robin anderson. and nick berg. >> hi, thank you board, i am brian smith, the owner of blackberry bicycles on 6th and we opened a little over a year ago. we have been very successful and i don't think we could have done it without the foundation laid by the cm cbd over the last years. it's really critical for my now nine employees and thousands of customers to feel safe and comfortable coming to the neighborhood and coming into my bicycle shop and getting on an expensive bike and riding it around the neighborhood. i really strongly support the renewal of the cm. cbd and i think that the people such as myself who have invested in the neighborhood and the people who live in the neighborhood and the thousands of people moving to this neighborhood, and investing in the future in this neighborhood, will be way worse off if the cm. cbd is not allowed to renew and continue the work that they have already done. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, ralph lee, next speaker. >> good morning supervisors.

robin anderson. >> good morning. my name is robin anderson and i'm with alonzo dance center and we're tenants in the odd fellow building and our organization is a 30-year-old organization in the city. we have had a very important partnership with the central market community benefit district since its beginning. we partnered with them to at activate programs and as far as the expansion, we find it extremery important and particularly in the expansion of the guide hours. we serve over 300 student a day that come into our space and 4,000 students a year, because we have 80 drop-in classes, where students can choose every time they come for class to come or not come and we found that a lot are not comfortable coming to the neighborhood after 7:00 p.m. so that would be quite instrumental in changing our business. as a member of the steering committee for the renewal and expansion of the central market cbd, we are very supportive of this. thank you. >> thank you. nick berg. >> my name is nick berg, the general manager of