so ahsha and i hope your son has a happy birthday today. catherine, you are another one, supervisor stefani, another one that, you know, we came in as legislative aids, and even though i was on the opposite side as far as then i worked for someone we came in to city hall, we were left of the left. it was the green party. and -- but it was so -- you were always so gracious as a legislative aid. and you are also as a supervisor. and i just want to say, catherine, thank you for making sure that we are not numb with all the gun violence, because any time something happens, i feel i just want to be numb, because it's so painful. and every time you stand up and shock us out of our numbness, i say yes, thank you. thank you for doing that and being that champion. someone has to do that. and you are that electricity that comes through and makes us where we are not numb. so thank you, catherine, for everything you do. supervisor stefani, thank you for everything you do. your constituents are very lucky they have you representing them. so thank you. s

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ahsha safai was born in tehran in 1927. after atta graduated high school, he became a part of the early wave of iranian students in the push broad. prior to his entrance to the university of texas to study architecture, during his undergraduate years, he became a father to my sisters, learning to a student, father, and husband at the same time. upon graduation from the university of texas in 1965, atta received many offers to teach architecture at the university level, finally decided to move the family to the university of oklahoma. strangely enough, he turned down an opportunity to teach at s.l.o. and was not really familiar with california at the time. i kind of wish he had in many ways, but he went to the university of oklahoma instead. he truly enjoyed his students and truly enjoyed exposing them to architects of many different cultures. after a few years of teaching, applied and was accepted to m.i.t. in architecture and planning where he earned a dual master's in architecture and planning. after graduating, he return

. >> we are joined momentarily to my right by vice-chair of the committee supervisor ahsha safai who rightfully comments that it is quite warm in these chambers so, ms. major, when you have a second after you read item number 1, if you could ask them to cool this place down >> you can ask them through the chair. send some heat to my office since i don't have any right now. that would be great. >> sure thing >> transfer the heat from the board chambers to room 256. >> clerk: item number 1 entitled regulating the width of sidewalks to reduce the sidewalk width of certain locations along the westerly side of pierce street in front of the maxime health center at 1301 pierce street >> sidewalks are important which is precisely why these instruments come to the board of exercises. this is a proposal to actually reduce sidewalk widths but, apparently, in the public interest, in supervisor haney's district on behalf of the department of public works, which i guess we now call public works, which one of you is here to testify. please come forward. >> good afternoon. i'm kevin jensen, disabili