today's meeting in memory meetingrobert pender. -- in memory of robert pender. he was a tenant at parkmerced for 40-plus years, a tremendous advocate for the community throughout san francisco. in fact, the majority of his advocacy was probably for tenants outside of parkmerced. in no way to that comment be meant to take away from his advocacy work for his friends and neighbors and residents of parkmerced, whom he was 100% committed to, but robert was truly a great man. no question over the last 12 years working with the residents of district 7, robert and i came across each other quite a bit. many times on opposite sides, but on the rare occasion on the same side, but the thing with robert that i always appreciated -- it did not matter if we disagreed. we always be engaged with the next issue. he was absolutely one of those rare people who have the ability to disagree while still being agreeable. he was a true gentleman. a former city employee as well. he worked for the municipal railway. that was his career. he worked for me -- muni throughout his career and g