When you look at the they have the h1 b visa which means allowing both people can go to singapore and go to the u. S. To work and they never have a problem and they can stay here for long. Why is there an exception toxu. Okay. I dont have a gavel but lets pretend i banged the gavel. I am tommi mecca and i am the chair for the lgbt aging policy task force and the First Business is roll call of the members. Jazzy collins. Present. Jorge rodriquez. Present. Stu smith. Present. And myself present. Are there Public Comment for items not on the agenda . Whats on the agenda is senior lgbt Housing Needs and concerns, so if anybody has comments on anything other than lgbt Senior Housing concerns and needs they should come up to the podium now. Okay. Seeing no comments we will proceed to regular business, and there is only one item on the jernd and if anybody would like an agenda. Why dont you pass them out craig if you could and also if you could bring a couple up here as well, so the discuss
but let s pretend i banged the gavel. i am tommi mecca and i am the chair for the lgbt aging policy task force and the first business is roll call of the members. jazzy collins. present. jorge rodriquez. present. stu smith. present. and myself present. are there public comment for items not on the agenda? what s on the agenda is senior lgbt housing needs and concerns, so if anybody has comments on anything other than lgbt senior housing concerns and needs they should come up to the podium now. okay. seeing no comments we will proceed to regular business, and there is only one item on the jernd and if anybody would like an agenda. why don t you pass them out craig if you could and also if you could bring a couple up here as well, so the discussion item for today is we re holding i will read the official announcement. the housing sub some of the san francisco lgbt aging task force is having a hearing into the concerns of lgbt seniors. this is part of the investiga
will ask people just to line up if they want to testify. you can line up on either side. it s probably better to line up on that side so we don t block the door, and basically we re going to give you two minutes but we re going to be flexible if you should happen to need more time, but we re going to ask you if you could to keep it to two minutes and finally if you know someone that couldn t be here for some reason they can submit written testimony. we will take written testimony and you can get an email address from one of us to send written testimony and i have written testimony from two individual who is these will be read into the record this morning and unless there are comments from the sitting members. mr. chair. no comment. let s proceed with the hearing. great. anyone else? okay. let s begin with the hearing. first person please. hi. good morning [inaudible] it s not working very well. good morning. i am tom [inaudible]. i m a member of the advisory commi
public who have come out for this hearing. on both sides of this issue. you know, for me, it has been sort of a very, very interesting experience to go through this process for the last year and a half. and i grew up catholic, so i am mindful of why certain people, you know, have certain views on this. and i certainly consider myself prolife. but i believe that being prolife does not mean that you don t respect the right of women to decide for themselves what to do with their body. and that is what this is about. that you can still be for choice, and being for choice does not mean that you are in any way, you know, against the dignity in the protection of human life. but, we are talking about here is that the fundamental right for women to decide for themselves whether to have an abortion but to access healthcare and i was very moved in particular by the very personal comments of women, sharing their own experiences and their own personal histories, with planned parenthood. i
there public comment for items not on the agenda? what s on the agenda is senior lgbt housing needs and concerns, so if anybody has comments on anything other than lgbt senior housing concerns and needs they should come up to the podium now. okay. seeing no comments we will proceed to regular business, and there is only one item on the jernd and if anybody would like an agenda. why don t you pass them out craig if you could and also if you could bring a couple up here as well, so the discussion item for today is we re holding i will read the official announcement. the housing sub some of the san francisco lgbt aging task force is having a hearing into the concerns of lgbt seniors. this is part of the investigation of the housing needs of lgbt seniors. all lgbt seniors are welcome to testify about their housing concerns no matter the type they live in, rent control, or other subsidized units, a sro, a shelter, a home that they own, et cetera. seniors are welcome to talk abou