over time, it was wonderful, never as wonderful as when warren hellman it left us with his strictly bluegrass and then it hardly strictly bluegrass. thank you, nancy. isn't it wonderful that warren hollow is near by? we can to learn, play, listen to the music, smell the flowers. we came to recreate. to my friends, all of that, to recreate. that is a very important word. and your assignment, your role is such an important one. but think of that word, to recreate. said another way, re-create. it is important to the life of a person and community that people renew themselves and restorer, re-create as they recreates. this is so important to the life of our people in our city and our community. so wonderful that we're near the national aids memorial grove, national. [applause] when that was established, anna was there. she held us. some people said, i do not haveh for one ellis, one disease. others would say we should not do it here but in our district. some did not want to have it. the others did not want it for themselves. we went out. we put it on the same bill, the presidio trust bill was lea

not have pension reform, as they accomplished with the board of supervisors in with people like warren hellman and others that helped us last year passed that very important thing. it is looks better now that we have proposition d that was passed with our street paving bonds and other things that we have done smartly. but with that, we still have a very complicated decisions to make that will reflect our priorities. i want to also thank supervisor carmen chu who is out here tonight. she is going to be the head of the budget committee -- committee. [laughter] that the supervisors have selected with david chiu's help. this is her third. i have committed to six. we are combining as many of the districts together as possible, so we're trying to do this as efficiently as possible. but we will do all six. we know, based on last year's turnout and i think tonight, the turnout as well, if we listen to closely, we go and do our homework, we will make good decisions so that hopefully you are not there the end of may screaming at us in the months of june saying we did not listen. we have got to listen ea