Africanamerican history and culture hosts this event. Its an hour and a half. It is such a pleasure to be here. I want to thank you so much for joining us in this celebration. Were here tonight to celebrate two important cornerstones of our democracy. One, of course, is the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights act and as mr. Ellis said, also the 75th anniversary of the Legal Defense fund, and i positioned them as two cornerstones of our democracy. One is obviously a law that helped to transform this country and provide the Legal Protections that allowed this democracy to evolve into what it is today. Still in progress, but its certainly better than it was, but with any law you need enforcers. With any law you need those who will protect that law who will enforce it, who will allow it to live out its fullness and i know that the Legal Defense fund has spent all of its days since the passable of the Voting Rights act working towards that goal and then many, many others. Im particularly
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Of allegiance. Lighter we want to thank everyone that joined us here in the board room for you that want to address the board you need to fill out a speaker card in the hallway right outside the door please submit it before the item is called before the item is called and speaker cards will not be accepted once the item before the board approval of the minutes of 2016. So moved. Second any corrections. Roll call. Thank you ms. Inning. Commissioner fewer schedule, speak to the staff after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow and ms. Norton mr. Walton and ms. Wynns and mr. Haney superintendent report superintendant lee. Thank you president haney first, this year the seniors of Lincoln High School are working to cut down down on the use of natural gas theyve surveyed the heating system and presented the results and are educating the teachers and finalizing a staff survey of classroom heating issues now working together with the experts of the Sustainability Office to create a Win
So we have been able to give back more than had a millionandahalf hours of volunteerism and 130 million in grants much to the k12 system here in San Francisco and oakland. And also, we run 28,000 nonprofits and ngos for our service. Every year we love to dedicate and focus dreamforce to a specific cause. Its a very important part of us and we get to see all of these great causes around the world and so many people doing gods work and so thrilled to partner and unite with them and we celebrate red, and ceo of red who has fought aids tirelessly throughout the world and celebrating her with this incredible red store, selling hundreds of thousands of reds products more than we expected on the dreamforce campus. Tonight one of the founders of red bono is going to perform for us tonight at the cow palace. Its exciting and were very, very excited and i want to turn it over to nancy and ed and to hear from the leaders of red as well. Nancy. Thank you very much for everything, thank you marc be
Lighter we want to thank everyone that joined us here in the board room for you that want to address the board you need to fill out a speaker card in the hallway right outside the door please submit it before the item is called before the item is called and speaker cards will not be accepted once the item before the board approval of the minutes of 2016. So moved. Second any corrections. Roll call. Thank you ms. Inning. Commissioner fewer schedule, speak to the staff after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow and ms. Norton mr. Walton and ms. Wynns and mr. Haney superintendent report superintendant lee. Thank you president haney first, this year the seniors of Lincoln High School are working to cut down down on the use of natural gas theyve surveyed the heating system and presented the results and are educating the teachers and finalizing a staff survey of classroom heating issues now working together with the experts of the Sustainability Office to create a Winning Strategy t