The folks that have been attending the meetings and doing the hard work, and keeping me in the loop when it seemed right to do so. And we want to thank you and we look forward to working on the report itself. And i think that as a Department One of the things that we are known for is implementing what has been put in front of us and so we look forward to that. Thank you, director. And now the executive director of the Human Rights Commission, commissioner sparks. Good morning supervisors, thank you for the community to speak. There are a couple of things that have not been i think mentioned here today. One is the commitment that these Task Force Members have had and made to this process. It was very seldom that we at the hrc facilitated the meetings from the very beginning and was very seldom there was an absence at these meetings. And it was very vibrant and very committed group and a group that brought not only knowledge but a lot of emotion to the process. One statistic that i cant seem to get out of my mind and i am probably going to miss quote the number. But it is still, i think, significant. Is there is a relatively High Percentage as we know, of lgbt youth who have contemplated suicide. The number of seniors and i think that the report actually states in the last year, that have contemplated suicide, is almost equal to that number. And that is within the last year. And i think that what that demonstrates is a substantial and a tremendous sense of desperation and a lack of hope in this community and it is something that we need to look at immediately. Because for every month we dont look at these issues, we may lose more seniors and we may lose more individuals, who take their own lives. The other thing is come is cultural come pentcy and we have done a lot of work in the community in the various communities of various culture thes the Latino Community and the emensa community and others. And we find tremendous lack of cultural competency within each one of those cultures. On the lgbt issues, and i think that part of it is or was demonstrated by the only limited success that the task force had in reaching out to the russian communities and others in getting response back. And so i think that we need to very, and we need to really focus on cultural competency in communities that may discriminate within their own culture. And it is not only the predominant communities in the city, but also, it is other communities as well. And i think that this is extremely important. And the started as one something mentioned early on and the first speaker at the Human Rights Commission early on bill abrams has been involved in it since the beginning and i am happy to announce that the California Association of human rights organizations is giving bill an award next friday for his human rights work and it is only one of four awards given in the entire state of california and i want to congratulate bill on that honor. But i want to thank the supervisors for your support and you saw the out pouring at the first hearing and it was tremendous and it packed the room and it went into overflow and this is a Tremendous Community of passionate people and i hope that we will move forward as quickly as possible and the Human Rights Commission will continue to support this effort however we can in the future. Thank you, director sparks. And so, colleagues, and i dont know if you want to add that supervisor weiner. Thank you. And thank you to everyone for your comments today. And the feedback. And i wanted to mention a few things, first of all, i think that i wanted to clarify, in terms of what we are moving forward with quickly and the two main components are what he was talking about requiring the data collection. And also, cultural training. And making sure that we have those standards and training in place and it is not the ends but those are two of the very tangible things that we already have a drafting request in the City Attorneys Office and we will move forward as quickly as we can and it should have been done a long time ago but better late than never. And i appreciate i think two that i thinks are enter twined and one key part is the architectal barriers which they are full of the barriers in terms of a lot of steps and really inaccessible homes and more Senior Housing and whatever form it takes in the castro. And i think that it is, we are all very focused on the convictions and that is critical, but the issue goes well beyond elis act convictions and there are a lot of reasons why people either have to move or choose to move. Or cant say, where they are. And frankly, architect barriers are one of those things and the board of supervisors on the second reading, passed and to allow the people to add the ml units in the castro and they are one form of the piece of the puzzle and not the only thing that we need to do but one of the advantages is that they tend to be on the ground floor and more than one person, has over time, a number of people approach me and say that i own a house, and i want to turn my garage into a unit and live there and then rent out the top floor and i know that the people that have done that sometimes not legally because we have the other legislation that will allow them to legalize those units and i think that as the population ages morris yous around those barriers in terms of keeping the people in the castro or anywhere else in their homes. And we want to be sure that they dont have a choice between becoming isolated in their home even if they have stability and become isolated or having to move, i also and if you can join to the mayors housing and i think that i have really been pushing mo to prioritize, more Senior Housing in particular in the castro, over the market area and it is wonderful that we are getting the 110 units from the open house and that is great, but that is only a start. And it is a major frustration to me that we are not getting more Affordable Housing generally in the castro or the market area, and but the Senior Housing in particular, and this is a neighborhood, that where, we are adding Affordable Housing is not controversial and some neighborhood and some towns and cities can it be controversial and this is a neighborhood that really wants it and will embrace it and i hope that you will join me in advocating to the Mayors Office of housing that this needs to be a priority to bring in the more Affordable Housing in the market area, and finally, one item on that, and i think that it was mentioned in the report that i was scrolling on time today and i could not put my fingers on it at the moment but i have been talking to bill, from the Referral Panel about it and that is an issue that exists now and i think that it is growing, and around a long term hiv, survivors, and who have been living for years, on employment based Disability Insurance where they are getting twothirds of the salary, or whatever the percentages, and once they hit, 65, or there abouts. And having being taken off of their employer based disability and put on the Social Security which is how the issues work which can be a significant drop in income and so you have the people who have been on disability but the disability has allowed them to pay their rent and to be able to live in the community and also looking basically at a fiscal cliff and i know that there is a proposal to do the funding this year in our budget to start addressing that issue, but we dont even know the scope of the issue and so yesterday, i requested that our budget and legislative analysts working with the folks in the community but also with the dos and other departments start to put together an analysis of what is the scope of this population that are either have experience this or are over the coming years going to experience this . And how many people or what the average loss of income is going to be and how we can address that. And because it is a population and so it is not one of those unending problems. And we want to make sure that people have access to resources because that is the last thing that we need on top of Everything Else to have people start to lose their housing because they simply cant make the rent because they turned 65 and are pushed on to Social Security from there and thank you everyone for all of the work. Thank you, very much, and this is simply, a hearing, request. For the purpose of listening to the recommendations and discussing the recommendations, and one additional pitch to that is members to the audience is that one of the challenges as we are facing the affordablebility crisis there are many things about the city that are expensive and impacting our senior and one proposal that is currently before the mta which over sees the muni, and it is to provide free public transit, and free muni for low income and little income seniors and to the extent that is going to help many members of the lgbt Senior Community and i would encourage you to contact the mta and advocate for that program. And so with that, if we can have this item filed, so we have a motion to file and again, i want to thank all of the members of the task force for your tremendous work and we look forward to making sure that we deliver on the recommendations that have been provided. Thank you and without objection, item is filed. Mr. Clerk, if you could take a quick two minute break . Yeah, and we will proceed to the next item shortly. We are back. Item two. Hearing to consider that the issuance of a type 21 offsale general license to mouhannad mannaa and jim saxton for financial district fine wine, inc. , located at 300 kearny street district 3 , in i may ask the applicant for this request to come up and make a brief presentation. Hi everybody. And so, i have a type 20 license, and i am trying to improve the business and get a full Liquor License. And the neighborhood does not have any of the. And offered the Liquor License while joining and it was a block away from me and they closed two and a half years ago. And so, all of my clients and all of my customers, they always are asking to the liquor and i have to send them three or four blocks to Market Street or china town, china town is closer to us and they are having issues of the stores not accepting the credit cards and stuff like that and i am just trying to offer a nice collection of high end hard liquor and spirits to my customers. And that is. Great, thank you. If you could talk a little bit about that, sort of what kind of out reach that you have done. And i know that you have spoken to the district supervisor. If you could talk about that a little bit, please . The hours . The out reach. Out reach to the community in terms of it. We out reach to you want me to tell you the name of the. Could you tell me a little bit about the kind of out reach that you have done . Well, we out reach for the associations and the Union Square Business Improvement District and San Francisco council, and the District Merchant Association and the San Francisco chamber of commerce. And immediate business neighbors. And supervisors of district three. And San Francisco department of Central Station and permit and Code Enforcement and San Francisco Police Departments of abc. And the unit. Great, thank you very much. I will appreciate the out reach. And i know that this district three supervisor is okay with this request. Why dont we now hear from our Police Department officer. Good morning, mr. Chair, and supervisors. Director of the liaison unit and mr. Mana has filed an application with the california beverages seeking a type 21 license for 300 kearny street and he has been operating with a type 20 which is just a beer and wine. The application has profp to be with the community and he reaches the people that live in the area and the residents of the hotels in the area. During the 2013 january to december, police calls reflect that had only had four police calls and they mostly involved trespassing, which he needed some assistance and just a removal of patrons. And the Police Reports and the plot is 160, which is considered to be a high crime area. And the census tract is 117, which has a minimum population of 1783. The off price licenses both for on sale and off sale, prove to be undue concentration, and however, there were no letters of protest filed with the department of alcoholic Beverage Control and besides the retail operating standards and the San Francisco deemed approve ordinance and we are not putting any special conditions on this license, and the alu recommends an approval. Thank you very much officer, colleagues any questions for our alu . Seeing no questions, thank you very much. Thank you. Why dont we open it up to Public Comment, is there any member of the public that would like to speak on this item . Please come forward. Either one. Community Leadership Alliance and i just want to give kutos, to the chamber of commerce and they provided a resource list as did the Planning Department and supervisor chius office and we dpot a lot of help from the department and who were in support of this application as well. Thank you very much. And is there any other member of the public seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And again i want to thank mr. Mana for reaching out to the community and to all that were helpful and that including the chamber of commerce and to the Police Department and so if we could have a motion on this item and we have a motion. Right. Sure. And i dont see any reason why we would not want to pass this out of the positive recommendation and so i make the motion. So we have a motion by supervisor yee, if we could take that without objection. And then item will be forwarded to the rest of the board with a positive recommendation. Thank you very much and congratulations, mr. Clerk, is there any other business before the committee. It concludes todays business, mr. Chair. Meeting adjourned. Thank you. Food in san francisc just about expensive eat but food for everyone and theres organizations in the city that are doing really good work making sure that healthy food it assessable to everyone. More and more as follows are are becoming interested in upper arlthd they want to joy the open green pace sea know where their food it coming from well look at 3 programs talking ushering agricultural and garden to new heights. So what exactly it, your honor agricultural it the growing food or flowers within city limits traditionally weve been referring to communities gardener that is a raised bed over and over upper argument has a more a farming way of farming. So tell me 0 whats growing in this garden. A really at all plant. In the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. It is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. Now the dpw urban Planning Program so see how the garden community. So i grew up on a farm in air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around San Francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the Department Many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. Im here with nang wong hello nang. Hello. I need to understand house this gleaning work. We come and harvest like for example, well come over here this is the lemon and plug it like this. laughter . Made that good, good and ease. The trick is how not to hurt the branches. Like the thing. Im so excited about this. The people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private Property Owners give us the food theyre happy that no of a t is going to waste oh. Thank you. Thank you. Again job aura natural laughter . From backyards to back lots lets take a look at the food and Community Bonding at the free farm. My idea was to start growing food and giving it away. And getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. We were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. Whats the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. Well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away its giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it to you its primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. Now serving number to 49 come on down. We have the capability of producing this food and in San Francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea were capable of prougdz food in our own backyards were here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in have to be a comedy. We build time together and its the strength of any ideas of the connections well turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a stronger power and not have to rely on money thats the people power. In this episode weve seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment its truly i want to learn more about it. Social networking and email. I want to know how to use it. Divisional divide is a divide between those with access to use Digital Tools and those who dont. With young people, having computers and i just dont know. Theyre doing it fast. So, i want to know. Not knowing how to navigate the internet or at a loss of what to do. We dont have a computer. Were a nonprofit that unites organizations and volunteers to transform lies through literacy. Our big problem right now is the broadband opportunity program. A federally funded project through the department of aging. So, were working in 26 locations. Our volunteers are trained to be tutors and trainers, offering everything from basic classes all the way to genealogy and job search. To me computers, knowing how to use it. I think its really important to everybody and possibly especially seniors to get enough of these skills to stay in touch. Its been fun. With seniors, to get them out of their homes. So they can connect with their family members. Or their family members. [speaking in spanish]. So, what we focus on is transferring skills from volunteer to learner to help them get onto facebook, find housing in crisis, be able to connect with friends and family. I decided to teach what i learn and it made me want to give back. I discovered that seniors do a lot of review. I am a beginner, so, little by little i learn. I learn a lot now. If you get the basics, you can learn it. Its simple. Its easy. Once you know it. And thats what i want to learn, how to make my life easier and more knowledgeable with the computer. So, what we need right now are more people who speak languages other than english or in addition to english who can give their time during the day and who care deeply ideally about helping to close the divide. Its a humbling experience. Its something simple to ask in our daily life, but to someone that doesnt know and to help somebody gain that experience in any way is awesome. [speaking in spanish]. No matter how tired or cranky or whatever i might feel, when i walk into this place i always walk out feeling great. If you feel comfortable using computers and you have patience, we want you on our team. Would you show me how to type . [speaking in spanish]. Will you help me learn more . The San Francisco full board of supervisors madam clerk, call roll. Supervisor avalos. Supervisor breed. Supervisor campos. Supervisor chiu. Supervisor cowen. Supervisor farrell. Supervisor kim. Supervisor mar. Supervisor tang. Supervisor wiener. Supervisor yee mr. President , all membersre