more detail on the pcia case. thank you. >> thank you. commissioners anything? doyne any public comment -- doyne >> president kwon: any public comment? next item. >> madam secretary: considered to be routine by the san francisco public utilityies commission and acted upon by a single vote. there will be no discussion unless the public questions in which it will be removed from the calendar and considered as a separate item. >> i'll move approval. >> second. >> second. >> discussion? public comments? all in favor. >> aye. >> opposed.

passes passes. no closed session. do we have any other new business from the commissioners? with that, this meeting is adjourn adjourned. thank you.

one of the major tasks i was asked to do is water system improvement program and one thing i looked at is about the 4.8 billion dollars wurthd of work and a lot of the work was regional. we looked at how can we make sure that we provide opportunities for san franciscan's and people in the region and so we looked at ways we can expand our local san francisco lb program. so, we thought about it and worked with general manager at the time to form an advizry committee to talk about how to include local businesses in the region. >> i was on the first committee back about 10 years ago and the job changed over time. in the beginning, we just wanted people to know about it. we

wanted to attract contractors to come into the system which is a bidding system and bid on some of these projects. our second job was to help the sfpuc to try to make themselves more user frndly. >> i like that they go out of their way, have contractors trying to teach and outreach to small businesses and lots of creative ways. help the community as well. there is so much infrastructure going on and repair, new construction that i think is helping to get construction back on its feet. >> my faiv rlt part of the committee has been that we have played a opportunity for many small businesses. [inaudible] women owned business to come in and [inaudible] sfpuc. it is a

great opportunity because some are so small they have been able to grow their companies and move up and bid other projects with the sfpuc. >> everyone i was talking about with any contractor [inaudible] and super markets and things like that and i realize the transition was on the sfpuc. he got that first job and knows about the paperwork qu schedule and still works on this type of job, but he works with general contractors that also did other things. pretty soon it is like he did that one and that one. it completely changed his business. >> my name is nancy [inaudible] the office manager and bid

coordinator for [inaudible] construction. worked on 10 plus puc, lbe contracts. today we are doing site maintenance on the [inaudible] chr site and currently the gentlemen behind me are working on every moving and basic specs of plants. in order to be success you need to work hard, bid low and keep a look at the sfpuc website for future bidding opportunity. >> this is a successful program because it provides opportunities to regional communities that might not have opportunities to work for large scale projects. the sfpuc is a fortunate agency we have a lot of capital program that span over 7 counties who also to see how some businesses like [inaudible] and bio mass

started as small micro businesses grow and expand and stay in the program and work on several projects before they graduate from the program. that is what warms my heart. >> my name is college willkerson, the principle for bio mass. bio mass has been in business since 2006. 3 partners. small businesses fill a niche but apply and being a part of the program helped us be more visible and show the city and county of san francisco we can also perform services. >> this program had tremendous impact to the region. in fact, the time we rolled the program out was during the recession. this has h a major positive

impact and certified over 150 firms in the rejen and collectively awarded $50 million in contracts, and because of the lbe certification it open many opportunities to work with sfpuc. and, i significantly helped the business. it is one of the major contributors to our success. >> good morning, and happy walk to workday everybody. [applause]. >> thank you for joining us for the 6th annual walk to workday. i'm jodi madeiras and i'm the walk san francisco executive director and i'm happy to be here this morning with this honorary group of city leaders and the mayor.

for san francisco's largest walk to workday in history. very exciting. [applause]. >> on our walk this morning from soma, i saw in civic center a common -- i saw octopus and giraffe and otters and i think the mayor was equally excited as i was for the yarn bombs as i was on the way to work. i just encourage you to get out and walk every for 15 minutes. you never know what you're going to discover. every year, annually on you can with a day we all have the opportunity, myself city leaders, businesses, residents, and community groups to recommit to our goal of vision zero, the goal to end all severe and fatal traffic

crashes by 2024. [applause] >> earlier this morning, in soma with great civic leaders and also community groups like united players, we turned on a new traffic light on howard and russ and it was a really wonderful moment to see school children walking on safe streets, and that is exactly what we want for vision zero. we're one step closer. i applaud all these leaders all of them, for their commitment to prioritize walking as a critical part of our transportation system. and falg through with the funding that's -- following through with the funding that's needed to get the infrastructure on the ground. finally, i have the pleasure of druzing the mayor of our great city mayor farrell. mayor farrell's commitment to safe streets runs deep from his

days as city supervisor, his championing a number of ordinances for safer streets on the marina and russian hill. it's great to have him here today. mayor farrell. >> thank you very much. everybody have a great walk to work today? i tell you every time you do this, you feel better and better to be at work. you got your little work out in the morning. it's awesome. you know i am pumped to be here. it was just mentioned when you walk to work you don't just get a work out, you discover great things about our city. thosyrin those yrinarn bombs, it is amazing. it is awesome to see so many colleagues on the board of

supervisors who are up here with us department heads that walk to work, we have so many city employees that are embracing this and it is awesome. i am pumped that we are all out here to spread the news if you will to get more and more people to do this. it is great that a number of years ago vision zero came on the scene in san francisco and was talked about a lot at the board of supervisors, mayor lee embraced it. he had a number of directives over the last few years, and what's even more encouraging is that last year we had the lowest number of accidents in the city of san francisco in 100 years on our streets, which is awesome. [applause]. >> but we need to do more and it doesn't stop there, and we all know that. any accident any death on our roads is unacceptable, and whether it's for motorists bicyclists pedestrians, people who use public transportation or people who do everything we need to make our roads safer and i will just say as mayor of this city, you will have my commitment to do so, and i look

forward to forward on this vision zero policy. so thampgz, everybody. have a great day. i want to announce another great advocate for vision zero, the president of our board of supervisors, london breed. >> thank you mayor farrell. when i grew up in san francisco, we used to walk together to school as kids, when we saw a senior crossing the street, we oftentimes would take their hands and walk them across the street. as we increase in population there is so much work to do with our infrastructure to make sure that people walking in our streets, especially our seniors, are safe. last year in october dane grinberg a 90-year-old man was hit and killed right in front of the home where he lived. we have got to provide the kinds of improvements that will dale with the infrastructure necessary to make sure that people like david and others who have died on our streets unnecessarily do not do so in

the future. vision zero is about changing that. vision zero is about making sure that we are daylighting and bulb outs and all the stop signs and all of the lights and things in terms of our infrastructure keeps people safe as we move along this busy city. thank you so much for being here and thank you to all of the leaders of the city departments in walk sf and continuing to be an advocate for public safety in san francisco. [applause]. >> and next i'd like to bring up my colleague on the board of supervisors, from drikistrict one supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: we had a contingent that walked from the richmond down to city hall today. so i just want to thank d-1, and i see some other d-1 residents in the audioient and i expect you to join us.

i think this is wonderful in my district the largest growing group are seniors in my neighborhood, so i'm a big fan of vision zero. also i just want to thank the mta for all the zebra crossings in the intersections in my neighborhood. and i want to thank all of our city partners here who are working to keep our public safe especially our seniors and disabled folks, and people who are the most null neshl. but i just walked today. i feel really energyized. i did some grocery shopping on the way down here so it's all good for dinner today. so i just want to say thank you, and everyone have a great day. thank you. >> oh, my god. and i just want to introduce my fapulous colleague on the board. his district is highly congested, so he is a big fan of vision zero, supervisor peskin. thank you. i just want to thank walk san francisco for once a year

making me get some other exercise. the only other day i get some exercise is when we bike to work. but in all seriousness, i hail from the corner of the city, district three, that has the highest number of individuals that walk to work. it is the densest part of the city. but all of san francisco is walkable. a few weeks ago we left our place in north beach and walked all the way to herron's head and took the t-line back. the week before we walked from land's end and took the 38 back. i encourage everyone in san francisco to walk all over this great, great town. and from district six where we are standing supervisor jane kim. [applause]. >> thank you supervisor. it is always great to be here on walk to workday. this is now my eightth walk to workday, and elizabeth stamp reminded me that when we did

this eight years ago, we walked from civic center to city hall and it was just the three of us but it was great and it has since grown every year. this issue has been an issue that i have long worked on. in fact the very first hearing i called for when i joined the board of supervisors in 2011 was a pedestrian safety hearing, and it was while campaigning that i learned that more individuals in san francisco are killed by cars than by guns in san francisco. and these deaths and injuries are 100% preventible. so i was really proud to work with supervisor norman yee who i'll be introducing after me and then supervisor john avalos introduced vision zero in 2014 and we are going to get to zero fatalities by 2024 i want to thank everyone, including sf mta, the transportation authority for really working to fund the improvements and

awareness and enforcement that we need to see in order to get to zero fatalities. and i'm proud of the fact of the 200 miles of improvements that we are seeing here throughout the city that 40 of them are in the district that i represent, and we will continue to fight for more curb outs daylighting of our streets crosswalks and midblock crossing to make sure that the south bay and tenderloin with truly walkable for seniors and our youth. and now i want to bring up my colleague supervisor norman yee. >> thank you very much. i am really proud that we are one of the first cities to actually adopt vision zero and we are taking it so seriously. i'm glad that i get to walk. my goal is -- i have my step counts and i'm only averaging -- it's embarrassing. i'm only averaging a little

over 5,000 a day and my goal for the next few months is to bring it up to 7,000 a day, so i will force myself to walk even more. in fact today, i'm going to walk down to market and stockton for a meeting, rather than taking the bus, sorry reiskin. but i want to say that i've been working very hard with my neighbors to get safety projects into our streets in district seven, and we're putting flashing lights at crosswalks we're -- we've been able to even slow down monterey boulevard, which everybody says couldn't be done because it was off a freeway. i want to also invite you for -- next friday we're going to have a ribbon cutting of a major project that mayor lee and myself had teamed up to put together. it's really what we call safe streets movie set that's going to be adopted for san francisco. it's the second one in the

nation. the first one is in l.a. where they make movie sets all the time so i'm really going to be proud of this one because this is really catering to elementary school kids which will really get educated how to walk to school or wherever they want to go on safely. so please join us friday april 13e at gene 13th at gene parker. now i want to introduce my colleague in district nine, hillary ronen. >> good morning, everyone. before i had a kid that i struggled to get out of the house and get to school on time and when i lived and worked in the mission for six years, i walked to and from work every single day, and let me tell you, it made my life so

much better. so i encourage you, if you have the privilege to walk to work do it. you get your blood pumping in the morning, you get to work more focused and energyized in a better mood. you realize things in your neighborhood that you never otherwise would have learned about. and at the same time you're helping the environment every day. there's no reason not to do it if you can. i wish i could every day, but like my incredible colleague who i'm about to introduce ahsha avenue ahsha safai from district 11, it's not as easy when we raise our kids, but i do it when i can. so i encourage everyone to follow walk sf and walk whenever you can. ahsha safai. >> so i would not be a supervisor if i didn't have two strong legs. i walked up and downhills all over my district and met 7,000

individual households. that's one of the proudest things that i can say about being supervisor is that i've walked every single corner of my respective district. people walk to their schools. we've worked with ed reiskin and mohamed nuru to immediately put in -- and tom mcguire and sf sf mta to take our school routes safer, to make our park routes safer. tilly chang i found when i first came into office, we had $600,000 sitting in our n-tip money. we're going to spend every bit of that in my district. we're going to do everything that we can do to follow the principles that norman yee and jane kim and ed lee and every single one of you put out there and crafted to make our city safer. we believe this is a walkable

city and it should continue to be safe and fun and livable, so thank you very much. i'm proud to introduce a great leader of our city mr. ed reiskin. come on up. >> good morning. thank you all for being here. happy walk to workday. i'm ed reiskin, director of transportation here and i think we all know that san francisco is a great city to walk in one of the most walkable cities in the world but we want it even more so. we want people to be save and we want people to feel save when they're walking in san francisco so they'll choose to make more trips on foot that you've heard from the folks behind me. that was really behind our embrace of vision zero in the city in 2014. during mayor lee's administration we came together as a city and decided we're not going to accept the fact that people need to be hurt or killed as they're trying to get around our city. we did it the ed lee way by

working together with all the different city departments, with all of our community partners, neighborhood organizations, individuals, because mayor lee recognized it would take a collective effort of everybody working together to redesign or streets, to get compliance with traffic laws to he had everybody of their role because it does take everybody's role to make our streets safer. so that's what vision zero's about. walk to workday is a great reminder of the great away ways that there -- ways to get around the city on foot. thanks everyone for coming out. happy walk to work now. i want to bring up now -- i won't call him my partner in crime, but he's my partner in safety the chief of police bill scott. [applause]. >> good morning. so when you're this far down on the list, you're trying to think of something original to say.

i don't know if i can do that. but vision zero is about the people behind me. it's about laidership about vision. mayor lee had the vision to get this started. it's also about respect and that is up to us. safety on the road way is about respecting everyone else, respecting pedestrians when you are motorists, respecting bicyclists when you are a pedestrian respecting each other. respect for each is great respect for enforcement is great, but this is all about respect to each other. when you're out on the road be kind about be courteous, and respect everybody's ability to be out here on the road. >> joanne hayes-white. you can see there's consensus around pedestrian safety.

thank you to walk sf mta. far too often, san francisco fire department members have to respond to pedestrian injuries and fatalities. we want that reduced and eliminated. we're 100% behind vision zero. thank you, and if everyone can get along like we're getting along today i would be the proudest san franciscan here. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you, joanne. mohamed nuru from public works. first of all i just want to thank walk sf for all the great work that they do. they promote walking. they're very active and it's through their work that we're able to celebrate a day like today. with you all the agencies behind us everybody is really working hard to make our beautiful city walkable for everyone. it really is a great city. it's only seven by seven. from public works, we'll do our part. most importantly what i want to

say is, there is an hour class, an on-line video that you can learn about what vision zero is and pass it onto a friend because it allows you to know the right way to across the street and the right way to do things here in san francisco. and i need to introduce debbie rafael from the department of environment. >> debbie rafael, department of environment. i just have a few words to say: walk for your heart, walk for your soul walk for the planet. if we're all out there walking, we're not driving, and we're healing this earth that we live on and we're showing the world what can be done for climate change, so many, many reasons to walk and thank you walk sf for reminding us the importance of this mode of transportation. and speaking of transportation i want to introduce tilly chang from the t.a. [applause]. >> thank you everyone. thank you. walk sf. happy walk to workday.

every day's a great way to walk to work and school. thank you walk sf for making this day so fun and so meaningful. the transportation authority is really really pleased to be focused -- we've been asked to be focused on vision vee row things like the soma and making sure that the ramp wills and crossings are safe. we're on 19th avenue lombard geary. we're going to be keeping it together to make sure that the streets of san francisco are safe especially the high injury network. we're also going to make sure that the funding is there, so i encourage everyone to learn about regional effort 3 sb-1 and thanks everyone, and have a great day. the united players are next -- sorry. they were great. we heard from them this morning. >> thank you. thank you tilly. it is my pleasure to wrap up our annual walk to workday

morning walk and i want to thank everybody that's been here. it's been an amazing city family that's joined us today. i want everybody to take this energy and momentum into their work creating more walkable streets and neighborhoods and promote safe streets. before i end this program, i want to thank this year's walk sf sponsor and san francisco is one of the most walkable cities because we have city support, private support. everybody's in this together as you can see, so thank you, everybody here and have a great walk to workday. [applause].

. >> the san francisco carbon fund was started in 2009. it's basically legislation that was passed by the board of supervisors and the mayor's office for the city of san francisco. they passed legislation that said okay 13% of the cost of the city air travel is going to go into a fund and we're going to use the money in that fund to do local projects that are going to mitigate and sequester greenhouse gas emission. the grants that we're giving they're anywhere from 15,000 to, say, $80,000 for a two year grant. i'm shawn rosenmoss. i'm the development of community partnerships and

carbon fund for the san francisco department of environment. we have an advisory committee that meets once or twice a year to talk about, okay what are we going to fund? because we want to look at things like equity and innovative projects. >> i heard about the carbon fund because i used to work for the department of environment. i'm a school education team. my name is marcus major. i'm a founding member of climate action now. we started in 2011. our main goal it to remove carbon in the public right-of-way on sidewalks to build educational gardens that teach people with climate change. >> if it's a greening grant 75% of the grant has to go for greening. it has to go for planting trees, it has to go for greening up the pavement, because again this is about permanent carbon savings.

>> the dinosaur vegetable gardens was chosen because the garden was covered in is afault since 1932. it was the seed funding for this whole project. the whole garden,ible was about 84,000 square feet, and our project, we removed 3,126 square feet of cement. >> we usually issue a greening rft every other year and that's for projects that are going to dig up pavement plant trees, community garden, school garden. >> we were awarded $43000 for this project. the produce that's grown here is consumed all right at large by the school community. in this garden we're growing all kinds of organic vegetables from lettuce and artichokes.

we'll be planting apples and loquats, all kinds of great fruit and veggies. >> the first project was the dipatch biodiesel producing facility. the reason for that is a lot of people in san francisco have diesel cars that they were operating on biodiesel, and they were having to go over to berkeley. we kind of the dog batch preferentials in the difference between diesel and biodiesel. one of the gardens i love is the pomeroy rec center. >> pomeroy has its roots back to 1952. my name is david and i'm the chamber and ceo of the pomeroy rehabilitation and recreation

center. we were a center for people with intellectual and development cal disabilities in san francisco san francisco. we also have a program for individuals that have acquired brain injury or traumatic brain injury and we also have one of the larger after school programs for children with special needs that serves the public school system. the sf carbon fund for us has been the launching pad for an entire program here at the pomeroy center. we received about $15,000. the money was really designed to help us improve our garden by buying plants and material and also some infrastructure like a drip system for plants. we have wine barrels that we repurposed to collect rain water. we actually had removed over 1,000 square feet of concrete

so that we could expand the garden. this is where our participants they come to learn about gardening. they learn about our work in the greenhouse. we have plants that we actually harvest, and eggs from our chickens that we take up and use in cooking classes so that our participants learn as much as anybody else where food comes from. we have two kitchens here at the pomeroy center. one is more of a commercial kitchen and one is more setup like a home kitchen would be and in the home kitchen, we do a lot of cooking classes how to make lasagna, how to comsome eggs so this grant that we received has tremendous value, not only for our center, for our participants, but the entire community. >> the thing about climate, climate overlaps with everything and so when we start looking at how we're

going to solve climate programs we solve a lot of other problems, too. this is a radical project, and to be a part of it has been a real honor and a privilege to work with those administrators with the sf carbon fund at the department of environment. >> san francisco carbon grant to -- for us, opened the door to a new -- a new world that we didn't really have before; that the result is this beautiful garden. >> when you look at the community gardens we planted in schools and in neighborhoods, how many thousands of people now have a fabulous place to walk around and feel safe going outside and are growing their own food. that's a huge impact and we're just going to keep rolling that out and keep rolling thatlics

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and their work is licensed onto products by businesses like test text1 underline test text1 rakudi chocolates and cb test tex 2. over 10,000 people from all over the world visit this gallery and our test t studios every year and our staff are an test t unusually devoted group of people. many of them have worked here for 20 years or more and they do what they do out of test text1 underline test text1 italics test text1 underline test text1 italics real love for the community and the people that they serve. we are extremely grateful because we have an test t incredible landlord, and his test text1 underline family. we pay below market rate at this site but none theless, we're still struggling. our test t facilities haven't kept up with our growing staff test text1 underline test t and the needs of our artists. as you tour around the test text1 facility you'll see the kitchen facilities that we offer are just a few cabinets

and a countertop, and test text1 underline test tex there's no sink. we have no provide meeting space in the office except test text1 underline test text1 italics in my office. where only about five people can sit, test t and there's most important no respite space so that if our artists get overwhelmed and they need a break from the day-to-day, a kweeet place to go there's no place for them to do that: and we've had also no way to accommodate our growing staff as we continue to grow as an organization so the grant is solving so many problems for us. soon our staff is going to feel appreciated when they can sit down for a break at a wonderful kitchen, and our artists will have a place to go to take a breather when they're having a hard day and they need to be alone. and we'll have a real conference room so we'll be able to repurpose other space in this facility for more work stations to add more staff to work harder to expand our

mission and meet more test text1 under needs. and that's going to help us serve more artists and bring more of this beautiful art to the world. so i just want to say thank you to mayor farrell and all the hard working staff at the city and at test t northern california community loan fund who made this investment a reality. it means so much to us. and i also want to give a short shout out to our testgala which is coming up on april 20th. test text1 underline it's called art changes lives, and please check out our website for test text1 undtickets. test text1 italics [applause]. >> you know in order for initiatives like this test t work, it takes a partnership test text1 underline with the test t nonprofit community, and we designed this initiative to be that partnership, and we couldn't have asked for a better test tex partner than northern california community loan fund. joanne is here today, and she's been a key driver and test text1 underline test text1 italics organizer of this program. i want to invite joanne test text1

underline te leigh up to talk. >> thank you todd. in this rapidly increasing real estate market no other city has provided this kind of leadership to create programs and devote test text1 underline resources to help keep nonprofits in their test text1 u communities. so san francisco has really addressed this crisis head on first led by mayor lee by launching the nonprofit displacement mitigation program, and now, the prop test text1 underline test t nothing further sustainability initiative test t supported by mayor farrell. we are proud to partner with the mayor's office of economic and workforce development, the office of housing and community development, and the te arts commission to make sure our community based organizations remain in san francisco. so our social service in child care and arts organizations are great at delivering the vital services and creative programming, much like you heard from test tlinda, but they're really unfamiliar with space planning with lease and purchase negotiations and test t tenant improvement budgets.

so this test text1 underline test t knowledge gap is compounded with san francisco's volatile real estate market and has put our nonprofit test organizations at great risk. our technical assistance services offered by ncclf through this program helps organizations navigate the hot real estate market and find test t spaces that meets their needs. these grant awards are test text1 underli critical in supporting our community-based organizations to stay in their test t neighborhoods where they are needed, providing security for their clients and staff, and alleviating real estate costs and oftentimes test text1 u incentivizing landlords to enter test text1 into test text1 i languager termlonger term leases. these awards will support ten organizations test text1 underline test across our city, from test text1 underline chinatown to tender line. i congratulate te creativity explored and all of the entities today and thank the city for developing a model program and especially a shout

out to todd and lex te at oewd for their continued guidance. this test text1 und ensures that our social services child care and arts programs continue serving the residents of san francisco. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you, joanne. you know joanne brought up a really important point that other cities in test t other regions across the country have looked to the city of san francisco as a model for how we're supporting nonprofit organizations, and that's taking a page out of the play book that we're doing here but we're also sharing with our colleagues and partners across the country. this is a partnership of city departments, and i want to thank mayor's office of housing and test t workforcevectionment tom test text1 underline test text1 italics decaney, and talk about the test text1 underline test t arts commission and their help in creating great spaces like creativity explored. >> thank you tom and lex and

nccf and all of our partners and all of our elected officials, supervisor sheehy and mayor farrell for championing this initiative. i just recently was sharing some of these promising practices both of our colleagues in seattle and portland and they are really impressed by the investment that we're making here in san francisco in local nonprofits not just in real estate but in the technical assistance and in building the capacity to respond in a very challenging real estate market so i'm particularly thrilled to see in this round of grantees a large number of arts and culture organizations, including test text1 under creativity explored. my long time colleague linda johnson, it's really a great honor to be in your space today and feel this te incredible art making. we've done some incredible work at helping stablize organizations. there's more work test text1 underline test t test text1 underline test text1 to be done so i'll ill i'm thrilled that these organizations are going to continue so congratulations to all the artists here at test t creativity explored and all the great work that you're test text1

underline doing. thank you. >> thank you. finally, i want to invite up the artists. you know the reason that we do this the reason that everybody is up here today is because of the mission of creativity explored, and what that boils down to is the test t artists here doing amazing work. if you have time, i encourage you to go around and look at the amazing work that these talented amazing artists are actually producing. i want to invite up test t two artists along with paul, who will facilitate a conversation with these test t artists please. >> hello. i'm test t paul and this is gerald test text1 underline test text1 italics wiggins right next to me. gerald i think the mayor has met him. has some work in this show but also in the studio and evan of course has a test t lot of test text1 underline test text1 italics artwork in the studio. so after this, if you want, me can give you -- i can give you

a tour in the test text1 und studio more in depth if you're interested. so i have a question for kevin. so what do you think about getting this money from the city and having money -- you have to come closer to the microphone. >> i want to thank the mayor and i want to thank everybody for this. this is going to be a door opening for our school and it's going test t to help the whole school and it's going to make the building better and i'm really honored that we're getting this grant. and i'm -- i'm very grateful to you for all the grants you're giving and it's really an test text1 underline test t honor. [applause]. >> and what do you have in your hands there? >> oh, i wanted to show test text1 u the mayor some of my test text1 underline test texwork. >> okay. >> if you could pass that test t test text1 underline test text1 italics on. [ inaudible ] >> and test text1 underline gerald do you want to say anything? >> thanks, you all for coming, and thanks you all for giving us the money to help us out.

we need it. thank you. [applause]. >> and thank test text1 underlineyou. test text1 italics [applause]. >> all right. that's it for the program. i'm going to close it down. i do want to thank everybody that was here today and everybody from the city creativity explored thank you for opening up your home. i hope everybody checks them out on the test tex website, test text1 italics creativityexplored.org, and check out the amazing work we've got going on right here in san francisco. thank you, everyone. [applause]. essage cc1 test message test text1 underline test text1 italics cc1 test message test text1 underline test text1 italics cc1 test message test text1 underline test text1 italics cc1 test message test text1 underline test text1 italics cc1 test message test text1 underline test text1 the san francisco historic

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