and complicated but the started are adjoining i want to thank vice president anderson, commissioner hallisy, commissioner louie i don't think that commissioner griffin you always community-based this year i want to thank all the commissioners that attended this year's 2022 green congratulations class recently celebrated seven months leadership programs for 9 and tenth graders and trained our youth care for the city and is that possible i got the giggles and the leadership program for 9 and 10 grader to train them to care and place warning around environmental issues and in addition to an important issue with the teenagers participated like kayaking and other programs that is fabulous and over my tenure in the bay view a few years back we- i'm proud fy23 will be a third cohort agreement a program that copes ongoing with teenagers back with many others had judge done a terrific job of caring for our city and experience to shape their library (bell ringing) >> work. >> yeah. >> times up. >> i have a couple of more like i said, i already had our lunch and asked for ingentiles for this report a

there were three of us there from the commission, vice president anderson, myself and commissioner hallisy. why did i blank? sorry. anyhow, it was a wonderful day and the first time it happened in three years, or two years because of the pandemic, so hopefully next year celebration will be even bigger and better. that is all i wanted to say about it. >> i like to add that our apprenticeship program received award of excellence and i would like to continue to tout what a great program that and how it gives young people valuable skills and a opportunity for dignified pay and benefits and the people you meet that go through the program are so jazzed up, so motivated, it is really a wonderful thing to see. i now like to share some time with commissioner louie. >> thank you vice prez sident anderson. this sunday is chinese lunar. it is the year of the rabbit and not that i am offering any predictions for the year, but there are some things to look forward to. it still requires a lot of our patience, but the rabbit year they say symbolizes hope and it is just not the rabbit, it is the water rabb