The staff at st. Anthonys it is great to have your here this morning. [applause] here at st. Anteanys work with people who are homeless and those on the virj of becomes homeless and what we have sheen more aunch unforchfootly than not is people that feel isolated and excluded so very happy to see when the mayor has something to say about the homeless pop ylgds he comes to the tenderloin and st. Ancyanys. We insisted those we serve the homeless in particular are not the problem, they are brothers and sisters. The problem has to boo with us and the way we structure our liferb jz cities and thijsss like that see great to see when we want to do something about homelessness the mayor is coming forward and making good proposals for how we can solve our problem, not fix the homeless. [applause] there are a lot of people here working for years on that problem. It is a problem for the whole community but it is also one we need to thitsy to step forward to help us do so we welcome the mayor in his remarks today. Without further ado, i would like to recognize a couple people here that have come and been long involved ing these issue. Angela alota is here today. From the San Francisco interfaith counsel we have mikem pops and rita chimal. Supervisor marc farrell is here. Supervisor jewel jewel yechristensen and all the Department Heads here of the city and all the Community Based organizations that are represent. Thank you for coming and welcome to st. Anthonys good morning everyone. Thank you all for being here. Let me begin with just comment about some things that have occurred in the last 48 hours that i know are on peoples minds and want to address that right off before i get fl to had body of the speech. But i want to start out with some words about the officer involved shooting that occurred yesterday in the bay view and rutted in the death of a man. Let me first say that any time, any time, there is a officer involved shooting i take that extremely seriously and so does our chief. I have seen the video too you know, you look at the video and you justbefore my words came out, we were yelling drop the dam knife. I already spoken to the chief and there will be a thorough and transparent investigation of this incident without delay and know the public deserves this and expect it and i expect it as well and will make sure the Community Knows all the details about this. I also want to take a moment of silence with all of you to remember the victims of the tragic and sensely shootings in san Dern Bernardino yesterday. Our thoughts are with the victims and families and the people of San Francisco grieve with them. But you know, you know what they really deserve . Those families deserve action. Deserve the congress that will stop this madness, stop and by enacting sensible limit ozen deadly fire arms and they need to do that now. [applause] we cannot just accept this. We cannot just accept this. Thank you. Thank you. And again, good morning everybody and thank you for being here. First again i want to say thank you to the [inaudible] and barry for hosting us this morningism barry you and the staff for helping the needy and velinable throughout the city is a inspiration to me and it is never tiring to cut turkey with you bury. I also want to say thank you to our elected and appointed officials and Community Leaders and pleny of the nonprofits providers are here this morning, thank you for joinsing us today. Im very proud for being reelected your mayor. This is a wonderful city and want to say thank you to the voters of San Francisco who believe in our Solutions Oriented and collaborative approach to solving problems and have asked us to return to do more. Thaupg for placing your trust in me for the next 4 years. This is the greatest city in the world and im honored and humbleed as the mayor to serve another term. You know, i often said and will continue saying i love the city, i love it as much of any of you and also with you. I love that we never run from the challenges. We confront them with our progressive optimism and something that has come to define our city in all of us. We tackleed a whole lot this last 5 years and some the most complicated and intractable challenges remain and i ran for a second term so we can work on them together. Foremost among the challenges wrun we struggled with for decades is homelessness. Let there be more doubt, the collective best effort like Service Providers like all you in the room today have certainly made a difference. I know that because i have been paying a attention to this for many years. While i may be a little silent sometimes, i watch, i talk to people, i engage and once in a while i might be lucky enough to hand out a key. You are the ones, everyone in the room, you are the ones giving the hor heroic rfts at front line staff on a midnight shift at the shet ers and do the outreach and are case managers with a challeing loud. Or you may be the one cleaning up the streets so people might have a cleaner street to be on because that is the only place they have. The best evidence of all of the work collaboratively is the over 20,000 formally Homeless People living indoors. Living independently and with the social and emotional support that they need and that the needs that are met with our City Services or they might be back in their home towns. But, despite this we havent eliminated homelessness. As we house and serve thousands, they are replaced by new thousands. People, people who fall in homelessness here, people sent from other states or people who arrive every day seeking a better life in our city. As a result we continue to have People Living on the street, under the freeway, in tents on the sidewalk and some even without tents. All together, more than 3500 people are street homeless in San Francisco. Human beings. Human beings with hopes, with fears, susceptible to cold and rainy weather. Human being who deserve or compassion. We know there are nearly the same number of people without homes that are living in our shelter, treatment programs or temporary situations. Friends , this isnt a healthy way to live, you know that and i know that, especially if children are a part of that family. It is not just a growing problem here in San Francisco by the way and we all know that as well. Major cities across our country, la, new york, honolulu, seattle and more and the state and federal governments offer us too little assistance. Thats why next week ill join at least 5 other mayors on the west coast and our federal government representatives to explore federal funding opportunities and policy changes in the area of homelessness. I know we look at the streets sometimes and the encampments and the depth and complexity the problem jz to some it all might feel hopeless, but as your may frr the next 4 years im optimistic because today in San Francisco all of the ingreedgents of success are here to end homeless for thousands of our fellow citizens. Thanks to a historically Strong Economy we do have resources. We certainly have creativity and know we got the passion. For our serviceers providers and city staff, we have the energy that is required. We have public support to try new more effective approaches. But you know what is missing . What is missing is the ingredient lacking for generations, it is what we call, real cooperation. We cant solve street homelessness, but it will if we want to , it will require cooperation. We have seen this cooperation at the place called, the Navigation Center at 1950 mission street. When Community Providers work with city departments, when the private sector in the surrounding community all come together with us, we actually are creating a National Model for ending homelessness. So, next year we are going to do something bold that skills up the cooperation and coordination this requires and we see at the Navigation Center all of that happening across the board on homelessness. I will call apauss all the departments to Work Together with our Community Based organizations, advocate and National Expert to ert change and reform or government and other, and will create a department with a mission to end homelessness here in San Francisco. [applaus i begin by not just makingi know people have worked on this for years and want to acknowledge first the great work of our past mayors, feinstein and agnos, mayor jordan and willie brown, of course gaveen newsome. I want to build on each of their legacies for addressing homelessness. Of course our former supervisor alota talks about passion. She dedicated a life time to the work and want to say thank you for being here and thank you for being a trusted advisor and advocate and one that reminds everybody we got to get to better solutions. I want to also acknowledge the good work of our former supervisor bevan dufty and director of hope for the last years for tireless work with Service Providers and client to move people into better lives. I learned a lot with bevan, but i felt his passion avenue day he has been on the job. And today, building on the work that came before we begin a new agency, a agency with a budget and mandate to solve homelessness. Well bring together under one roof the multitude of homeless outreach, housing, shelter and Supportive Services that exist across many Different Departments. Over the last 20 years, we increased our spending on homelessness because the crisis got worse. But because we didnt have a Central Department for homelessness we layered program upon program across a dozen Different Department said and then we expected the better outcome. No one agencyies mission was homelessness and today we fix that. With greater coordination we expect better results, more efficiencys and deep er accountability. To make this new department a realty next year ill be calling upon the leadership of barbarager seea director of public ehealth, trent roar director of human sunchss and [inaudible] director of hope. Together we have aurltd r already implemented some the most forward thinking progressive homeless policies in the country. We created the nations first Navigation Center, which is just 9 months that we have successfully moved more than 250 people off the streets into healthier settings. Great progress towards ending chronic veterans homelessness is done these last few years tackling family homelessness we made great progess. A new investment in Supportive Housing of 29,000,000 this year. I want to saw they think to tren, barbara and sam and all your team said for pourer your hearts in this work and thank you for joins forces with us to take it to the next level vlt i want to say a special thank you to public works. I know that department. You kept our streets and have done your best and for always having a positive interaction with the Homeless People and compassion and thank you for taking on the smelliest dirtgist jobs in town. I also want to say thank you to all of the people who are own Single Room Occupancy Hotels in the city thmpt hotels that are cooperating and working with us to make these Units Available for people transitioning out of homelessness. That is stock of housing. We never thought through our past loousts and insistence to get code enforcement, we didnt realize how valuable they are to us and a valuable assess they can be. I know some people will say, a department to solve homlessness mayor. 93 eve. We cant solve homelessness in San Francisco. I know that will will be peoples comments. I say we will end homelessness every every single day for least one person. For at least one family. For at least a veteran every single day. I know because i have felt the power of giving keys to people exactly in those situations. We will end it for every 1 for every day for someone who suffers on our street. That is what the purpose of creating this department is about. I want a staff at this new department, each person on the staff will come to work every morning with a single minded focus on ending homelessness for people on the streets. I want the measure of the work of this department and my office to be answering this question, what did i do to end homelessness on our city streets today and what did i do to give people a stable shelter, a home and a path to a healthier life. That is what i want them to ask themselves every single day. I want that to be the question that they ask of themselves. You know, ending homelessness in a very simple way is a matter of priorities. To get there we have to double down on programs that truly work. We have to coordinate with partners, federal, state and other cities. We have to share and do the best practices and we have to also share our challenges with each other. And you know, i always am focused and concerned about congress and as you know, congress is largely abandoned homelessness in the country and we in San Francisco cant wait frathe politics of waug wash dc to arrive, we have tolead and we lead with values. Our San Francisco values. That is what being a san franciscan is all about, isnt it . It is our values. To be fully able to achieve this vision im inviting a group of National Experts to advise how to create and set the mandate for this new department. I have spoken to president obamas point person on homelessness, matthew dorty and he agreed to come out and advise and has the expertise of looking at programs across the country to see what works. We want to be egressive on this but want to be practical at the same time. How will we define sausking street homelessness . What are the investments we are making and how can we double down on this . Is there something that we can be doing that we are not already doing . I aults want to invite the local homeless coordinating board to serve as a formal advisory body during the process. We convened San Franciscos best and brightest on that commission and definitely need your input. I invite all of you here, every one of you, the people working hard every day day in and out to join in defining the new effort as well because ill present this plan with the budget this coming year. Foremost among the efforts of the department are expanding the successful Navigation Center program. We learned that by removing barrier tooz entry into the Shelter Program and pairing ever Navigation Center with a housing exist we are making a difference. We already committed the funding in the budget this year to double our capacity at the Navigation Center and the department will significantly increase to this model. Well coordinate outreach and build more centers and secure more housing exists. Certainly this requires serious funding. Since i took office we have spent all most 100 mil yen more every year on Homeless Services and housing and my commitment today is this, to never let our city slip backwards on our funding priorities. That means movering forward well spend at threes 250 million a year on outreach and housing for 10s of thousands of people. We know success isnt mesered by how much money we spend, you know that. Accountability matters. We are measured by the number of human beings we lep off our streets and into a better life and by conditions on our streets also improving at the same time. So, im setting a ambishish but i believe an achievable goal for the second term. By the time i leave office we will move at least 8 thousand people out of homelessness and well remove them out of homelessness forever. [applause] and well build a system that ends a persons homelessness before it becomes chronic. That is another thing we learned from the Navigation Center and well do this and achieve this all together. Well do this by housing families, veterans long term homeless to Homeward Bound Program and Long Term Care for the seriously mentally ill. I also need cooperation for the private sector and philanthropic partner tooz participate as well. I already started conversation with San Franciscos Business Leaders on this particular goal. Business leaders, big and small, about a Multiyear Partnership to add additional Navigation Centers to the cities portfolio. To them across the board i say thank you and begin by saying a personal thank you to our first anonymous private donor to the the first Navigation Center. Im excited for our partnerships to develop more in the coming months just like the way we started our first Navigation Center. It was a partnership with faith and Funding Sources and community in the mission and then everybody else. We need more Partnership Models like our effort to end family homelessness in the Elementary Schools which is the focus of [inaudible] 2 great civic leaders. No less different than our Technology Leaders like nob nub who also became a partner to end veterans homelessness by funding a viable new housing for them in mission bay. Letting people live on our streets exposed to violence and whether that isnt compassion. It isnt healthy, it isnt safe and it does want represent who we are as San Francisco and it is not our San Francisco values. You know, im also proud of our city coming together over something that used to be controversial and im talking about lauras law. Thank you for visor marc farrell, thank you for your leadership in this effort on a issue that used to divide a lot of us, now it units us with a comma causs because we are figuring it out. Since we launched our consensus program just last month we have already received 28 referals from ern concerned family members and Service Providers. Some of the most severely mentally ill they are finally getting help. Lauras law is one the many compassionate programs we should be doing in partnership with our courts and District Attorney and Justice System. San francisco values means we wont lock people up or persecute them just for being mentally ill. That wont happen and wont happen as long as im mayor, but we can use the resources our Justice System to make sure people are Getting Better heltier outcomes. I want to challenge the courts, our public defender and District Attorney and Health Provider tooz come together in the same spirit of collaboration that i proposed today. Coming together with your diverse responsibilities and your legal mandates to better serve those desperately in need of our help because i will challenge you with the same outcome im calling upon everyone else. Lets talk about not just our legal mandates, lets also talk about outcomes for people. [applause] it is not compassionate and you will agree with me on this to let people suffer silently, to medicate with drugs and call and live an unhealthy life on our streets, that is not compassion and we are empowered to help the seriously mentally ill people but first have to agree to coperate. In a new year ill invite all our gurchlt stakeholders and Mental Health and criminal justice to convene with me. I bring this group together to get past the reasons we cannot do things and figure out a way we can do it. Lets say for example, you take this program, some of you in the room know what the 51 50 program is. It is a program with people in personal crisis and danger to themselves we take them to the hospital for 72 hours, but you know what is the challenging part of that 51 50 program . Once they come out they go right back on the streets and into the same unhealthy situation that they were literally 48 hours ago. We pulled them out and bring them right back in. That is 51 50. Lets redesignthality program for a better outcome, a sustained outcome for those individuals. Lets redesign conservativeship programs to serve the intended populations while respecting their civil liberty. We can have a better outcome on that as well. The seriously mentally ill deserve our best efforts. It is complicated and thats why we take that challenge up. As we focus on getting people into healthier settings, we also need to refocus on the people who are not homeless. The people who prey on our homeless. Drug dealers who target the addicted and mentally ill contributing to Serious Health problems. Im calling y i am calling for stepped up enforcement for predatory drug dealing around our Navigation Centers and shelter and Homeless Service locations and every place we house our homeless. [applause] we need to clean up drug dealing around the buildings where Homeless People are trying to clean up their lives. We are not criminalizing drug addictions, we are enforcing existing laws to protect the most vulnerable. I want to thank supervisor and president of the board of supervisors president london breed for being a leader on the reforms. She is a strong voice the quality of life and reforming our treatment of the mentally ill. Thats why friend i am optimistic. A new department, ambitious goal, a will in our city to succeed on this. We can make homelessness rare. We can make it brief. We can make it a one time event in peoples lives. We can move at least 8 thousand people out of homelessness forever. For too long deeply held and ideological differences divided all of us. Some say we are not tough enough. Others say we are not compalgzinate enough. Some say we spend too much money and others say we havent spent enough. It is time to reconcile these disagroogruments not to set them aside but work through them. If we can cooperate to solve homelessness the sky is the limit on what else we can achieve together. I want to say to you again, we can end homelessness for each individual that we touch, for each family, for each child, we can do that for them. Thats what we can define as ending homelessness. If we do it together, we will have demonstrated that collaboration and cooperation is the best way to move forward. So, i want to end by saying thank you to all of you for taking time out of your busy day to listen to me. Im excited to work with you, this will give a struck chur to work effectively with all of us. We can do better and will do better, im excited and we are San Francisco. Thank you very much. [applause] hello. My name ischief operating officer of cdm see im here to welcome you all and thank you for joining us here today for this milestone in the history of california specific article said that as the dmc yutaka vibrant history to a clinic which was built in 1852. Sorry about that 1852 on missionwe have been serving generations of san franciscans and San Francisco residents for over 150 years. Today, we begin a new chapter in our history. This popping out ceremony is designed to recognize a terminus effort of our workers, constructing this holiday, working safely together, and to ensure we get her hospital bill on time and on schedule. Truly, an honor to be part of this event and to be part of history in the making. Thank you to our construction workers for your dedication to your craft and for the work you have completed so far in the construction of our new southern hosford to hospitals in San Francisco. Again, one more round of applause for our workers behind us since they are not down here all working. [applause] theyve been working on minutes before us and they just stopped right down to observe the ceremony. Now, i would like to ask dr. Brammer, our ceo, to come up to the podium to provide a few remarks. Thanks, pamela, and welcome to everybody. Hey, guys. This is a great day for all of us as we begin our second 150 years here in this phenomenal city that we call home. We are delighted that so many of you could join us today. This new hospital, as well as the one we are building down at our st. Lukes campus, by the beginning of a whole new era of for healthcare in San Francisco. It is taken us a long time to get to this point but were good to be around for many many years as a result of all the hard work being done by the folks back there working on this building. But, before much go much further, i want to note several people further help because without them we would not actually have made it to this day. Im going to begin with the mayor, who youll hear from charlotte. Mayor ed lee [applause] the mayor and his staff have been with us on this journey from the very beginning and their support was absolutely critical in formulating this project and getting it to this point. Sitting right here in the front row, right within five range is lou tirado. I think everybody the city owes lew a debt of thanks. [applause] for the work he did to make sure we were able to build this project. He was a key stakeholder in getting this done, along with the famous three amigos from the board of supervisors, david campos who cannot be with us, david chiu who is with us now represent us up in sacramento, and mark farrell. Where is mark . Mark is over here. We like to thank all of them [applause]. Phil are some women is with us but i understand he had to be. I want to into some of the other folks on the stage with. Bob tomasello was the chairman of our board. Michael terry of the present in the building trades. Vernon chiang our chief medical executive. Mike colville, former president of the west bay region of sutter health. Jeff gerard, our current president of the Center Health bay area. Tony wagner, the chairman of the board of Center Health bay area. And julie pacitti the ceo of the hospital for the sutter of bay area. Now, of course, most of this event is about the Team Building the hospital there represented by the management and the workers from herero bold and we want to thank them. We want to figure Architecture Group the mother smith group, jj argument in the many trade partners, subcontractors and consultants who have helped us get this project off the ground. But the biggest and should be reserved for the folks back there who are building this building, our construction workers. [applause] so, the topping out ceremony is a recognition of the final still being which will be in a few meds raised to its place way up high, a recognition that the structure has reached its highest point and we can begin filling it out. This event is a tribute to that. The folks that are working on this project in recognition of their dedication , their attention to detail and their commitment to a clean and safe worksite, and to all of them, we want to say thank you and acknowledge the job well done. [applause] i want to extend a personal thanks to the crew that helped us the most the old hotel and Office Building. Even let me drive one a little grabber things, which is the highlight of my adult life. I want to thank the folks the. The execution put up the steel and all the other jobs that are gone into getting this to to this point. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. As i mentioned, we would not be here without the support of the San FranciscoCity Government led by mayor edwin lee. Hes been involved in our spirit. Im delighted hes able to join us at this event and i would now like to invite him to the podium to share a few words. Mayor lee. Thank you, warren should all be short because i am. Good morning everybody. This is wonderful to be here. Lou, not only a thank you but im to give you another chart. Youve got to work on removing those toxics out of the crabs. We cant celebrate 100 without our crabs. Thats your next charge. Youve done nearly the impossible here to give you another easy thing. Thank you to the three amigos, 1 today. For all being part of that historic agreement. Thank you to all the officials from sutter for being here, see pmc has been innercity for 150 years and lisa city deserve a new hospital, so were excited about this. I also want to say, again, thank you to everyone who is been supportive of Good Health Care in our great city. But, today, topping off day is all about these folks up here. I want to say thank you to herero bold, to all of the people that have kept this place safe. I cant wait. I know people want the topping off but i want my invitation to walked the tunnel underneath van ness because thats probably the safest way to get across that. I cant wait for that to happen and, of course im celebrating because we dont have to shut down van ness anymore. I want to say the regulations to people who worked on this at this point. Its excited to have this top off. I was a huge thank you to all the workforce because what theyve done, not only in getting to this point, is an extraordinary, michael for all the labor, work, and the great work. We get to see it in evidence here but theres another exciting piece of data i want to share with you because its real San Francisco. Herero bold has been working with our workforce, all of our labor representatives, our city to make sure we hire as many residents on this job, and did you know, we have a goal of some 40 of partnerships to be local San Francisco residents. Not only did they exceeded. 60 of all the apprenticeships are San Francisco residents it that is wonderful, warm. Wonderful. All the 35 fixed workforce or i say congratulation. This is really a proud moment but also a safe moment when i would clearly enjoy congratulations, workforce. Thank you for the new hospital. Thank you, everybody, for being here. Thank you mr. Mayor. Our next speaker is tony wagner. Tony is up pastor of the west bay region foresee pmc. He is now the chairman of the Southern Health bay area board. Is also a longtime symphysis go residents. In fact, hes been working with us sidebyside in building our efforts towards the community hospitals. He was also one of the members of the Blue Ribbon Committee where it formed a few years ago and formulated the idea of what we have in front of you today. So, with that, id like to ask mr. Wagner to come up here. Welcome. Thank you, pamela. Good morning. On behalf of sutter health, i would like to thank a number of individuals for openness make this to get some of this will be repetitive but i think it deserves repeating. I would like to thank my friend, and her mayor mayor ed lee for your leadership and the board of supervisors and the three amigos. Also, i would be remiss not to thank mr. Gerardo for his help during our entitlement process. I think you, the citizens of San Francisco for your patience and continued support as we had necessary traffic disruptions when tunneling under van ness avenue. However, ive been told by the staff of tommys joint them up on more than one occasion, that we have been good and respectful neighbors during this construction process. The tunnel is now complete thanks to a worldclass construction crew. [applause] it will allow us to provide a protected and safe passage between our Health Center, our parking garages and her medical Office Building them which will house our clinical offices and clinics. This worldclass Health Center will not only be a destination to have your health restored, but it will also be a destination to maintain your health for those who are already healthy. Thank you, again, for your support, and please keep an eye out for our official opening date for both of these hospitals, st. Lukes, and this hospital. Join us for our official open house sometime in 2019. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, tony. I am now going to introduce burn and jane. Dr. Jing is a chief medical executive at see pmc and hes responsible for overall leadership overall the Clinical Programs that we have at see pmc. At her for hospitals currently. With that, dr. Jane, please. Thank you, pamela. It really is an honor to be here today. Its amazing to get a date that will patronage all the workers behind me and once that are in front of me that event building this new hospital for our community. With incredible its incredible to think just a little over a year i was looking at a whole the sandbox analysis of this hightech steel with this damper system to protect this hospital and our patients and our staff in the event of a major earthquake in the future. Now, see pmc has a very long tradition of caring for our community. With this new hospital we feel we be better equipped to care for our community moving into our future. As we know, theyre changing demands in healthcare. Changing the needs of our community. And what they need. As we know, this new hospital is going to be able to meet those needs moving forward. We can continue this 150yearold tradition of caring for community in the citizens of San Francisco. See pmc has provided medical and sick at our cal campus which is includes delivering babies that are specific campus which included our Specialty Care and i will not be combined under one roof, 2019 here at van ness and gary. We look forward to serving future generations of san franciscans right here at this site. So, on behalf of our physicians, our medical staff, are hospital staff, we really want to thank all of the individuals behind us for building this hospital for the individuals in front of me and behind me to support that you provided in the process of getting this building up. It has been truly an amazing transformation to watch this come from a office to the sandbox to a brandnew hospital that will be able to walk in in 2019. So, again, thank you for being a mate part of this amazing jerk. At this time, i want to induce one individual as part of her construction crew. He has been excellent at his work and hes contributed to the success of this tremendous progress and this project. His name is Colby Whitfield any standing behind me up on the sixth floor, by that sign. A little bit louder. [applause] oh, yes. Oh, yes. Hi, everyone. Can you hear me . Thats good. Thats my name is ivan im a construction worker. We are all gathered here to witness the main piece of the puzzle we put in place. The practice of topping out a new building can be traced to the scandinaviana pleasing a tree atop of the new building a piece of tree [inaudible]. Im a part of this amazing team that directing the new hospital can working on this project has been a great experience. The views are spectacular. This job is greater than a wonderful opportunity not only for myself, but also my family had two younger boys that i support and stability of this job has allowed me to be there for them on a regular basis. My oldest son is eight and my youngest boy, he used to. Prior to working for harrods i work several jobs. Just to maintain. When i heard about the city deal i decide to take advantage of the opportunity. Other new skills and given me the confidence to succeed. City build has given me a path for stable career am very grateful for that. Im actually grateful to harrods for giving me my first job in allowing me to be part of their team. Through see pmc im grateful to the opportunity as well to be a part of the Team Building of this new hospital for my community as a San Francisco resident. I was born and raised here, and being a part of this means a lot to me and my family. As a San Francisco resident, i know how important it is to my city and in the end, of able to point to this building to my kids, daddy built this series this right here, daddy built that. [applause] for my entire workforce, and personally for me and my family, i would to say thank you to the people down there and the people standing on this great building your. Thank you. [applause] colby, she would tell these guys to lift the beam on three . Are you ready . Yes one, two, three. Lift the beam. Yes, pick it up, boys. Here its coming into view right about now. Houston, we have liftoff. Hi left right halt i had a burning doorway to do the right thing and join the department such this we my brother applied and fortunately well here and this means a lot im home everyone night to study and we workout together and it is a blessing i have a brother to go home and fed off of one another were the twins but pretty much were not treated and individuals sometimes treated as a item if he did something wrong they use the word instead of you the it heroism were going our our separate ways and good morning our own individuals middle of steadfastly a twin all the it but inside of the district ive seen negative and positive things and with that made me want to be a Police Officer i want to give back and do public serve always a class president i dealt with everyone and served my class not only be humble enough to serve my class and pierce being a squad leader is a responsibility of maintaining my squad and being that voraciously person i need to step up to the challenge i believe during the 8 months i fulfilled any dude and after graduation just be a good officer to learn the skill and profession and give to the community to give the best to them and be a helpful hand thats the main thing and the new people coming into the did not know why youre doing it join the department for the right reason and do it to help the community and it is sharing youre time when you get into the department do is commented to the craft and enjoy it along the way enjoy it along the way i encourage you to talk about over with our families and talk 2 over with yourselves ultimately youll do the job and find a senseably reason for doing it after the hard work everyday for 8 months straight and finally it pays off and you know as honey honor and privilege not anyone can do this job i look forward to getting often the street and learning and hit the ground running it will be a surreal moment day one i thought months here but sat down me and my brother talked about it and were on the right track and stay focused and walking tloo across the stage is a huge hono welcome to the regular meeting of the