Moment here in San Francisco. I have the great honor to be your mc for this ocean im jupiter per asa. An occasion that is personal to me and close to my heart. For some context why that is, back in 2021 i wrote the initial draft proclamation that designating august as transgender History Month. I was inspired by the cafeteria riots on an august 9 in 1966. We dont know exactly what day it happened but we do know that it happened in august. I asked myself, why is it that we dont know what day it happened . It is monumental history. Why dont we know . The sad reality of it is that this monumental occurrence was so major and unlike anything that had ever occurred before at that scale in the United States , that an effort to eliminate it from records and existence ensued. It persisted. And because of it, watershed moments in the lbgtq Civil Rights Movement followed. Such as the stonewall riots of 1969. So, the idea transgender History Month began to take shape via this train of thought. I thought about black History Month and womens History Month. Now national low recognized months. And the essential education and awareness that they bring to the general masses every year. That knowledge is critical in bringing awareness and understanding of the struggles and history that have taken place to get where we are now. When i wrote this procolumnation i had the honor of serving as director of social Justice Empowerment Initiative the transgender district the worlds only legally recognized cultural district dedicated to the Transgender Community. Based in the tenderloin neighborhood. Grounded and rooted in the 55 to the event that is the cafeteria riot. With the guidance of president of the transgender district, we brought the proclamation to the office of transgender initiatives. Without the office transgender initiate evers, in their instrumental advocacy for transgender History Month to the mayors office. We would not be sitting here today. Director powell craigo wherever he is and the office of transgender initiatives serve a huge round of applause for determination to make this happen. In last but not least, transgender History Month would not have happened at all without the profound alliship of mayor breed. Yes. Round of applause. Mayor breed has proven time and time again her unwaivering alliship to the transgender communitiful dedication to support,up lift and empower San FranciscoTransgender Community. Mayor breed has set the bar for any mayor across any city in the United States on what it means to be inclusive and stand with the Transgender Community. And in what seemed to be a sign from the universe in our transs mir breed signed transgender History Month on august 24, 2021. On what would have been masha p. Johnsons 76th birthday. [applause] and just last year, Santa Clarita county adopted transgender History Month. Following San Franciscos leadership. Transgender history should not be understated. Transgender history helps us understand the shared struggled that bind us. How we are more alike than we are different. Whether or not [inaudible] or trans. Now t is imperative to lone in transgender history to understand the reemergence of extremists in violent antitransgender rhetoric that has taken a hold of National Politics the last few years. The a tax were seen against the transgender and gender Diverse Communities are not new. In fact, hay draw from the detectiveds of the 1970s and 80s that lead to the station of [inaudible] as a mental disorder. I quote, disease. Such developments rated systemic hurdles that hindered many transpeople from seek gender affirming Health Care Services and a better quality of life. The consequence manifested of trans people from society. Resulting in poverty, isolation, depression, unpreps dented transphobic violence and sickness. We must learn to guarantee a future defined by liberation. Transpeople have contributed a great deal to modern day society. Transpeople deserve to know they come from a lineage of thought leaders, pioneers and warriors. Our history is a vivid and captivating account of sack fireworks transformation, joy and a journey toward personal liberation. We sit here, with the gift that is the Transgender Community of San Francisco. To have icons and pioneers like mrs. Sona persona. Ms. Bill cooper. Chung, aria, connie mahogany. Ja neta johnson. Powell prego, tina. Nicole doctor striker and many, many others seen and unseen paving their way in their own field such as melanie and gender affirming care and kenya in technology and engineering. So now, i welcome a trans icon and someone i admire. For a lands acknowledgment. This individual is cofounder of the transgender district. Coowner of the stud. And the highest elected black transwoman in the country for any democratic chapter. Give a warm welcome to part chair of the San Francisco democrat irk central committee. Connie mahogany. Thank you, so much, jupiter for that introduction. One more time for jupiter. [applause] thanks to here we are here tilde have the honor on behalf of old bull doing the land acknowledgment. This land acknowledgment recognizes the city of San Francisco resides on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone land on a village site. We acknowledge the suffering caused by the theft and colonization of the land and grieve the on going harm to Ramaytush Ohlone cultures and to all the indigenous cult urs of the planet. We honor the Ramaytush Ohlone the stewards of the lands and wildlife. We recognize the live home of the Ramaytush Ohlone people the on going existing first people of San Francisco and the surrounding bay area. With rich cult urs full of song, dance, language, ceremonies and tradition. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much. Honey. And now i would like to introduce the champion of transgender History Month. Give a warm welcome to mayor london breed. [applause] first of all, hi to take a moment to just really appreciate jupiters comments. And putting thing in perspective to truly celebrate transgender History Month in San Francisco. It is so grit to be here with all of you including our elected lead e Joel Engardio a member of the board of supervisors. [applause]. You can wave, joel. He is look at me do i wave what do i do . The first liege fire chief in San Francisco history ja jeanine nicholson. Connie chew and joaquin torres. Let me honor some amazing trail blazers ms. Billie cooper in the back. As well as donna persona. And i want to acknowledge the executive director for pride who is joining us today. Thank you so suzanne ford for your hard work in making pride really special. [applause]. The new generation of leaders in the transcommunity stand on your shoulders. We are grateful to welcome you all here to San Francisco upon city hall to celebrate transgender History Month in the city and county of San Francisco [applause] thank you, honey for that great land acknowledgment. And what i love so much in talking about San Francisco on such a special occasion is not just that our city is a resilient city because of the community what they represent in terms of the history the transgender movement, which really, truly was at the center of sparking a movement for lbgtq community and San Francisco as a city of firsts. When you think, people continue to talk about stonewall the first known movements in history that occurred in new york. And we all know in San Francisco, that if we dont talk about our history, if we dont put it out there, someone else will try to take credit for had we have done in San Francisco. In 1966, what happened here comptons riots is not elevated and documented and talked about and celebrated the first movements in the lbgtq movement not just the transgender and the drag queen move inspect all of the movements combined, this is where it started in San Francisco because of this community. As i talk about San Francisco being a city of first i came from 150th Year Anniversary celebration of the cable car. It is 150 years first cable car invented the only still in San Francisco. And San Francisco really is a city of firsts. First cable car. First television invent in the San Francisco. We condition. The clap on San Francisco invented that. Which created this door for technology and opportunity and the which ia pet the guy who invented the clap on. Why do we talk about this . Because when it happens in San Francisco it takes flight. And here in San Francisco we started with not just the first office of transgender initiatives, but it went on along with so many great leaders that were mentioned including honey and others to start a transgender district. To really Work Together with our Transgender Advisory Committee to put forth initiatives to not just talk about history and the movement but to final low make Real Investment to push for aggressive change. Im proud that San Francisco continues to push the envelope. Continues to be put on the map when it come to transgender rights. And the w this we have done together including the transhome sf and a commitment to end transhomelessness in San Francisco has been transformtive. And along with the challenges that continue to persist around homelessness in this community. The First Program around universal basic income for transgender people in San Francisco. A lot of the work we continue to do in including the first building the first building to have transgender youth here in San Francisco. And let mow tell you, the challenge we continue to run into because transgender people as a whole are under attack but our youth more than anything else. So much so this we could not really announce celebrate and disclose the location out of fear what might happen to those young people who will be moving in this space. But the city did not let that stop us from moving forward. We invested resources and help to support lion martin in terms of the w they are doing the security that they need to ensure this people can get health care and support and resource. Without fear of being attacked. Well is so much that we are doing in San Francisco. Jupiter out lined a lot of the great initiatives and would not happen had it not been for this incredible xhounlts. Continuing to push the envelope. Continuing to advocate. And continuing to make sure that this communities is united in our fight to ensure that the support that is available not just to the lbgtq community as a whole but well is a specific focus. On the transcommunity for resources, services, based on challenges and disparities that continue to persist. This community represents wholehearted low the resiliency what it means to be a francesca. When we talk about the Phoenix Rising from the ashes your strength, courage and everything you continue to do to push the envelope; is why so many others in had country and in this world can truly be courageous they look to San Francisco and they truly see that we are a beacon of hope in the Transgender Community. [applause] thank you all for being here to celebrate transgender History Month in San Francisco lets continue to roll up our sleeves. Continue to do this incredible work to those who are a part of the community as well as the alli. We will push the inspect in San Francisco and maintain our place as a beacon of hope for all transpeople throughout the world. Thank you. [applause] thank you, mayor breechld give mayor breed another round of applause. Thank you. And now i Welcome Back Party chair of the San FranciscoDemocratic Committee honey mahogany. [applause] thank you, so much an honor to be here amongst community and leaders and here in my home town of San Francisco which as the mayor said has been a place of so many firsts for our community. Im proud to stand here the first transperson to serve as chair of any local democratic per in the country. Im here proud as one of the founders of the cultural district and someone who live in a city we committed to ending trans homelessness. That being said, even here in San Francisco we have so much more work to do. Even here in the state of california we still have people who are attacking transpeople rights. And as we see laws passed in other states across the country, so many people are fleeing to sanctuary cities like california and cities like San Francisco only to find they couldnt ford to live here fetch are going to be a sanctuary city we have to double down on investments. Ensure when people come they are welcomed and stabilized and allowed to continue to prosper and to live that dream of what sanctuary means in San Francisco. I think that one of the things we can do most are or best is be as loud and proud as we can be here. We have to demonstrate to the world what transexcellence looks like and have to teach our history. The reason that republicans and people of across the country are attacking our school boards. Education system and public schools. Banning book because they than education is the 63 to their success and the way in which they can exploit us as scapegoats. I want to say that who i we saw the rhetoric in the 70s and 80s it does did not start there. We can go back to world war ii when we saw the discrimination pushed upon our community. When we think about the book burnings by the nazi party. One of the first and famous and one you seen pictures of happened at the clinic of doctor magnus. Was a jewish gay jewish doctor when republican a gender clinic in germany. Years of reswhaefrp it money to bes transgender. And how to help transgender people of all of that research and that knowledge and books was burned and destroyed. And transpeople went from at this time in germany able to live their live in public being able to get cards to acknowledge they were trans people and allowed wear when than i wore. They went from this to persecuted and the Pink Triangle on them and burn in the gas chambered. It is very important we remember that history this. We acknowledge that history and teach that history to so we dont repeat it today we are seeing history repeat itself. In places here like San Francisco, we have leaders who do the right thing. Leaders who are fight to make this say safe space and doing their best to ensure people can come here and seek sanctuary. I challenge us e approximately allis to do more. Meet the challenge. As chair of the Democratic Party i have honor of working along side nancy pelosi in doing stone bank across our state and the country to make sure we elect people who will fight for our rights not just transrival right to access Reproductive Health care and abortions this is all linked. Please, it is in the enough to attend rallies. Not enough to call yourself an alli. Do the work, join us in using our privilege in San Francisco to create change across the state and the country. You can hit us up at the website and phone bank join us and sister district and other organization in doing this work that will lead lay the path way to us winning in 2024. We need to get that seat and ensure we preserve our democracy. Thank you. [applause] thank you so much issue hone. Now i welcome 2 special people. One of them is brianna mc cree. Show is the former director of Community Engagement for the center of excellence for transgender hang at ucsf. She has lead transgender empowerment and hiv treatment in the tenderloin the last 20 years special this past june she was one of San Francisco prides grand marshall. The second individual is carlo ortega Community Organizer who served as the Development Coordinator for you delores foundation. He is the cofound and are facilitator of the first Spanish Language support group for latin x transmen. In the San Francisco east bay. The 2 individuals are very, very special. They will both be leading the transgender district as coexecutive directors. Lets give a very warm welcome to the new executive sdreshths of the transgender district. [applause] goodness. Happy transHistory Month happy transHistory Month thank you to jupiter and honey and especially mayor breed. Thank you for being a light for transliberation. I was told i have a minute let me speed through this. Thank you jupiter for leading the charge and helping create this legislation that will be recognized on the state level. Thank you to the cofounders honey, jell neta and aria and working with suz abstriker to uncover the rich history in San Franciscos tenderloin area to elevate the people. Through my leadership with carlo, i hope to expand on the legace programs of the district creating more possibility models for the folks in the tenderloin for the future. Thank you. [applause] why hello. Thank you so much, thank you to mayor breed. To jupiter, to honest and he of course to the speakers who will be here today and honorees and the attendise, our community. So, so honored to be here and humbleed number this position and look forward to building with all of you as we move forward. Im carlo, im excited work with brianna my colleague at the transgender district. The San Francisco as we celebrate this month of joy, contribution, of over coming. Heeling. We need this. We need this here and every where. Im excited for the transgender district. Im excited for the future focusing on place making. We are excited meet everyone. Am and to invite to you our event programming especially in this mont. I want to talk about a few events we are having. First is expectancyive will be tomorrow august third and 4. At the act at 7 30. Tickets are available we hope you can all come. We also have a riot party the famous party acknowledgment of the important history on the 27th of august. It would be 12 oclock at the gardens here in the district. So. More information on both of the events can be found at the transgender district sf. Com events page. Go there for tickets. Share with friends we want to expand the reach to make sure folks, our community as access to the programming. And all we are excited the graduation is happening for transgender and queer people of color. Many of our participates are here. And it is a 4 Month Program this start in the april and finishing this month. So we are excited to be celebrating graduation of the new corporate double the size as it was left year. And we want to introduce the businesses and artists and folks to you. Please, come to the graduation on the 23rd of august at conner polk at 5 30. It is my pleasure to introduce our past graduate who is is an horree today. Melanie. Who is an experience in license elect trolgs in San Francisco. Give her a grand hand for lifting update droll he had years ago and making it reality. Thank you. [laughter] hello issue everyone. Transgender History Month honors the hardships, struggles and the obstacles and trail blazer who worked hard. There is still w to be done but seeing all your beautiful face here is a testament that we are going to be resilient and over come anything. I want to take a moment to thank my mentors aria, honey mahogany. Nikki, just to name a few. The people inspired and guided me throughout my years. Thank you to the transgender district. Entrepreneurship program for helping make the dream come true. With how our Political Climate is and how it is trying to strip transgender people of our rights, it is programs like these that are vital to make sure that our community not only survives but thrives. Building wealth in our community to ensure a Brighter Future for us all. And mayor breed announces second rounds of grant opportunity for store fronts and Small Businesses in San Francisco recently. And im too late for the ground but i hope i get grand opportunity up in here. San francisco hook a sister up. On a serious note, im a fill pinaamerican native and transgender woman. Born and raised in hayward, california. Of my mother, rest in peace, a single mother of 3 and worked several jobs to make ends meat. We came from Humble Beginnings and seeing how hard she worked to put food on the table. Shoes on our feet and roof over or head instilled a hard work ethic in me. This irrelevant made me realize young they was not born with a silver spoon and the world was going to be very different for a person like me. It took me a long time to find my purpose in life the road was not easy. But today i am proud to say now in the second year in business. There are 5 employees including myself that are all transgender women. We provide gender affirming service for the Transgender Community. By the Transgender Community. We are proud to be the first open low transowned and operated practice in the city of San Francisco. The definition of hard needs to make more chiefly or can have the. We are honored do this work. With your continued support, we hope to grow and be open for business for many years to come. For those of you out there this feel unsure of your purpose in life or lost at times. Please know this i have been in your shoes before. I want be you to listen when im know to tell you. You are the star of your own story. You control the narrative of your life. Live with love for yourself. Love yourself with your whole heart. And believe in yourself. Because being trans, is powerful. You have the power to make your history as beautiful as you wish it to be. Thank you, everybody and help transgender History Month. [applause] thank you. Thank you too to brianna can carlo and melanie as well. Before i welcome mayor breed back to hand out certificates of honor to 4 recipients i would like to give a special shout out to someone i look up to joaquin gerrero appointed to homelessness oversight commission. Which was legislative last year. [applause] joaquin is i brilliant political transadvocate and incredible housing navigator. So thank you, joaquin for being you and your mentorship. Now lets welcome mayor london breed back. [applause] are you going to help me, jupiter . I know i miss third degree part of my notes. Okay im going to wing it. [laughter]. We have some of our youth. First of all i want to start with a certificate honoring someone who i just absolutely adover during the pandemic the ability to have a conversation with her and to talk to her about the challenges and obstacles to be at this moment. And how she told me donna persona told me how it fills her heart with joy ton what the city is doing how the next generation will not have to suffer in the same ways she has had to and the fact. She is i know donna persona but donna who reflects, all of what it means to persevere and over come and to still be standing and looking good i see your legs, girl. So, donna for all of that you do to really make a difference to show up time and time again to be a testament of resilience and strength and support for the community and a strong desire to ensure that the next generation is uplifted and supported; we wanted honor your legacy. Celebrating and you thanking you for being so amazing so, donna. [applause] i want to thank the mayor of san fan for this honor. By taking this award i vow to keep the history that i helped bring to the world. The cafeteria riot. I cowrote a play to document and bring forth this history. And i vow to keep working and bringing that history to the world. And to show that transpeople can thrive. Not just survive but thrive and show themselves as the wonderful people that they are. Thank you. [applause] and you know i know that folks like donna and Billie Cooper and others here, would have never imagined that it would be possible to see a day when young people can get a lot of the gender affirming surgeries. The new technology can occur when is amazing about the young people we are here to honor today is their courage. Their courage to be able to step out and be who they want to be. In this world. And i know that so many of the folks here with the challenges this exist not just in the United States but all overnight world. You know it does take courage to stand out on faith and to acid vocate and push. Fact they put together an amazing march to allow for body autonomy the ability to decide what you want top do for your own body that is your decision. And your decision alone and they stood up and they went out on faith and created a march that brought together so many people from all over to really just continue to acknowledge it. It is my body my choice that works for wloo someone chooses to have an abortion. Wloo someone chooses to do when they choose but we deserve that right this. Snks generation is push to ensure that body autonomy is respected we are honoring them for work and advocacy and the ability with the young legs to stands this long without sitting down. This honors youth organizers of San Francisco the San Francisco march for queer and transyouth autonomy. [applause] [applause] hello, everyone. Im am one of the organizers of the queer march. I want to acknowledge how grateful i am for all of us myself and my organizers. For the certificate of honor. We spent, lot of time organizing over zoom. A lot of late nights trying to make the most of this march and really pushing our dedication to the transcommunity and how we want other youth to feel the same way as we do. Being able to speak out about who they are, express themselves the way they want to. Without reservation. And i will leave it there. Again other thank you so much for joining us and i appreciate everyone here. Thank you. [applause]. All right. That concludes our program, thank you all for being here for the Second Annual transgender History Month. Once again, thank you to mayor london breed. The recipients of the certificates of honor. A huge congratulations and i invite folks to enjoy some really delicious snacks with transflags on top and refreshments it is really hot in here. So without further adieu, on the count of 3, i want us to shout, happy transgender History Month and fill had beautiful city hall and have our sound ricochet up to the dome are we ready yea. I want to do it really loud. Okay . One two three happy transgender History Month [applause] [applause] [music] office of Initiative Start in the 2017 and started as a result of community advocacy. Our transgender Nonbinary Community advocates were really letting our government know that we needed to be heard. We needed to be considered and policy and budget decision and so, then the mayor lee and founding director of spark created officeof initiative that allow us to advocate for equity for transgender and nonbinary communitiful we focus on 4 areas. Training, education for the city employees. We focus on civic and Community Engagement making sure our leaders have a voice and are heard by our elected officials. We work on policies and programs to make sure our city is responsive to transand Nonbinary Community and add voice to departments to integrate transinclusion in policies, procedures and practice. We still have, lot of work to do to improve and address equity in san fran for our Community Upon i feel that we are on the right track and seeing how peoples lives are improving thanks to those changes. I do think it is unique that our local government is sponsive to transgender communities so i hope that people can remember that despite the work we had, we seat progress. We seat change and there is hope for transpeople in San Francisco and wherever we come together and organize to improve our lives. [music] a city like no other, San Francisco has been a beacon of hope, and an ally towards lgbtq equal rights. [ ] known as the gay capital of america, San Francisco has been at the forefront fighting gay civil rights for decades becoming a bedrock for the historical firsts. The first city with the first openly gay bar. The first pride parade. The first city to legalize gay marriage. The first place of the iconic gay pride flag. Established to help cancel policy, programses, and initiatives to support trans and lgbtq communities in San Francisco. Weve created an opportunity to have a seat at the table. Where trans can be part of City Government and create more Civic Engagement through our trans Advisory Committee which advises our office and the mayors office. Weve also worked to really address where theres gaps across services to see where we can address things like housing and homelessness, low income, access to Small Businesses and employment and education. So we really worked across the board as well as meeting overall policies. Among the priorities, the office of transgender initiatives also works locally to track lgbtq across the country. Especially our young trans kids and students. So we do a lot of work to make sure were addressing and naming those antitrans policies and doing what we can to combat them. Trans communities often have not been included at the policy levels at really any level whether thats local government, state government. Weve always had to fend for ourselves and figure out how to care for our own communities. So an office like this can really show and become a model for the country on how to really help make sure that our entire community is served by the city and that we all get opportunities to participate because, in the end, our entire community is stronger. The pandemic underscored many of the inequities they experienced on a daily basis. Nonetheless, this Health Crisis also highlighted the strength in the lgbtq and trans community. Several of our team members were deployed as part of the work at the Covid Command Center and they did incredit able work there both in terms of navigation and shelterinplace hotels to other team members who led equity and lgbtq Inclusion Work to make sure we had popup testing and information sites across the city as well as making sure that Data Collection was happening. We had statewide legislation that required that we collected information on Sexual Orientation and our team worked so closely with d. P. H. To make sure those questions were included at testing site but also throughout the whole network of care. Part of the work ive had a privilege to be apart of was to work with o. T. I. And a Community Organization to Work Together to create a coalition that met monthly to make sure we worked together and coordinated as much as we could to lgbtq communities in the city. Partnering with Community Organizations is key to the success of this office ensuring lgbtq and gender nonconforming people have access to a wide range of services and places to go where they will be respected. O. T. I. s trans Advisory Committee is committed to being that voice. The transgender Advisory Counsel is a group of amazing Community Leaders here in San Francisco. I think we all come from all walks of life, very diverse, different backgrounds, different expertises, and i think its just an Amazing Group of people that have a vision to make San Francisco a true liberated city for transgender folks. Being apart of the grou allows us to provide more information on the ground. Were allowed to get. And prior to the pandemic, theres always been an issue around language barriers and Education Access and workforce development. Now, of course, the city has been more invested in to make sure our community is thriving and making sure we are mobilizing. All of the supervisors along with mayor london breed know that theres still a lot to be done and like i said before, im just so happy to live in a city where they see trans folks and recognize us of human beings and know that we deserve to live with dignity and respect just like everybody else. Being part of the Trans Initiative has been just a great privilege for me and i feel so lucky to have been able to serve for it for so far over three years. Its the only office of its kind and i think its a big opportunity for us to show the country or the world about things we can do when we really put a focus on transgender issues and transgender communities. And when you put transgender people in leadership positions. Thank you, claire. And i just want to say to claire farly who is the leader of the office of transgender initiatives, she has really taken that role to a whole other level and is currently a grand marshal for this years s. F. Prize. So congratulations, claire. My dream is to really look at where we want San Francisco to be in the future. How can we have a place where we have transliberation, quality, and inclusion, and equity across San Francisco . And so when i look five years from now, ten years from now, i want us to make sure that were continuing to lead the country in being the best that we can be. Not only are we working to make sure we have jobs and equal opportunity and pathways to education, employment, and advancement, but were making sure were taking care of our most impacted communities, our trans communities of color, trans women of color, and black trans women. And were making sure were addressing the barriers of the access to health care and Mental Health services and were supporting our seniors whove done the work and really be able to age in place and have access to the services and resources they deserve. So theres so much more work to do, but were really proud of the work that weve done so far. [ ] we have private and Public Gardens throughout the garden tour. All of the gardens are volunteers. The only requirement is youre willing to show your garden for a day. So we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. Its a variety all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. I have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. In the early 1800s the portola was farmland. The regions flowers were grown in this neighborhood. If you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. In the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. One of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of San Francisco so they can share that history. When i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. We started doing this as a fundraiser. Since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. The Scholarship Programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a winwinwin situation all around. The Scholarship Program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. I was not sure how i would stay in San Francisco. It is so expensive here. I prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in San Francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i dont know where else i would have gone to finish. The scholarships make the difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [ ] [ ] you come into someones home and its theyre private and personal space. Its all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their Outdoor Living room. Why are you here at this garden core . Its amazing and i volunteer here every year. This is fantastic. Its a beautiful day. You walk around and look at gardens. You meet people that love gardens. Its fantastic. The portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. Mark your calendars every year. You can see us on the website. Welcome to our august Homelessness Commission meeting. Im excited to see those in the public and look forward to hearing from you. Good morning to you. Look forward to an effective and efficient meeting. There is a lot of cover from the directors report the rules. Data officer and Nomination Committee from the presentations from the homeless from cynthia. From our tenants and we will also at the last item have commission