david chiu. and, of course, the majority of the supervisors. and i thank supervisor cowen for her friendship. we have many evenings we chat about how to carry on this support. we have been fueled by the conviction of this community. the stalwart members of the advisory committee and the project area committee members led by my colleagues have sat through hundreds of difficult committee meetings and providing input to us and the commissioners who are here and currently on the commission and certainly those in the past. i commissions for several years and it's anchored by commissioner king. thank you for coming applause. but you know neither courage or conviction would have made this happen without funding. so, please indulge me to thank our ceo and some of our partners. we have also believed the best of the bay view and we have placed our resources alongside our belief. we've been fortunate to work with some folks. and others ms. roberta. (clapping). i can tell you without my colleagues and associates who reside me downtown san francisco the rest of the urban san francisco we wouldn't have tha