chairl evans davis, here. commissioner mark kelleher, here. michael pappas, here.meeting and want to first of all give a special welcome to the equity advisory commission. the human rights commission is privileges to have citizen advisory committees that work with us to examine issues of concern to the citizens of san francisco and the bay area generally and one of those subcommittees is the lurks gbtq committee and the other is a equity advisory committee. for the past number oaf years the equity advisory committee cons tulted a committee that chooses people from the community to receive recognition and awards for the work they do in the community that benefits the advancement of sivl and human rights so these committees work extremely hard and the commission as a whole is very very pleased to work with them. i would like to acknowledge the members that are here. paul day, ruquell [inaudible] cathlen [inaudible] debbie [inaudible] beth any sylva, tina nuvaro. [inaudible] larry saxon, malcome feelen and angela jinkens. thank you for all the work that you do and tha