everything with maricio started with our youth. some of the most typical to serve youth in our city, coming from all different neighborhoods, would come to a storefront on the excelsior. a lot of people were a little upset. some people who are probably watching that on -- probably watching this on tv right now have called me to complain about our youth over the years on mission street. but they have seen that we have smoothed out the rough spots. we have made it work. our youth come to that center because it was on mission street. that was the vision, that it would be there at the intersection of our buses and that it would be accessible by our kids, going back and forth from school to home. what his vision was what is to follow our youth at the age from elementary school in bernal heights to the middle schools and high schools in the excelsior, where there were placed when the greater mission consortium was put into place. that also speaks to why he kept running for school board. he ran for school board not necessarily because he

the woman who was the executive director who hired maricio and t possible for us to share that experience. just to give you kind of a taste of the fiery spirit of the neighborhood center that he invited for so many years is that we had a number of issues with the library. the first was that it was going to close, and he led a battle to make sure that the branch library stayed open, and then, he led an effort to make sure that the bond passed so we could get the library renovated, and when the library was going to be renovated, there were two issues that did not get resolved -- one was where was the college preschool going to go, and the other was what was going to happen with the mill? helen, when i was talking with her this morning about the remarks she wanted to pass on, said she wanted to write a letter to me to present to our board of directors that i'm passing on to you now as an official request to have a plaque in honor of mauricio death the library, to show that we are not at war with the library, but the library needs to be part of our community, and we will keep reminding all in