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Way we are raised. I am thankful for good parents, good parents in law and a good wife that will help me raise my children and students that way. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is robin. Im the executive director of mikva challenge, d. C. I am really honored to be on the stage with these two amazing educators. I have danced my whole career around the classroom and i have the utmost respect for classroom teachers. They are the real change makers in our society. They get up every day and educate our young people about the world around them and how to make it into what they like to see. I appreciate being a part of this panel. A minute about mikva challenge. We are named after the late judge abner mikva, who just recently passed away. We are founded by a group of people who had worked with judge mikva, a representative from chicago for a number of years on the hill, Circuit Court judge and general counsel to president clinton. Whe ....
Goi want to thank everybody that is here. We are on our way and it will take a while. It will take some time. We are about once we do the fiscal feasibility which was never required with these projects in the past. Once we get past this hurdle we go into the Environmental Quality process and everything will be heard about the impact of communities and around the city but i think the warriors and all of us want to give you a vision of where were going and that needs to be kept in front of us and we cant use this opportunity where we have a fantastic investment in our city. Confidence is growing in our city and we will have our gollen state warriors here in 2017. Thank you to everybody for being here today. [applause] well, you cant have a 25 local hire commitment and a 50 local hire apprenticeship commitment with a private Public Partnership without a private partne ....
Legitimate strong views on both sides. But i do believe that the legislation has strong support in the community. And im not just talking about support from newspapers like the bay area reporter and the chronicle or Community Leaders like cleve jones or neighborhood groups. Im talking about everyday citizens who live work and lead their lives in this wonderful neighborhood. Some have suggested this legislation resulted from straight people somehow invading the castro or people in noe valley objecting to nudity in the castro or more people raising children or local business owners. That is not the case and very few castro businesses have been vocal about this. I say this as a gay man who was drawn to the castro in the 1990s because of its status as a gay mecca and safe space. I found some of the rhetoric around this issue to be offensive and demonization of gay people and gay and straight who have children. Castro is a neighborh ....