espanola jackson would be here, but she is recovering. we have community activists who have worked and really added their voice to this and were there when we needed them to be, but no campaign actually works without a standard bearer, someone willing to walk in front, get abused, keep going with the singular force of saying, "i'm going to make this happen no matter what anybody says to me he can that takes a singular kind of courage that you do not always see eye and elected officials, and that person is so the maxwell -- sophie maxwell. >> when they say it takes a village to raise a child, it has taken a state and city to close this power plant. i started working on these plans when i took office, and now, the plants are leaving with me -- at least this one is -- and that is great. i also want to thank all of those folks. i remember the first time when we met officially as him being mayor and him being supervisor -- him being mayor and me being supervisor. i want to thank him. theresa miller, who is there with us all the time, all the q

i also want to acknowledge espanola jackson, who could not be here today because she is preparing to go to surgery, but she has truly been a stalwart in the fight for mandatory hiring for many years. her first husband was an electrician in the navy, first lieutenant, and the first african american worker tradesman at hetch hetchy in the 1950's. however, he was never able to join the union. it was this experience that fueled her passion for access to the trade. 50 years later, we know that things have much improved and with the passage of this measure, but even greater pathways to careers and the trades will be opened up. i also want to thank reuben, a native san franciscan who grew up in the mission district and is now a union general contractor based here in san francisco. he has a 10-year history of hiring san franciscans at well above 50% as his way of giving back to the community. he has a compelling story about how he took over a project in the bayview where there was a great deal of attention between workers from a former contractor who have really messed up the relationships o