cv d could specifically do that would take us favorite. thank you very much >> next speaker. >> hi i kim letter a resident over 11 years in the lower polk neighborhood and part of the association. and i strongly support the cv d. >> hi my name is ron case. i feel like we are running a marathon and, see the finish line hopefully we'll get a little bit further. 12 years ago i was part of the founding members to try to improve this area for safety and beautification and security. the most of the years we've gotten a few grants and move a couple steps forward and get knocked back a step. we're doing a lot for our organization we want to be inclusive of everyone in the neighborhood and monetary reasons was not part of being part of our group. we looked at a number of years ago we looked at how to be self-sustaining in keeping things moving in a good direction. it came down to the cv d being the best option many people worked hard on this and trying to be inclusive with everyone in the neighborhood that is very important. and where we're back to where we were a number of years ago so i highly support it thank you. thank you, mr. case >> next speaker >> pr

polk street with the stakeholders i'm a co-founder of the larkin street committee and helping with the various stakeholders dealing with improving the neighborhood. i've been a part of now 5 different cv ds formulations this is the 5 and i support the lower polk management pan for the lower polk cv d and i also want to give my kudos to the various people that have been involved in the steering committee in forming this this is hard work and hope that the one of the cv ds once formed there will be more people involved in the community benefit district and find an adequate leader to move forward. thank you very much >> thank you any other members wish to speak in support of the district. >> hi, i'm larry i live in the tenderloin we're talking about the lower polk of main which is definitely as unification starts there's a lot of racial tension and fights but the lower polk used to be the old castro it was a navy peer and that's when they moved all the gaze to what used to be the black and career area. but this was also the area where people of all there was a place called mr. boo ganlz where blacks and gaze and straits went there and associated that's a international place now we call i

opportunity to speak >> thank you president chiu and supervisor kim for your leadership on 0 the lower polk cv d and thank you to the staff they're my partners in crime judy son and others have been critical to this effort. i'd like to recognize kathy and others of m bs consultant. there are several departments that support those i'd like to recognize robert from the city attorney's office and others my colleagues lisa and to pay tribute to the late shell thomas and our work in our communities and his passion are a model for all of us thank you very much >> thank you i'd like to ask supervisor kim any further comments. >> it's great to see the support coming from the neighborhood and talking about the history of polk street to san francisco and how to work and preserve that and do a quick thank you to chris shulman forming from office of small business and jamie from larkin street employment and so on i didn't who kept up our work and most importantly want to acknowledge shell thomas for his vision i he worked hard on his project and thank you to him. >> colleagues any other comments without o

chinatown and north beach he led the in which business association of lower polk neighbors and did much of the work to form the broadway cv d and he also assisted with other festivals shell was a 25 veteran of the restaurant bar and nightclub industries i think we're in shock over the loss of a leader and friend. this past weekend i spoke to shells parent and shared with them how we all appreciated and loved their son today in our audience we shall joined by shells brother and sister and on behalf of the neighborhoods and friends we want to thank you for sharing our family webb member with our city. potentially one of his lasting legacies is the lower polk district i saw an e-mail at the end of last week before he passed saying the finally a balance was mailed i know all of us we'll work hard to insure the lower polk succeed this was a project near and dear to my heart to shells project that he worked on for many years. again on behalf of the board i want to say to his family and friends our city is so much the better for having had shell with us before rest in peace >> madam clerk. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor