Collectively really pushed my own personal boundaries and challenged me to think really deeply about what it is that i believe in and how it is that, you know given whether its finite resources or what have you how it is that we make things happen. So, i do want to thank you for that because without people like you to push me, i dont think that i could also grow in this role. And so, to supervisor avalos, i will say we used to Work Together as legislative aides and you had a seamless transition becoming a supervisor. I so enjoyed seeing all of your work especially tackling Environmental Issues around transportation i think the ta you have been a wonderful advocate in your district. I think is wonderful the improvements you can make with transportation dollars and supervisor mar, your work as well. And a recently we had conversations in our neighborhood not seen things happen it was great to bond with you because, you know it is so rare and i think its great to have districts especially like ours to have opportunities to really revitalize the core door. I just want to thank you so much. Supervisor campos, i know we will always share an affinity towards animals [laughing] so even though we cant see it i own all things i know that our love for our Furry Friends we will have if nothing else. As well as the successor to supervisor mar i didnt realize this until a Chronicle Reporter pointed this out to me that we will have more women on this board come january. [applause] so, that is really exciting. And supervisor mar as a neighboring District Supervisor i know we share ocean beach borders and even though we regulate the lands there we have had many challenges there with the trna and that will continue and i want to thank you for being a supervisors well i know you had a tough time with the art and that will be to be continued and i wish you well over at San Francisco state with your fellowship. And i wish you all the best. Thank you. Supervisor peskin. I just want to say that everybody thinks this is your last Board Meeting but we still 2060s where we can call a special Board Meetings i just want to same thankful for that. Thank you. And i just want to say to the Board Members that are leaving today there is no secret that we have had disagreements and life has been somewhat difficult at times for the board of supervisors and i would like to say that for each of you we have found ways to Work Together and over the few months supervisor campos you and i have just developed a better relationship and i truly appreciate that relationship regardless of disagreements and we have been in some instances, able to find Common Ground and i appreciate your leadership including trying to come to conclusion on the shuttlebus program which was really challenging and i am going to miss her advocacy on this board. A lot of times when you get excited, it is really funny. But, i know youre passionate about what you do and the people that you represent. I have seen you take some hits that you did not deserve. Which in some instances, i probably delivered some of those hits but at the end of the day, i know that you are a passionate person and i know you care about the city and you care about people you care about what you do and so i have really grown to respect your workon the board over the years so i think you so much for your work. Let me just say supervisor mar, i appreciate your work in the arts and equity and your consistency and all the work that you do and i just want to thank you for your work on the board of supervisors and it was definitely a challenge that a pleasure at the same time especially when we came together. It is a powerful thing. And finally, supervisor avalos, thank you for your advocacy especially with the environment done. And we gotclean power done andi just want to thank you for your consistency and continuing to push the envelope on that particular issue and it took a lot of people and that you really committed to help us get to this issue and your look at funding and institutions and so on and so forth so i thank you for your work on the board of supervisors. I had something for you i was asked by congresswoman jackie spear to present you with a Recognition Award from the house of representatives and when i asked why didnt she have one for the other members of the board she said basically he was the only one in my district. So, we are going to get on the other house of representatives folks who represent the other two will get theirs at a later date. But she wanted me to present you with this. She presented on the house floor it is Pretty Amazing and ill let you read it later but the fact of the matter is, it starts off which is really cool, mr. Speaker, i rise to honor john avalos for eight years of Exemplary Service on the board of supervisors it talks about your record and all that youve done and its Pretty Amazing. I wanted to make sure that i presented this to you on behalf of congresswoman jackie spear who is an amazing congresswoman. And so, this will be going to you as well as one of these nicely framed proclamations from the San Francisco board of supervisors commending each of you for your work, for your commitment to the city. You know, regardless of the differences, the fact of the matter is, as members of the board of supervisors you serve on this board and you make really hard decisions and sometimes people love you for it and sometimes people hate you for it but it is clear that the decisions that you made with the work that youve done putting your neck on the line time and time again for the last eight years that you really care about the work that you do or that you did and what you will continue to do and it clearly shows in your advocacy and what you introduced and how you worked with the community and that is definitely commendable. It is something that i have noticed even before i was on the board of supervisors. Thank you, each and every one of you, for your commitment to the city and for your service. It is a truly amazing time of service. And, i dont even know why im getting all emotional but you will definitely be missed in this chamber and hopefully, you will still come see us from time and time again for some of the upcoming legislation that we probably will be passing. So, thank you again and thank you for your service. Supervisor cohen. Sorry john. Thank you gentlemen for having class and your incredible work ethic i came to the board to have an opportunity work with every colleague i would like to say that eric mar is probably the most enjoyable person to work with. I think as pres. Breed stated when it comes to health advocacy, whether it be cigarettes, alcohol, if i was here during happy meal time, i wouldve been with you. I want to say thank you. I think the youre very insightful and frankly, i think youre a leader i had a your time. And, that has always been demonstrated on some of the issues that you take on and i hope that you never lose that spirit. And, i also have had an opportunity to witness that i think that you are really good friend. Not necessarily to me per se but i have witnessed you putting your friendship and people that you care about above and beyond yourself. Your loved ones, i love the way you cherish and nurture and speak about jade. Ive only had an opportunity to meet her a couple of times in district 10 i think she was before me but, it has been really cool during your long introductions with Community Events and stuff you always bring a remark and you relate it back to the family and you relate it back to jade and what life is like as a parent raising a teenager and i think that is very, very real and genuine and most san franciscans , not all but most can connect with that love and i appreciate that. And supervisor campos, it has really been kind of fun because its true when you do get worked up, it is funny. You literally see smoke coming out of his ears, right . It is amazing. [laughing] i love his affinity for cars. I have literally been asking david campos to have dinner with me for six years and he only had dinner with me first six years and one time he told me that he could not have dinner with me because winston called him and said that he had to come home. [laughing] watch it supervisor, when you left me at dinner with my entire meal. You told me that winston called and you needed to come home in in a very comprehensive way like sorry, like if he had hair. Is flipped it over shoulder, you understand, dont you. Wait till thursday if you all come see me im going to roast is ass. [laughing] oh my gosh, sorry, i didnt realize there were kids in here ive to keep this pg. Thursday at the bravo theater. Be there or be square. Supervisor avalos is really, really interesting. He is the most difficult person for me to come to connect with and understand but, what is interesting is that we are not scripted but some of my best remarks and moments have actually come on issues that he has carried in champion to remember that time i was on the [inaudible] that was a setup from supervisor avalos. It was your remarks that got me all worked up and the next thing you know, thank you, i was on the national scene. I have to thank you for that. But you know, when you think about it, the issues that really gets you and it was like laying dormant in me after hours and hours and hours a Public Comment that you internalize and then you are like, blah, and you explode so, thank you. Not many people can move me in such a way and a recently we have had some pretty explosive arguments and disagreements but we are adults and we could still come back to the table and get back to work. I want to recognize all of your Staff Members. Because, you guys are not really as good as you think you are without your staff. It is your staff men and women that really, really make you guys look and sound smart. They do the due diligence, they do the homework, they do the talking points. They probably give you the talking points when you need that comfort with that uphill battle because you need that encouragement, right . They are talented people and if there not here today some of them are at home but the talented people because we are protecting immigrants in education and womens issues and reproductive rights issues and issues that plague poor people. There is enough work at the table for all of us to get our fill of a lifetime. And, i was just really touched us a little my lot running around the chambers like she owns the place. I was like really, she was probably born in the halls of city halls. And i think it is very exciting to see with the next generation her mother being sworn in. And also the Staff Members who have delivered children to this board. Again april, we are changing policy so thank you guys for allowing us to change the bathroom. Campos wont publicly admit it but he wasnt happy. That was his bathroom. The lactation room that was campospersonal bathroom. I and all his personal business out there. Im being mean. [laughing] ladies and gentlemen, this is just the opening act. Seriously, and csf bravo on thursday. But gentlemen, it has been definitely a very exciting six years for me. I was 32 when i was elected and you have really had a hand in the maturation process for the melia that you see today. And i feel very privileged to see today and i feel very privileged to serve you in the space. Thank you supervisor cohen. All right supervisor avalos. I walked in today to this Board Chamber knowing it would be the last my last meeting and i was a total emotional wreck. I couldnt keep my composure. Im not sure that anyone notice but i kept going to the bathroom and it white my face and i realized at that point that its not the walls that absorbed all the drama its actually a bodies that do it. Theres just so much that it happened over the past eight years. I cant believe i have been here eight years and 3 1 2 years before that is a legislative aide. And so, im going to try and keep my composure as im speaking because i feel so many things right now. Let it go. [laughing] first of all i want to say thank you to the people of district 11 [applause] for giving me this awesome, awesome, experience. I mean awesome is a word thats thrown around so much but im completely in all of what i have had access to working with the board of supervisors that i get to work in just one of the greatest cities in the world and the city that is always becoming, its always inviting to live up to the values that represents its a really dynamic place to work in. It is just incredible, the freedom that i have had to be able to work and choose the things that i want to work on and to fight for my district and the fight for social justice and, it has just been really incredible to do it with everyone. First, i want to recognize my staff who have, yes, i have been so incredible to make this job possible. Im talking about staff who arent hair like racquel redone the who is my best friend she is in the philippines right now. She does not get reception so shes often one right now intermittently watching but more than anyone, my staff was the ones who really gave me and i have been friends with her for a really long time the courage to be here today i feel really confident being in the room with everyone who went to harvard or whatever. [laughing] i have my own stuff to deal with but they have really been a tremendous boost for me. And then, you know, francis shea along with racquel have been there from the beginning and just a really great friend in a really wonderful person to always be available to make the office run and to be there to support you in emergencies and to just make this place feel like homehough it doesnt always feel that way. But,the communication toward the end it was just amazing to keep up with all of the stuff that we wanted to do and, you have two kids and to be a very give all of yourself to them and all the great work that you did through the city as well as been an honor and privilege to work with you. Thank you for all the support youve given me over the years. The next person that came into my office was jeremy pollock. And jeremy of course he and i were both legislative aides at the time at the board of supervisors i was always impressive with his work with the best off voters in his artistic work and jeremy is the person that is not always saying things all the time but get a microphone in front of him on the radio he is amazing. And so jeremy was the one that brought a lot of really great tenant rights work that im really grateful for and i think we really moved the city and a great way because that work. We also, you know, had a big issue around unpermitted in law units in my districts and we would try to move legislation on that. We werent able to do that with david chu but our work really work with dvi and we were able to enforce like crazy these unpopulated units and our population grew by 5000 people in a very short period of time and part of that protection was what jeremy had done. A course jeremy and spear and all the work that we did on climate and i learned so much from him and he was able to tap into a lot of really great ideas and things that were done around the country and divestment and work on bicycling was a great part of that effort and the Bike Coalition board and it has been such an honor to work with you and i really thank you for helping to prop me up and be patient with me on all the great work and my life is so much better because of that and i feel like i got to another high level. Intercourse, rubenstein who has been tremendous to come into my office and shes done a lot of really Great CommunityDevelopment Work in the district. We started in 2009 trying to reinvigorate Community Development work in San Francisco. District 11 really became a model and experiment and a model and lot of people did a lot of hard work on district 11 and it is really amazing. We have new housing and do open space and a new credit Union Opening in the district and beth, has really been the glue it to make that happen. And now tomorrow, we have the hearing of the activation of two buildings that have been dormant for a long time creating blight and we have a pathway to do something about that and i am just so impressed with all three of you. Thank you for making this work possible. Often times i come in and im taking care kids often times as a single datum during that and i dont have time to delve into that and in provision i have to improvise in this job and you have given me that ability so thank you. I want to thank add her being a great clerk of the board you have been a wonderful person to work with. You have. For lack of a better word, gravitons is not the right word , class is what i should say. You have such a great demeanor and poise and you are able to you know, handle and manage all the conflict that happens here. This can be a war room sometimes and appreciate that you do a really great job with your staff you do a tremendous job and i feel like i never lacked anything with the clerk staff here and i just want to say thank you for you know, many, many, great, smooth things. I never knew what was happening behind the curtains it was just people doing really great work. John gessner thank you for your work over the years i think you have always been really helpful in a lot of ways. I see you in albany from time to time sometimes we would commute together. Thats always been fun. I really enjoy working together. And i will start with eric mar, it was really great to come in with you i felt it would be easy to work with you and be a natural affinity and there really has been. I just really admire your humanity, your decency, you are someone who is as a lot of people mentioned in the room today, youre just very very selfless and you just always thinking of other people before yourself and it just really, really shows and as other people talked about, it wasnt, it wasnt popular to look at, you know, Health Issues. It was a lot of mockery about it and we can look up something if its still here, there was a lot a mockery about it. You are actually pushing on the healthcare on the Health Issues before they