also want to take this opportunity to thank the clerk of the board and her staff and specifically peggy nevin who worked very hard to make translation available to all the folks that came out. i thought the translation was excellent. i know that your staff worked very hard to make that happen. it is greatly appreciated madam clerk to you and your staff who and peggy in particular who made that happen. along those lines, thank you to supervisor yee for introducing his item today on that very important issue. it is my pleasure today that after years of working on this that i have the opportunity to introduce a ballot initiative establishing the first of its kind legacy business fund. i want to thank my colleagues who are cosponsors to this measure. supervisors avalos, kim and mar. your support is greatly appreciated. for generations thriving neighborhood businesses have played an essential role into finding our communities. they have these institutions have essentially defined these neighborhoods. current economic pressures including skyrocketing rents for retail space, are costing san francisc