that's pi ra. and i had the great opportunity to teach pedestrian safety with him at many senior centers throughout the city and county of san francisco as when our ongoing programs is senior university. so, he knows that. he's been around. he knows what he's doing and he has the experience for please take it in consideration -- please take it under consideration to appoint him so he can continue to watch out for our pedestrians -- all pedestrians, seniors and people with disabilities and nonseniors with disabilities as well to the pedestrian safety committee. thank you. >> thank you. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. james cansini, senior disability action. i'm here to speak for pi ra at the council. i've been working with pi for a number of years at senior disability action. aside from being just another staff comedian in our office, he's also is a community leader and expert in a lot of issues around pedestrian safety and traffic issues. i'll just share one experience. the other day, it's just ca

if pi ra is here, please approach the microphone. >>> good afternoon, supervisors, and it's pi ra, juste greek letter. but we won't calculate it any further than that. basically, i'm here -- [speaker not understood]. okay, just don't call me ray because that's the egyptian sun god, we're fine. so, i'm here and i thank you for hearing -- for, this is what, my fifth consecutive reappointment. i'm one of the original members from the 2003 group. in that period of time i've been chair, vice-chair for six years, and also during that time i have been part of various organizations representing pedestrian safety, san francisco rock and roll which is under california walks. walk san francisco, senior action network, which is now senior and disability action, hank, haight ashbury neighborhood council. and i had been for about a couple years board of the bike cut. during that time those organizations were involved in things like many department of public health safety grants, pedestrian safety grants, the federal [speaker not understood] safety grant that was for soma. other things like our organi