It is my honor to welcome members of congress, including members of the congressional black caucus, members of the rosa parks family who have come to washington for this special celebration. Can we give them a hand. [ applause ] wed also like to welcome the rosa and Raymond Parks institute for Self Development led by miss Elaine Steele, and thats another round of applause. [ applause ] and photographer donna toric whose photo of miss parks is displayed in a vital part of the exhibition. All the leaders and staff of the different cultural institutions across washington, including secretary of the smithsonian dr. Lonnie bunch. [ applause ] and the archivist of the united states, mr. David fariel. [ applause ] and our library guests and staff and our viewers on live. This is being live streamed right now. And i have to tell you, we are radiating with joy and pride tonight because it is our pleasure to open this beautiful and compelling new exhibition about one of our countrys most beloved
Newest exhibition, rosa parks in her own words. It is my honor to welcome members of congress, including members of the congressional black caucus, members of the rosa parks family, who have come to washington for this special celebration. Can we give them a hand . [applause] we would also like to welcome the rosa and Raymond Parks institute for self development. That is another round of applause. [applause] and photographer donna, whose photo of ms. Parks is displayed in a vital part of the exhibition. And all the leaders and staff of different cultural at institutions across washington, including secretary of the Smithsonian Lonnie bunch. [applause] the and the archivist of the united states, david. [applause] ourour Library Staff and live. S on this is being livestreamed right now. I have to tell you we are radiating with joy and pride because it is our pleasure to open this beautiful land compelling exhibition about one of our countrys most beloved civil rights icons, rosa parks. T
And welcome to the library of congress. It is our pleasure to have everyone here for a very special night, as we open the librarys newest exhibition, rosa parks, in her own words. It is my honor to welcome members of congress, including members of the congressional black caucus, members of the rosa parks family, who have come to washington for this special celebration. Can we give them a hand . [ applause ] wed also like to welcome the rosa and raymond paurkts institute for Self Development led by miss Elaine Steele. And thats another round of applause. [ applause ] and photographer donna tour ig, whos photo of miss parks is prominently displayed and a vital part of the exhibition. And all the leaders and staff of the different cultural institutions across washington, including secretary of the smithsonian, dr. Lonnie bunch. [ applause ] and the arcivist of the united states, mr. David fairio. [ applause ] and our library guests and staff and our viewers on live, this is being livestre
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Budget, um that we really should go ahead and have a community meeting. So this is a community meeting. We have our commissioners present. Um, one of our commissioners. Was unable to be here. Uh thats commissioner joaquin guerrero, whos out of the country, but we have five other commissioners here. We also have members of the public in the room and we have members of the public on line. And so were going to go ahead and go through our regular, um the items that we were planning to cover today, which is our directors report. We will have a report on the budget and then we will have, um , a presentation on the which is an overview of the homelessness response system just to set the framework for everyone. In the ensuing months, we will we have worked with the commission to set up some presentations for all of you and for the public so that you can start to understand the various interventions and various pieces of our homelessness response system in San Francisco and how they all fit tog