nightmareishness was a struggle to try to access homelessness and housing services, and to understand anything coherent about the serviceservice s landscape. in the end, after being rejected, my case was picked up and i was placed in an s.r.o. last july. i first became interested in s.r.o. residents and quality of life issues last year during the campfire, when i lobbied my landlord to help the residents of our building, which is primarily composed of poor people who have chronic health issues. i wanted them to help i wanted our residents to receive particulate masks so they could breathe safely. my s.r.o. building manager more or less laughed in my face. however, i was, fortunately, able to procure 100 masks via a donation from a local organization. and i distributed them myself doo door to door to every person in my building. to me, this moment begs the question: how is this supportive housing? obviously, s.r.o. organizations, who have multi-million contracts with the cit
february 6, 2014, good afternoon, welcome to our rules committees meeting for thursday february 6, 2014. i m supervisor yee and i will be chairing this meeting. to my left is supervisor campos and katie tang who will join us. lisa miller is our clerk. and we would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, jessie larson and joshua alexander and record eefrp of our meetings and make the transcripts available online. are there any announcements? yes. please turn off electronic devices. if you wish to speak, please fill out a card. supervisor norman yee: madam clerk, please call item 1. agenda[health, business and tax regulations codes - safe body art]1304021.ordinance amending the health code by repealing miscellaneous sections relating to tattooing and adding article 40 to require body art practitioners to register with the department of public health dphh and to annually renew registration, and to require permanent and temporary body art facilities to obtain an
disabled on fixed incomes and people in transition with their lives and as well as people coming back from incarceration and i work with people with all different concerns. i think i have the ability and passion to represent their concerns. supervisor norman yee: okay, thank you. any questions? thank you very much. next applicant is thomas picarello. good afternoon, supervisors, thomas picarello. there is a threshold issue here before i present myself and that is the clerk s qualifications say you have to be a current sro tenant. i m a former sro tenant. not a current sro tenant. i m now in senior housing district 5. i looked at the original legislation creating the sro task force and the amendments there too, the bylaws of the task force and i didn t see a requirement that one has to be a current sro tenant. i deferred to the city attorneys whether or not i m qualified. if you have to be a current sro tenant, i don t qualify for the seat nor do i want to pursue it. super
been in business for 18 years this year and we work with a lot of public agrees in san francisco and this will be the first contract with sfmta thank you very much. are there any other representatives. okay. please come up to this podium hi, i m hymie with barbary coast consulting we re a strategic conversations firm in san francisco we ve been in business 11 years and have worked with the transportation authority over the last six or seven years. and we are happy to be one of the firms selected as well congratulations my compliments with engaging with the dbe firm. why don t we take that concludes my presentation. item 8 any public comment? is open. seeing none, public comment is closed. and see this is an action item. and i see a motion made by supervisor chiu and seconded by supervisor tang without objection this motion passes. thank you. madam clerk other items item 89 this is introduce item. thank you are there any new items to be introduced? seeing none. let s
for that. and i have just been in the mix because we ve had a problem with bed bugs and they worked on policy and procedure regarding that, senior action network. part of what i wanted to do is start to pull all of these organizations together to interact with each other. i believe now there is a major disconnect between these different agencies and different bodies. i think we need to come together to share information and two, create policy and procedure. part of the sro s mandate is regarding homelessness. i think we need to have the local homeless coordinating board, the monitoring committee and these different organizations to help people transition into sro s and transition to a higher in a better life. so we are creating so people don t get stuck in sro s forever. if you want, i can show you, i have about 4-5 images of some of the sro s, one of the sro s that i was in and it was problematic. supervisor norman yee: i don t think that s necessary. the point is for you t