catalina morales, can we give her a hand, ladies and gentlemen?it is my great honor today to bring up our first-ever honoree for latinx heritage month here in san francisco. district 9's honoree claudia morales moran. claudia, please come up. [cheers and applause] claudia is the principal of buena vista horace man k-8 on valencia street in the heart of the mission. i had the good fortune to meet claudia last year when i was touring the school for my daughter for kindergarten. after the tour, claudia came up to me and i could see on her face the deep trouble and concern. and she explained to me that there are a large number of students in her school who are experiencing homelessness and do not have a safe place to sleep every night. and she said some of the students had come up to her and asked her if they could sleep in the school because they didn't feel safe anywhere else. she told me, i started to think about it, hillary, and i thought, why not? we have two gyms in our school. we have one gym where students could sleep at night if we started a

i'm catalina morales with hillary ronen. so, six years ago, when the district nine office began our work to build this first ever navigation center in san francisco, we immediately recognized the division circle site as a perfect place for another navigation center. last year, when the supervisor took office, and our tent encampment crisis was at its worst, we have about 250 tents concentrated in the mission as ground zero for our crisis, we knew that we had to do a lot more. we started work with the neighbors to ensure that we could open a navigation center. we worked with ed lee very closely to ensure that all of the partners were really working together. and in that partnership, another very important department was the san francisco police department. our chief, chief scott, our commander lazhar, and our captain have been important partners in ensuring that those homeless residents and house residents feel safe as we share spaceing to and make sure that everybody gets dignify housing. so i want to repeat the words that m