lisa williams is entitled to great thanks and respect for having do that. i personally was with her night after night until 1 or 2:00 a.m. watching her reconstruct that organization and try to put into place the controllers recommendation so i think what mr. copper said is unfair and possibly devoted to maybe some self interest in trying to get san francisco pride over into his organization. i don't know that for sure, but i think there is no other non-profit organization in san francisco that could sustain the efforts and time and resources that are necessary to produce and event of a million people. i think the problem with san francisco pride is a deficit of standards and a deficit of being able and willing to accept less than the very best. when this event was going on and i was a child in arizona, gay, lesbian, what the hell am i and i saw san francisco pride. it made a difference to me, san francisco pride is like the golden bridge. it's an institution. i would like to know that in los angeles where it runs and event of 60,000 people in a city of los

i think it's something we should be very proud of and lisa williams who made that happen. but there are comments that i heard that there are issues that remain around governance, around transparency and around accountability and when you hear from these vendors that are largely responsible for the success of this event when those concerns are raised. it is very troubling to me. it's very troubling to me that it seems that it took this forum for these concerns to come out. i think that's a scene of something. -- sign of something. i don't know what exactly. with thatten mind is what i would ask that we continue this dialogue. my hope is by the time we have a follow up hearing that we can get more specifics about some of the things in the report that unfortunately i know for a lot of reasons we couldn't get today that will provide that opportunity. i hope there are other things we can discuss including some of the issues that were raised today by the vendors and also some of the issues raised by other members whether you agree with the comments or not. that there is even an

finally board president lisa williams stated that the organization policies and procedures was a reason that they had to -- relay chelsey manning as this year grand -- marshall in this parade. the policies clearly states they are authorized to a point up to three. i have provided relevant document. i have one short closing. i think a lot of the issues about problems with keeping good executive directors is the board is not properly trained on its relationship with the executive director. i think from what i understand, the board hasn't even been trained on its own decision making process. this seems to be almost no training on best board practices and i think that is something that could go a long way towards solving the problems. >> thank you, next speaker and i have another speaker card and i apologize for mispronouncing it. >> good afternoon. my name is joe virginia. i'm a candidate on the upcoming board of directors' elections for pride. i was also a community grand marshall last year and for the past 15 years i have cohosted and produced with donna sash e for the resource center an

i think it's something we should be very proud of and lisa williams who made that happen. but there are comments that i heard that there are issues that remain around governance, around transparency and around accountability and when you hear fromse

i see that the acting and i don't know what the right term is or the director of ceo is here, lisa williams. i want to make sure that i give them an opportunity to say something if they would like to. just want to be respectful of that. would you like to say anything? no? i just want to make sure that i'm respectful. thank you. >> miss williams thank you for being here and i want to reiterate my graduate -- gratitude for being here and thank you for volunteer. the floor is yours. >> thank you. i just want to echo what david has said over the last 2 years in terms of the financing. a lot of folks came together to make sure we settled our debt and that we did and we paid off the doern fund. we did increase the board and once we get passed that we'll be able to meet all the standards of the board. the one area he didn't speak to was the community advisory board. that help offset, such as legal, human resources and finances. i want to speak a little bit too about the change in management. we have had some consultant come talk to us about the governance and process. we've had three different con

keep going but this is a banker zombie right here and so what we're going to do lisa ling all this in my mouth going to william tell moment and then you try to kill the zombie by firing the marshmallow gun directly at my face there's all this is just a pump action like any standard item you might find in an arnold schwarzenegger movie are you ready i'm not a make out very good i would say oh just. oh. yeah. and you realize that for anyone who doesn't like your show that's going to become a viral thumbnail they're going to we can only hope they could only trade but that goes viral but you say banks are on the side of the equation although that stove a little bit of a marshmallow you know probably thirty five mph directly hitting the flesh of my face and i can still go down to the judge. what us financial products credit default swap partition back securities or part of all kinds of stuff in a bad light basters or jamie diamond only stop me doesn't exactly these corporate crimes massive corporate crimes sometimes they pay a fine sometimes there's a little a little slap on the wrist but it doesn't stop them and w