walker hopes that i don't mind if i take a little religious liberty as i talk about george and linda richardson has been a force and your beautiful welcome and leadership and service linda. kathy knows how much george meant to me and for decades i'd come to the senior center we'd have your birthday parties and i w0r7b9d what am i going to leave here being assigned to do you all know. to his family that's visiting i see the resemble lance making the point he's not here today but he is he had to go up there to finish this off. this is american people incredible person. a map with a dream. a man with a vision. a man with an intelligent. to make a plan to get the job done. a man with a heart who knew that people needed not help cooperation, cooperation to have their ideas to have a better life and community. kathy knows that george was a teacher to many of us one of the things i loved that made him different all that he was doing and all the grandness of it he had this thing about people who had been in prison. it was easy to talk about seniors and children and this it was clear he took the gospel

walker hopes that i don't mind if i take a little religious liberty as i talk about george and linda richardson has been a force and your beautiful welcome and leadership and service linda. kathy knows how much george meant to me and for decades i'd come to the senior center we'd have your birthday parties and i w0r7b9d what am i going to leave here being assigned to do you all know. to his family that's visiting i see the resemble lance making the point he's not here today but he is he had to go up

walker hopes that i don't mind if i take a little religious liberty as i talk about george and linda richardson has

linda richardson i worked with president richard son in her capacity of the community land use and transportation commission i've known her on a number of economic issues and projects citywide. please welcome me - join me in welcoming the president of the activist district attorney >> thank you for your gracious introduction. i'm glad to be here today and i'm looking in the room and i can see many folks for the last 25 years i've that had the privilege of working only numerous projects in san francisco. but before i start it's great to know that the former staff and entities that were involved in the admission i also want to take at about opportunity to welcome michael i sees others down through people we count on when we need to get things done and thank you paul for putting this together. anytime you've done anything it will get done well. as the president of the treasure island as the childcare i think last year something happened when supervisor avalos and his fellow commissioners nominated tilly chang to be the director of the transportation agency. i think before all the discussions in the

the mayor mentioned, malia mentioned linda richardson is here with us today; doctor moses is with us, doctor amos brown, doctor walker from true hope is here with us today as well and i'm sure i'm not saying somebody, but we -- michael sweet from the human rights commission is here with -- once i start you get in trouble. with that, we're going to move right on to the feature part of our program, our keynote speaker. by the way, let me just say going in, chad williams is going to be our keynote speaker today. he's going to give you a wetting of an appetite of a longer presentation he's going to do it at the african american art and culture complex. you get excited about it tonight, come back to the complex where you'll get some dynamic interaction. they say the fruit doesn't fall too far from the tree, and in that regard we're pleased to have chad's parents here with us, jane and carl williams. i don't know anybody who could introduce them better than we could introduce them, so come on up. [applause]. >> i asked carl the other day, i said write a few notes down about how you would te