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Retirement system did hear the message from the board of supervisors and did respond according to the policy. Thank you. And i know this is a different topic, but i just wanted to were moving down a road of discussing this particular issue and i want to make sure that the communication is open and clear and provided to us in a timely manner. Ill make sure that that happens. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor wiener . I want to thank you, madam chair and also supervisor chiu, for supportive words. Just to be clear, its not, its not 1 . I did the calculation at 19 billion fund, 26 million invested in russian securities, that is point 137 . Its even smaller, its a really small percent, but thank you for acknowledging that it is it should be zero. Yes, i agree. Thank you. Okay, thank you, mr. Hewitt. I appreciate it. Colleagues, just a few speakers from organizations in the Lgbt Community who have been doing work around the persecution of lgbt people in russia. First i want to invite up amy
Work around the persecution of lgbt people in russia. First i want to invite up amy wheelan, senior staff attorney at the National Center for lesbian rights, followed by julie [speaker not understood], council for global [speaker not understood]. Gary virginia who is the president of San Francisco pride board of directors. So, am i wheelan. Good morning. My name is amy wheelan. I just want to thank the board of supervisors for inviting us here today. Im a senior staff attorney at the National Center for lesbian rights and these issues are really, really important to us and we have been working on them recently. I want to keep my comments very brief, but i do want to address two issues today. First, just to paint a brief picture of what its like for lgbt People Living in russia today. And second, ill just add to what has already been said about the efforts that we know that already exist to do this elsewhere at the state level. Theres no question that life for lgbt people in russia is t
Board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Okay, are there any changes to the agenda . No. Okay. So, can you please call the first item . Item number 1 is a hearing on the San Francisco employees retirement system sfers investments in russian securities; the feasibility, consistent with sferss fiduciary obligations to retirees, of sfers divesting from russian securities, given russias continuing persecution of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community; and sferss policy regarding responses to inquiries from members of the board of supervisors about policy matters of interest to residents of San Francisco. Okay, thank you. And i would like to turn this over to my colleague, supervisor scott wiener. Thank you, madam chair, and thank you for accommodating this hearing in terms of timing. We very much appreciate it. So, colleagues, today before us we are holding a hearing relating to the extreme persecution of the Lgbt Community in russia that has been occu
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