at the manhattan institute where he is also director of legal policy and you have read his work all over national media, you ve seen him on television you ve heard on radio and, by the way, he holds the jd and mba from yale where he was an owen fellow in law and economics, also a ba in economics from none other than unc chapel hill where he was a morehead scholar. jim, so glad to have you with us here for our shaft spirit society. thank you for joining us thank you for having me, donna, always a pleasure to speak to the good folks at the john locke foundation. i ve said it before, as someone who has worked many years at a national think tank, so much policy happens on the state level and john locke foundation is really a gold standard think tank that has helped to reshape north carolina and such a positive direction and lot of the strength and resilience right now and sound fiscal ãin the midst of a pandemic is really due to the great work of the john locke foundation has
museum of the civil war soldier located near petersburg, virginia. he previously served as the first president of the association for the preservation of civil war sites from 1990 to 1994, an early version of what today we know as the american battlefield trust. he s also spent time as a historian including local fredericksburg in spotsylvania. he s also served in other capacities. dedicated researcher, a prolific writer, he has published more than 20 works on the civil war, on stonewall jackson, st. petersburg, virginia, 1861 to 1865, and my favorite, the final battles of the petersburg campaign. his latest book, a campaign of giant is certainly a must-read a campaign of giants is certainly a must read for all civil war enthusiasts. i was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to do the maps for buck. i said, you know what? you re doing good work and he gave me an opportunity to showcase that so that i m most grateful. will is certainly a historian that we all look up
permanent occupancy. so that is something we would appreciate further discussion on. it is something that we don t currently do, and it lives outside of our scope of work. thank you. 819 lombard is actually a perfect example. part of what sparked that project and part of the benefit was the additional of three adus. so while on the one hand we re trying to incentavise the building of new somewhat affordable housing, we are ending up actually losing existing affordable housing. and so part of what i think the community and the supervisor is trying to do is to create some impediments, where bad actors are disincentive vised. disincent vised. and a some point that tenant is going to be able to come back, there is a financial disincentive for them to keep that unit open as we have taken care of that family for six months or a year or year and a half. and, yes, it is a policy choice because the pie is getting a little bit smaller. there is no question about that. and that means
of consumer one who receives substance use services, and to permit a consumer who is an employee in the health or public or private agency, and who does not have any influence or authority over any financial or contractual matter. concern the employee or the employer to be appointed to the commission. chairwoman: thank you. and we have andy mullen here from supervisor stephanie s office to present. good morning. thank you for holding this hearing today. i m andy mullen. i m here on behalf of supervisor stefani, who holds the board of supervisor s seat on the mental health board, and she unfortunately couldn t be here today. and many of the members are here for public comment. the legislation before you today is fairly simple. it makes three proposed changes. i m going to sort of discuss them just in order of importance. the mental health board is a fairly unique body in that it has been around since 1956. and it puts a majority of its seats for consumers of mental health
chairwoman: a quick question i know that is happening, and it is happening in the mission district constantly, so this is a really important piece of legislation. but i just want to understand what happened. so the person gets a preference, moves into an affordable housing unit through that preference, and then their original unit, the capital improvements are done, and the landlord does the right thing and offers it back to the tenant. right. chairwoman: does that person then have to move in or lose the unit can you walk me through how that is going to work? sure. this will require an amendment to our leases so that it would need to provide for affordable housing unit when the tenant gets a preference and they move in with this temporary preference. it would need to be a condition of the lease there is a policy that you can haven t more than one rental unit, if you have affordable housing. if you have another unit offered to you, it is a legitimate condition of