and we also want to acknowledge a couple of people in the audience, and i know that tom nolan who has also been doing a great deal of work staffing the task forces here. and of course, we are always honored to have the executive director of the human rights commission teresa sparks and so with that i am going to read a number of speaker cards, and you each have three minutes, to speak. and so, if i call your name if you could please come up and if you don't mind lining up on your right or our left. ray are you dofl, ashley, len jordan, and michael costa, adelman. kevin fox. >> don't be shy. >> no. definitely not shy. at this point. but i do have a few notes because my eyes are not what they used to be. good morning, my name is ray rudolf and i have been a resident of san francisco for 38 years and i have done my share of volunteer work along the way but in 2010 i joined the lbgt advisory committee to the human rights commission and i first thing that i asked to see was the 2003 report that they did on seniors. and i noticed that there are about 80 recommendations and none of them were

and we asked tom nolan the chair of this task force to keep us involved in its work. so that we that qualified as lgbt seniors were involved in the work for the first surveys through the focus groups thorough indicational meetings and review the documents. and we are very thankful for the work of the task force and its effort and for the supervisors. and in bringing that about and i personally am thrilled to hear that legislation is already in the works to enact the recommendations of the task force. my fellow sfop leaders stand ready to assist in making those recommendations a reality. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker, please? >> my name is larry saxon and i am a resident of the district five and i have been for the last 35 years and i would like to thank you very much for the opportunity of having served on the task force and go from the human perspective and the mind of all present that during the process of researching and compiling this comprehensive report, which by the way is the first of its kind, in the nation . we lost two task fo