here from the community including, to honor ricardo but it is my great pleasure today to honor ricardo nubal for district nine for black history month, i like saying that. he has lived, worked and devoted his entire life to the mission district for more than 25 years. for the -- you started out when you were young and i don't want to age you there. >> for the past ten years, he has served as the drop-in services manager for the mission neighborhood, research center and in that role he has assisted thousands of people who are impacted by homelessness and he just joined the center in 2002 as a peer advocate and a case manager and was quickly promoted for the tremendous leadership to one of the most popular and well regarded homeless resource centers in the city and actually the only resource center in the mission, his work reflects these values that he holds and he works to help the most marginalized in the community, whether it is immigrants, african americans, members of the lgbt community, transgender, women, homeless people and people living with hiv and aids, ricardo continues to prioriti