first i'd like to bring up john weber who is the current chair of the imperial council of san francisco, followed by john paul soto, who is the current reigning emperor of san francisco, followed by donna sachet mr. weber. >> greetings, members of the board of supervisors -- well, committee and supervisors. i rise in great support of this amendment or in this resolution. i want to say thank you very much to supervisor weiner's office who has been a very amazing support system in getting us through the process of doing this. we recognize the honor and the esteemed honor that it means to have the city seal afixed to any item. i think no recourse in my understanding that this event is one. most historical events that we can have. i wanted also to say for well over 50 years and i mean like half a century, the imperial court have raised lots of money for meaningful and charitable organizations and that's a charitable organization is a real honor to serve as the leadership of this organization. for half a century since 1965 we have helped organizations from basically housing issues, hiv and aids, as well as just re