Try to do their part, but really we recognize the role and the leadership of the board of education in this case. So thank you. Thank you. I also would like to recognize former supervisor olagi who has joined us in the audience and if you would like to approach the podium and give us testimony for two minutes we would be honored. Thank you. Thank you. Kristine aolagi and i am a long time activist and the Mission District i have been concerned about what is happen ng that neighborhood, as you can see tonight we have so many people from the Mission District and it is a broad base of support for this move and this swap of the property and because what was seen in the mission was displacement that is occurring at such a phenomenal level and so we are seeing the closure in the mission, and the last Affordable Housing that i saw built in the mission was at 1880, mission, and there were only 20 units of, there were 40 units of, 220 units of housing so when we got 40 deeply affordable and the
Us we are feeling. Lack of access to jobs. And etc. , so i think that it is very important to remember that we are all temporary stewarts of this public land and that it belongs as a public good and so we are applauding this effort and we are hoping that you support this deal. And i am very heartened to hear that you know some of the ideas coming from the Teachers Union because i come from a long line of family you know my wife is a teacher, we have family that are teachers, and we are all about labor love, community, love, and we are looking forward to really creating some programs so we can create the teacher housing so that we can create stability for many of our teachers and para professionals that are struggling during this very traumatic moment in time and so thank you all for all of your support. Hi, my name is bond and i am a member and i am a young member at a west bay program and i am a student at lowelhigh school and i support building more Affordable Housing and i used to l
Fresh, foods, and unstable, and unAffordable Housing which is only being hyper, hyper inflated and impacting all of us right now, as you all have read and seen and for many of us we are feeling. Lack of access to jobs. And etc. , so i think that it is very important to remember that we are all temporary stewarts of this public land and that it belongs as a public good and so we are applauding this effort and we are hoping that you support this deal. And i am very heartened to hear that you know some of the ideas coming from the Teachers Union because i come from a long line of family you know my wife is a teacher, we have family that are teachers, and we are all about labor love, community, love, and we are looking forward to really creating some programs so we can create the teacher housing so that we can create stability for many of our teachers and para professionals that are struggling during this very traumatic moment in time and so thank you all for all of your support. Hi, my na
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President of the Thomas Jefferson foundation and it is my great and distinct pleasure to welcome you this evening as we celebrate the launch of Gayle Jessup White reclamation Sally Hemmings. Thomas jefferson and a descendants search for her familys Lasting Legacy. And before we get started, i want to welcome a very special guest whos with here tonight. Whos with us . We are greatly honored that the first lady of virginia. Here tonight with us. Thank you. Many of you know that gail had a long and successful journalism career. Before she turned her sights. Thank god she did to monticello. She came to us in 2016 as our first Public Relations and Community Engagement officer. And its my delight to welcome her tonight as a colleague. But more importantly as an honored speaker. A common refrain in gails book is and i quote giving voice to the ancestors. And she does that of course and we try to do that by telling their stories. She describes herself as when i quote a woman whose voice is use