This journey is not something that happened overnight. Throughout this process, i spent many weeks away from the city, spent many nights working 12hour days, doing my come and coming back just in time to get to class. By the time i finished Elementary School i saw the beast of poverty. I ran out of fingers to count the youth in my community that lost their lives to gun violence. The club made sure to stay open the nights of shootings, making it so we would have a caring and dependable place to go when it wasnt safe to go home. The club gave me a place where i could be my authentic self. The club showed me the power of a good education and encouraged me to go into private school. It wasnt easy. I found my sense of self slipping away as i switched between environments, but i could always find myself back at the club, a place i didnt have to alter who i was. Every tragedy and piece of divert that i went through in my community, the club was right there to help me through it. When everythi
I want to start off by saying thank you, supervisor walton, and to all of you guys having me here today and for all of your messages of support throughout my youth of the year journey. Your encouragement has truly meant so much to me. This journey is not something that happened overnight. Throughout this process, i spent many weeks away from the city, spent many nights working 12hour days, doing my come and coming back just in time to get to class. By the time i finished Elementary School i saw the beast of poverty. I ran out of fingers to count the youth in my community that lost their lives to gun violence. The club made sure to stay open the nights of shootings, making it so we would have a caring and dependable place to go when it wasnt safe to go home. The club gave me a place where i could be my authentic self. The club showed me the power of a good education and encouraged me to go into private school. It wasnt easy. I found my sense of self slipping away as i switched between e
And on military installations across the world. I want to start off by saying thank you, supervisor walton, and to all of you guys having me here today and for all of your messages of support throughout my youth of the year journey. Your encouragement has truly meant so much to me. This journey is not something that happened overnight. Throughout this process, i spent many weeks away from the city, spent many nights working 12hour days, doing my come and coming back just in time to get to class. By the time i finished Elementary School i saw the beast of poverty. I ran out of fingers to count the youth in my community that lost their lives to gun violence. The club made sure to stay open the nights of shootings, making it so we would have a caring and dependable place to go when it wasnt safe to go home. The club gave me a place where i could be my authentic self. The club showed me the power of a good education and encouraged me to go into private school. It wasnt easy. I found my sen
Here today and for all of your messages of support throughout my youth of the year journey. Your encouragement has truly meant so much to me. This journey is not something that happened overnight. Throughout this process, i spent many weeks away from the city, spent many nights working 12hour days, doing my come and coming back just in time to get to class. By the time i finished Elementary School i saw the beast of poverty. I ran out of fingers to count the youth in my community that lost their lives to gun violence. The club made sure to stay open the nights of shootings, making it so we would have a caring and dependable place to go when it wasnt safe to go home. The club gave me a place where i could be my authentic self. The club showed me the power of a good education and encouraged me to go into private school. It wasnt easy. I found my sense of self slipping away as i switched between environments, but i could always find myself back at the club, a place i didnt have to alter w
Chair seeing no other members of the public on this item, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] thank you for that brief, compressed update. Is there any introduction of new items . Im sorry, commissioner mandelman. I was going to express appreciation for chilly chang and ben rosenfield, who had done so much work to pull the group together. We have only had one meeting of the full group, but subgroups meeting. I thought the first meeting, it give me a little bit of hope that, you know, if you put smart folks in the room and start getting feedback from people from other systems, that we may figure some things out and get sort of path forward that is helpful. I felt really good about the first meeting. I want to thank everyone in the Mayors Office as well for their help in pulling it all together. Chair thank you for that closing comment on this ongoing item that we will hear more about. Is there any introduction of new items . Seeing none. Any commissioner walton . Supervisor walton thank y