updike. i believe that the sponsor would like to say a few words. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you, madame chair. before we hear from the budget analyst, i want to say that i am a big fan of moving forward with this lease. this was instigated based on dollars that were procured in 2007. the reason for this, participating the end of the -- the dirt -- the jurisdiction of the western division in japan town, where workforce centrally surrounded construction jobs and fast-food restaurants was coming to an end. there was really very little vision in helping people in that sector of our city to be able to find other jobs in the industries that they were oriented towards for 40 years. this was the first and is the first one-stop job training center that was co-run by city and goodwill. we put it in the epicenter of the western addition, right on gary and western. the focus, of course, with redevelopment, we did not know it would be eliminated. knowing that this was going to conclude in 2009 in the western addition, we wanted to start getting the people of o

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