i spoke with jackie patterson putting solar on a shelter for women dealing with violence in their lives. i think we need to really support organizations like yours and i just want to say how moving and powerful your work is. i appreciate your legislative engagement and the fact that you're in 10 regions and a lot of states and international as well. thank you for being here. >> thank you for all the great work and we have public comment. everybody is speechless with the work. thank you. next item. >> the next item is -- (applause) >> item six, supporting edwin lee community fund, the speaker is deborah raphael, it's open for discussion. >> thank you. as the president said when we started the meeting, this is the first meeting since the passing of the mayor and i think it's important to give us all space to reflect on that and what it means for each of us as individuals, what it means for us as a department and city. at the mayor's memorial service, his daughters got up and spoke and i was so impressed with their poise and their eloquence with what they decided to share. one of the thing

in patterson, new jersey, this is the home field of larry dauphine who integrated after jackie robinson. i'm proud to say that through the national treasure campaign we designated it as a national historic landmark and included it in the boundaries of the national park. it is preserved in perpetuity. founder library at howard university in washington, d.c. i love about this space is that it was designed by an early pioneering lack architect who architect forty decades at howard university. it has an unknown story of civil rights. at one point, howard's law school was housed inside this building. this is where charles hamilton houston and thurgood marshall devised a legal strategy that would lead to the integration of america's public schools. working with the university to develop a plan to reimagine this outdated library space. mary, how many of you have heard of it? i learned a polly mary two years ago. raised in, who was north carolina, would be a cofounder of the national organization of women, the first african-american episcopal site. thurgood marshall referred to bible of -- he a

in patterson, new jersey, this is the home field of larry dauphine who integrated after jackie robinson. i'm proud to say that through the national treasure campaign we designated it as a national historic landmark and included it in the boundaries of the national park. it is preserved in perpetuity. founder library at howard university in washington, d.c. i love about this space is that it was designed by an early pioneering lack architect who architect forty decades at howard university. it has an unknown story of civil rights. at one point, howard's law school was housed inside this building. this is where charles hamilton houston and thurgood marshall devised a legal strategy that would lead to the integration of america's public schools. working with the university to develop a plan to reimagine this outdated library space. mary, how many of you have heard of it? i learned a polly mary two years ago. raised in, who was north carolina, would be a cofounder of the national organization of women, the first african-american episcopal site. thurgood marshall referred to bible of -- he a