to be joined by several members of our equity advisory council here in the chambers including dale seymour who is our respected tenderloin community leader. >> dale will make opening statements before we begin the presentation and then equity council members will follow up the presentation first of all. good afternoon. thanks for having us. historically i've been in this room many, many years. i'm usually yelling and screaming. today i'm here to celebrate. today i'm here to thank you all for realizing that we need community input from this building. from this room. from this department. a lot of our people it annoyed are scared of the planning commission. and that's why because we don't know who you are. we don't know what you do. so you have given us a chance to share who you are and what you do. some of the wonderful things that you do for our communities because this is about output to the community. i wish we could host this meeting in the 2 in 1 day. that would be that. we also do planning department's equity panel. i think last month. >> but we would love to host you all so you could