we partner with sfpd and we have grown under steve gibson's leadership and partner with ucsf medical school. we've been funded with oewd. it's taken a whole community effort to build a culture of safety which is our mission. we're out there, rain, shine, smoke, when the kids are out there, we're out there and it's their neighborhoods looking after them. this is collective impact at it's greatest. we're expanding. we are continuing our leadership development. we continue to hire residents and we continue to have safe streets in the tenderloin and beyond. we invite everybody to be a part of this. we include everybody. join us. thank you for the honor. thank you everybody i apologize if i missed anybody. it's taken so many people. levels latina and work the moms before 2008 an incredible community effort and thank you for honoring the residents of the tenderloin today. we're going to do a quick photo. >> we'll head outside. >> congratulations to you all. >> supervisor: madame clerk it's a few minutes before 3:00. let's go back to our business. i believe we left off at items calling item

previous executive director for the tenderloin community benefit district, city of gibson, if he's -- steve gibson, if he's here, and aaron and katey. so at this time, i'm going to open up for public comment on this item, please come up to the mic. mr. spinello. and we'll give you extra time as the chair. >> so i had a diagram. >> supervisor kim: sfgovtv, if you could -- >> i thank you very much, jane kim, for this process. i've lived in the neighborhood since 2002, and i noticed for a long time that there was needs and changes that continually needs to be addressed. while i was doing this, a neighbor of mine started a neighborhood watch group, and i saw a lot of success with that. and once that success, i actually started a neighborhood watch group. but as i started doing this, i realized there were a lot of people just like myself who were voice are their concerns and -- voicing their concerns and opinions, but they were small voices. but the more i started doing this, the more i realized that all of these voice dos were yelling and screaming. people didn't know how to address that. they didn't

members of christmas, kevin mccarthy, the incoming minority leader, steve scalise, mo brooks of alabama, jim jordan, additionally chris gibsonmark weber, anna wegner all there as well. the real question now is i am not sure what to do because they have passed a measure for border security. taking a look at it. the president will be speaking at 2:30. we do know that. it is also interesting to note that the president has kind of stopped talking about his "wall" and is now talking about steel barrier, which may be a democrats may find more palatable. i doubt it. >> dana: he is giving them some options. i did have one question, why didn't the president say anything before the senate voted on the bill that now he doesn't like? >> i was talking to white house officials yesterday afternoon when it was floating around the senate. are they going to eat the cr? the consensus seemed to be yeah, he would reluctantly assign it. but then he woke up this morning and was clearly of a different mind with what his aides told him yesterday. he wants us funding for border security. what he can get out of congress he's going to try to get out of