Thank you so much for your ongoing support and work. These events are done with love, and it takes resources to make them happen, so thank you so much. So speaking of resources, we have a huge champion for our community and our lgbt community. Our district 8 supervisor, and the only out lgbt member on the board. Please welcome supervisor raphael mandelman. [applause] supervisor mandelman thank you claire. And as others have said, thank you so much for the extraordinary work that you and your office do. And thank you, tom horn. The mayor was whispering to me before we started that tom horn always comes through. Thank you. [applause] supervisor mandelman i guess ill begin where senator wiener finished, in that harvey milk knew how important queer representation is, how important it was for people to come out, and for people to be elected and serve. I think i had said at other events i look forward to the day when i am speaking after a trans elected supervisor. We need to do that, and it
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Capture it. Those are a real reason why many of us are in this business and do the work we do. I will skip over the list of hundreds of people i want to thank. I would like to thank the dozens of people who will look after this building here on out and look after the health of the people in it. I am very proud what we accomplished together to be here today. We did so under budget, mind you. I am proud tha that we will accomplish all of this in the future. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you. I want to just offer a few reflections. One is that i hope you will hear from all of us just the expression of gratitude. We realize we are in a privileged position to do the work to serve others. That is what a lot of us are very motivated by while in this room. Seven years ago mayor lee and ed had a vision p. 29 properties. 2 billion and where was that going to come from . How was it going to happen . A new program that none of us knew or understood very well. I understand the housing direc
System kind of i dont know if the system failed but we werent alerted and luckily nothing bad happen but it definitely makes me on edge and that so, i forget this other point, we talked about Emergency Preparedness for our population in the city and it was suggested to us by a police officer, sf police officer, to go down to our local Police Station and kind of let them know if you have a vulnerable Family Member in your home that might need assistance in a particular emergency. So i did that. Police station said no, we dont do that. Try the Fire Department. I went to my local Fire Department i love these men and women. No one is to blame. Im realizing more and more and i hope your agencies realize this, theres a huge disconnect between the needs of our population and what the citys current response is or what they can do. Our local Fire Department, the guys were lovely and they took my address and name and the name of my daughter and said we canf they can put it into a data base as an
Into my unit to do a routine power check. This was not an emergency. It was not anything. This is just a routine check. I emailed pg e and said im a wheelchair user. I cant let you in very easily. I need help. There are multiple people in my building who are able bodied and can let you into check those meeters. And their response was, oh, we already tried them and we couldnt get a hold of them. I gave them specific instructions for how to get into my unit. [please stand by]. Handling our power infrastructure. I want to thank the Council Members for their questions and very well intentioned and very reasonable concerns here today. Ms. Senhaux chair thank you. Were going to take a were going to proceed to hold on, im waiting for the panel. Thank you. Were going to information item number 7. The dahlia housing portal. I want to thank our presenter Maria Benjamin, the Deputy Director of Mayors Office and emily shore, dahlia manager, Digital Services. Thank you for waiting. Thank you so muc