i will turn it over to melinda martin. >> good afternoon. my name is melinda martin. i am currently with the community branch of d.p.h. and also the branch of that you specific islanders population. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> before we start our presentation, we did want to read the land acknowledgment. >> actually, ms. ford, can you give, because the commissioners, as i think i mention, you have not yet done the work on this for their resolution, could you give a very brief summary to there's context for the commissioners and the public before you read that? >> yes. just wanted to acknowledge that a lot of our community partners are currently supporting acknowledgment particularly when we're convening meetings that are open to the public. in support of our native american community members. >> we acknowledge we're on the unseated ancestorial homeland who are the original inhabitants of san francisco peninsula. and the indigenous stew arts of the land and in accordance with their traditions, they have never seated, lost or forgotten their responsibilities as a car

melinda king as the u.s. envoy on this issue he has been shuttling around so has the u.n. envoy martin griffiths and i'm told quite positive news coming from key regional players like saudi arabia when mr griffiths was in riyadh and like iran when he was in terror on in fact both those 2 countries were surprised that the other one they were told that the other was quite willing to to pursue peace efforts but there's some marring news as well and that's on the ground that's the ongoing offensive that's taking place in the city of marriage that's a place that has $2000000.00 people in it normally the population swelled to $3000000.00 because of people displaced from other parts of yemen it's a difficult dipper diplomatic problem that obviously found no solution in recent years and of course the problems in yemen are tied into some of the regional problems iran has some influence potentially on the who thiis of course that's tied in to the nuclear issue that you've seen saudi arabia clearly is one of those involved in the war leading military coalition i talked about earlier on clearly th