as also, of course, carmen and thank you for the parents of carmen chiu being here and husband and sister thank you for being here as well, and aunt. this is, of course, a month meningitis occasion i've known carmen in my professional life and many of you know her we've worked with her in the mayor's office ages ago and then when she was pickled to be the representative for 4th district it takes encourage to be a supervisor in a district and also to agree to work with each other and try to find grounds of co- less than and agreement and provide lisp for the residents. she's demonstrated that leadership in her capacity as a leader and when the opportunity came from a graduation from an office we tapped carmen and she demonstrated per pro we say and helping us with the budget and shown a lot of encourage working with us and so we wanted her to take the opportunity as the person in the reported office to work with the office and them. somebody who would as she's done vechltd in the people she's worked with and respect them and build them up and respect them with the rest of the agencies i ha

carmen chiu the newly sworn in assessor and recorders. thank you. again my partner in so much important work we do for the city. i want to call ben roman fold for the hard work between the three of us we handle the lions share for the city and we're proud what we're able to do for the city it's important work but, you know, i don't stand here alone and do the job alone i do it with over 2 hundred folks in the tax collectors office. i want to run detain the great seconds of our office. i want to recognize florence mar who is going to be implementing our gross receipts tax. our bureaucracy of tax she is incredible she's bringing in over $100 million a major to make sure everybody pace what they on the other hand, and sonya thank you for your work. we process numerous transactions through the mail on line and over the phone and it's our cashiers that bring in the money. our office of financial empowerment mayor we're doing great work. our gross receipts project is led by jenny and that's an exciting project the biggest change to our tax system in the c

we welcome you carmen count iv u chiu is on my list and thank you for not allowing me to use your titles inform you that bar andrew young was unable to leave his people home in atlanta, georgia because of the snowstorm it was two threatening for him to travel so ambassador young who was a constant champion of dr. martin luther king was emotional about missing this occasion. he hoped for an opportunity to talk about the sfakz of the movement and it's connection to the process shown p.i. by this sermon, however, mr. kings personal attorney one of his political advisory and for historical reasons he was a draft speech writer and one who helped him write the iconic i have a dream speech. he's a professor at the every time of the san francisco and a schooler at the martin luther king jr. at the university. doctor jones is here to puck pick up the mandala we welcome you to the podium (clapping.) >> thank you so very much. aefld i think the organizesers of this program are testing my skills i'm also a professor of the university of the san francisco on the art of speech writing so i find i've b