no. muchos gracias. [applause] chairwoman: all right. i don t think the professor arrived yet. we will give her a chance if she arrives before the end of the hearing. could this be here? no. so right now i want to open up this item for public comment. if there is any member of the public who would like to speak on this item, please go ahead and line up to my left, your right, and jordan, if you want to start us off. all right. chairwoman: thank you. my name is jordan davis. you know, it s funny, i m actually up for reconfirmation on the next item, but i really love the immigrants rights commission, and all of the work they do. the work they do on the taskforce really intersects with immigrant rights. i think there are a lot of qualified applicants here. but i want to speak on three people. jesse i know we ve never met in person, but you are my sister. there is representation on every dam commission in this city. and let me just say something, i ve worked with a lot
applicants. and i guess wil there are two seats that we have to make a choice. i wanted to see if either of my colleagues wanted to say anything. i m happy to hear again, once again, we are brought, of course, with a hard decision to make. i want to thank everyone for coming out today. this also is important work. seeing you here, i m encouraged to see that so many people want to fight for our tenants and our s.r.o.s, and make sure there is collaborative work so they get the support and services they need. we appreciate each and every one of you. we have less seats available than we do than the folks nominated, but i want you to stand encouraged and continue to do the work because there are more seats and more task forces to serve on in the future. chairwoman: supervisor mar? i would just add my thanks to all of you, not just for your willingness to serve on the s.r.o. taskforce, but for awful the work that you do to protect and improve our s.r.o. housing stock, which
important advocate for folks on the margins of society who are experiencing suicidal ideation. oftentimes these feelings are related to, you know, their housing and things that feel outside of people s control. i don t think that there is maybe anyone in the city who is better positioned to really hear and understand the really intense problems that people in the marginal society are experiencing. working with her at t.h.c., i saw her rise immediately to a position of great leadership in the organization, where she has been sort of looking after over 2,000 tenants as a supportive housing manager and deputy director of support housing. chairwoman: thank you very much. my name is clifford gilmore. i am here in support of who we affectionately called r.j. for district one. it is said you know a tree by the fruit it bears. and r.j. has been in our program for about four years. and he is really the foundational and pillar of our private organizing efforts. that effort, as ment
like to reapply for the additional seats. chairwoman: thank you. thank you so much. mr. clerk, can you please call item number three. item three is a hearing consider appointing nine members in definite terms to the single room occupancy taskforce. the s.r.o. taskforce. chairman: thank you so much. i know that jamie bonmatsu is here today, who is the chief housing inspector with d.b.i., and the official chair of the taskforce, and i would love to give you an opportunity to start us off with a few words. thank you, supervisors. i am the chair of the s.r.o. taskforce. i took over for rosemary boski about 10 months when she retired. today is actually my first day as the chief housing inspector. my work on reforming housing inspection to help responsible tenants and landlords began about 25 years ago. it was part of a reform group that included many famous san franciscans like the former director, jess cause, the san francisco apartment associations jenny neu. and the har
housing and homelessness committees. but i want to focus most of my time talking on courtney brown, who is a former co-worker of mine at the tenderloin housing clinic, and someone who helps connect me to the san francisco suicide prevention hotline that i now work on. courtney has soft-pedalled some of her accomplishments. she really, like, wrote the training manual that we use at the suicide prevention hotline. she was a tremendously important advocate for folks on the margins of society who are experiencing suicidal ideation. oftentimes these feelings are related to, you know, their housing and things that feel outside of people s control. i don t think that there is maybe anyone in the city who is better positioned to really hear and understand the really intense problems that people in the marginal society are experiencing. working with her at t.h.c., i saw her rise immediately to a position of great leadership in the organization, where she has been sort of looking after