it is an old principal, reiterated maybe back to the days of aristotle, but reiterated by jane jacobs in the middle of the last century, and all too easily forgotten. the lgbtq context statement as a reminder of the humanity of our history, of the critical role that the lgbtq community plays historically and currently in san francisco's fundamental identity. there's a lot more that i could say, but with that, i want to thank ms. graves and ms. watson for their outstanding contribution to the movement and the advisory committee, which include some of our here used -- heroes. congratulations and i'm delighted that your parents are able to join you here all the way from houston, and with that, i will turn the microphone over to you. and i only have one bouquet of flowers, so the two if you will have to fight over that. the floor is yours. thank you and congratulations. [applause] >> thank you very much, donna and i are grateful, especially to you, supervisor peskin and lee hepner for recommending us, also for your ongoing support of lgbtq preservation and historic preservation in general

i would also say, and i'm just thinking about the long-standing argument the late jane jacobs had with robert moses in new york about this very thing, about what constitutes community , what constitutes local control. that is what we need to concern ourselves with today. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, kelly cutler with the coalition on homelessness. i am not even here for this item , but i'm surprised we're talking about business improvement districts, and i feel like we need to do a lot more education on this. what is connected right now within the tenderloin, which is such an amazing community, and they know everyone else is jealous because the tenderloin is awesome. right now we have the healthy treats operation center that is going through and doing massive sweeps and they are brutalizing our community and it is not okay they even hit out in front of saint boniface when there was a community agreement from 6:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. not to be doing the cruel and inhumane sweeps, yet they were doing it. it is out of control, absolutely out of control. so not only shou