The candidate kennedy two dozen nonprofit, nonpartisan plays in vision and plans by my late husband senator edward kennedy. Its a place where visitors come now virtually as well as inperson to experience democracy their hands on learning about the United States senate and then use that knowledge as a touchstone to understand the branches of our government. Its also a place where we encouraged participatory democracy. In fact we just started to nonpartisan effort called just about and i encourage you to to go to our new web site called just go. Org but most important i encouraged you on november 3 to just vote. It is the most important thing we can do as citizens. This is a place where we work to invigorate civil discourse and inspire the next generation of leaders. I can think of no program and no speaker who meets every one of the goals that my husband had for this place more than todays special guest Justice Stephen breyer. Without question Justice Breyer is a man for our time and de
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Id like to adjourn today todays Board Meeting by Geraldine Mary crowdley, who was a one woman army for the neighbourhoods of the Northeast Corner of the city, but the city at large. She passed away early this morning in the style that she should pass away, listening to Frank Sinatra and watching monday night football last night. Many of you knew here. Her. She originally hailed from chappaque, new york, and moved here at the age of 25. She would have turned 85 this friday, the 13th, which she thought was very lucky. A third of a century ago, she actually saw somebody on tv from the Telegraph Hill dwellers, and decided to join that organization, which she ended up serving as president four times, and cajoled me not only into joining, and later on cajoled me into running her and tom cajoled me against my will to run for supervisor almost 20 years ago. She would come and pick me up at 6 30 in the morning and drive me to bus stops and all of the rest of it. Her deep, dark secret was that s
Ambition you can accomplish it and i want to thank the other members of the board of supervisors for acknowledging our efforts. I would like to thank ermina for recognizing our institution and our family and the events we do in the community and i would like to invite all members of the board. [please stand by] as my office has spent months engaging with s. F. M. T. A. And the Merchant Community to address the deeply felt and deeply real concerns on how years of construction will impact their lives and of construction will this isnt limited to my district, of course. From the central subway to van ness, there are many Small Businesses impacted by construction, and they deserve answers on how we, at the city, are addressing those impacts. Im very much looking forward to this hearing, and im asking the b. L. A. , s. F. M. T. A. , and b. C. T. , to report. And i want to thank president chi and the supervisor. Thank you, supervisor marr. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. Id like to adjourn to