Spanish as a native language. So this is an amazing chance for us to feel honored and we appreciate very much the work that everyone here does. Thank you very much to the commissioners for this award and also for the work you do on behalf of immigrants. [applause] honorees. When you come on the stage after you speak, you will receive your award and certificate from our wonderful commissioners and then you can exit stage right. Is that right . Stage right. Ok. Next award is our Industry Leader and this is going to leo sosa. He is an immigrant from guantanamo and he launched throw Youth Technology programs before starting his own nonprofit dove mission, which aims to train young adults age 1624 for careers in tech. He has also worked in many neighborhoods throughout the city helping to connect low income families to broadband, distributing computers and building computer labs in Affordable Housing communities. Please welcome leo sosa. Hello. I like the sound of that. Now were ready. I wo
Should not be picking up trash. Throughout the vision process, the community has been stone called and manipulated by a plan. The community does not want large areas of the park restored to arbitrary point in native plant history. We do not want pesticides, we do not want healthy trees cut down and trails closed and socalled natural areas closed off to the public. We want the money spent on repairing the asphalt path system. We want all, not some to be safe. When using a paved path, we expect it to be usable for the elderly, families with strollers and people with mobility issues. The trails in mclaren do need attention, but we dont want the bond money to go toward the natural areas plan, its not what we voted for and not what we discussed in the envision plan. 949 people have signed a change. Org petition supporting this view. They cant all be here today, but they signed onto that, so please, the whole plan is great except for the 3. 5 million. Next speaker. Ace, im here to speak on a
Good morning, commissioners. Im sorry, im under the weather. Im shawn smith, native of San Francisco. Ive lived in the valley communities since 1993. I got started through this program for the don King Senior Center when the seniors operated the garden. But when they were too old to participate in it, i decided to volunteer and keep the grass cut for them and but they had moved from the center that was across the way, up to raymond street. As time went on, they aged on and they were unable to part pate in the gardens, so one of my main things was to find out who can help me and bring the Community Together and actually helping kids along with seniors to have an active Community Garden. Since it has been neglected for so long and now they have more beautification and renovations coming up. This is something that we would like to see in our Community Garden, we would like to actually ask you for the funding for the Community Garden and we thank the program, when youre talking about the v
Good morning, commissioners. Im sorry, im under the weather. Im shawn smith, native of San Francisco. Ive lived in the valley communities since 1993. I got started through this program for the don King Senior Center when the seniors operated the garden. But when they were too old to participate in it, i decided to volunteer and keep the grass cut for them and but they had moved from the center that was across the way, up to raymond street. As time went on, they aged on and they were unable to part pate in the gardens, so one of my main things was to find out who can help me and bring the Community Together and actually helping kids along with seniors to have an active Community Garden. Since it has been neglected for so long and now they have more beautification and renovations coming up. This is something that we would like to see in our Community Garden, we would like to actually ask you for the funding for the Community Garden and we thank the program, when youre talking about the v
Pate in the gardens, so one of my main things was to find out who can help me and bring the Community Together and actually helping kids along with seniors to have an active Community Garden. Since it has been neglected for so long and now they have more beautification and renovations coming up. This is something that we would like to see in our Community Garden, we would like to actually ask you for the funding for the Community Garden and we thank the program, when youre talking about the vision program, for bringing this up to par. I would like to thank everyone from alexis, jake, fran, everyone involved in it. We also would like to add that in the future, if you can see that most of our children will grow older and as our children grow older, they can be taken care of because as we know, San Francisco is turning into a large city that has very, very small condensed area, so if you please, just give a little consideration to the children and to the seniors that are here in our city.