dr. eddie chan, the ceo of the northeast medical services center, whose facilities we are using this morning. we will be hearing prefer march from mayor lee fallen by president chu and supervisor cohen, and two community leaders. fallen by that, we will be introducing the permanent community ambassadors team. interpreters from my staff are here, so if you need language assistance, they are here. without further ado, i want to introduce mayor lee. we will hear first from him because he is the person that conceived of the community ambassadors program last year following a series of high- profile assaults, and has continued to provide leadership to the ambassador program appeared mayor lee. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. about one year and a half ago, supervisor david chiu and malia cohen, along with former supervisor sophie maxwell, and the police department, commissioners, including commissioner joe marsh, we met with various members of the community. particularly, district 11 and district 10, talking about violence on our sambar . the community, including a number of resident groups,