at this time i would like to interdue brian chiu, director of community development for the mayor's office of housing, to say a few words. >> i just wanted to say what a pleasure it was for our office to receive the community development programming for the city and be able to offer c.y.c. a $50,000 grant, seed money really, to kick off this program. i have been familiar with the great work c.y.c. has done since my community activist days in the 1990's. for a number of years, sarah and i have been talking about the need to bring c.y.c. into the southeast, to recognize the changing demographics of the city. and we were really looking to support and agency that was really committed not just -- not to just bringing the same kind of programming that c.y.c. has been doing in chinatown but to actually create a new model of interaction. and we feel that c. dwrrks c. -- c.y.c. at a part is a model of a social aggressive organization that could really take the leadership of all of the people in this room and change it i think into a dynamic model of what this city needs it to be. again, we're reall