share this award with over 200 volunteers and staff of the filipino-american arts expo significance, faae is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization. our mission is simple, to promote the best of the filipino-american art, culture, history and community, to foster cultural pride and economic empowerment. thank you for recognizing my work and our work as a group. it's really appreciated and this motivates me to keep moving forward, so, thank you. (applause) >> thank you, supervisor farrell. why don't we now go to district 11, supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos? [laughter] >> thank you. i have actually two commendations to do, one for the filipino community center and after that for pat, [speaker not understood]. first i'll do the filipino community center and would like to call up terry [speaker not understood] who is the director at the center. [cheering and applauding] >> [speaker not understood] organizing the filipino community center, the fcc, was established in 2004 by community organizers who were responding to the mass layoff of filipino airport screeners and other immigrant work