describe how amazing this ramp say you know san francisco and houses are extremely close to each other he built this huge skateboard ramp in the back of his store and available free for young people to skate. he's been supportive in terms of helping to build the skateboard park in the katrero park and the one south of market and born and raised and continues to put kids first and use skate board of supervisors 89 it influences education and social development and art. his business allows to give back to the community something that puts a smile on so many young

faces. kevent continues to be involved in the hate ashbury after not only by providing incredible opportunities by also being a part of the hate ashbury emergence board he's a nonprofit advocate group want and a former mayor of the task force on skating and the x games task force how many of you remember the x games he placed a major role to make sure that was part of san francisco but it was done well. kent company trishthd 7 or 88 years of building the ca teller skateboard park and the first qualified skateboard park to build freeways to get a quality

nice skateboard park near the lake. kent works closely with the rec and park department efforts to provide for programming concluding advocacy and hosting skateboard contest and events he not only builds skateboard in the back of any store but involved in the public and middle high school students yes skateboarding and skating can be a career. kevent is a demonstration of educating the public in creating positive activities for i don't know people throughout our city and we appreciate everything you've done anonymous to celebrate the community but artists and provide the

skateboarders and others to make sure that our city is paying attention to this important and fun activity will keep, you know, positive it's spelling the last name in our people's like to on behalf of the board of supervisors in san francisco we honor you here today (clapping.) i'd like to say thank you very much for the recognition. really i think that after all those others people have spoken i need to contribute more to the city but growing up in san francisco you can't help but being concerned about the sierment and how it effects people. one of the things in san francisco it's a major issue is youth issues we don't have enough kids in san francisco and the ones are here often leave so

as adults if we can give back they're our future the city will ultimately turnout right and real quickly i'm to recognize my mom in the audience today. i was fortunate to have someone represent me but i want to tie this in with the apa thing i'm proud to be an asian-american born and raised in san francisco a fourth generation american and san franciscan. and i would say that all the values in terms of giving back and loving san francisco are from my grandparents and grandmother so thank you very much for the recognition and thank you.

(clapping.) >> thank you supervisor breed and thank you to skated boarding with our supervisor tang you're next on deck. >> thank you president chiu wow. there's so many honorees i'm happy to invite mr. cushioning to come up. i met ike becauseer especially participating in the dragon do not on treasure island he said

whoever needs a ride i was working as an aide for carmen chu i've learned about ike hesitate participated in so many of our strategic planning efforts for the district as we were creating our blue print so i'm happy to honoring you. he's served for the california academy of sciences and through ike's leadership we've seen vast customer and employee satisfaction and sustainability earthquake preparedness it's lead to high distribution levels and a well deserved action plan

in the event which had any disaster you carries a personal philosophy of being personally engaged with his children and others to adapt as well. ike's work at the amend has led to the i did not get services and he's partnered with community ticket services cats to insure that those who can't invest the academy for lack of funds. he serves opening services on the alliance committee as we develop our sunset blue print he strongly you consuls strongly asian-american youth to suspend and to extremely in schooler

building that to is one of the best environmentalists in light of the city's leadership. he's promoted free 81 quantum do classes and worked with the chinese community development to have earthquake training from native chicago they moved here in 2008, when we worked to reopen the california sciences to the public they choose to live in the sunset district it was 50 years prior when ike's father imcongratulated here. he he is a external model not only for the academy of sciences but to the larger community after all. thank you ike it's been a great

pleasure to work with you and i look forward to many more years for partnership i want to acknowledge that aiming any and other are here to support ike here from the academy of sciences >> you've got me sweating first of all, supervisor tang if you for the recognition i'm honored to be here in this community my wife and i divorced with the city pack so shout out to them. district 4 residents you're a driven leader as a father to two daughters you're an impression and also along with supervisor kim's and supervisor breed and supervisor cowen k supervisor cowen to the entire board of

supervisors on behalf of the academy we want to thank each one of you for your tirelessly devocation he know it's sometimes like heading cats so i can't resist i want to thank the academy of sciences for bringing me here to san francisco in the first place and mraerp any truly outstanding alison brown here vision have been the backbone for the academy. i am here because i get to do great work only because i get to work with folks. and my family couldn't be here my family is in chicago my wife is doing the real work of running our children around.

to my dear wife maria so to be recognized for doing a job i will have love in the city i love it's a blessing so thank you, everyone. thank you very much (clapping.) thank you you supervisor tang

and ike and thanks to the academy. i want to take a moment and thank you who are waiting for your patience we've had incredible leaders we've recognized that have nourished our appetites and teaching our chinese skate boarding and how to appreciate the folks i'm proud to be an asian-american in our city sleth the honor is difficult for our office as someone that represents the distributor with the oldest chinese community with the other towns they're doing amazing so i've picked our other honor enamor santiago that's the organization i'm representing has from 7 organizations to more

thirty organizations representing over 80 agencies advocating for culture and lingually appropriate services for our apa cabinets concluding the language access ordinance as well as member organizations that are providing an incredible range of services to a board demographic underserved community and invite up all the directors that represent a portion of the apa council. colleague i'm sure you're aware of the budget process the apa council meets to advocate for budget concerns and policy issues. let me also note while the apa chronicle meets in district 3 it is the diversity of our breath and depth of our asian-american

in the bay area so if i could ask all the organizations leaders to stand up. thank you for your service. thank you for addressing the needs (clapping.) thank you for really representing the needs and challenges and the dreams in our apa communities and mr. canning to go say a few words >> again to president chiu it's truly insupervisor hearing from the honors resolution some of the organizations have horrifies going back to over one hundred years and many more coming to fruition talking about the culture diverse and increasing the population of asian pacific islander in san francisco. your criticize of origins are

separated by borders and sometimes oceans and seas but we come together in this city working together closely through the apa council it improve the quality of life for those in needs. as we've individual this organization this way to approach meeting the needs of our community in an informed way were we wouldn't exist without our leadership and recognitions and support we've represented some of our leadership we're at the thirty groups if you're part of us the chinese center the women resources center and chinatown ymca and cameron house and he is filipino west center and the southeast center and

children's services and our very own special advocate marlee. next week we'll be receiving the apa community on wednesday we hope to see you p there. thank you very much for this recognize we appreciate it so much

(clapping.) >> okay. colleagues i think from district 2 i get to have the next honor from any prospective i think we all as supervisors have the constituents in our districts that are the watchdogs in the neighborhood that look out for things and let us know what's happening and advocate for the well-being in our neighborhood i have the honor to honor today one of those people that did that with incredible passion in my district that's rose high on a hill it calls to me son. rose there she is come on up rose (clapping.) colleagues rose is for those who haven't geology gotten a chance

to meet here she's a third-generation of chinese-american and this is where she say, i can't tell you and comfortably it is to have rose an a as a watch.org she services on the urban forest board since 2009 and the coalition off san francisco neighborhoods and the jordan board and worked on a number of advocacy role within japantown. she began her work in the richmond district i appreciate about rose i'm pretty sure this month is about learning and about innovation within the most we're celebrating rose has

nooltd in my said she understands our traffic code better than anyone and traffic code and done this on her hone own i think the first time we've talked about something was about a tree to left turn lanes off geary now and so many other things your simply an advocate thank you so much for all you do. you know, it's a gift when i'm able to have and supervisors are able to have resident and constituents and how to make things better so i appreciate all of the japantown and overlook of san francisco i wish there were more like you and i'm fwloesz have you in district 2

so thank you rose (clapping.) thank you supervisor farrell and president chiu and members of the board of supervisors i'm happy to be selected for this award i use a lot of my energy to work with other people and it's the other people that me up me along not only working with the board of supervisors the people with the elective aids i'm a code junky so-called i like to look at transit code and anything like that i may not understand it all but thank goodness for lawyers. i want to say i have a lot of work with the coalition of san francisco neighborhoods we may not agree on everything but i have a representative judy i

didn't know anything about the award i thought i was having computer problems at home and i got this e-mail from superstitions aid i couldn't building it and i thought no, this is real so i showed up here as best i could and appreciate all of your support for this honor it's a privilege to serve ail you have you in the best capacity again so thank you very much

(clapping.) thank you supervisor farrell. our final presentation of the day will be any our richmond colleague district one supervisor mar. thank you president chiu and congratulations to all the amazing honorees it's not an easy task to select among many worthy leaders but for my staff it was very easy because of our honorees amazing leadership enterprising others to make it different i'd like to ask if the

merchant association president can come forward >> (clapping) >> cynthia is the president of not only the 92 mrnlt association she runs two businesses and has children. i see her as an amazing catalyst for our neighborhood. she and i met at the toy boat a few years ago she was trying to figure out as a new business owner trying to support other businesses in the corridor but become more active she's done in a short term she's transformed an old organization that is about mature support for business owners human resources she was been a spark for lots of

the greening and revitalization to bring new people and seniors into the neighborhood he's a bay area if he were educated and got her batches from san barbara and was active as a student organizer and activist. her feed store which they runs or co- owns with her sister jennifer is an amazing place, i.e., think some describe it as a merry actually store with clothing amazing stuff she has and fits nicely with what she describes as a multiple culture neighborhood her model as a

business leader is looking at the diversity of the surrounding and have your store obey o be bridge that runs it together. she runs the business staff her husband is an oral surgeon on clemente street light besides those two businesses she is a super mom i'm so how she raises here too young children very straechlg what all the things she juggles she ever say before the board a couple of years ago but i really want to focus on cynthia she's helping to make clement street better and involving other folks as well. her vision and other businesses so the clemente merchants from

the well-known green apple books to foggy notation and many types of businesses in between but she's a good leader in pulling everyone together to have a stronger voice in city hall that's great to work with her human resources i wanted to say she's been instructional in supporting a new visiblecy on clement street as new ideas with awning an annual event to more family activities as well. she's been instructional in establishing the first park let and we hope to see more coming soon but supporting an amazing place the farmer's market and a she and other activists

supported it's important she's a rules committee and study asian study but she inintegrates her learning with helping to build stronger asian-american businesses in our neighborhood one of the challenges in the merchant is involving merchants that are chinese-american and cynthia works colons with the merchants association by also city and state like sf safe and loma she's giving of here time to support other groups in the outer balboa groups wanted to come together she's a strong advocate and gives selflessly.

she joined the board of directors of the richmond services in the richmond district advocating for mental health services focused on the needs of asian-american and the asian pacific islander. if one-on-one anyone wants to learn more go to sf.com and cynthia has sparked the mentor association are i want to perhaps embarrass her a moment with a blog that wrote a review and tests going to be celebrating it's fourth anniversary they asked her, her personal style but mentioned that cynthia also as he mentioned before said the

approach to her business is appreciate the diversity around her to fit in and appreciate the diversity but asked her what about our personal style he said i have two businesses and two kids i'm all about xhofbt and almost also found in booties and t-shirt baggy on top or jeans and a wlarz blazer i want to honor the fashionable cynthia heating. cynthia. >> here i thought it was a little bit gary's thank you for honoring my work and for the responsibility and great effort for continually improving any

community i want to thank my husband and sister for being incredible partners and especially my parents my father-in-law and aunt of supporting your businesses. supervisor mar a couple of years and i had a conversation about the toy boats it was a power conversation and left an impact since that day my life has on changed as well as our small property owner corridor a hugely successful farmer's market. i look forward to strengthen the ties between customers and that's pretty much what i wrote