lava may seeing that truck pull up to the salvation army for people to get showers brings tears to any icy can't thank you enough i'll convince my colleagues not only do we have to have them in golden gate bridge but expand our operations in san francisco as our homeless crisis gets worst of the worst self-help for the elderly thank you to benefiting adams working with the mayor's office and my office to find housing while the building is being fixed and the landlord and property owner and the project manager have been extremely coordinate if you have a tragedy like this happen this is the best way to have one the tragedies i can't tell you how proud is to be a san franciscan this was our proudest moment with that let me come and give

all of you from lava may to self-help for the elderly to our first responders from the fire department and police department to the department of emergency management and all of i can't thank you enough from the bottom of my heart it makes me proud to be a member of the board of supervisors god bless you all come on up. >> (clapping.) >> (inaudible). >> you can take it outside if you need to commissioner peskin thank you all for your service we truly appreciate and

congratulations. >> (clapping.) >> good to see you victor. >> thank you all again. >> all right. the next commendation would be supervisor cohen. >> thank you thank you so colleagues i'd like to honor a number of leaders on the occasion if you don't know national parent leadership month this month celebrates and recognizes parent who lead in their families at school and today, i'm proud to honor 6 parents from two organizations one from a better way and two from homeless prenatal program and recognize and call up (calling names) these parents are participate in

the human services and peer advocates program which provides peer praernt to families that have children in the child welfare and the juvenile are parents involvement in the community is critical to the children's success as advocates for community issues the parent leaders breakdown the invisible barriers often parent contribute expertise and knowledge and insight in school programs not available for administrators parent bring a perspective to the officials that benefit their families most importantly through those parent advocate efforts relationships build trust and cooperation in the community i want to take a moment and recognize the outstanding leaders and thank you and wish

you a hardy congratulations and from hsa has a few remarks. >> thank you. i'll be brief i want to say on not parent leadership month you know it is critical we recognize all parents being leader in the community but the parents behind me who are all either involved in the juvenile justice over and over the children welfare system have step forward to play roles for families that are currently involved in the system nothing harder for the agency to remove a child from his or her birth participants we want to reunify their child as quickly as possible and the some is r system is to complex and interest is such trauma for the parents when they experience

this parents involved in the nine out of ten and such a great relationship to honor the folks behind me i appreciate supervisor cohen and it is well deferred in february being the parent license plateadership mo

>> (clapping.) >> thank you. congratulations thank you for your service. >> (clapping.) >> our final commendation for today will be given by supervisor jane kim. >> thank you supervisor president london breed i'd like to bring up the members of 2121 the san francisco labor council and jobs for justice to the podium . >> (clapping.) >> i kind of want to do a dance instead of giving us the commendations so just to be clear you're all here ladies and

gentlemen, we on behalf of the board of supervisors want to honor the amazing leadership policy initiatives and just unwaveringing relentlessness of labor council and jobs for justice in making city college free-for-all san francisco residents yeah, baby. >> (clapping.) >> this is a truly momentous announcement and i think that there are very few days on the job i get do be part of something i think will have a momentous impact not only for san francisco but our country i think i've tell the story over and over again, when 2121 labor approaches us with that crazy idea to make city college free i thought this was amazing but i

mean how will we do this it sounds to big and impossible over the course of a year we worked and worked and worked and we came up with a funding source and came up with the data and the numbers and numbers and you know almost a little bit over a year later we announced yesterday with the support from the mayor this city through projection w realtime tax funding will be making city college free for all resident and wouldn't have been possible without the leadership of you and your unwaiving relentlessness and asking the voters to support us on this important initiative we know that city college as helped our residents to climb into the

middle-income and a times article on longitudeal study to examine hundreds of universities to see their impact on helping the students achieve higher in case bracket that was not the ivy league but colleges that help working-class and low income families and households rise to the middle-class so making that opportunity free here in san francisco one of the most expensive cities in the world and this is our commitment to tackling on the wealth gap in san francisco i hope this is the beginning where the domino the rest of california will follow and the rest of the nation it is the right step so thank you to 2121 and i know the the president tim will be accepting

on the unions on behalf of, of course, to the semester the vice president and political decoration for sitting in our office and joining our legislative team we'll miss you although the work is not done and making sure we were on point and committed to every level making city college free-for-all but providing additional support for our city college to get a little bit of grant funding for books and other costs knowing those are not the only buyers to attend city college and to hear our voice thank you, thank you for seeing us through and being there every step of the day san francisco labor council thank you for your deep priority of 2016 and putting our muscle and resources human power to making sure that prop w passes with the

majority of san franciscan calling for the vice president and, of course, the job to just the guy who was here and james i don't see thank you for organizing our community because it was important this is not an initiative we have a true grootsz on the ground and to encourage folks to fight for the college and enroll in august 2017 so thank you so much the board of supervisors wanted to commend you this is to inspiring thank you, thank you, thank you and i see that i'm not the only one that want to speak i'm going to turn it over to and hand over the certificate. >> we have a few members of the board before we bring you up for your commendation. >> starting with supervisor

cohen. >> thank you it is feels so good independent it before we acknowledge the labor leader i want to acknowledge supervisor kim a true embodiment of grass under pressure thank you for work together point mayor's office and coming to an agreed upon figure not easy and your tenacity i think alicia you've transformed both an incredible inhibit i'm sure you were born incredible but your leadership on that one item not just city college but city college if start to finish over the last 5 years has been absolutely crazy thank you for your leadership with 2121 my highest compliments and did the second interfacing

with connie i saw you at farmer's market and get text message in all times of the day and night thank you connie that means something you're a public school parent you believe in the system i'm a product through your leadership and vocalcy from my parents from jill wynn's from a long been incredible to watch you have an incredible amount of leadership ability and don't horde it you share it whether your teaching classes and license as your climbing it is notable i want you to know that this is a fantastic legacy you and the team have inspired some

people and other municipalities will be cooking up next. >> thank you supervisor ronen. >> i also want to begin by congratulating my colleagues supervisor kim. >> thank you. fighting so hard and for winning with that incredible team you're on inspiration and this is truly one of those rare piece of legislation that inspires us and makes our city one of the best in the world so thank you and to you all afp 2121 what a few years you had you've been on the forefront of figuring it out to regain accreditation of the college and contract for fair wages and faculty and everyone at the city college and then to launching and taking the leadership for once again one of

the most inspiring pieces of legislation or effort in san francisco wow. just wow. your tireless and incredible and inspiring and that presents the best of unions and the labor moment that fight not just for individual interests of workers but for social justice generally your some of my favorite people connie i also want to echo malia cohen everything you do for san francisco but also for those of us and women in leadership positions touch i hear it is fighting for justice and bringing labors together thank you all for everything and congratulations >> thank you supervisor ronen supervisor yee. >> thank you supervisor president london breed by i want to echo what everyone else has

said when this issue came up a year ago one of the things i hear a lot things in this chamber or at city hall about the things we can is a and should do and everything and many times i really my eyes this was one where i rolled my eyes and said okay sure but you know you folks and everybody that supports this effort there were a lot of people i've never seen an issue being able to enthusiastically supported by so many people in the city but you as leaders represent the super heroes and heroines i think your symbolic of is to say that it can be done you made that happen and it makes other issues for us to

have hope and trying to get things done for instance, if i ever love to have infant universal in san francisco and with our inspiration we'll get it done with our leadership you'll bring back the lunar new years for city staffers thank you very much. >> (laughter). >> thank you supervisor yee. >> supervisor fewer. >> i'd like to add my huge thank you also for all the work to get this passed, of course, my jane kim and love it till when after a site there's a really good outcome thank you and as you may know i'm a graduate of city college my father died when was 14 and city college as the only option for myself and my husband we're

proud graduates of city college as his father and also my children attended the early education programs under owe everyone in my family benefits from city college we went to continental when it was free and it was the only opportunity we had for higher education and quite frankly i wouldn't be here today without city college people may not be liking that i want to say on a positive note it was always a window door to opportunity for all of my friends that you could go to city college and my mother in retirement took classes and city college with all age groups if young infants as my children to college to older adults always been a great place of learning and lifelong learners and for

those who are looking for changes and further educate themselves i think this is why public education is under attack by the modification because public education is so powerful that is the great equal legislator of our society or should be and when we see attack on a national level with great pride that once again we lead the state and city and lead the nation and we - this idea that people who don't have money can actually be educated and actually pursue a higher level of the education and wouldn't have opportunity of everything else to participate in the government and also employment that actually can give them living wage salary i really

wanted to thank you myself and for my family but more than that for the thousands of students we spend every year to city college from the san francisco unified school district this idea of free city college for every san francisco resident will open the doors to the high school redesign which is the hope that every one of our seniors from the san francisco unified school district would have a couple of college classes under in their belt to give them the confidence they too can be college students to thank you san francisco for the hundreds of thousands of people this will help not just help in the future but also as supervisor kim said also that we lead the way we show them how it is done if history