. >> good afternoon, board, my name is anthony navarro representing s.o.p. solidarity organizing at the high school. working with power two, wimac, excelsior district, all our neighborhoods. can we give it up one time for all of the grassroots organizers, youth, students, families who have been coming for a year now out of their own time, not getting paid, out of the love and accountability to their community. can we give some love for all of you all. [cheers and applause] >> once again, as all of you know, i'm not going to repeat -- i'm going to repeat a lot of what the community says but we want to be accountable to our want to be accountable to the community and to serve the people, to provide the best service you can as public transportation. and it's my understanding that you need to listen to the -- you all can hear me? you all good? that we have fought and organized a lot of these folks who secured the funding for two years. these folks aren't getting paid to do this. they have done out of their own blood have been supporting this campaign. we want to