but also the mellon foundation saying, stay behind this because now the work is really ahead of us. and so i just wanted to add that as a comment, insofar as this work is incomplete and the language that is formed around this is extremely important because it is going to shape in the future, you know, how we decide to tell the story of where we are, and also to address things that are in our history that we have to yet address? the report is not finished. right. and so we have not gone into what is implementation. and therefore i would really like to turn it over to angela carrier for the monuments memorials update. thank you, director remington. and thank you, president collins for that context. good afternoon commissioners. i'm pleased to present a project update on shaping legacy san francisco's monuments and memorials. if you recall, i was brought on in january to implement the goals and deliverables of a program grant that we received and were awarded funding from the mellon foundation. while i'm stewarding this project in this present moment, it's building on the momentum and

foundations on the right. the billionaires, the koch brothers cited by name and in their speeches as being influential on them, but also joseph coors. and, you know, many of the a richard mellon scaife, many the other founders and funders. that's where i start this book and this story is with that backlash to the to the warren court. i mean, lewis powell, this memo and about three months after he files it, finds himself appointed to the us supreme court by richard nixon, where he delivers some crucial rulings on, voting rights and campaign finance that lay the groundwork in many ways for citizens united and and and and john roberts his own career. but john roberts is still a pretty young at that point in time. can i ask you to talk about a little bit of media criticism in the way that there's been a lot of coverage of what paxton's doing in the last week in texas, specifically about voting rights advocates and the rating of homes, but the framing of these stories is very much framed around paxton's relations to trump specifically, do you think that there's a short sightedness in the way that we cover voting and that it's fully centered on the national election cycle and then

foundations on the right. the billionaires, the koch brothers cited by name and in their speeches as being influential on them, but also joseph coors. and, you know, many of the a richard mellon scaife, many the other founders and funders. that's where i start this book and this story is with that backlash to the to the warren court. i mean, lewis powell, this memo and about three months after he files it, finds himself appointed to the us supreme court by richard nixon, where he delivers some crucial rulings on, voting rights and campaign finance that lay the groundwork in many ways for citizens united and and and and john roberts his own career. but john roberts is still a pretty young at that point in time. can i ask you to talk about a little bit of media criticism in the way that there's been a lot of coverage of what paxton's doing in the last week in texas, specifically about voting rights advocates and the rating of homes, but the framing of these stories is very much framed around paxton's relations to trump specifically, do you think that there's a short sightedness in the way that we cover voting and that it's fully centered on the national election cycle and then