We have a quorum. Thank you. I will proceed with the chairs reports. Colleagues, i would like to begin this meeting with offering our collective deepest condolences to the families of Michael Evans and Benjamin Dean who were hit and killed in horrific crashes on our streets last week, as well as kelly dean who is critically injured and in the hospital. As was noted at the rally on the steps of city hall this morning, commissioner haney organized it, and motorists must slow down. The tenderloin, which is an area that commissioner haney and i share, his not a traffic sewer, it is a neighborhood, and i did not have a chance to say this morning at the rally, but when you drive through there, if you are watching my face, when you drive through there, you drive through there at 25 miles an hour or less. Speed kills. I am going to depart from my remarks and say the following thing, which is we are joined by we were joined by senator weiner this morning who lamented the fact that Law Enforceme
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