[gavel] good afternoon to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of tuesday, february the 11th, 2014. Madam clerk, could you please call the roll . Yes, mr. President. Supervisor avalos . Avalos not present. Supervisor breed . Breed present. Supervisor campos . Present. Campos present. President chiu . Present. Chiu present. Supervisor cohen . Present. Cohen present. Supervisor farrell . Present. Farrell present. Supervisor kim . Kim not present. Supervisor mar . Here. Mar present. Supervisor tang . Present. Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Yee not present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk, do we have any communications . There are none today, mr. President. And if you cou
Madam clerk, could you please call the roll . Yes, mr. President. Supervisor avalos . Avalos not present. Supervisor breed . Breed present. Supervisor campos . Present. Campos present. President chiu . Present. Chiu present. Supervisor cohen . Present. Cohen present. Supervisor farrell . Present. Farrell present. Supervisor kim . Kim not present. Supervisor mar . Here. Mar present. Supervisor tang . Present. Tang present. Supervisor wiener . Wiener present. Supervisor yee . Yee not present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, could you please join us in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands; one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk, do we have any communications . There are none today, mr. President. And if you could read our 2 00 p. M. Special order. The first item of business is a policy discussion between honorable mayo
Terms of the monitoring which i do agree is important. I think within a year well probably, you know, given with all respect to the Planning Department and dbi it will take time for people to consider this and get through the process so within a year we wont see a large number but after that well start to see the results. So colleagues no comments or questions well open this up for Public Comment. Ill say that the president of castro Eureka Valley association as well as the executive director of open house which provides services for lgbt seniors both wanted to be here they have the flu but we have others. With that, ill call our fully comment cards calling names and you can speak in any order good afternoon bill with the Legal Referral Panel we provide services for people with aids and housing is our important issues its important for people to have caesars access to Affordable Housing. It would be great to have new section 8s coming into the castro and a ways ways to create Affordabl
Im margaret im the cleveland of inhome consumerism we provide home care to 16 hundred seniors and people with disabilities every year. Were supportive of the program with 21 thousand consumers im delighted to speak on the proposed legislation to allow the addition of inlaw units in the castro and hopefully, if its effective into other areas of San Francisco as well. And my voice i want to add were all awaref the crisis of Affordable Housing but what is not discussed a lot in the city of San Francisco but has been this afternoon is the lack of assessable housing for seniors. While much of the Housing Stock in San Francisco is extremely beautifully its not assessable. And its very pricey to bring a house up to make it assessable. People have done it but you have to have a bunch of money. The inlaws is one solution to increase the housing opportunity and allow them to stay in the city and as maria talking about earlier. I urge you to pass this legislation and much. Thank you very much tha
Of San Francisco as well. And my voice i want to add were all aware of the crisis of Affordable Housing but what is not discussed a lot in the city of San Francisco but has been this afternoon is the lack of assessable housing for seniors. While much of the Housing Stock in San Francisco is extremely beautifully its not assessable. And its very pricey to bring a house up to make it assessable. People have done it but you have to have a bunch of money. The inlaws is one solution to increase the housing opportunity and allow them to stay in the city and as maria talking about earlier. I urge you to pass this legislation and much. Thank you very much thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors eric im the chair with the green party and im representing our city San Francisco the local Grassroots Organization on n this issue. We bay were several years ago we helped to fight prop 8 that was about rent control. Theres positive things will allowing inlaw units to be built but