with that, i would like to introduce bernadette peters to will be followed by gail, then toby, and then the others. >> we may take a break at two o'clock if the presentation is not completed at that time. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is burnett, the executive director of the filipino american development foundation and the biennium community center on sixth street in south of market. since 1999, our organization has focused on the community's development of filipino immigrants living and working in san francisco's soma neighborhood. this was part of our ground work in establishing the biennium community center, we have a cultural specialists and historian who identified and compiled a list of filipino cultural assets in the neighborhood that a part of the history of his fellow filipinos who settled there since the 1920's. over the last decade, we have provided tourists, students, visitors, and employee groups who wanted to know and experience the history of the immigrants from their own culture. the filipino family is living among these neighborhood icons in soma continue t