please welcome, ccsf board member alex randolph. [ applause ] >> hello, everybody. what a morning. welcome to city hall. as one of the newest openly gay elected officials here in san francisco, i can't tell you how excited i am to share this morning with you. i share this stage with our fabulous openly gay college board president rafael mandleman, who couldn't be here unfortunately today. i also share this stage with our pioneers who previously served at the college board leslie katz andrea shorter, lawrence wong, and others. and the first openly gay trustee who led the cause. and, of course, this month i was very excited to support and yesterday we voted to appoint susan lamb the first lesbian chancellor at city college. [ applause ] >> despite what you might read in the news media i have no doubt that city college will be there for the next several decades to provide education to our community and our city. but i want to recognize that city college is a pioneer one of the first colleges in the country to provide an lgbt studies class that broke pioneers and barriers educating abo