling to get down the stairs and risky and people do it and people physically can't and stuck in their rooms for weeks or months at a time. that's why we have a committee on it. there is no easy solution but we are hoping to bring the heads together with

a lot of them are sro's and i am asking for funding for sro's and asking you put money back in toward the youth. she wants me to say that this part she has written down. even with the incredible growth in the mayor's budget and the city has unmet needs the supervisor ask and to make the budget whole. the current proposal is balanced on top of the vulnerable communities, seniors families and people with hiv/aids and others and the impacts impact the entire family city. more homeless on the street, more families can't keep their accessing and youth with access to jobs and health services creates instabilities city wide. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> hello good afternoon supervisor. my name is charm. i am with the after school program and summer program and the after school program in betty carmichael educational center south of market and representing the ywca and for the stakeholders. this group has been crucial for the community in terms of supporting immigrant families that are newly arrived and i had the pleasure to check in with a lot of the families and they'

we are also a member of the mission sro collaborative. with only a shoe string budget identification of the mission and increased need it's difficult to provide direct services that we offer. as a western addition based health center we are in a prime position to orient the health field that is holistic, community inclusive and accessible than some of the traditional programs based at larger institutions. with this funding we can provide jobs for community members. focus on providing health information to residents -- [inaudible] by residents and focus around health access and insurance expansion eligibility. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. laura guzman and director of the mission resource center and chair of the local homeless board that represents them. i have been here 18 years as a nonprofit worker in the city. i will still poor. i have have debt and i can't afford to live in san francisco and i don't care about that anymore and please honor the request for the 4% inc

trying to house homeless folks and house very poor or low income folks, but we are putting them in sro's that do not have access, so this is the irony. we have seen working with senior action network, disabled folks, senior folks being put in some very bad sro's that we don't even want able body folks in. they're here and senior folks locked in their rooms with no elevator access on the second, third floor. so it's -- with tons of notice of violations from our department, okay. so these are situations. i know that it's touchy politically, but, you know, this is something we have to address because we're using tax money to take these folks off the street, but we're putting them in places that are maybe not even much better than the street. so and paying the rent. so this is something that our department just go crazy and we see this. we don't know what to do either because we don't want to say, they can't live here. we fight with the landlords and fight with them to fix their elevators and fix whatever the problem is, but that takes a lot of time. so that's all i have to say. good luck in

their housing concerns no matter the type they live in, rent control, or other subsidized units, a sro a shelter, a home that they own, et cetera. seniors are welcome to talk about the shelters and difficulties finding a place to live and also threats of evictions, actual evictions or other evictions and not safeo secure or has a infestation, foreclosure, any other concern to lgbt seniors, so to testify i don't see any cards around so i will ask people just to line up if they want to testify. you can line up on either side. it's probably better to line up on that side so we don't block the door, and basically we're going to give you two minutes but we're going to be flexible if you should happen to need more time, but we're going to ask you if you could to keep it to two minutes and finally if you know someone that couldn't be here for some reason they can submit written testimony. we will take written testimony and you can get an email address from one of us to send written testimony and i have written testimony from two individual who is these will be read into the record this mornin

we need to utilize these groups and the program and the code enforcement out reach program and the sro collaborativives, both. and they are perfect, at dealing with these human aspects and the issues of the things that get in the way of the resolution. and so, i think that it is a prime example, and the testimony supports it that we need to really use these, and provide more support, funding, person, power, to these organizations for these outstanding notice of violations and the report does focus more on the issues that we do have a problem with and we have a long list of blighted properties, unfortunately, often times there is nobody in them, and so it is harder to deal with, on the one hand, and then on the other hand, it is easier to deal with because you can come in with a hammer. but, and i think that we have the code enforcement out reach program that deals with the multiple unit buildings, and the sro collaborative that deal with the single room, occupantcy hotels, and sometimes, single family homes, that are rented, i mean, there is a lot of the problems that are on the long,

the chinatown community development center talked about his organization, youth for sro's or single room occupancies which will be honored by president obama in september. >> schools educate people in single room occupancies. >> our thanks to everyone who attended tonight's meeting. if your group would like to team up with abc7 to host our next meeting just go to our community page at abc7news.com/community and click on the abc7 listens meeting. we will share the stories we learned about tonight on the news. >> you may be able to hear the cheering on the peninsula after a big win for the belmont redwood shores little league team. with a score of 3-2 they defeated a team from chula vista and swept the regional series. the game was in san bernadino and a viewing party was held in belmont. tonight's win means they take the top seed as they enter the semifinals on friday. this has been a lot of fun to watch the series. >> and boy they played fantastic. >>> let's get a check on the forecast right now. >> meteorologist sandhya patel is here. >> hi, dan and carolynment -- carolyn. summer is mak

the chinatown community development center talked about his organization youth, yh for sro's or single room occupancies which will be honored by president obama in september. >> schools educate people in single room occupancies. >> our thanks to everyone who attended tonight's meeting. if your group would like to team up with abc7 to host our next meeting just go to our community page at abc7news.com/community and click on the abc7 listens meeting. we will share the stories we learned about tonight on the news. >> you may be able to hear the cheering on the peninsula after a big win for the belmont redwood shores little league team. with a score of 3-2 they defeated a team from chula vista and swept the regional series. the game was in san bernadino and a viewing party was held in belmont. tonight's win means they take the top seed as they enter the semifinals on friday. this has been a lot of fun to watch the series. >> and boy they played fantastic. >>> let's get a check on the forecast right now. >> meteorologist sandhya patel is here. >> hi, dan and carolynment -- carolyn. summer i

the chinatown community development center talked about his organization, youth for sro's or single room occupancies which will be honored by president obama in september. >> schools educate people in single room occupancies. >> our thanks to everyone who attended tonight's meeting. if your group would like to team up with abc7 to host our next meeting just go to our community page at abc7news.com/community and click on the abc7 listens meeting. we will share the stories we learned about tonight on the news. >> you may be able to hear the cheering on the peninsula after a big win for the belmont redwood shores little league team. with a score of 3-2 they defeated a team from chula vista and swept the regional series. the game was in san bernadino and a viewing party was held in belmont. tonight's win means they take the top seed as they enter the semifinals on friday. this has been a lot of fun to watch the series. >> and boy they played fantastic. >>> let's get a check on the forecast right now. >> meteorologist sandhya patel is here. >> hi, dan and carolynment -- carolyn. summer is mak

the other thing -- people are attacking seniors who are living in sro hotels, people homeless and living on the streets, people living in the shelters, you know, and enough is enough, so i think today we had the opportunity and i had the opportunity to [inaudible] and organizing together to stop these abuse to all people who is lgbt. thank you so much and i would like to work together and doing these things. >> amen. thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> i am james [inaudible]. i'm with senior disability action. that's -- i want to be very brief. it's it's about housing. housing is a critical issue. that's what we're faced with with people getsing evicted. there is a mass exodus of low income working class people in san francisco. it's tragic. we see it everyday. it's accessibility and affordability and if they're not accessibility as they age and develop disabilities they can't use them. it is true some of the things that we see going on in senior disability action. if you're a senior or person with disability in a rent controlled affordable housing and been there for a time you're wal

. >> hi i am edmund usey and i say in the ambassador sro. i heard great reports and police and how much they're people and we're not talking about the violence within lgbt and them and that has to with the evictions and mental health. we are san francisco and fighting for marriages for all in this country. we need to make sure that any lgbt person in san francisco -- we need a fuller law to cover bullying with sexual minorities and others and as the sheriff talk. when i was in jail for winking at a man for a funeral a year ago i learned that the jail does better than the hotels do. they allow a lot of violence and people in the closet don't come out, still don't come out. that's why they want to get naked at 72. they are finally coming out. this is april's fool day and it's the first and they can't get visitors on the first and the third and san francisco we need to rise up and make it better for everyone in the nation and as we get marriages for all. thank you for bringing this year and look forward to working with you and making san franci

i talk about low income communities because i hear folks talks about sro's as affordable housing and that's something i don't subscribe to and i am trying to change the way i speak about it. housing is not affordable and it's $800 and your income is 932 a month. affordable housing when you 8910 room and basically paying $10 per square foot plus. that's not affordable housing but regardless it's the housing that is available for a chunk of people

there are multiple organizations in the tenderloin and the sro collaborative and others and we had an event to release the shopping guide and we had many participants and for those stores chosen and selling healthy products we are mobilizing residents to shop there in the neighborhoods and we are invested at least for three years for each store and i have to applaud the leaders and the youth and the supervisors and everyone involved. this is a team effort, a collaborative effort and this is the definition of grass works and working together and aligning and i am excited for the next coming years. thank you. >> thank you jessica, ms. estrada. can i say before we open it up for public comment the number of grass-roots leaders over the years is inspiring. the capacity is amazing and that is one thing that might set san francisco apart from philadelphia and other cities and we is can have great expertise in economic health and work force development but without the community support and capacity there i'm not sure how successful we can be, but i'm ffert that we have amazing groups in the

estrada, ryan bayer from tenderloin development corporation, steve tennis and clifford gilmore from the sro collaborative who are part of and form the tenderloin healthy store campaign and a collaboration among the youth and residents and working with the businesses to make them healthy corner stores for the neighborhood and i think this is important because for years we have struggled as a neighborhood to attract a full service grocery store to the tenderloin and viewed as the answer to this issue, but what has been great over the last year residents are realizing instead of waiting for the full grocery store to come in let's turn around the businesses in our neighborhood to serve healthier products to our residents. we have 70 stores /liquor stores in the neighborhood and a high concentration but we have learned through outreach through residents or our office that many of the small businesses are interested in changing the way they do business but would like guidance and tools as was mentioned and this incentive program is a great way to incentivize the change and profit that is good for

foods and sodas and cigarettes and we have people living with disabilities and low income people in sro's and low income families struggling everyday and we serve many as our guest. people struggle to get food. lack nutritional and culturally appropriate in the neighborhood and limited to go out of the neighborhood to buy food. when they run out of food we see them in the dining room too. we support the healthy food retailer program and promotes healthy food and we're excited for the retailers to do and providing them with the existence and technical support to do that. expanding the number of healthy food retailers would let the neighborhoods be safer and secure and fighting against malnutrition and exists here in san francisco and poor health so thank you for sponsoring and co-sponsoring this legislation and we support it. >> thank you. is there anyone else from the public that would like to speak? mr. chairman can we close public comment? >> public comment is closed. >> i want to thank everyone for speaking. i am sorry for rushing. we still have quite a few items and i want to thank th

what most schools did back then was try to secure a school from ingress, guns coming in and sro's and cameras can stop the guns but they can't stop the kids who bring in other weapons, weapons of bias, weapons of grudges from the neighborhood, values from home. we need to have a different approach. the approach we are talking about is a relational approach. it's an inside out approach, an approach really based on empowering young people not to be consumers but to be contributors in their own schools, not to be the problems but to be the solutions because clearly we've learned and know that we cannot legislate compassion and we cannot punish our children into being kind. we've tried. we've spent billions of dollars with policies that are punitive, not restoretive, policies that punish but don't give young people the opportunity to correct and to fix the harm. so one of the lessons that our organization, community matters, has done for 12 years has been singularly focused on one mission and that is waking up the courage of our children to stand up and speak up when they see injustice, w

basically a sro. i don't feel feel poorer constrained. i am 76. my social security check covers my rent. i have no other income so i rely on life savings to provide health net and other care and extra money for making life decent. however that money is running out. i have prostate cancer since 2005 and had a stroke and seizure in the last year. i am fine but have to resort to medi-cal and can no longer another insurance. i can manage but the space i am in is not available to subsidies. with recent real estate developments in town prices and rentals being inflated but not simply available with a year's long waiting list and condo stale living becoming the fashion. the asmo fear of radical change is the building could be sold et cetera creates a state of on going anxiety and open housing for suitable change has me feel seriously on the edge. currently i am exhibiting paintings at visual aids gallery, a nonprofit for those with life threatening illness to encourage them to work. again the prospect of sales are remote because of the cost of promoting

sro expertise in form high-level policy discussions, generally led from the nss. i believe this was part of stuart's set of recommendations on a greater nss role. i do think the nss needs to step up to this more than they have. to ensure important value-added for regionally focused discussions on, what do we do now? i would trumpet the work of the atrocity prevention board in this regard. areas whereg on there isn't a lot of oaths -- of visibility right now, because all of our public close of the -- public focus is on the middle east and north africa. i think it is making useful contributions. it is fostering collegial work between the defense, diplomatic, and i will -- developmental communities, and the intel community as well. ii, if you will. there needs to be of value-added approach. i have a few other things, but i will drone on for too long. probably the wrong verb. [laughter] i'm happy to turn it back to you. >> thank you jim, that was very helpful. now a perspective from the un's department of peacekeeping operations. >> thank you for giving you an peaceke

i would offer that as part of our sro reform effort, when we look at transitions, we need to do what i would call stressed test planning. we need to look at these different multidimensional transitions and where are we going to have a problem in conveying responsibility, authority -- responsibility to a host nation. it is part of the capacity building issue that margaret raised as well. ande will be cultural capacity differences. see that in casualty evacuations in afghanistan. we have to go through each of these transitions from tactical level training and equipping to ministerial level development, from laws of armed conflict approach to law enforcement impact,, too quick stabilization assistance, the longer-term development -- all of these things require concerted forward-looking planning. i think that is really important. finally, i agree with the about nss needs to step up to this. that is very important and that is critical, thank you. >>leanne? >> on national capacity development and planning from the beginning -- one of the hardest things we have to struggle with -- the main

sros the letters said, that many of the economic and cost assumption by commission will generate greatly by analysis. they run the risk of reallocating resources and the sci and comply ins entities, including the nasdaq and again the nasdaq, nyse, bats and all of these other exchanges, saying, wit a mint, let's pull back a little bit. meantime, we've had this debacle happen today and these rules with public comments now closed. it is still in the rule making process. perhaps could be next year before there's any other update. >> all right, scott. we want to -- we want to slip in another earnings report. aeropostle out. >> reporting an eps loss of 34 cents. analysts expected a loss of 24 cents. on revenue of $450 million. they did tell us that before. sales including e-commerce down 15%. a loss of over 21 to 26 cents. they are closing between 30 and 40 aeropostale, they are closing between 15 and 20. that's a change that they have updated us to at this point. maria, back to you. >> thanks, court. now joining me is heather hughes from sun american funds. rod smith from riverfront investmen

we need to have sro expertise inform high level policy discussions generally lead from the nss. i believe -- this was part of stuart's set of recommendation. i think they need to step up more than they have done. it's very important to ensure value added for regionally focused discussed on what do we do now? i would trump at the work at the prevention board in this regard. it's low biz. it's working on areas where there isn't a lot of visibility right now because all of our public focus is on the middle east and north africa, but it is making, i think, useful contributions and helping to foster work between the defense diplomatic and developmental community and the ddei, if you will. in looking at issues where mass violence could be lying around the corner. so there is a needs to be value added approach here. i have a few other things, but i have syndromed -- droned on for too long. it's probably the wrong word. >> thank you, jim. that was very helpful. now a perspective from the u.n. department of peace keeping operations. >> thank you. thank you, ellen. i thank you for giving

and it would require all sros and other market participants to adopt policies and procedures for robust testing, for capacity integrity, you know, essentially to make sure their systems work as their intended to work. also would possibly require industry wide testing. but, you know, there are -- that has already been in the works and i would not be surprised if the s.e.c. pushes that forward more quickly. >> okay. we will watch to see whether that happens. laura, thank you for joining us this morning. i'll send it over to michelle, back at hq. >> let's talk about global market news. brazil's central bank announcing a currency intervention program going to provide $60 billion worth of cash and insurance to the foreign exchange market by year end. the goal is to bolster the country's currency, which has been in free fall, slipped to near five-year lows against the dollar. this is part of the continuing story that we have been telling you with the emerging markets, comes to places like indonesia, india, brazil, et cetera, places with current account deficits, seeing capital in the country

understand that sro forces aren't always prepared to launch back into the combat. at the end of the 19th century the brits had been fighting counterinsurgency in africa. they didn't have a clue on the trench warfare in world war i. in 1950, the eighth army occupying in japan, doing stabilization most crossed into south korea not well prepared to defend against the armor assault having said that, let me also say the current contact does provide continued incentive for the forces especially the land forces to continue to embrace this mission. the irregular warfare context and the asymmetric threats we find in various parts of the world where the u.s. military might be called upon to operate does give an incentive to the populace population center like to understand the human terrain i think that is important in terms of preserving the doctrine expertise, training, the ability to maneuver the surveillance reconnaissance, engineering people become a transitional policing and other things so there are incentives to keep the capabilities. okay. let me quickly turned to t

we also know that there is a traditionalist argument which has a history buff on the understand that sro forces are not always prepared to launch back into the combat. at the end of the 19th century, the brits have been fighting the counterinsurgencies in africa. they didn't have a clue on the trench warfare in world war i. in 1950, the eighth army occupying japan, doing stabilization was addressed in south korea and wasn't well prepared to defend against the armor of salt -- assault. the continued context provides an incentive for the forces especially the land forces to continue to embrace this mission. that your regular warfare context, the asymmetric threats that we find in various parts of the world where the u.s. military might be called upon to operate does give an incentive to the population centric approaches to operations, to understand. i think that is critically important in terms of preserving doctrine, expertise, training, the devotee to maneuver the contest environments, intelligence, surveillance, cents an engineering keep will become a transitional policing and other thi