[applause] >> now we will hear from somebody from district 5, gordon phillips from the diamond youth shelter, talking about homelessness and also someone from the haight street referral center. you are here? i knew that. >> good evening, supervisors, mayor lee, department heads, we appreciate their opportunity to be transparent in this process. i am representing larkin street youth services. we have been around for 25 + years. over 25 programs serving the city's most vulnerable. we have two particular sites at district 5. our haight street referral center and we also have our diamond youth shelter which serves the cities most vulnerable you, an emergency shelter for temporary stays. i want to speak recognizing that there is lots of priority that are being made around the budget process, recognizing also that our city has as a fundamental belief and value that we will maintain services for families, seniors, and i would like to advocate and urge that you also maintained its services. currently we have the eight st. referral center that operates on limited powers due to funding restric

[applause] >> now we will hear from somebody from district 5, gordon phillips from the diamond youth shelter, talking about homelessness and also someone from the haight street referral center. you are here? i knew that. >> good evening, supervisors, mayor lee, department heads, we appreciate their opportunity to be transparent in this process. i am representing larkin street youth services. we have been around for 25 + years. over 25 programs serving the city's most vulnerable. we have two particular sites at

the keynote speaker was assistant secretary of state for european affairs, phillip gordon.he discussed europe's financial and economic challenges and america's strong ties toss the e.u.. this is just over an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everybody. i'm strobe talbott, and it's my great pleasure to welcome you here this afternoon to a conversation with phil gordon. and i do welcome all of you. and, phil, in your case i'm going to say, welcome back and welcome home. i think all of you know that phil was a very distinguished member of the brookings community here for quite some time. even more to the point, he was the found being director -- founding director of the center for the united states and europe. and i might add, it's also a great pleasure to see the ambassador here this afternoon. francois, thank you for the support that you've given to brookings. and your predecessors gave to phil, and you are giving to fiona hill who is the current director of the center on the united states and europe. and she would be addressing you from this lectern had the