comment period will be over if there is no one else who wishes to address the board. does anyone else wish to speak? director nolan: go ahead. today, i drove my full shift, and i had a really great day. i helped a little old lady in and q) calves, helped a blind guy get from point a to point b. fáit is a rewarding job, and i m kind of glad to say that i made the decision that there s really not a future in this business for your average working person. that is what this amounts to. it is a nice job to have if you need to make a little bit of money and work on other things, and ultimately, that is what i have decided to do. in a couple of years that i have been attending town hall meetings and doing whatever i can, i feel that the agency and the industry it is an old cliche, but it focuses mainly on the cab companies and what is good for them, what is in the interests of the regulating agency and what obviously concerns the medallion holders. the majority of the busine
opportunity, based on my experience as a disabled man with liv to talk all these programs, all this immense outreach, and convert that into the services that our senior community needs. i ve presented a possible idea to bevan dufty last month about cooling housing income, that seniors get in this city. i think that the shanti model could be used for peer support for our seniors. we have so many resources, i think that this committee has the opportunity to bring some of these resources together, implement them, and deliver great services to our senior lgbt citizens. i appreciate your time, and look forward to service. thank you. chair kim: thank you, mr. smith. we did get many letters of support on your behalf. thank you for all the outreach that you did. thank you. chair kim: mr. mecca. hi. my name is tommi mecca. i m 61 years old, i ve been out and a ear activist for 42 years. i think what i bring to this task force possibly would be my 42 years of activism, my extre
absurd and arbitrary to petty and punitive. it s completely shut down. you re denying us the rights to open government. the inability of this committee not to recognize one member of the task force needed to be physically disabled is until now unacceptable and inexcusable. it s your job to know what the requirements are when you put forth appointees to these petitions. your attempt to replace members to the board your uninformed or green cronies or supporters, some documents that are required for consideration is beyond insulting. the removal of bruce wolfe who meets all of the requirements for the seat of the task force intended to satisfy perhaps, i don t know, the fragile egos of you who have been found in violation of the very charter that you ve sworn to uphold to give you a task force that you can control is not acceptable. this is not sysco. with the power to open government to citizens again you can start by reappointing bruce force so that the sunshine task force c
for the 99%. and if the one shows up, them too. one of the great critiques that the average person has about government is that government isn t working and we don t know why. so we need greater public access to critical government information and that s one of the things the sunshine ordinance task force is very good at. i know that if kai wilson forsley is appointed nothing will get in the public s way of getting this information because she s breaking down critical information for us every single day, through the san francisco public library, and the many nonprofit areas that she s responsible for. so i give her my highest recommendation. thank you. chair kim: thank you. the appointments have begun, before the rising sun-shine will fly, so many city roads to choose. they ll start out walking and for office they will run. and, yes, we ve just begun. and thus we ve just begun pick some appointments, pick many, won t you. little city, big city, i feel the ice
i was born in san francisco. i was born in the haight, and i spent my early years in the mission, and i live in the castro, and i live in district two right now. i ve been an activist for over 40 years, and do have my résume. what i didn t include on there is that i m a father, and a grandfather at this point, and i m very proud of that. and i was excited about the task force because i feel that it s an issue that i feel very strongly about. i m 75, and alive and active at this point. and hope to serve on this task force. do you have any questions? chair kim: no questions. but thank you so much, mr. diaman. we also received your e-mail with additional information for your application. so thank you for sending that to us. we have perry lange and then ray rudolph. good afternoon, commissioners, and thank you for your service. my name is perry lange, and i m a 30 year resident of san francisco, 20 years in district 10. i m a nonprofit manager and community leader. i come