ruskin. very happy to be before you to discuss castro street we've been talking about for the many most. i want to acknowledge any colleague from the department today. see if i can show you those slides. i realize we've been here a while. if you'll indulge me for 10 slides. we have approximately market street and 19th street as the director mentioned the project is a coordinated infer with our office has heavy involvement. we've worked closely with many partners including the upper market benefit strict and they commissioned their own projects that was the seed to this project and also working with the merchants and the community association. castro street is one of our commercial vibrant corridors. we run a couple of muni lines and the 35 eureka and also crows castro and 17th and the location of our historic car terminal. the street is a very busy commercial district. the picture on the upper right it's where we see trucks double parked. and the pedestrians level is very, very high and the s

here at the podium to remind the board to keep that promise to encourage you to request the director ruskin for his reports monthly to reports on the local participation the local hiring participation. the subject shouldn't be glassed offer. we should hear about it from the director and know what the metrics are again how much participation there is. and i have a letter to present from the local contractors community >> thank you thank you very much. >> (calling names). >> good afternoon and a good afternoon chairman nolan and directors i've never gotten up and spoken. what's happening on the central subway project is wrong. a lot of taxpayer money was spent and the local contractors know they have the opportunity to participate in one of the largest projects in san francisco. how exactly this happened the project was rebundled and effectively eliminatedal san francisco contractors. it's a real slap in the face to know that taxpayer dollars were put so what this and there's no san francisco contractors on that. this is millions and millions and millions of dollars. it needs to be held worko

karen ruskin. dr., thank you for joining us. we heard from the grandmother. >> my pleasure. >> who talked about losing her daughter, losing her grandson, and of course, the father in this case. the parents were separated, but he's lost his wife. he's lost his son. happy news that his daughter will come home to him physically unharmed. how does the family begin to put the pieces bang together. this isn't just together. this isn't just private pain. it's being done publicly as well. >> the first step is connecting with one another, sharing your feelings, talking about your pain, not putting your feelings inside, not stuffing them in a box, not escaping your pain and trauma through drugs or alcohol. rather, truly addressing what you're feeling and by having quality time together and mourning over the loss of what you have lost and whom you've lost and celebrating in what you have and the life to be. so in essence, rather than just surviving, this is about thriving. >> what would you say for all the family members involved here, but

he's there as a kind of pioneer after the war who takes it to the west and seems to be enthralled by ruskin and beauty and mountains. and not keeps the secret, but actually begins to mine and explore the west for his and other people's riches. so he's a complex man. brilliant scientist who authored a paper called -- i don't think i can pronounce it -- in the 1870s. and he was talking about, he was positing a different view of evolution. different from darwin's on the one hand and different from agassi, the scientist, on the other hand. and what he talked about was catastrophe and how they change the course of how geology, how the mountains, how all things developed. so it was so interesting to me that here he was, a man who evaded the war somehow and for some reason, also still dealing with the war in the 1870s, had been a remarkable success by all standards and yet had this secret life which seemed to me then to give us a sense of really what reconstruction was all about. it was about a westward movement, it was about denial, it was about secrecy, it was about rapacious greed, it was about

roy wilkins was on fire when people tried to slander ruskin during the 1963 march, and it motivated him because he was gay. right after the march on washington, we were pushing through the voting rights act, we got rid of the europe only preference, part of the grand coalition put together, we were all together. we got rid of the europe only preference for immigration. we have always been for sensible immigration reform. the new naacp is nothing but a renaissance of the old naacp and the multiracial and were multiracial from our founding. thatet fueled by the anger the specific oppression of black people in our society generates. and the perspective that it itrs in your soul, that in-- sears in your soul, that in order to have friends, you have to be a friend, and in a democracy, in order to win, you have to have a lot of friends. >> we're almost out of time, but the last question, a couple of housekeeping matters. on september events. 7, the national press club will host the 16th annual be the deadline 5k. the race features tony horton-- creator of p90 x, and erika gonzalez. more infor