Standard, for historic architecture, are professional degree in architecture or a state license to practice architecture. And one of one of the following two categories. Either at least oneyear of graduate study in architectural preservation, american architectural history, preservation planning or closely related field. Or the second criteria, at least one year of fulltime professional experience on Historic Preservation projects. And that experience or graduate study must include detailed investigations of Historic Structures, preparation of Historic StructuresResearch Reports and preparation of plans and specifications for preservation projects. Ms. Sow spoke about her experience on Historic Preservation projects. Ultimately based on her experience and the speakers who spoke about their knowledge of her background and experience, it is a decision for the board to determine whether in your judgment she meets these qualifications. And, of course, a policy decision for the board whether you choose to approve either candidate. Thank you. Yeah. Thats very helpful. You know, just to have that explained. And also publicly, too. Supervisor ronen i wanted to suggest something. It is there is no doubt that these two candidates are highly qualified, accomplished individuals, who have deep connections to the community. And have, you know, already given so much to the city and our city to get more. Thats not an issue at all. And, you know, i can see why the mayor chose to nominate these two candidates. Unfortunately the timing of this whole thing was that we got the nomination letter in the middle of our legislative break. And we have been struggling to get back and get caught up from being gone. So i personally havent had a chance to sit down with either candidate. It does concern me that s. F. Heritage, that is an organization that i have Great Respect for, who works, you know, daily on these issues, has concerns about one of the candidates. I think we take a couple of weeks to vet these and hear the concerns and make, you know, our opinions before we take a vote on this item. This is these are really important appointments. And theyre highly technical. And not being an architect or a Historic Preservationist myself, i feel like i need i need to do a little bit more studying on these nominations. So i would make a motion to continue this item two weeks to the september 23rd meeting. I did check with amy, at my office that will give us enough time on the c. R. To approve or take action on these items, in time for, you know, based on our legal requirements. So i would make that motion. Does anyone want to speak or can i take that . Go ahead, supervisor mar. Yeah. Well, i appreciate chair ronen, i appreciate your you know, your interest in allowing us, you know, more time to really, you know, vet these appointments. You know, i have to say, you know, after finding out about this, you know, to sort of have the hearing or consider these appointments, just at the end of last week, you know, i did speak the weekend a little bit just trying to get more up speed on these very complex issues around Historic Preservation and the role the Historic Preservation commission, as well as, you know, reviewing the qualifications of the applicants. So and i think through this through the hearing this morning , and i mean, i guess coming into the hearing, i still had some questions about yeah. About this. Hence even the question i posed to deputy City Attorney givener. But i actually feel comfortable, you know, that both nominees are qualified for the positions. And so and i feel comfortable supporting, you know, the mayors nomination for them. So im not going to support your motion to delay. Supervisor ronen okay. It looks like its on me. [laughter] yeah. I definitely take what s. F. Heritage has to say very seriously about candidates when they come before us. But i have to say, during this hearing, i was very impressed with both candidates. And after listening to the City Attorney givener, in terming what would make someone qualified, i was satisfied by what i heard from the candidates, the work that they have done, what they have demonstrated from their experience. And i do feel that it also matches with the intent of what the commission is for. So going out along with my colleague, supervisor mar, i think we should move these candidates forward and make an amendment for items 4 and 5 to remove rejecting and replacing it with approving of candidates for the mayors nomination of the appointment of chris foley and the appointment of lydia sow to the Historic Preservation commission. Supervisor ronen so i to make things easy, well withdraw my motion. I am going to vote no on your motion well, on your motion, supervisor walton, not because i necessarily dont support the candidates. But because i would have preferred to have more time. But i will do my best in the weeks to come to meet with you, both directly and to meet with heritage and to catch up on what i think about this. So ill be in touch with all three of but. And just want you to know that when im voting no, its not on the candidates. Its on i wish my colleagues had given me more time, because its very busy at the moment. But i will do my best to meet with you all before tuesday. So with that can we take a roll call. Yes. Clerk on the motion po attend to approve, to recommend. Vice chair walton . Yes. Walton aye. Member mar . Aye. Clerk chair ronen . No. The motion passes. Supervisor ronen thank you very much. Mr. Clerk, is there any other items before us today . Clerk that completes the agenda for today. 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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 we 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 irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. When i did the procespective 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 brefore 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. They are joining us today because we know this work is not easy. Im joined here today by the director of Mental Health reform, grant colfax who is our director of the department of Public Health as well as yolanda who has been a client here for some time and she will be speaking to you later today. Thank you for being here and all the folks who are doing the hard work. We know that Mental Health there is a Mental Health crisis here in San Francisco and i know that we often times hear that were being thrown around loosely. But the fact is that as someone who grew up in San Francisco and know that we have had challenges in this city, including issues around homelessness, what i see is something that ive never seen in my lifetime of growing up in the city and that is people who are in serious, serious crisis. Serious need. And the fact is, in San Francisco, the frustration is that we have a lot of resourc