i have been asked to speak because of my long association with sidney rachel goldstein and her family. i am here representing my husband, a local restaurant tour and member about me. i am retired from a career in landscape architecture and a volunteer with friends of the urban forest and the national aids memorial grove my family and sidney's have a long close family relationship dating from the late seventies. however, i am here for more than just stepping up for a dear friend, which anyone would. that because of the larger significance of sidney's influence on our city starting with her decades long programming at the hearst, and then the last six years at the north, details of which are contained in the resolution which you just heard. city arts and lectures is, to quote cain, an ornament of the community. and sidney was as fearless innovative leader who brought this unique forum for exchange of ideas to san francisco. we all agree that it would still be a dusty abandoned mausoleum of asbestos cased files without her can do spirits. this proposed renaming is most appropriate. lastl