now, let me turn to members of the mdc. any comment from council members of mdc? if not, i do have a couple of questions regarding the great highway. i drive to take my son to middle school in the outage minaria area and sometimes there's problems of highway 1 not being open on monday. from what i understanding the storms have greatly impacted it and i understand why there are closures due to effects from the storm. even prior to that, i've had problems driving through on monday mornings. so, when that highway is not open, i had to take a route to get to where i'm going. i think signage would help. i think at this point, people see signage and they don't necessarily know what to do and they may be surprised by its closure. so, will it ever be open? highway 1? >> i can respond to that. first of all, just a clarifying detail. the great highway is, although it has highway in the name, it is technically a city street. it is not highway 1. caltrans state highway 1 runs along 19th avenue through golden gate park and it becomes park presidio. it's a road people use comin

i'm proud to say that the action fund wanting to empower the mdc that we invested $75,000 so that they can develop a collaborative programing strategy for of enslavement in the state of virginia. but in january of last year or january of this year, we invested $151,000 so that they could hire their first paid staff person to help build that capacity, because descendant led groups are critical to the future of historic preservation and friends. groups associated to historic sites like, a presidential site, are to informing how they reimagine interpretation public education and really activate the broader, you know, kind of society and the history and meanings of these places. so what i heard you say, you just don't have money to help people preserve buildings. you got money for some capacity? yes, we do. he got money for you guys. grant got the money don't come to me asking for my i got bills to pay but he's got money. so the capacity building piece was intentional so we set up our grant program where we do not require a 1 to 1 cash match because we have always that black and cultural i

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i also encourage mod and mdc to share my e-mail address with any interested people that want to communicate with me and work together to solve disability challenges. and really there not our challenges but ablism. we live in an ablism society that's bigoted toward us. that's seldomly addressed in this body. and so, i also just want to point out that the chat has been removed, so that disabled members of the public cannot communicate with each other through that method. we have no way to share information with each other. you've blocked off the video so we can't video participate either. and these are not, this is not a way to show disabled people that we matter and that our community matters. this is not a way to show you're representing what it's like to be in person, in person, you can see me. in person, i can talk to somebody. and say here's my business card. here's my e-mail. you have blocked that. you have blocked that in this body and that's disappointing. also, i'd like to add that i'm still waiting for an apology from mod, specifically from debra caplan who held with disabilities re