picture is out in the plaque out in your entrance to this room and after whom this room is named irving brier i knew. i am 81. i was friends with his son steve and used to go to the brier house on the weekends. i was from the midwest. on holidays i didn't have anyplace to go. irving brier, the man you named the room after used to espouse social justice and the importance of high-quality public education. he used to lecture his boys, who you may know are you now prominent judges in the country and me who is not that, but i was there to receive the lecture many times about those messages. high-quality public education and social justice. he said those are the keys to the health of american society and san francisco society. by chance, because i didn't know we were going to be in this room. i didn't know about the plaque. by chance, that is wha what thee values are of the board of directors. there are about 20 of us. we are here to do all we can as regular citizens who have different networks and means and education and we represent 14 zip codes. we have six african-americans, two latinos, the r