A bit of a problem because people who are being honored here today are not only not able to get in the chamber, but the people who are here to see them honored cant get in the chamber either. We are going take a two minute recess so if you are not here for the black History Month commendations we will ask that you leave the chamber so we can make room for the people who are here for the commendations and their visitorsism we will take a two minute break so we can clear the chamber in order to provide for that opportunity. Otherwise this will be a longer process and you will have to wait even longer than you already have been waiting when something is on the agenda for 3 p. M. Is dozen necessarily mean it will be called at 3 just after 3 so we will get to that shortly, but we need to get through commendations and thank you everyone for your cooperation and undering. We will take o get through commendations and thank you everyone for your cooperation and understanding. We will take a two minute recess. [recess] okay, thank you and to all our guests here today for our special common endations we apologize that you had to wait outside. Supervisor cohen did an amazing introduction and so far we have honored [inaudible] who is here and share cheryl davis and will begin the process calling on other members of the board who have their own special guests here to honor for black History Month and ill start with supervisor pestcon. Thank you madam president. Colleagues today im privileged to honor the leadership of a dear friend or at least became a dear friend. She used to give me a tough time. A woman i respect and adoor the one and only mrs. Daisy mc arthur. [applause] it is most fitting the theme for the year sellivation is guide thg way for freedom and equality because they dont call mrs. Daisy the mayor of bush street for nothing. She is needing the community to safety and care and compassion for decade. Mrs. Daisy as every calls her accept when i get cross with her and call her mrs. Mc arthur was born am condporj george moved to new york and stayed on to atened new york university. Serviceing and community in new york for 16 years moved to San Francisco in 1989 and now calls it home. She is living in lower knob hill 28 years and met mrs. Daisy when i ran for supervisor 17 years ago. She did not hesitate to get in my face ask me questions and hold my feet to the fire about what commitment to the community meant. I know i had to make this woman my frnd because she would keep me haunest and accountability and dpet me elected. Mrs. Daisy knocked on doors in 199 to kick off the first Home Healthcare union local 250[applause] and today she is a proud leader of successor 2015 she was releptless and the union is aroupd today because of tireless ongoing efforts. She livs to serve as inHome Healthcare professional and love said by patients colleagues and client and all neighbors alike. It made her emthet took the plight of poor, homeless and down trodden and mrs. Daisy buried deceased homeless Resident Services paid for out of pocket. She was the league gartian for the nephew from 2 to 15 and at besy car Michael School to serve for 8 years. She was a activist and parent leaders who led the fight to ret row fit besy car michael. There are few problems she has not scared down. When a dieer mother asked to take care of son she gave him all the meals. She adopt adhomeless man and brought food and a local proponent for social justice issues throughout districtthry. One of the most incredible acts of bravery was over all most two decades ago when a unscrupulous landlord was trying to evict her and all tenants. That building became burned not once but twice and she stood up to that Property Owner and carried it through and when she called upon my office and i thought i would meet with a handful of tenant mrs. Daisy brought all 38 tenant down. That is one heck of a organizer. [applause] mrs. Daisy said it isnt easy coming from the deep south and trying to stand up to authority but she never wavered in her commitment to stand up and her the community not ever. Mrs. Daisy you make me so proud to be a san franciscan and love you see much. Please come up here and get your certificate of honor. Im here, aaron, thank you. [applause] thank you, aaron. Everything aaron said is the god heavens truth. [laughter] there were a time when i first met aaron we was going toe to toe, okay. Or we both about the same size, soi cant say who won because we are still here, okay. We are very Close Friends and not only do i fight for knob hill, im all overtime. Been a healthcare worker, a home care aid, im in each and every district there is. I dont want you all to feel left out, okay. I do move off from knob hill from time to time and that is every hour of today. Not only that, i appreciate all the work, all of the work that each one of you are doing down here at city hall. You all walk the streets ayou see the your neighbors and see the homeless and i know you feel it. I do because if i didnt i wouldnt do the work im doing. And im proud of what i do and proud of all the healthcare and home care workers sitting here today. I want to let you all know that. [applause] and i want to thank you all for letting me be your leader. Thank you very much for standing behind me, helping me work, helping miwok the street, helping me visit the sick and ill. Thank you very much for your work. And aaron, i cant say it enough, i want to thank you, your family and everyone that have came through here. I have seen so many supervisors go and come and i hold them dear to my heart and i am praying, where pray for the ones that are here and pray for the ones that are gone. I ask each and every one of you to lift your hearts up in prayer because you never know, you might be talk toog a angle because i have met so many angles along my way and i want to thank. Aaron, i huv you. I love you all down here and want to thank you each and everyone out here. Thank you. [applause] did you get your picture, supervise sor peskin . I did. Congratulations. No i like to recognize supervisor ronen for the next commendation. Thank you. Can Bobby Cochran please come up to the mic. [applause] bobby i haventtled you this but one the first thoughts i had when i ron twhon supervisor race is i cannot wait to the day i get to honor Bobby Cochran at the board of supervisors and this day finally came and caen be more proud or excited bet the moment. Bobby cock ran was born in alabama, the son affa sharecropper. He left alabama at 17 years old and joined job corp is within two years he worked in a cotton field to building bowing rr 747. After mub toog San Francisco to continue the work in aerospace he discovered he had a passion for paint housing while work wg a friend and ended up changing profession squz painting houses for over 37 years before retiring. I have had the incredible honor of work wg bobbyover the last 7 years since i have been in district 9 office for the legislative aid and now a supervisor jz we worked hard to improve hard holly Court Development in bruno height from Community Policing and safety work to improving the conditions in the Public Housing development ichb in the district and over the time you have become a brother to me, bobby and i love so you so much. Bobby is just a Leading Light in our community. His leadership has brought mutual undering to the brunal heights neighborhood, a neighborhood where relatively newer resident who are multimillionaires live with working class resident who lived in the neighborhood for decades and Public Housing resident at holly court and alameiny and bobby is phrenwith everyone. Your patience, your warmth, your generosity, your ability to explain to people you bridge divides, you bring people together and you make sure people understand one another and it is a skill and gift very few people have. You are father of 2 and grand faurt of 13 and great grand faurter of two and a parent, god parent to so many children and resident of holly courts. You move to holly court with your wife shery who passed away last year and who we all greatly miss and your two kids, robert junior and lor eta you moved in 1985 and fell in love with the community right away and it shows in everything you do. In 31 years living at holly courts you have worked tirelessly to improve the Living Conditions for seniors, families and children that live in the development and you have been the sergeant in arm frz the Resident Council and helped create the that council for quite some time. Today you sit on the Housing Corporation committee and the Safety Planning Committee at Bernal HeightsNeighborhood Center and gina exectvative director and [inaudible] are here to honor you today. No matter the issue, you have experience and wisdom that motivates all the residents of holly courts and you make sure those residents stick together through thick and thin. I may be the supervisor of district 9 but you are definitely the mayor of Bernal Heights and that neighborhood. Bobby i love you so much and please share with us your word. Congratulations. Hillary, supervisor ronen. I dont know if i can talk anymore or add anymore. Im sorry. You know, my late wife used to tell me that she didnt like the time i taken away from her to do the work that i do, but she always told me that it will come back to you in folds. When she passed the whole community reached out and embraced me. I get goose pimples just thinking about it. It all came back 10 fold just like she said. About 10 years ago i started hanging around the bernal height Neighborhood Center so much that they decided to adopt me, you know . They could ntd get rid of me no other way i guess, but i like to thank the bernal height Neighborhood Center, the staff, regina, [inaudible] urma, james and the seniors, the volunteers because they all took me in you know and made me part of their family. Actually helped me get started working with the community and in the community. Even though forced my first speaking engagement right here, they forced that on me. My ideas of a good working community. Actually started with good people at it the top. Thats rr you guys. Thatsa lot of good people in the community that working hard and coming together and discussing and coming up with a plan for the community. Thats when your Community Leaders are formed. That is when your Community Watch groups are formed, block group jz it takes everybody working together. Dpw, park and rec, pg e, muni, it takes a lot to put a good working Community Together and im proud to be part of that. I like to thank my fred buck and thank my fred herb and his wife gale that i work with on the upper folsom project over 4 years and other organizations around the bernal community. You know, i cant leave out my old friend captain mc fadm who do a excellent job in the community. I met hillary about 7 years ago. Supervisor ronen now im proud to say. We worked on a project called Community Policing and there were the first project i worked on with my Resident Council and worked with on it with two people from around San Francisco and met every couple weeks for 8 months to define what we thought about Community Policing and when we got it widdled down to 15 paragraphs supervisor took to the surpriser and passed it unanimously then what amazed me we went in front of the Police Commission and i was nervous that night, but we passed it unanimous. I say, can can do stuff like this. I was just flabbergasted i could do Something Like this. Thank you. Ovthe years i worked with supervisor ronen any time i needed her, any time we needed her she was always there. I saw her work ethic and hard work she put into it and it inspired me to work harder. Im proud to know her and thank her for giving me this excellent opportunity but i accept this award on behalf of all the hard working people in district 9. Avenue 1 of us deserve itism thank you. [applause] thaupg thank you for your service and again congratulations. [applause] i like to ask members of the public please silence your cell phones. With that, i am going to bring up my honoree amarti ricko hamilton come before us. [applause] now, ricko i had to prepare remarks because i dont want to get emotional because the work that you have done for this city and lives you saved literally has been just something amazing and i know you have a amazing team of people you work with every day to do the work that often times gets negligented, the work no one hears about because something does want happen and so we are honoring you today for that commitment. I know you dont do the work because you expect to be honored, i know you do the work because you care about the community you were born and raised in and want to take to the opportunity to tell folks exactly what you do and what you stand for and i also like to acknowledge your wife quhoo is here today, crystal and i know youre a father of 4 and work hard and take incredible care of your children. Im so very proud of you and honored to be here today to honor you for this amazing commendation. My dear frnd ricko works for Western Addition street violence prevention or violence intervention program. It changed names so many times over the years and for those who dont know what svip is i know there are members, victor jones is here and artero and others who work on the front lines every day in our communities. It is program that is managed by the Mayors Office of violence prevejz department of helthd and children and youth and families that aim to reduce homicide. They do the hard work no one sees. Sadly in the neighborhood we lost so many people over the years and when there is a shooting or a homicide or something happens, ricko is one of the individuals who is basically not only talking to the victims family but also dealing in some instances with the perpetrator of the crime. Putting himself in danger, putting himself in harms way in order to stop the violence from occurring for someone else. That i have seen first hand. I had tamake those calls on a regular basis to you and ask you to intervene and to reach out to individuals knowing that talking to some of those individuals really does put you in danger. Put you in the middle of a complicated situation that not everyone has the undering understanding or expertise or experience to deal with. You bring a unique perspective, a perspective of mind and hard. A love for the community, a love for the people of the community, a desire to keep everyone safe, a desire to bring the Community Together not just during tragedy but the work thatia have done to bring people together whether it an event, whether its a picnic, whether its a bbq, those are the type of things that help bring a dmunty Community Together and make our community what we so dest prtly desire it to be. A safe and lovable place where all of us and all the children we are raising now. I deviated from my notes of course. I am so proud of you, so proud of the person that you have become over the years. Im proud of the husband and father and the Community Man and the spiritual person you are. When you think no one is watching, i know you are doing amazing things. You are having the conversations with young men about their lives and their issues and about their uncertainties and you are holding them accountable to do the right thing. You are holding them accountable to be better. You are showing them by example what it means to be a real man who stand up not only for his family but for his community. So, that is exactly why i had to honor you. Again, i know it is not something that you expect, all you do is keep your head down and you do the work, you take the phone calls, you deal with the difficulties of the job and i know sometimes it gets to you. I know sometimes you dont feel appreciated but today we are honoring you to show you loved and appreciated for all you do for the community. For all the lives you changed and saved. Thank you ricko for your work and behalf of the board of supervises it is my honor to commend you. [applause] first i want to say i want to thank you fraub fraub the blessings i received my grandmother passed in 2000 amazing womp who raised our family of 7 children and 30 something grandchildren. My mom and anterr amazing people. They say behind every strong man there is a stronger woman so i had a stronger woman for 13 years and so happy to have her in my life. [applause] and also i had a lot of amazing mentors in my life and truly thankful for all the mentors lf personally london breedlet me tell the story how it happened. 13 years ago it was 2004 and i come from the community that i serve. I come from a lot of the underprivileged things. I come from the Western Addition, family of urban renewal and redevelopment all the stuff that happened in the community and allow myself to fall victim to some things that happened in the community and ended up in a bad situation, incarcerated, spending time in jail and when iigate out i was pretty bummed. I had the mentality i cant get hired, no one will give me a job, i am not doing construction. That was my mentality and someone said london is working a that African American cultural complex why dont you talk to her. I said who. They said london and they gave nee story. I go up there with intent to get a job as a case manager. I talked to her and said i want to be the case manager