activities picked up we implemented our own accounting system and ed was moving to puc at the time and fred clark who was at mta and trying to retire but we went let him and he was appointed but he was with tjpa as well and that seemed like a natural progression and i do take my duties very seriously. >> as i do as well and board officers are special and it's fine being -- you need to be an employee. i don't want to denigrate that or misdirect that at all but in my mind should suggest to you that you have a degree of autonomy beyond what you would otherwise think and for this budget and for other financial things you have a degree of responsibility beyond what you would otherwise have -- at least that's how i would read what being a board officer was intended to be from the agencies that signed the organizational documents, and as i say it's a little unusual, at least in my experience. nonetheless it needs to be honored, and you should be as well and i was surprised to see it. i didn't realize that. i had forgotten it really what it means but this is very critical in terms of the way you should l

that said, madam speaker for my friend fred hamp ton and my friend, adam clark in 1969, and now freddie gray in 2015, we have seen far too many young men of color fall victim to the very same people who were sworn to serve and protect. this moment is demonstrating the power of a mother's love, the power of a mother's courage. she walked scomboo harm's way, straightforward located her son and as she is demonstrating the power that is beyond imagination and beyond all everything. to honor her and the important role and all mothers, our mothers, including my own mother, to honor them and honor all the role, and the important role they play and taking men out of the streets and ending the violence that plagues our communities all across this nation i am humbly calling on america's mothers those in the african-american community and those outside of the african-american community those in urban areas and those in rural areas, all american mothers, to wearing yell o', to wearing yellow, to wearing yellow on mother's day in a symbolic show of solidarity and to create a mother' in yellow moveme