to communicate and communicate. thank you. >> i want to piggyback on her point on kids. kid is a great way to bring families together. it's one of the most excellent way to bring diverse families together because children play with each other. and they go to the same school. the safety network and sunset neighborhood coalition we have worked together to prepare for the sunset community festival. one of the tools that we use is to try to make the event really run, really entertaining and try to make it culturally appropriate for the communality. one of the tools we use to try to make it appropriate is that in all of our fliers and out reach materials we try to translate all of them to the different languages that our community members use. and also we try to build relationships with our local media. i think that is one of the most effective way to let all of our community members know about our events. not only just english but media press with the local chinese narp or whatever language your community may need. thot

i know we have done great work with the community youth center and many community-based organizationsthomas has participated in at least two service projects per week since 2007. carly estop more pursuing a degree in marketing, he has also been active in the community from a very young age and has volunteered for callous area nonprofit organizations. graphic and by design has always been his passion. he has always volunteered he's design skills for countless organizations, which include building web sites for the chinatown neighborhood center, north beach neighborhood associations, american or in performing arts, and the asian american pageant. he was also a project coordinator ad a community youth center where he spearheaded community clubhouses after school programs. i even visited a program that he created, and he has taught asian youth graphics and web design, so we are honored to announce his leadership in the community. >> i would like the coordinator this year to join us. [applause] >> congratulations to thomas. do you want to say a few words? >> thank you for this amazing awar

and we have had community meetings that -- where the community knows there's input. it has been, we're -- this is -- we're tentatively discussing with the community of having one year at willie brown and we will close willie brown and relocate those students and open it as a new, an -- invest in a really high comprehensive school -- high level school. we're going to put a lot of investment in a new willie brown. and so, and the community has been informed of that. so they're actually supportive of that. we're okay. still four to eight? or a different? >> we want to go back to six-eight, that's the discussion with them and with drew. and true you know is a k 3 and they took the four, five and then the fourth graders, they go, when they go to fourth grade, they go to willie brown. and what we're planning is that we're going to go back to drew, say, we would like to have pre k five back and next creer the third graders will stay at drew and we'll open the fourth grade and so they will not be going to willie brown. one question that i keep thinking about. and since you'r

to the community. yes, we should be setting up meetings that also the community should be setting up meetings, a sense of organizing and healthy tension helps make us better and i like to thank the community for organizing you folks and letting parents and school communities know about this. and pushing us to do a better job around community engagement. thank you. >> thank you. i want to say i appreciate the fact that these have been benchmarked with my personal experience and the programs you had over the years. you said it is important to have that. i know we also have been joined by patricia gray and also an outstanding former principal. i don't think that miss gray. i don't know if you have anything to add, miss gray, but it is good to see you here. >> and the only thing i would like to -- [in audio] >> the one was call bid the parents and the other was called by -- called by -- >> thank you. one thing i was wondering about. in terms of the face two -- phase two option. could you say a bit about wh

anybody in the community. we have people who own homes who live outside of san francisco who come to our community meetings. it's important to include everybody and try to get as broad range of individuals in your at your meetings. i think that's part of the success. how you go about doing that we can go around the room and i'm sure everyone has suggestions and ideas. the key is being inclusive. [inaudible] [laughter] >> the question is how dou break through the wall. how do you break through the wall of associations that have built up around issues that don't reach out to the whole community they serve? >> well, not just issues but it's a culture of personality i believe she was speaking to. 2 of the main things that you can use are look at the by laws of the organization. are there term limits? what are the by laws state? and secondly, the actual meeting itself. assuming there are regular meetings, what kind of structures? parliamentary procedures or roberts rules of order. there are coalition of san francis

it is the community spirit that beats in the heart of every filipino and it is in communities where fillr strength and celebrate their triumphs. fill i inoes across the country joined the charge for progress, for change, hope, and helped elect america's first black president, bronalt they are the kind of person who generously shares their heard-earned delarkss extends a helping hand, puts together needed goods to send aid back home. it is a success story of business leaders, athletes, artists and others who use their talents to help advance other fill i inoes. it is the flame of democracy rekindled through the burning legacy of the common desire for freedom. this lives on today in the younger generation who enhir -- inherited the wisdom of their forefathers, the passion for activism, and the commitment to vigilance in order to build a strong community. as we observe filipino-american history month, let us celebrate the land of the brave, the land we have come to call our own. [applause] >> doesn't that just make you proud to be a filipino american? we'd like to thank you all again for be

but it's the community thal drive everything you do in your community. all the good and positive will be driven by you. we will open it up. are there questions? >> wow! we were good this time. >> okay. >> [inaudible] >> uh-huh. >> well, what we do and actually m oh , magic cheryl davis is on the community building panel. we work with them alot. mo magic came out of bay view. what she does and what we all do is volunteer and go to the meetings, is they actually find all of the different support and community based organizations from youth on up, families. they connect it to the community. they have a special events the black and white ball was put on by the mo magic. we did a call out and said come and volunteer at the black and white ball. even though it's not no in your neighborhood -- as you know nobody can put up a wall around your neighborhood. a lot of the different services are on different panels. one of the reasons we couldn't load the panel up more was time. we decided to step up and talk about the services. our police officers have a resource g

i see it here in this community. don't see kids running up and down the streets, playing or going to and from places anymore. i see playgrounds empty, schools closing. something's wrong here. you know, because families are our big part of making up a neighborhood. and i just don't -- i don't see them here in this community. >> in many parts of san francisco, a delicate balance must be maintained to meet the needs of visitors, shoppers and local residents. let's see how district five manages this balancing act. >> i think we do a fairly good job, a good job of balancing the needs of the residents with those of tourists in district five because district five is a high tourist destination. in essence we're kind of host to the crown jewels of san francisco. we have all these great merchant areas attached to these wonderful neighborhoods that attract tourists who come from all over the world. the very notion that we are tourist-rich in our district is the very notion that adds to the reason why i yell and scream for servi

reinventing community on america's edge. joining us are two of the three authors. ava k ahn, author on many books on the topic and professor ellen ellenizeen burg. welcome. >> thank you. >> this is a wonderful book seems a tremendous edition to the way we frame jews on the pacific coast what was your intent in writing this book? >> sure. well, the field of american jewish history has been so traditionally framed by the east coast. particularly new york. one of the things we wanted to do with this book was to reorient that in some way and demonstrate the importance of the communities here and also demonstrate they are not just some sort of shadow of the eastern experience but a unique experience here really distinctive in some ways of what happened back east. >> what is distinctive about the jewish immigration experience to the pacific coast? >> well, it is people who wanted to take a chance. they tended to be step migrants, therefore they stopped in the eastern u.s., or midwest, probably, before they came to the west, who by the time they got here, they were fairly

who is in your community. the first question you have to answer is who is in your community? think about that for a second because in our neighborhood we actually have an eclective group. we have residents, homeowners, renters. starving artists to starving studentses to corporate america to very rich people. we have a dynamic range of residents. we have a large merchant corridor on divisdaro and fulton. a lot of community organizations. we have a new mental health clinic and drug rehabs in our neighborhood. we have private and public schools. we have a dynamic it's a luxury and beautiful neighborhood because of the wide variety of people in the communality. my question to you is who is in your communality. you can start thinking through this session how you engage the people. what tools are you going to take out of this to engage that community? we as a neighborhood association have a lot of standard tools but i will connect it to how it relates to tresidentses. we have a news letter it's an 8 page news letter produced every other month. una is on the front cover because she

the lottery's serve all the communities in the city. it really is a community.ive here, just a few blocks over that way. the way that the city deals with the branch library, the work they have done recognize this, and all the work they have done for the community. they want the library to be built in san francisco. that was in 1914 that the present building was designed and funded through the philosophy of andrew carnegie. historically, is the second busiest branch in the system. it is outpaced only by the chinatown branch. thanks to additional funding a 5.9 million provided by the state propositiond by proposition 14, that's referred to the california reading and literacy improvement and public library construction and bond act of 2000, that's the short version of the title. we were able to expand the space and provide additional space for collections, computers, room for teens. a community meeting room. which you can see that it is accessible from outdoors, if we have to have an afterhours meeting it is possible. speaking on behalf of the library commission, w

, so the whole community should be involved, so the faith community and community providers also contributing. the family is given that respite necessary to recognize that it can play a legitimate role in that person's recovery. and family members, even though they've been burnt, they still have a special attraction. it's just that they've been burnt and they don't see any recourse. so if we offer resource through recovery community services program or through the faith community or community services, then we offer the magnet that can help pull family members back in. any final thoughts? well, in terms of my recommendation, i would just say that people need to remember that recovery means recovery of the core self. it's not about recovery of functioning. and if individuals, practioners, legislators, and the general public remember this, i think that is the key to the integration of services for substance abuse and mental health. excellent point. i agree with josh that recovery is possible. working with patients, many of whom have been at our clinic for eight, nine, ten years, we've seen them

the community it's your responsibility. that's your role. >> yeah. >> yes. >> you are asking the question is, in your case there is purse snatchings in your neighborhood and you would like to know what time of day they are occurring. who the suspects are, the descriptions and what's occurring. >> okay. we actually have a break down by neighborhoods now. it's totally available. you can work with your district station captain to get that information. you can kault police department and kault district station captain he should be able to get you. everything's broken down by neighborhoods. we can break down the crime by specific crime to specific areas. we call it the pin map. because we identify on a map where everything is occurring so we can have the officers target that. if you notice i never refer to the officers at foot beat officers they are beat officers i expect them if they have a purse snatching situation and they need to handle that they can go in civilian dress or bicycles they can use a car. i'm not restricting th

our radios to community. to be able to find out what the capacity at each medical facilities are and where we put folks for different kinds of emergency services. we used to do this probably twice a year in the past. because of constraints we are doing table top discussions and drills. we hope to do more large scale community drills. before a close i want to share a couple of other things we are working on for the future. worn is having to do with trying to security and purchase food and water suppliers for the community. a majority of san francisco population and the china town community few would have enough food and water to last 3 days. for many of the sro residents one issue is even if they could where would they store the food and water in the cramped places. we will have food bars or energy bars to be located throughout the china town area for those in need. also one. other things is to work with the city and local businesses. we saw in 89 when folks accesses restaurants, markets, stores to access food

and we get volunteers from all over the community to come in and volunteer in the community room in the schools and things like that. where that connects with the safety is because we feel that if you know your neighbors and they know you and especially the children that what we are building as a family. we want to build a family in our community because this is a great way to be safe. it would builds and opens a door when people in the community need support service like drug rehab. if we have homelessness and things like that. that we can actually build around the support network. we brought in our law enforcement and beat officers to help us. they are involved in every positive thing we do. not just enforcement and get to know the whole community. we do have an enforcement issue. like probably a lot of neighborhoods. there are things we have to enforce. today we will talk a little bit about that. the first person that's going to talk is captain al. and he's at northern station. >> thank you very much. i'm the captain of northern station and i want to take a few minutes to give you an

i have gone out in the community, and whenever i do work with the community members, and educate them on the importance of clean power sf, and when they see the mailer, they ask and call me what it -- asked me what it means and how can the beneficial to them, so they know me on a personal level and feel comfortable and trust that what i'm telling them is accurate and that is good for their homes and then as well. commissioner campos: thank you. i just want to thank you for coming forward, and i had an opportunity to sit down with you, and i thought you were very well-informed, very prepared, and very thoughtful about the role that lafco not only currently place but that it could potentially play, so i just wanted to thank you for the. thank you. commissioner mirkarimi: i just want to echo the comments of my colleagues. very much appreciate your interest, your background and your commitment to san francisco, of course in the southeast sector of san francisco. i would very much and i think we would very much like to work with you in one capacity or another. thank you. >> [inaudible] com

with a heavy emphasis on community building and community benefits. if you have the application package it's self explaintory 35 points to community benefits. 20 points to neighborhood participation. 30 pounts toward project feasibility. the paps, 20 points is sort of furthered by 10 points in the community benefit's section. a lot is geared toward projects that have a lot of neighborhood involvement. >> go through that one more time. >> it's on you have the package? >> it's there in the box up there. there is also it's on s fcc gp. org has the application the community challenge grant web page. so, let's see. it's a highly competitive grant. there are 200 officially recognized neighborhoods in the city of san francisco. check it out if you go to sfgov. org and click on agencies and the planning department on the planning department home page there is a spreadsheet they update when they have time of neighborhood organizations that want to be notified. so and many are interested in getting money to improve their neighborhoods. we usually have applicati

and i think fundraising campaign is also a great way to build community because in our community, there are play grounds that are old and i'm sure there are play grounds in your community that are old and needs to be renovated. and i think play grounds is the way to bring people together because everyone wants their kid to play in a safe play ground. they want better facilities. it's a unifying goal that everybody wants. i think finding a unifying goal is important in community building. i think and then all of what the other panelists have said are very useful. >> thank you. >> we heard from our exerts a lot about the successes and the tools and strategies that they use to really engage their communities. a lot of us in the beginning raised our hands and said we were very actively engaged in the community already. it's a good time to talk about the challenges that come up. i'd love to hear from you in the audience what you see as challenges. what you would like to hear our panel give advice to or just hear your concerns and see what we can do to offer you support. anybody have a questi

it's your neighbors who will be the first responders in your community. the police officers and fire fighters, it takes time for them to get to everyone. you have to look out for yourself and your neighbors. come up with the housing strategies now. a plan ready inc., one of san francisco's emergency preparedness companies, provided us with the opportunity to do a survey of our community. we went down and took pictures of every property in the neighborhood. 2400 properties and they have up loaded those properties on their data base so we can see in real time and first responders can see where the special needs reside. where are the gas meters? where are our senior citizens living? where are our pets in the event of the disaster. this has helped us and there in your backyard so you can lean on them to help you as well. of course, you never can forget to listen to our people. this is one of our residents and he wants to be heard. we have to make sure that we listen to our people and aid them. education. was identified as a top barrier for people returning ho

my community medicine is gone. i have also been working on compassion yailt policy -- compassionate policy. i have worked with three deputy chiefs. at our recent meeting we had the great start at ending the race. a lot of the work is ahead of us to ending the madness. currently we are now at 80 raids in one area. this is more than the federal raids for our entire state. narcotics officers have been conducting on-site interviews with cultivators and using their own discretion on deciding whether it is an -- a document needed. feel this could be something better spent for serious violent crime. we could freeze the site pending. we do this on other instances with narcotics. we are taking cottage lesm community equipment, we are not setting back profiteers. what we have left is well meaning families homeless and in debt and suffering patients in pain. one point that was agreed upon was the standard zation of collective documentation. article 33 which provides a name, a 24 hour contact number, the community liaison. our

that the transgender community is very different from the gay community and the lesbian community, so we have to make accommodations for that, too. marco? it has been proven that when you have treatment, culture specific enhances the ability to recover the individual. i will give you an example in terms of the hispanic population. we have a residential program where meals are prepared by home, you know. it's not a cafeteria meals that we prepare, but we have cooks who are sensitive to the culture. and that really brings home to a particular person who is in recovery and engagements. so, so important for recovery to be culture sensitive and ingredients that enhance recovery and the support in our environment of treatment. and i'm glad you mentioned the whole issue of culture sensitive. i want to go back to dr. clark. what does culture sensitive mean? if someone is listening to this show, what does it mean to be culture sensitive? we've heard from our speakers addressing the cultural differences and the culture sensitivity means that the clinician particular or the recovery dynamic reco

it discourages fragmentations and encourages community. it you see new leadership but you can try your best today to get more people involved, knock on doors, have social events. i was lynching to liz mc gill saying they are building social capacity and having parties and some laughed but that's how you build community. it's coming together. if there is no other way because we are more than bricks and mortars we are people and social. you want to encourage this new leadership. this is one of the things that after the storm when i held the first general meeting in broadmoore in january of 2006. we had over 600 people show up in prekatrina i had 75. we embrace our new residents stepping up to the plate to get involved. we appointed new folks that had not been around before but it aided us in our ability to help ourselves. so i encourage you to always want to and try to expand that circle of inclusion to make sure that you are representative of the diversity that exists within your neighborhoods. this will help us jump start recovery. i don't

, to what is called the community benefits district. that essentially helps to improve the overall quality of life in certain communities and targeted commercial districts in mixed-use neighborhood. when voters establish a community benefits district, local property owners are levied a special assessment to fund improvements to their neighborhood. the funds are then administered by a nonprofit organization established by the neighborhood for the purposes of improving their community. it is important to note that while our city departments continue to use -- continue to provide the same level of services within a community benefits district that they provide in other parts of the district, the community benefits district provides other additional services, an additional level of maintenance and improvement. that is why we are asking for renewal of this community benefits district. the mission miracle mile business improvement district, which is located on the boundaries of mission street between 21st and 22nd street is one of these commu

>> it depends on your community. if they are ready to go and say, we want to go all out go to the fire department and get the full nert training. if they are like, i'm not sure and you are just getting to know each other the red cross training is great because it's an hour we cover the personal preparedness much the first step if you want to say, let's get everyone in the same room and look at everyone and know their names. you can invite us both. you can invite the humane society and they'll do animal care and control. >> and they will come out and do something. you can have your miniresource fair depending on nature of your community. >> cpr? >> yes. >> right. we do first aid/cpr and shelter training and case management and damage assessment. they do a lot of search and rescue and triage we don't do any triage. a combination of what you want. first steps invite us or both and we will get in touch with our friends at the fire department. >> we will take more questions before we do that, feel under your seat we have

i am an internet community organizer. some of the people who will be watching this nomy nationwide as one of the obama organizers. i want to run as mayor in san francisco in 2011. i am speaking in the public house, on behalf of the public interest, and i am shocked. it is nice to be here in a room that is owned by the people and city and county of san francisco. it is nice to see you people in the chambers of the elected representatives and using this facility for the planning and development of treasure island. i would like to ask a simple question. are we going to turn ourselves for what we already own? are we going to delegate that to corporations through charge us read for the resources that are already ours? is that what we are going to do? are we going to disrespect the fact that this property was owned by the federal government and there is a title claim that one of the other dunham and has already spoke about today? we are going to disregard the people and city in the state of california, the claims of the coastal

, but also the religious community, the faith community. and the african-american community, i suspect, that's critical- that plays a major role. so you want to reach out to the pastors, you want to reach out to the reverends. but not just in the african-american community, because your religious leaders in any other community, whether it's buddhist or sikh or jewish or muslim, you really want the religious leaders to understand that nobody escapes alcohol and drugs. the majority of your congregation may be alcohol and drug free, but there are people in your congregation who are not, and it's an issue, just as we're talking about. so using community coalitions, outreach in the faith community regardless of your religious orientation makes it clear that alcohol and drugs are a problem and that recovery from them can occur and that prevention is an important message. because we find silence- when we look at our household survey data, when people stop viewing a particular drug as a potential threat to the community, that drug becomes a threat

community. i feel that up until this point in time meetings have been recently established, it would be great if it became a two-way street not just a one-way street and us looking out for the school district but the school district coming out and looking out for us. there has been that participation from the school district lately but hope it continues on to the future. there's been a very high frustration, especially including myself and within our community over the s.i.g. no information has been uniform, basically we hear what the state is saying. we also heard what was said by the u.s. deputy as well which didn't correlate at all with the state and that's how i guess a lot of these changes have come about. also, these children are bilingual. i'm not just speaking of the children of a latin origin but speak of albie lingual children. the testing be some way reformed to be where they can be tested in their language as well and see what their competency is. we can take a naturalization test. w

in the broadmoore community. we have a special guest today that will talk to you about the real meaning of empowerment. you can imagine for all our challenges doesn't matter the neighborhood we are in cam pair or challenges to the challenges you see up challenges on thoseim mags. we don't have trials like what happened with katrina. so many of you that have been sparks of hope and imagination, people that are engaged we have someone that will talk about how she has sparked the imagination and engagement of a city that was ready to abandon, not just her but the entire broadmoore community. in fact, the mayor who is a friend, this is not a critique, put together after the challenges in katrina, put together a diverse group of what we say the best and the brightest. came up with a bad idea. we don't always get it right. they said broadmoore had been wiped out. they said, it ain't worth bringing back. we are going to make it open space. and the speaker i will introduce in a moment she like many of you said, wait that

and one the community responses was, "hey, we can do community redevelopment. and if we come out of the community, we're going to know what the community issues are better than your top-down bureaucracy." so there was this rise of the community development corporations. and tndc, the tenderloin neighborhood development corporation was one of the most successful, in terms of providing affordable housing and usually better housing conditions to literally thousands of tenderloin residents. jerry: behind us, you can see these high-rise hotels that were developed in the early 1980's. the early 80's were a period of intense development pressure on the neighborhood. due to the efforts of a lot of community activists, a lot of non-profits in the neighborhood, those development pressures were lessened somewhat for a period of time. and we... i feel that we may be looking at a period where we are seeing pressure from development. carolyn diamond: it's probably an area that's known for being unsafe, a little unsavory... high crime rate at 6th and market st. and it's a pla

in every community you have what goes on inside your own community versus outside of it. someone like charles barkley who will say in house stuff and embarrass other african americans. what i try to do is write what is normally said inside that world because that's where you get into the juicy stuff. that's where the african americans were elevated at sundance and it's only because i've worked with these actors and i continue to work with african american actors who give me a lot of feedback on their characters. women always do this to me, too. there was one workshop we did, an actress, african american actress, michelle shay, said to me, phillip, an african american woman would protect her man's manhood. there's this interracial romance that happens, black man, white woman, and how this is all viewed. she said how she felt her character had to really stand up to protect her man and as a consequence it became part of the play. the african american woman will not tell earl that his wife has actually left him already and run off with another man. she doesn't tell him that b

you see a lot of people coming into this community. this community probably grow about 25% or 30%. but it has to be an orderly development. not just some downtown coming out here and rolling over everybody and developing with added benefit. we are not going to have it. >> i think what is going -- what is important is that we give people the means to live here, so that means that jobs should be available, high-income jobs, not just low-income jobs, but jobs so that people can become middle-class as they are not already. that is what i see, the economic development part that we really need to make sure of. i have legislation to that says if you are a business and have been there at least three years, and somebody moves in, they have to understand that you were there first. in my district, we have more waterfront than anywhere else in the city. you just cannot get to it. we can do that through some of the property we have come to turn that into a profit and be able to bond against it. it is value because they are in planning. there is a new library coming in. there is a new green way

, how to communicate with the small business community. she did it with grace. she did it with just great intelligence and compassion, and i think that the small business community should really an extent -- note should really extend our -- should really extend our sympathies. she was taken way too soon. she believes newborn twins and her partner, -- she leaves newborn twins and her partner. she was only 41 years old, and she is diagnosed with cancer seven weeks ago, -- was diagnosed with cancer seven weeks ago. for the members who would like to send condolences, there is a website that was created by her friends and family. it is www.giveforward.org/ bakeanapple, and i would like to think the office of supervisor campos for providing this information and, again, to her partner, and to the new twins. i would like to send, you know, our condolences and our appreciation. thank you, so i am just going to move on. i did attend a convention with bettie yi. she is our representative to the state board of equalization. she made it very clear that

set up is communications. you can go there and get communications out. you are right it will be chaotic in the beginning. you have to keep trying. by having everyone's e mail and phone number and the out of state contact you just keep trying. >> on a basic level, member pay phones. those are supposedly operating on a different system they supply their own power. i'm not a technician but that's what i have heard. we recommend to people to keep a roll of quarter in their kit because you will not have a place to get change. there will be a huge line to use the pay phones if the communication towers are down. that's another one of the as everybody said. we will do what we can. there's not going to, a lot of things you can plan to being available. you will plan to utilize those things where you find it available. >> i want to add. if you have a digital phone system when the electric guess everything goes. if you have a land line that does not depend on any of that. and you know good if you have home security. in 911 it was difficult you can't get your cell ph

from the community. bayback from my experience working with young people could not get into bayback because maybe they were -- they wasn't ready. to drop the grits and bacon for crapes and/or rang juice. like some of my -- and orange juice. like some of my people have done. that's the contradictions, not that it's not doing well for it but i'm advocating for the uner city youth that need and have good, good items of social change but because of their trainers they are not getting the full attention and access to the technology, the media, and the money. this program does that. i made that happen. from hunter's point, through the mission district youth that are failing school are artists that produce programs for not only san francisco but throughout ports of california. supervisor campos: thank you very much. next speaker. >> hi, supervisors. good morning. my name is tracy, director of immediate alliance. i have spoken to you before on this issue and i will once again. let's start with some numbers. the

you just got an important lesson on what's wrong in our communities. the breakdown in these issues -- that's why our communities are healthy and we rush to hear about other stuff than the stuff that will make us better. you all need to get on her conference, and we need to have you around more often and get some young folks to hear you talk about the issues that are really what is going on with us, the resentment, the hatred, the inability to love, to get through the past and beyond the past, that's what has us so unhealthy in our neighborhoods. thank you, and thank you for having someone today who would help us. once again, thank you so much. i left my program over there somewhere. let me right now invite up the honorable supervisor ross mirkarimi, supervisor of district 5, to greet us, and then we will move in. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi. >> when i was with speaker pelosi, honoring the center's work, there are still 1 of 50 children in the u.s. qualified as homeless, and one in 8 are on the cusp of losing their mortgage and going into default or