Yes. And in terms of looking at rehearing and jurisdiction requests, rehearing requests, nine were denied, two withdrawn. Jurisdiction requests, one was denied, one granted and three withdrawn. The numbers over the years have gone down a built by it in terms of volume and jurisdiction requests. Looking on page 23, geographic distribution, not much changed there over the years. You can see in red, those are all the address points of the permits that were issued to properties at those addresses. So its the northeast quadrant. I just want to touch quickly on 24 on the appeals Management System. Its been really great. Its a significant improvement. Its unbelievable. I feel like we are in the 21st century compared to what we had before. And i think its really incredible in terms of reporting capabilities. Our old system, we had to export everything from our system through access and then cobble the numbers in compel. There was a lot of room for error so this is going to be more accurate data. We saw a number of very large sunshine requests, like even for this recent case, they wanted to know all the d. B. I. Revocations so ms. Sullivan did an excellent job going through everything. But our new system really helped us go back and see which departments we can easily run a number of different types of reports, anything, really, with sales force, you just add different parameters. So it also helped us with the sunshine request for the wireless cases, the civil grand jury asked for all our wireless cases. And no problem, we could whip that out very quickly. And so thats great. What im very happy about, the new system is that it creates agendas. So our old systems did not have the capability. So it was actually manually, every time a case was rescheduled, someone had a cut and paste from one word document and put it on another and that was gather, and he was absolutely fantastic. And when he left i was saying how did he do this . Because i was doing it and making mistakes. But the new system, unless you dont enter in the system, this wouldnt happen. Its just great. So it keeps track of all the cases. The system does that. Well have the ability in the future to we are going to be able to integrate with the treasure collector which is another great feature so we can take payments online and at the kiosk at the new permit center. So we wont even have to handle money anymore, which is great. So i feel like we are a built oldfashioned now. We only take cash or check and one of my Staff Members walks up to city hall once a week to make that deposit. So this system will really help us. I think once we move, we are going to have that capability in place. Just moving forward and moving along to the budget, page 27, of course ill do a thorough budget presentation in february. But this is looking back. And we had a pretty good year. I think we were worried. Our projected revenue our actual revenue was below our projected revenue. But our expenditures were less than our projected expenditures. But if you turn on page the next page, 29, it gives a breakdown of where our money goes. But we did use money from the reserve account if you look at the table at the bottom. Because we did make one payment on our new appeals Management System of 38,000. Obviously it costs more than that. We made subsequence payments and those will be reflected in fiscal year, the next fiscal year. But our reserves will be adjusted based on our revenue surplus or deficit. So there will be an accounting toward the end of this year. And then on page 30, after extensive analysis by the Controllers Office, they only suggested that we increase the surcharge by 50 cents for planning and d. B. I. This is for fiscal year 20. For d. P. H. To 4450. And just as a recap, most of our income comes from surcharges, about 95 percent. Every year the controller does a calculation, should we raise or lower them, and we did have a significant reserve account so the whole purpose of the fee is to be Cost Recovery for the boards expenses so since we had a large reserve, the thinking was we need to reduce it because we are overcharging the public if we have such a large reserve. So that will go down. I mean, we took money out of our reserve this well, last fiscal year to cover shortfall. And then just 58,000 this year. And we have the other payments for the appeals Management System. But i made this comment last year. I think the year before. I disagree with living on reserves. And with the reduction, its simply the reduction in fees related to telephone, you know, the telephone installation appeals that we wont get this year is going to have a financial impact. And i think that well, okay. Go ahead. Yeah. So and also if there is a building slowdown because there is a projected this boom has to stop sooner or later, and it seems it may be on the horizon, although people have been saying that for five years. I think we should be very cautious about continuing the practice of eating away our reserves. Because ultimately, we are going to have to raise our fees astronomically, and people are going to say you just raised your fees 15 percent because we had to when we should have been gradually raising them. I anticipate that day when its a paradigm shift. I completely agree with you. I argued long and hard with the Controllers Office. I had the manager involved with our analyst and this is the end result. And they werent changing it. The good news is it hasnt been reduced that much. Its been reduced some. But yeah, i agree with you. Im more in line with your thinking. But ultimately, at the end of the day, i cant make that call. The Controllers Office does. I have to make the same, because i got to go on the record. I hope that you bring my comments to the controller and to the people who are giving you that feedback that we are spending on borrowed continuing to borrow money, really, thats what you do when you are eating into reserves and ultimately we are going to run out if we continue to do that. And murphys law, perfect storm, thats when the bottom falls out and we go into deficit. And i think its a very, very illadvised practice. And 50 cents cents isnt going to break anybody, one dollar, two dollars, three dollars, it was 10, 15, 20, it would be a different story. But we are not a little bit more is fully appropriate. Especially with the increases in Construction Costs and the overall project costs that we are all planning on. So thats it. I dont want to stay too late. Thank you. So at the end is the litigation report. We do have new lawsuits filed against the city. So you are familiar with those cases. And we have other pending decisions. But let me know if you have any questions about the report. We do need to vote on whether to adopt or approve it. And i forget, because i read it and wasnt looking at me did you put in the document that we made a special request to the board of supervisors . Yes, i did. Its in there . Its in there, yes. I just wanted to say thank you so much to you and the staff for preparing it and all the work you did. Thank you its a nice variation. Thank you. Move to adopt the annual report. Okay. Is there any Public Comment . [laughter] all is right in the world, right . Okay. So we have a motion from Vice President lazarus to adopt this annual report with the correction of the typo that was identified. [laughter] on that motion, [roll call] good job, and we are adjourned. Thank you. The motion carryies. Good job, everybody. Still a lot of people wonder since the trees have a lot of issues, why did we plant them in the first place . Trees are widely planted in San Francisco. With good reason. They are workhorses when it comes to urban forestry. We have begun to see our ficustrees are too big and dangerous in San Francisco. We have a lot of tree failures with this species in particular. This is a perfect example of the challenges with the structure of the ficustrees. You can see four very large stems that are all coming from the same main truck. You can see the two branches attached to one another at a really sharp angle. In between you cant it is a lot of strong wood. They are attached so sharply together. This is a much weaker union of a branch than if you had a wide angel. This is what it looks like after the fi c. U. Resolution s limb. We see decline. You can see the patches where there arent any leaves at all. That is a sign the tree is in decline. The other big challenge is the root system of the tree are aggressive and can impact nearby utilities, and we can fix the sidewalk around the tree in many cases. We dont want to cuts the roots too severely because we can destabilize the tree. In a city like San Francisco our walks are not that wide. We have had to clear the branches away from the properties. Most of th the can canopy is one street side and that is heavyweight on those branches out over the street. That can be a factor in tree limb failures. A lot of people wonder since these trees have a lot of issues. Why did we plant them in the first place . They provided the city with benefits for decades. They are big and provide storage for carbon which is important to fight Climate Change and they provide shade and really i think many people think they are a beautiful asset. When we identify trees like this for removal and people protest our decision, we really understand where they are coming from. I got into this job because i love trees. It just breaks my heart to cut down trees, particularly if they are healthy and the issue is a structural flaw. I have also seen first hand what happens when we have failures. We have had a couple of injuries due to tree failures. That is something we cant live with either. It is a challenging situation. We hate to lose mature trees, but Public Safety has to always i want to welcome everybody. This is the ninth year of the gun buybacks. This year the gun buy back the nation wide. We are going to have it not here in San Francisco, it is going to be in vale vallejo, baltimore, boston, so the momentum of the gun buyback is picking up. Our whole mission is to end senseless gun violence. I am not against the Second Amendment but i am a survival of gun violence, and i am highly against gun violence. That is why we are here standing in solidarity today. There are so many partners today that made this happen. This is just not one person or one organization. I want to thank our mayor of San Francisco, our leader for being a leader in the issue of gun violence. Give her a hand and welcome. Mattie scott, the mothers, Brady Campaign, all of the mothers who are part of this endeavor to end gun violence. Give it up for the mothers. [applause] i would be wrong if i didnt acknowledge jason and all of the gentlemen who came home after doing a life sentence in prison behind violence who are here to end senseless violence. Give them brothers a hand. [applause] i definitely have got to give a shout out to the sfpd who are partners of ours to end this gun violence. It is controversy with the community and cops. We are standing here in solidarity. Thank you guys for showing up, sfpd. [applause] all our Community Partners based in this together and or sponsors. Dispensary stores, barberry coast, green door, elevated, the shrine who helps us out. There are so many dispensary that help make this happen. My man, adam. He is a business onener, thank you, adam for providing the resource and support to the community and developers. We are all in this together. I want to say thank you. I want to bring up our amazing mayor who is a great leader, not just in our city but in the region. Give i you will for mayor give it up for mayor london breed. Mayor breed it is always good to come to united players and see so many amazing people. A lot of my friends and folks i have known for so many years. It is great to see everyone here. I wish we didnt have to be here for this reason. So many of us impacted by gun violence for so many years. The reason why i got involved in Public Service had everything to do with the people that i lost over the years to gun violence. You know, i lie look around ande posters, there are a lot more than what you see here, they are of people that i know. Young men who were gone way before their time. I think about over 1,000 guns united players collected and got off the streets and how in my mind that is thousands of people that are still alive because those guns arent on the streets. I think about the mothers that are here today and knowing your son was shot and the amazing work he did, and george, who i grew up with, a little older than me but a good dude who looked out for people in the community. I think about so many people, mostly a lot of africanamerican men who had lives taken away much too soon. I know that we are better than this. I know that when we come together we can help create change. I know that steam it seems hard. It seems hard because two days ago we had a shooting in the bayviewhunters point community. It seems hard because, you know, really sometimes it feels like the only time we in our communities get together is for the funerals of some of our young people who get taken because of gun violence. I want us to be reminded of this because it is so important to understand why we are here. We are here because we have lost so much over the years, and we dont want to lose anyone any more. That is why we are here. We are here to make a plea to people all over the bay area who have guns in their possession. Here is an opportunity on saturday, december 14th, no questions asked, to turnin your guns, to get those guns out of your possession, to make sure that a child doesnt get ahold of that gun and accidentally shoot themselves or another child, to make sure that those guns arent used to harm anyone else. You know, when i come to this press conference every single year, and i have been coming for years. When i participate in these activities, you know, for some reason my heart always feels heavy. It always feels heavy because, you know, i keep thinking about the people that arent here because of gun violence, senseless gun violence, that have taken the lives of so many people. Here is an opportunity for us working together to make sure that it is not one more, to make sure that we change the future of our city so that kids who grew up in th the middle of the violence and they dont know why. We want to make sure that is not normal. We create a new normal of people that are coming together to Work Together to create safe communities. We deserve safe communities. These mothers dont deserve to have lost their children before their time. The folks here are united players and rudy working every day to change the conditions of our communities, they do this because they understand the hurt and the devastating impacts of what violence does to communities. I want to thank our elected officials who are here today that i have worked with over the years in city government. I truly appreciate Assembly Member david chew and senator scott weiner for being here and supporting the effort we continue to push for to address gun violence, not only in our city but in our state. I appreciate supervisor haney who this district encompasses, someone who will carry on the legacy what we need to do to support not only this district but citywide to end gun violence. That shooting may have happened in bayviewhunters point community, but it still has a Significant Impact o on everyone in the city. Every time someone is struck down because of a gun it has an impact on everyone in this city. I want to thank deputy chief greg who i worked hand in hand within the Western Addition community for years when he was our captain. We were at the height of some of the violence occurring in the Western Addition. The way we dealt with that, partnership with the Police Department, working together to provide opportunities and programming and to deal with the need to make sure that we are addressing this issue head on. We got a lot of work to do, folks. With all of these incredible people today and our sponsors. I see jessie in the back hiding with bar bury coast, someone who grew up in the community and has given back and invested in the community. With all of us supporting one another, prayer together and really doing what is necessary, i know that we will get to a better place where no other mother or father or brother or sister has to stand here and be concerned about the impacts of gun violence on their family members and communities. We have an Incredible Opportunity to change San Francisco. We have an Incredible Opportunity because we have an incredible leader in rudy committed to the work and consistent in his advocacy to make sure we confront this issue head on. Not one more today or ever. Come out and bring your guns. Know questions asked. No questions asked. We are going to be here from 8 00 a. M. To 12 00 noon what is the address . 1038 howard street. I want the media, the tweeters and the people who do social media, get the word out because this is a real opportunity. Whoever has a gun in your possession, this is your opportunity to get rid of it and to do something to help make sure that the gun you possess doesnt create a devastating situation in anybodys life. That is why we are all here. Come out on saturday. Thank you all so much for your work and advocacy and all that you do to help support our communities and families. We aint going nowhere. Every single time we need to be there, we are going to be there. We are going to focus on making sure we are supporting and addressing the disparities that exist so our kids never get to a point where this is their reality in the first place. That is why we are all here together. That is why we are standing in solidarity to address an issue that is so impactful to so many people and we can help turn this thing around. Lets get out there. I hope to see you all on saturday. Rudy, thank you so much, and all of the work you continue to do means a lot. That is why everyone here is not just here to support you. We will continue to support you and do what is necessary to change the tide on gun violence in our country. Thank you. applause those guns will never hurt, harm or kill anybody again. We have 244 guns in the last gun buyback. 25 were assault rifles. You see what we are doing with the guns. The sfpd is our partner. We are making artout of the guns. The flyers with the Big Butterfly that is made out of guns. We are the not just holding them, we are destroying them. I want to go ahead and bring up our next speaker. Our senator, please give it up. Senator scott weiner. [applause] thank you. It is really easy to get down with all of the gun violence we see every single day in the news. There is more and more gun violence. It is easy to curl up in a ball and say there is nothing to do to solve this. We know that is not true. This organization gives me hope that working at a neighborhood level, at a local level we can move the conversation up and, finally, do Something Real about gun violence in this country. You know, some of the people who make excuses for guns, nra, they like to talk it is not about the guns, it is Mental Health or criminality or video games. We have heard all of the excuses. Of course, we know that people around the world have Mental Health issues and Mental Health issues from the beginning of time. People commit crimes around the world and they have since the beginning of time. People play video games. What is different about this country is not more Mental Health issues or video games or crimes. It is because we have more guns. This country is drowning in a tidal wave of guns. Until we reduce the number of guns in this society we will continue to have these problems. Young people whose lives are lost and the fact our children in Elementary Schools have to learn what to do if someone starts shooting people up in the school. Can you imagine having to be a child growing up in this kind of atmosphere . Of course, we Want Congress to act. Congress must act. We will make that happen. Until then we have to act locally. We know in california we have some of the strongest gun laws in country and we have a lower rate of gun violence in the state. It is not low enough. It needs to be zero. In the bay area we just put an end to the gun shows after decades we finally saw an end to it. [applause] and here in San Francisco what united plays is doing with the gun buyback is so important. It is step by step, gun by gun reducing the number of guns in the community in peoples hands. Every gun out of circulation is a gun not used to hurt someone. Thank you foreverring you do forever thing you do. You are the best. Get the guns off the street. To brother richards who led the read for shutting down at the cal palace. Thank you. December 14th before the next speaker. Behind full it is the sandy hook anniversary. That is why we are getting this nationwide gun buyback jumping off not in just the bay area but all over. Our next speaker Assembly Member david chew. [applause] good morning. Any united players in the house today . Thank you so much to rudy and your colleagues for knowing that it takes the hood to save the hood. I want to thank all of you who represent this village of San Francisco. Thank you to the mayor and the San FranciscoPolice Department and the faith leaders who provide comfort, the Brady Campaign and those sponsoring the event. We want toal absolut to salute r mothers demanding action. I stand as a father also demanding action. My son goes to Nursery School four blocks from here. Every day i am worried when i drop him off about his safety. My wife and i dont use the word shooting in our house, but somehow my 3yearold knows that word. He has not gone through his first active shooter training, but it is going to happen. This should not be the kind of country that we live in. I also stand as a frustrated policymaker. Years ago i helped to draft new york citys first strict Liability Law to hold manufacturers libel for their violence. The nra went to washington, d. C. And passed the federal law to preempt that local law. I went to washington, d. C. And drafted . Of the countrys gun safety laws. They never got through because of nra. We came to california because we believe differently. We believe that while folks may have a right to a gun, they dont have a right to kill people with that gun. Today 100 americans are going to die because of guns. This hour four people are going to die because of guns. Mothers, fathers are going to grieve. We are all saying there is a different way in San Francisco, in california. I am honored to be part of the community that says, hey, we can do it differently. No questions asked, give us something you dont need to be using. We are living for a day, a World Without gun violence, and i think if we pray and come together. Prayers are not gun with prayers and hard work we will do it. Someday we will not have to continue to grieve for what is happening. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you. I want to also acknowledge a couple other parties. Alexander from kilroy. Thank you. These brothers and sisters will be on the streets of San Francisco, svip, make it safer for us. Give it up for them guys. Project cannabis, my man johnny. Uncle dam damian. I want to bring up our leader in this community, district 6, my brother, matt mains. Thank you, thank you. We will give it up for rudy and united players one more time. He had a day named after him this year. For all of the people that you have helped, for all of the lives you have saved, thank you. I know we are talking about the gun buyback, but you all save lives by working with our kids. The work you do to make this place such a safe home for our young people i think does more than anything else could to save lives. We see positive signs in terms every deduction of violence in the community. It is because of what you are doing and what united players are doing and our mothers are doing to make the difference. I want to be very clear that gun buy backs save lives. They save lives, no doubt about it. Over 1,000 guns that were taken off the gun by united players and this coalition here save lives. We know it. If there is a gun in a home it is so much more likely that there is an accident where somebody gets shot or killed. That it is used in a crime or violence or that somebody uses it to take their own life. Many of us have also lost people to suicide. I lost my best friend growing up to suicide, and it was because there was a gun that was available that made it possible for him to take his own life. Every gun you can bring here on saturday. You think it is old, doesnt have a reason to be in your home any more. It doesnt. Bring it here. Get rid of it. No questions asked, and get some money. This is a gun buyback. Dont forget the part where people it is christmas. Holidays are coming up. I want to recognize the extraordinary coalition of folks in this room. The mothers, mattie scott, who brought me to support the gun buybacks when i was a School Board Member seven years ago. We became the First School District in the country to send home information to every student and family about the gun buy back. That was a policy of the School District to do that. I want to thank all of the folks in the room, especially the men who came home, who may have themselves been involved or exposed to victims of violence and have come here and have been leaders in our community to keep everyone safe. The power of that statement is extraordinary. The sfpd. You are making this possible and safe every time it is done, to the funders. This example of a gun buyback has inspired the country. The entire country is joining on the same die to follow the lead of our mothers of our Community Members and rudy an and the younated players. Thank you so much everyone for your leadership. Thank you so much for your leadership. Two more speakers. One of our partners on the sfpd. Mccrack ken. Good afternoon. It is mc crekren. I want to thank everybody here today for the invitation for the San FranciscoPolice Department to participate in this gun buy back program. We have participated in this for the tenth year. This is a collaborative effort between Law Enforcement and the community, united players who handles this. We are so thrilled to be part of it like we have been every year. What we realize is that we become part of the trust and the process that the Community Wants to see between Law Enforcement and those that we are sworn to protect. Rudy earlier today brought out those guns that are on the floor that many of you have taken a picture of. I am extremely confident had one of those guns on the floor not been taken in a gun buyback it might very well be an instrument that might have taken someones life this year. I am confident we are a participant in saving lives. This opportunity that we have here in San Francisco to reduce the gun violence, especially at the Holiday Season may save a childs life, the life of a loved one that you have because there will be one less gun on the street or in a home that may do harm. When we at lawence foment work with the community in the manner like this, it shows the cooperation between the community and Law Enforcement. Often times we can get viewed as the other side of the equation and that becomes difficult in Law Enforcement. We realize we all have the same goal to save lives. We are down 18 in homicides this year. We are proud of that and we have continued to trend downwards over a number of years. Just one homicide in this city is one too many. Our goal so to reach it to be down 100 , 200 , 0. We want to get there. When i was at captain at northern station, like mayor breed said, i worked with rudy. He came out to the Western Addition and i was out there and maddi was there and we took 220 guns off the street to reduce the violence in the Western Addition at that time. I am confident the one this saturday will do the same thing. Thank you, rudy for leading this. What you do for this program cannot be said enough. It is amazing what you do in a partnership for the community and with Law Enforcement. The things that you do with the teenagers and kids in this city is nothing short of miraculous, and i dont think you always get enough credit. I want to thank you for your friendship. The cooperation with the community and Law Enforcement brings us today. Maddi, you are a champion for this every year, whether it is gun buy back or the death of someone that is close to you or someone that you heard about. That means a lot to me and to this department for you to be here as well. This saturday you have an opportunity to turnin firearms, no questions asked. We will be from and our only goal is to take these firearms with no questions asked to render them safe and to destroy them and to take them off the street or out of the home and save some lives. Lets do that together. Thank you. [applause] i saved the best for last. I want to give a shout out to many different organizations that are in the community. From the leadership west bay right there, it is always humble to hide in the back. You need to be here with us. You did more outreach than all of us put together. Charlie right here. This guy right here. I dont see him. He worked with the kids. My brother paul who is always showing love to the community. The next person i am going to bring up is from reentry. This is my brother, this gentleman right here. He walked barefooted. He is on this side saving lives instead of taking lives. I save the best for last. Get a dose of this, mr. Cameraman, give it up for my brother everett, aka bogie, you all. Good afternoon. I want to thank each and every one of you for coming here today. Lets have a moment of silence for the lost souls. I stand before you a return efrom incarceration. Where i came from made me who i am today. That is what i am proud to be. I was once a gang member from los angeles. I did 26 years of incarceration for murder. In the midst of my incarceration i rebooted my train of thought and receive things differently. I stand before you a united player. My boots are on the ground for the lost souls on the walls, mothers fighting for sons, my prayers go out to them. I ask you to stand firm like you are doing today in union fiction of doing the right thing, giving back and fighting back for the right to have a life, not take alive. I apologize to you for the life that i took, which is why i am doing what i am doing. I wear boots because i know the job is real in the field. I came from la. I am present here in the bay and i do the job. It is real. It is really real, and we must continue to do the right thing, and that is get out in the streets and show what is done. My prayer for mr. Dadda. He was a devoted united players and he lost his life at a young age and it helped me step back and say, man, was it worth it . I could do better. So i get out in the streets and i do better. I pass these out. I work on stephen son with the addicts. Because i deal with the addicts, i understand the people. I am dealing with the persons addiction mentality, physically or the addiction of heroin or the drug they use. I deal with them respectful oppose to aggressively. That is the right way to do it. One bad, one found. Our boots got to stay on the ground. Thank you. [applause] thank you for coming out today. Thank you to the media, mothers. This saturday. 1399 mcallister street. I want to thank Community Partners, developers, alexander. Sometimes they dont Say Developers believe in the community. You are here. Feel me, girl, you are there in living color. The dispensary stores, my brother jesrewho just did a Bowling Tournament and donated proceeds to united players. All proceeds to a worthy cause, to the people. Thank you for coming out and showing love and support. We got your back like a backpack, baby and your chest like a bulletproof vest, teflon, baby. Thank you. That is trump, he gets no love. How about that . All partners here i want to finish by saying this. The art piece that you see that is the monarch. It was made out of all guns. It was made by that sister behind be you, jason. The spirit and her husband. I dont know how they made it. You have got to ask them. It is made out of guns. Thank you for everybody who is helping end senseless gun violence. One gun that kills one person could destroy a whole planet, you all. One gun that saves and is destroyed off the street can save that one life. But the other side is maddi. One gun not off the streets will kill somebody and can destroy everybody. Lets save as many lives as we can. One bad, one sound. Thank you, brother. [applause] i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. They give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. We take pride. When we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. It makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. The stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. You can see the community ambassadors. I used to be on the streets. I didnt think i could become a community ambassador. It was too far out there for me to grab, you know. Doing this job makes me feel good. Because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. I am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. I used to be like this, you know. I have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. It reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now