t and our good friend kathleen carroll of horero bowl and thank you all for supporting our graduates. [ applause ] >> a round the perimeter of this room are the people that are really the grassroots and the life blood of city build and i just want to give a shout out to the staff, carmen's staff and marcos' staff and the young community developer's staff and the ycb staff and this, the group anders and anders. without them doing the recruiting, the case management, all of the services provided, you know, we would be not the program that we are. and the other entities here are the city build staff, again they are all around here. and we had some references to them earlier. and so, if you want to wave or something like that. do it now. thank you city build. >> tonight, we are honoring 41 city build academy graduates and 18 construction ad min training graduates this is the culmination of 18 weeks of education and training and hard work for these fortunate men and women. they hail from neighborhoods all over san francisco and like many san franciscans have roots from all over the country