i'd like to bring up cheryl thomas from the consultant lower polk steering committee who will present on all the surveys, budgets and goals for the district. if there are any further questions, i'll be available to answer. >> mr. thomas, again, thank you for all your work on the last couple years to move us to where we are today. >> thank you, [speaker not understood]. good morning, supervisors. my name is cheryl thomas with lower polk cbd. [speaker not understood] and supervisor david chiu as well. so, i'll try to be brief in my presentation, which is quite lengthy, 20 pages, goes into a lot of detail we just spoke about. first of all as david was saying earlier, we'd like to focus on a little detail, the unique character of the neighborhood. this is a neighborhood that has currently no open space, no green santa fetion. ~ space. we he don't have a center for recreation. [speaker not understood]. proposed district everyone has a major thoroughfare. [speaker not understood]. a lot of proposed folks in the cbd [speaker not understood]. they are plagued by crime, prostitution, drug use,

my name is cheryl thomas with lower polk cbd. [speaker not understood] and supervisor david chiu as well. so, i'll try to be brief in my presentation, which is quite lengthy, 20 pages, goes into a lot of detail we just spoke about. first of all as david was saying earlier, we'd like to focus on a little detail, the unique character of the neighborhood. this is a neighborhood that has currently no open space, no green santa fetion. ~ space. we he don't have a center for recreation. [speaker not understood]. proposed district everyone has a major thoroughfare. [speaker not understood]. a lot of proposed folks in the cbd [speaker not understood]. they are plagued by crime, prostitution, drug use, violence, et cetera. it's also truly a mixed use commercial residential neighborhood and also the edge of two different supervisorial districts some time don't get the full focus it should receive. short presentation. lower polk once again, chrisy and david chiu talked about what is a community benefit district. a community benefit district

overview of what we're talking about and then potentially a brief description of the cbd from cheryl thomas and then move on to public comment. >> good morning, president chiu and supervisor tang. chrisy otano from oewd, [speaker not understood]. as stated, we are presenting on a resolution of intention sponsored by president chiu to establish the lower polk cbd. members of the steering committee have been working very diligently to determine the interest of forming this district, setting the boundaries, determining the services and working very closely with an assessment engineer to look at the assessment methodology. on may 12 our office received all the petition and reviewed all of them concerni

overview of what we're talking about and then potentially a brief description of the cbd from cheryl thomas and then move on to public comment. >> good morning, president chiu and supervisor tang.

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thomas spoke with her for the "beyond the headlines" show. congresswoman spear wants women and girls push past personal economic and social boundaries to achieve 50-50 representation across all industries. anchor cherylnings talking about satellite with keynote speaker huffington, whose new book has important lessons for all of us, starting with our health. >> the more we take care of our own humans, the more effective we will be in our work, the more creative and the more able to get the opportunities we may otherwise miss. >> abc7 is proud to be a sponsor. the professional women of california conference is tuesday at moscone center west. for more information you can go to abc7news.com. >>> the science of helping people regrow body parts is becoming more real than ever. it was the subject of a conference last week in berkeley. as abc7 news reporter jonathan bloom explains, it's not all about biology. in fact, there's a team engineers working on a way to literally print out new organs. >> the dog in this individual door this video from north carolina state vet school has something new. >> the bone goes on the inside and then the skin gets wrapped around the outside. >> a titanium implant this connect