Doing in our community who take on so many difficult issues and so many issues that require the hope and faithfulness [speaker not understood]. There are problems that arent going to be solved overnight. Theyre issues that we have to be commit today change over time and what that means and what that takes. It is a very challenging issue to deal with on the national level. 30,000 people are killed, 100,000 shot every year in this country, and almost nothing is being done. But one of the things that helps me to be able to do it and to keep the faith is getting to work with City Councils like this one. Having the opportunity to work with courageous leaders who arent intimidated by the threats of special interests who have done cutting edge work to address this problem. Weve worked with the board of supervisors in the past to introduce really innovative legislation that then has led the way to innovative legislation in the state of california and california has really created a model of wh
I want to read a Little Information about sandy, but ill start off by saying that usually some people remember when they met a person. Ive known sandy for so long that i dont even remember when i met her. But i do remember when i met her husband who signed my paycheck, mr. Jeff murry when i was in the mayors Youth Employment Training Program when i was a teen because you always remember the person who puts that signature on that first paycheck. It gave me a lot of pride. I knew then he was someone special who cared about young people, and clearly thats why you two are together. You continue to make a difference in our community and fight for whats right. And, so, it really is a privilege and my honor to have you here today. Sandy retired in december of 2009 as a Development Director of [speaker not understood] which she actually founded in 1971. Not only is it a home for seniors, but they started a meal program where they made sure that seniors received meals every day, not just the re
Puts that signature on that first paycheck. It gave me a lot of pride. I knew then he was someone special who cared about young people, and clearly thats why you two are together. You continue to make a difference in our community and fight for whats right. And, so, it really is a privilege and my honor to have you here today. Sandy retired in december of 2009 as a Development Director of [speaker not understood] which she actually founded in 1971. Not only is it a home for seniors, but they started a meal program where they made sure that seniors received meals every day, not just the residents of kimochi, but folks all over San Francisco. Sandy has always been committed to seniors, to taking care of people and to making sure that they had a place to call home in the Western Addition. She served on the Western Addition Citizen Advisory Committee and we serve together. There we fought for just really changes to what the Western Addition had done to the a2 area. She has been fighting th