and cronin berg -- ann cronenberg will be speaking first and giving us progressive ideas on their approachpotentially as a model for the nation. ann? [applause] >> it is thank you very much. it is a pleasure to be here today. we're proud to be hosting fema and appreciative of the flexibility of fema coming to city hall. many of you received an early notification of this six weeks ago of the upcoming session. it was not originally going to be at city hall. we do not always think of our federal partners as being flexible, but i can attest they are. here we are today in our beautiful building hosting you. we're so proud to be able to do that. on a personal note, i want to thank one of my staff members, dave eberly, who was instrumental -- [applause] in working with nancy's people making it a reality today. mayor lee stole my entire speech. [laughter] just off the cuff, he is so amazing. he really gets this. as city administrator, he was in charge of our recovery efforts. he began the whole dialogue in san francisco about resilience. he gave many examples already of what we have been able to d

. >> thank you, director cronenberg. my name is michael pappas, the executive director of the san francisco interface council and a member of our city's human rights commission. our council was founded actually 23 years ago in response to two crises in the city. a homeless crisis and an earthquake. we received our initial funding from church world service because they wanted to give funding to a group that was interfaith. so a group of faith leaders who were in the mayor's office at that time again met and that was the genesis of the interfaith council. we have 800 congregations in the city and counties of san francisco, as well as their respective jude ca torres and the faith-based social services agents sis that provide essential services to some of the most vulnerable in our community. you're talking about april being the month. like a very long certainlyon, we've extended it into may -- sermon, we've extended it into may. [laughter] it's hard to believe, but i'm looking at one of our partners, and jim turner and dire