A memorial honor former politic of the body. Todays rules americas the first Public Meeting of the board since the sad nows that senator Diane Feinstein passed. Elect in the 1969 Diane Feinstein served on this board from 1970 to 78 when a shocking tragedy aassassinations of the supervisor and harvey milk. She was first woman to serve as board president in San Francisco history and mayor in San Francisco history. The first woman to win dem crediteck nomination for good afternoonor in california history in 1990 the year i met her. She lost this year but i worked for the Political Consulting team 2 years later part of her senate bid and the first women elected to the u. S. Senate in california history. There will be more ponent in the coming days everything this she meant to our city and state and our nation. As an expression condolences i ask we observe a moment of remembrance. Thank you. Mr. Clerk. Board and committee allow in person attorneys and Public Comment and prosecute voiding Remote Access and Public Comment via phone. Those in personal be allowed speak first then those on the phone line. Items will appear on the agenda of october 17 unless otherwise stated. Thank you, mr. Clerk call item one and 2 together. Item 1 a motion approving the treasurer nomination of brenda mc nulty. For term ending september 30 of 27 to the treasurer Oversight Committee. Item 2 is a motion approving aimee brown ending september 30 of 27 to the treasury Oversight Committee. 2 individuals are before us today are serving in the role and renominated by jose cisneros. The requirements for seats is to be a member of the public who has expertise in Public Finance and diverse and bipartisan. I like to invite brenda mc nulty reenemy nayed seat sxefb ask to cope your remarks to 2 minutes and be available for questions if necessary. Welcome to the rules the floor is yours. Good morning. Members of the rules committee. My name is brenda mc nulty. And i appeared before to you seek a second term to serve on this commission. First of all, let me tell you my qualifications. I have a bachelors in economics. And i have a masters of Business Administration degree focus on finance. In addition to that, i like to share that im currently full time retired but over 33 years of experience working in the Financial Services industry. To give you an idea of the types of jobs i had. I had managed cash for i Large Corporation wl grace, does not exist anymore. I worked for the treasurer in financing. I fan a bond portfolio. Managed Foreign Exchange not relevant to this position. I have also had experience in budgeting and understanding the cash modes and of operations. An investment add visoror my experience related to [inaudible]. Next i would like to share with you my understanding of how commissions work in the city this is my second term, prior to my service in the treasure Oversight Committee i served on citizen general obligation bonds. And for 2 terms and one of those terms i was chair. So i have an understanding of the role of citizen commissions. What we add input to city governors. And when we can and cannot do. Confidential in this committee. Our role as public members are the advisory nature. Hose and he his team are managing and doing the daily operations. Last but not least. I would like to remind the members of rules committee that i do have 4 more years of experience in this committee. Which i did not have when i stood before you 4 years ago. I attended every single meeting. In person. Before covid and of course virtually during covid. I in the left 4 years i had gained a different type of experience. Which i hope will give me additional expertise to carry on a second term. Im open to whatever questions you may have for me. I would like now to invite up aimee brown. Thank you. Reenemy nayed for seat 6 and i hope im pronouncing that right. Welcome to rules and the floor is yours. Thank you, good morning. Similar to brenda im up for reappointment this morning. And similar to brenda i have expertise in Financial Services street and 3 yours i want to call out. The first is expertise in Public Finance written in the ordinance and involved with state and local financing for 30 years. And during my career, im proud to say i served financial add sunrisor to the sfpuc for years and other financings. Including the civic Center Superior courthouse and refinancing of the mosconi center. I worked for a major Investment Banking firm for 15 years im most proud of the fact that i was an owner of initial low recognized women owned and San Francisco lbe firm. Employing 710 people locally. My firm caused mow to experience what is a second qualification for somebody on this committee. My firm was subject to month low andanual audits by the sec, na sd and msrb, which was the board for the municipal industry. I served on that Oversight Board for 3 years. I also assisted many clients investing bond proceeds. Which is i major task of the San Francisco treasurers office. And lastly, i have other experience serving boards and Oversight Committees. You can see from my application, it has been wide ranging from Public Finance boards to nonprofits and small corporate boards. San francisco before the treasure over of Sight Committee a member of ref now bond oversight for the puc. I served chair for 5 of 8 years to my term. I worked for local nonprofits when now called the bay eco tearium. The pair institute and aquarium of the bay and island conservancy involved with their financial over site and government. Currently a board member and treasurer for Northern California and the organization as you may know, work with the youth, neighborhood leadership programs. And there are many graduates who are currently working throughout the city. It is a lit of on the side, you mentioned Diane Feinstein before a graduate [inaudible]. We are proud of this. Im interested in the continuing committee the duties much my enters, expertise and experiences and during my semi retirement contributed to the community in which i live. Im ready for questions if you have them. Thank you. I dont see anybody on the roster but i would say i think that the lack of questions i dont think should be interpreted for lack appreciation. And i well qualified both of and you appreciate your willingness to serve in this important role. Mr. Clerk. Open to Public Comment. Yes. Members of the public had wish to speak on these items in person line up to speak. For those remote on the call in line press star 3. For those in the queue continue it wait until you have been unmute exclude that will be your queue to begin. There is nobody in the room for Public Comment and nobody on the phone line for Public Comment. Why Public Comment on this is now closed. And i would like to make a motion to strike reject where appearing in the 2 motions and send 1 and 2 to the full board. With positive rememberedation. Recommendation. Recommend the merit as amendod this matter, voice chair walton. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye chair dorsey. Aye. Motion passes without objection. Thank you, mr. Clerk, unanimous vote. Item one appointment Oversight Committee mc nulty and Oversight Committee aimee brown sent to the full board as amended. Call item 3. Item 3 a hearing to consider appointing a member ending april 27 of 24 to the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. One seat, one applicant. We are hearing one seat, seat 5 it is nominated by the chapter of league of women voters and for the unexpired portion of 2 year term ending april 17 of 24. The log nominated mackeen anderson. We ask appointees and applicants to keep remarks to i couple minutes. Welcome to rules, floor is yours. Thank you very much. And good morning to all of you and thank you for where you are Public Service. I appreciate it. I pretty much said i wanted say about myself and normally brief about myself one thing i want to bring before you is one of the things that got me into working in Public Service and transparency was i had found this during the dwo 000 election i spent, lot of time yelling at my tv and buzz i was anxiety row and i finally got to the point in 2004 i said yelling at my tv does in the do good i need to get up and may be do something about it. That started my johny doing something other an being a citizen this voted i wanted to participate in government. How i wound up here like cascading list of thing this is occurred, i started registering verts. I did work with the log of women voters in informing voters i learned when the processes were in government i like many only knew. Oh. There is more this goes into temperature and i believe and i my belief has been strength emed we need transparency in government allowing ordinary citizens to look at government and say, yes, you are doing had i want you to do or no, you are not doing had i. You to do and have a mechanism to make voices heard. So. Which is how im winding up here. With the nominee for the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. Because i believe it is an important part of government to have transparency. If i can help push that up a hill, i am willing to work to push that boulder up the hell. Thats why im here. Brevity. Im always brief. Thank you very much for considering my application for this position. Great. Thank you very much. I will just say that i am a colleague former colleague of yours and appreciate the many years we work youd may have left you retired a couple years before i left the City Attorneys Office we worked together for a dozen scombroers atest to your commitment to our city. I appreciate your wellingness to continue to serve on this body. One thing i ask about this is something i talked to folks about on the committee is im hopeing in the next couple years we can think about ways that we can work on processing improvement to sunshine. One thing i had seen overnight years is it would be nice if there could be a way what Information Technology could have a process for speeding up report of things. Not gumming up peoples jobs, there are way in this day and age this we might want to think about having a department of technology to handle the questions the responsive e mills. Having it go to the City Attorneys Office. Here is had needs to be redacted improve processes i think would unburdensome folk who is get you know have other jobs. And improve transparency. I welcome opportunity to work on this with you. Okay. Any thoughts. Thank you very much one of the people in the City Attorneys Office who would get the sunshine ordinance requests and fasz them to the departments i believe that with the growth of technology there are ways that we can work with the system to make it more efficient. Will we get the fund to do that . We may want to but if we dont get the funds to do it people will get frustrated they dont understand the 2 things go together. Yes, i agree that there should be ways to able to stream line it. Should be ways to get our decisions from sunshine ordinance. In a data base that people search for. This we can w with departments to make sure we are operating on the same system. Hey. Id love it. Im sure everybody on sunshine would, also. It is good to see that you have that same thought in mind and i look forward to working with you. I look fared to working with you all making sure that thing can happen. I do think when it come to transaarons and sunshine temperature is undeniebl there are costs this are associated with responding to Public Record requests. It is reminiscent about education if you think education is expensive try ignorance if you think transparency is expensive how about a government that is not transparent. I think this this is principle and will something we had invest. I agree. Joy appreciate your support itch dont see anybody with questions. Mr. Clerk. Can we open for Public Comment special thank you. Thank you very much. Members of the public had wish to peek and joining person line up to speak. For those remote on the call in line press star 3 to enter the line. Those in the queue wait until it indicates you have been unmuted that is your queue to begin your commentively dont see anyone in the room for Public Comment and 2 callers on the line for Public Comment. Can we have our first caller . Hi. Im jen. Im calling on behalf the league of women voters of San Francisco to support the appointment of mackeen anderson to the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. Mackeen an active member to many of our log committees for decades serving on board of directors of the log of women voters of San Francisco and california. She has demonstrated commitment to the government transparency, gained familiarity with the sunshine ordinance and the brown act work with the San Francisco sunshine and league of women voters of San Francisco committee during her time as chair. Maxen is known in the community as a defender of democracy and advocate for all san franciscans and the league encourages you to appoint Maxine Anderson to the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Great. Good morningful david pilpel. As you heard mackeen anderson a long time activist with the league of women voters of San Francisco and california her passion is evidence i look forward to her serveoth Task Force Im sure she will contribute to the spirited debate and discussion. And i can also assure chair dorsey and the other members and anyone listening the process improvement and changes this you suggested are already in the works and considered. And improving the stature of the task force in the city and with respect to complainants issue respondents and the press in general is a shared goal and one had is very much in the works. I look forward to maxine serving and thanks for listening. Thank you. This completes our list of phone Public Commenters. Thank you, Public Comment on item low is closed. And i will make a motion to recommend Maxine Anderson on seat 5 of the Sunshine Ordinance Task force and send it to the full board can we have a roll call zoom on that motion vice chair walton. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Chair dorsey. Aye. The motion passes without objection. Why great on an ums vote Maxine Anderson recommended seat five on the Sunshine Ordinance Task force and moves to the full board, congratulations. Item 4 . Item 4 an ordinance approving the Surveillance Technology policy for the d. Elections use of social mead why monitor technology. Thank you, this policy has gone luthe roesz of the committee of Information Technology. And i believe coit director Julian Johnson is stand by if there are questions the director john art system here to present. Director arts, welcome to rules. Thank you. Good morning. So. The departments request is to essential low require a program to act as a dash board for social media postings. We could have the twitter, facebook, next door and instagram located in one screen not having to use 4 different programs to do one social postings and can track the response we get from the mead why in one spot instead of 4 different, counts. If we can use this tool we can sync it to on line on our website people can follow what is happening in the department throughout social mead ja and link that to the calendar they request and we can get the information over to our calendar on our website. It is an efficiency tool. I know this gone through surveillance Technology Process it is not us trying to collect information or use it of individual this is interact with the department through social media. And just a dash board so everything is in one base and reduce the number of people that work on social media. I can take any questions on this topic. That is the, off shelf product . Why yea. That is the i was going through it what is the brand name. We dont Vice President it we are waiting to finish this process. The couple out there [inaudible] and other is sprouts. We did downloaded a trial version of sproutos friday i can have an idea of when it could look like prior to the hearing. And it having tiles on the screen with a different accounts. And then you bring a calendar and schedule on the calendar postings happen and which account and you can track postings and schedule them. As far as tracking we are not tracking individuals we are tracking the number of hits and responses. Number of questions or asks to a specific posting we put out there. And this gives a sense, too of what is engaging with the voters and the public. When information is less interesting to them and a topic they are responding or they are guessing questions we get a sense of match topics are important at the moment. Can i ask when the process started . Looking back i think this was around march. This was this is before merchandise there is actual 3 meetings at coit on this. And started i dont remember i dont know the date i think 2022 we started the press the application and have the several meetings at coit and going through the process. It has been a while to get here. Okay. Great. Colleagues, any questions . Thank you. So much. I think it is good. Mr. Clerk open to Public Comment. Yes, members ever public had wish to speak and joining in person lineup to speak at this time. For those remote low on the call in line press star 3 to enter the line. For those in the queue wait until it indicates you have been unmuted that will be your queue to comment. I dont see anybody in the room in line for comment and one caller for Public Comment on this matter. Can we have our first Public Commenter in great. David pilpel itch believe the Election Department request is a reasonable use of technology. Not the type of mass surveillance this others may be concerned b. I encourage to you support this ordinance and use of the social media monitor technology proposed. Thank you. Thank you. That completeings Public Comment on this merit thank you, Public Comment upon is closed. And i like to sends this item to the full board with positive recommendation. A roll call on this motion . On the motion to recommend this matter vice chair walton. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Chair dorsey. Aye. Thank you mr. Clerk on a unanimous vote item 4 Surveillance Technology policy d. Elections use of social media monitor technology moves to the board with positive recommendation. Thank you. Call item 5. Item 5 ordinance amending the code to clarify the contractor may be suspended debarred due to labor laws governing payment of wing and unfir labor practices. Thank you and this is sponsored and authored by supervisor connie chan joining us this morning. Welcome to rules. The floor is yours. Thank you chair dorsey thank you for calendaring this. Colleagues one of San Francisco core values and source of pride is we are a union town. We prioritize our work and legislations and resources. Supporting our workers all cross down. San francisco passed more Worker Protection laws than know g. The first to impelement our own minimum wage. Paid 6 and parental leave laws. We established the countrys first municipal labor enforcement agentment legislation today is intended give us another tool and legislative tool to help us guarantee that we continue this momentum holding emplayers, bad employers account okay and us as the board of supervisors are being good stewards of our dollars this luis to govern and how what the board can do with a bad employer who are contractors with the city. And with existing contractors. What it does is simple. Adds wage theft and unfair labor practices or any violation of lus that governing labor practices to the list of criteria allowing the city to seek suspension or deborrowment of a contractor. They have been tools to disqualify contractors from the city bidding process and has been one that our City Attorneys Office used against contractor especially those convicted of criminal activities or crime. Like fraud. When we have employers found to be intentionally or wellfully violating lus like especially in this case mou with the legislation labor laws like wage theft this. Is trong tool to make sure bad employers are actions not manage we tolerate. Im pleased have the support chinese progressive association. Justice for all team and they are the one that brought the concern to our office. And today that what you see is result of collaborate rigz and discussions to see when else we can do to make to hold bad contractors spending city dollars accountable. I like to thank supervisor walton for cosponsorship and happy to take questions. Thank you. Thank you. Vice chair walton. Thank you, chair dorse and he supervisor chan. I wanted to say for the record how important it is to make sure our workers are protect exclude people po who do business with our city understand we will not to the rit violations of labor law and have yous as a city and it is unfortunate we have employers out there that will try to take advantage of our workers. We cannot allow this in San Francisco. I want it thank supervisor chan for bringing this forward and im proud to be a cosponsor. Thank you. Supervisor safai. Thank you, supervisor chan for bringing this important piece of legislation ford. During the difficult Economic Times we hear more from people workers this wages are being stolen from them. And people are not being paid and mistreatment in the work place and it is important we stand up and ensure that contractors that are violating and the trust of public as well as violating the trust of the people this w for them are accountable and in the doing business with the city of San Francisco. So. Thank you supervisor chan and for your hard work and add mow as a cosponsor. Thank you. Supervisor safai and i wanted to add my expression of appreciation to supervisor chan. And to vice chair walton for their work on this. I will say that you know often i mention my past work you and i are both supervisor chan influenced by time wont spent in verse roles in the City Attorneys Office i was involved in cases that had debarments. Usually for the city i think it is important had your legislation recognizes is it may not be the city directly. This is paying the price but indirectly. I think that it is very important. Especially when one krrz the people who are met often vulnerable to wage, theft and benefit thefts the crimes against workers. Than i are often in vulnerable positions. This is where having the weight of the city and the threat of i debarment, which is you are not able to do business with the city and county of San Francisco anymore this is something that can have an affect i want to be added as a cosponsor. These cases with office and labor in the City Attorneys Office were closest to my heart because and it was a fight for people to understand why this is bad. It was in the high profile or head line grabbing. For a family that is struggling to make ends meat these things matter. I appreciate it. Seeing no one else on the roster mr. Clerk open to Public Comment. Yes, members had wish to speak in person line up to speak. For those remote, press star 3 to enter the queue. Can we have our first in person speaker . Good morning. Im hernandez the political organizer for 10 to 1. We support this ordinance. It is logical to us that contractors that abuse workers or treat them unfair low should risk suspension or debarment. We are can have the that the way this is written will be only used for worse actors. Workers many of them, of course are members that work for many nonprofits appreciate this mechanism and great low thank supervisor chan for her lead everybodiship and thank you for cosponsoring and hopeful low moving this forward. Good morning. Debbie, San FranciscoHuman Service network. Obviously, we do notment contractors working for the city who are committing violations of our laws. We have had a lot of i will not say concerns but questions how the deborrowment press works and when safe guards to ensure it is in the used in know unjustice manner to pressure employers. We still have several unresolved questions, unfortunately. We hoped it would be conditioned today so we could get more clarification on those questions. Whatever your decision we hope that you will work with us to help us get this clarity and ensure that contractors will not find themselves in the situation like this and make sure in the Human Services westerlied Something Like the threat of debarment lead to cloinlts and threat to viling services that those issues are wed out and we can get the questions answered that we put out. Thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. Thank you. Chair dorsey and just want to articulate, colleagues, i do not want to bring up but there were bad apples like unfortunately contractor walter wong and others this were fund with criminal charges and conviction. It took the city awhile to get to the debarment. And so the debarment press and suspension is agregious and behaviors and in this case there is conversation with the City Attorney that we dont take the process of suspension and debarment lightly. We understand of it this is must be something that has proved to be in the office of labor enforcement, california state luand initial labor luthis is violations of laws in order for us to be able to start with the conversation or trigger the process of suspension and debarment. But we understand the Human Service network concerns and happy to have the conversations and see how we can address them. If necessary, to have language that would do this. Given the fact next week, the Indigenous Peoples day and we will have no rules mittee nor the board hearing, happy to continue that make the motion to move this to full board and allow us to have the next week or 2 to have the conversation and if need be we come become at full board potential amendments if we can figure out a solution. Or that we do a better job to continue the conversation to safe guard in the future. We have been having this conversation during recess as well since the introduction, which is in june and july. It will be on going and you know we will keep working. Thank you. Thank you, vice chair walton. Thank you i like to move that we sends this forward to the full burden with positive recommendation. Thank you, mr. Clerk we will call that motion. On this motion vice chair walton. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Chair dorsey. Aye. Motion aszs without objection. Thank you, on the unanimous vote item 5 administrative code suspension or debar am of contractors violation of labor laws good to the full board with positive recommend agsz. Thank you. Thank you. Am call item 6. Item 6 ordinance establishing the labor and employment code redesignating Worker Protection ordinance and ordinances related it employees of City Condition tractors in the code and the police code and provisions of the now labor and employment code and direct the City Attorney to renumber the prosecute visions added unemployment code and update cross reference throughout the mounl code. Thank you, and this is authored by supervisor safai. Who i believe is here to speak about this. The floor is yours thank you. This is per of my effort to improve working conditions for san franciscans. I worked with City Attorneys Office to draft legislation this helped displaced workers like janitors and security guards. City has an office of labor enforce them ddz does administrate of the City Attorney has a labor team to bing affirmative lit gagdz we updateded the law use all the tools. Back when the ordinance was written and put in the police code only way to enforcement was making difficult for wars to find when than i need and comply with the laws. Although this ordinance makes so substantive changes at this time, it establishes the labor employment code to join the charter and the felony others this make up our municipal code. Division will cover Worker Protection general low for all employees public and private. Like laws like the minimum wage. Paid sick leave. Lactation in the w place. Grocery worker retention. 19 in all. Division two cover those this impact city contractors 9 scomplus most important wage, compification sa, health care and more. As a clerical matter the law strikes low laws that xroired by operational law related covid19. I want to thank the City Attorneys Office. Matt goldberg. Office of labor standards pat mulligan and wing on the code clean up. And with this, colleagues i ask for your support and sends this to the board with positive recommendation on october 17th. Great. Thank you, supervisor safai. And i want to express my appreciation to you for your work on this. I know that code clone and up renumbering is thankless but important work and i think this is good change that i am happy to support. Thanks. No one on the roster mr. Clerk, open to Public Comment. Why numbers of public when wish to poke in person lineup to speak. Members remote, press star 3 to enter the queue. There is nobody in the room for Public Comment at this time and one caller for Public Comment. Can we have that caller, please . Great. Dave youd pilpel. I heard supervisor sa feising complangz and sorry i dont understand the need for this new labor and employment code and wondering if there is another way i understand that the various laws and prosecute visions are scattered throughout and there is an interest in centralizing them. Motive it be possible to create a new chapter in the administrative code and possible low in the police code . To achieve the same intent with the whatever is division one and 2 . Here with respect to employers general low. And city contractors . I am just concerned about adding a new code like i was not krez about the campaign governmental conduct code and the municipal elections code. I think having the code continue to prolive rit is also not a great idea despite making additions and changes to the various laws. Im wonder figure there is another way to achieve this goal short of creating an entirely new code and moving sections of the municipal and existing administrative and please codes. There. So much thats my thought if this is the only or best way to achieve it so be it i wanted to express those occurrence. Thank you very much for listening. Thank you. That was our left caller on Public Comment phone line thank you, Public Comment is closed. And supervisor safai . Thank you, id like to make a motion to send this to the full board with positive recommendation for the hearing on full Board Meeting october 17th. Why grit. Thank you. Mr. Clerk can we have a roll call on that motion vice chair walton. Why aye supervisor safai. Aye. Chair dorsey. Why aye. The motion passes. Thank you. Unanimous vote item 6 administrate ever please code stake the labor and. Am code is sent to the full board with positive recommendation. Mr. Clerk do we have further business . This completes our agenda. Thank you we are adjourned. Growing up in San Francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and its still that bubble that its okay to be whatever you want to. You can let your free flag fry fly here. As an adult with autism, im here to challenge peoples idea of what autism is. My journey is not everyones journey because every autistic child is different, but theres hope. My background has heavy roots in the bay area. I was born in san diego and adopted out to San Francisco when i was about 17 years old. I bounced around a little bit here in high school, but ive always been here in the bay. We are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. We dont turn anyone away. We take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. The most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you dont seem like you have autism. You seem so normal. Yeah. Thats 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. I was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. They split up when i was about four. One of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. Very queer family. Growing up in the 90s with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. I was bullied relatively infrequently. But i never really felt isolated or alone. I have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. The school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. One of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what its about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. When i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. I was a weird kid. I had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. When we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when im looking away from the camera, its for my own comfort. Faces are confusing. Its a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. At its core, autism is a social disorder, its a neurological disorder that people are born with, and its a big, big spectrum. It wasnt until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. I was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. I didnt like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. I was very difficult to be around. But the friends that i have are very close. I click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. In experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. I remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldnt cope. I grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal developmental psychology from all sides. I recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybodys in a position to have a family thats as supportive, but theres also a community thats incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. It was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what . Im just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. I have a twoyearold. The person who im now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasnt sure, so i went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so theres no way you can be pregnant. I found out i was pregnant at 6. 5 months. My whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. I think ive finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. I think the access to care for parents is intentionally confusing. When i did the prospective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. We have a place where children can be children, but its very confusing. I always out myself as an adult with autism. I think its helpful when you know where can your child go. How im choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. How do speech therapy. How do you explain that to the rest of their class . I want that to be a normal experience. I was working on a certificate and kind of getting think Early Childhood credits before i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in San Francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i dont really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight persons perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and im like absolutely. So im now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. I love growing up here. I love what San Francisco represents. The idea of leaving has never occurred to me. But its a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. What ive done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that were still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a Resource Center, and this Resource Center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. I would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. So many things that i would love to do that are all about changing peoples minds about certain chunts, like the Transgender Community or the autistic community. I would like my daughter to know theres no wrong way to go through life. Everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary. Item 50 is resolution calling on department of Public Health to provide medically necessary transition related care for transgender related people and remove restrictions. In 2012 gender health sf was born out of advocacy from Community Stakeholders and local leaders. Really as response to providing quality, accessible jnder aaffirming care for the most underserved. indiscernible the way i see it, there is two ways of folks we serve at our program. The first wave of folks who never imagined surgery access was accessible to them. Many folks who had to save money or par ticipate in underground economy to access the surgery outside the country. indiscernible really to make Something Real in terms of being able to connect with the gender identity and external indiscernible and so transform so many lives of many of trans folks who never imagined it was accessible to them. Now we are in the different era and time where transrights is in the social political and general indiscernible and now we are serving young folks to support them and making sure their gender identity is connected to who they are, so providing a space to support transfolks to live authentically and that is the goal to provide the level of care trans folks deserve. When it comes to access to healthcare, while we all believe in cost control and make sure we deliver healthcare in a Cost Effective manner, i dont think that cost is a reason or legitinate rational to exclude people from healthcare indiscernible colleagues i ask for your support. Thank you supervisor wiener. Colleagues on this item can we do this without role call . Same house same call, without objection the resolution is adopted. [applause] whenever youre ready sir. All right, good afternoon commissioner, welcome to the Health Commission meeting of tuesday october 3, 2023. Secretary, would you please call the roll. Sthaour. Commissioner chung. Present. Commissioner guillermo. Present. Commissioner greene. Present. Now i will offer to commissioner guillermo that will offer the ra ma tuber ohlone land