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>> good afternoon, im lisa van krekin and chair of the board of directors for the legal aid society here in san francisco. and im so pleased that you are all here to be a part of todays celebration, and i also thank you all for sustaining this fantastic institution and for making the critical work that we do possible. today, as you heard, were recognizing and celebrating the 96th consecutive year of the legal aid society, providing free legal services for poor people. so first, pleas...

>> good afternoon, im lisa van krekin and chair of the board of directors for the legal aid society here in san francisco. and im so pleased that you are all here to be a part of todays celebration, and i also thank you all for sustaining this fantastic institution and for making the critical work that we do possible. today, as you heard, were recognizing and celebrating the 96th consecutive year of the legal aid society, providing free legal services for poor people. so first...

company and shea lure. you should have bottled of that on your table right now. were also grateful to mark richardson and merrill corporation who contributed the printing of our luncheon program and menu, and i want to personally thank our friends at the recorder and "the daily journal" for their pro bono support in leading us up to today. i also want to thank the committee that worked on this and the honorary committee, all those people contributed to is. and now the only reason you r...

>> good afternoon, im lisa van krekin and chair of the board of directors for the legal aid society here in san francisco. and im so pleased that you are all here to be a part of todays celebration, and i also thank you all for sustaining this fantastic institution and for making the critical work that we do possible. today, as you heard, were recognizing and celebrating the 96th consecutive year of the legal aid society, providing free legal services for poor people. so first...

getting inconsistent messages from the department and we will do our very best to work this out. that would be my request. i would make that motion. supervisor chiu: i am happy to support that. supervisor farrell: we have a motion to send this out to the full board so it would be scheduled on september 4 regularly scheduled board meeting. this is for item number one. >> item #one will be referred without recommendation to the board of supervisors meeting. supervisor farrell: just item ...

>> good afternoon, im lisa van krekin and chair of the board of directors for the legal aid society here in san francisco. and im so pleased that you are all here to be a part of todays celebration, and i also thank you all for sustaining this fantastic institution and for making the critical work that we do possible. today, as you heard, were recognizing and celebrating the 96th consecutive year of the legal aid society, providing free legal services for poor people. so first...

people who do not speak english. >> absolutely. garde arts thank you very much. -- >> thank you very much. that closes the commission, and spirited we are going to community comments. -- that closes the commission nocomments. >> i want to thank everyone for being here tonight. this commission is going to be very proactive. we know there is a situation where everyone wants to know what is going on, it is very revealing. they heard about the violence, but i think this was very important,...

long hours with passion and with commitment to meet the urgent needs of the clients and the communities that we serve. id also like to thank the 200 volunteer attorneys, law students and interpreters who manage the help lines and staff, the five workers rights clinics that the legal aid society runs, the many law firms, including all of you who provide us with a wide range of pro bono advice and counsel, our many donors, businesses and members of legal communities, foundations and indi...

building we are proud of, because this is really who epitomizes the value in san francisco. it uses a third less power than a normal office building. it saves money. i want to kick it off by introducing the mayor over his career he has have so many different figures on this building from being the administrator to being the mayor, so this is a welcome thing. phyfe good morning, everybody -- >> good morning, everybody. i have got the same eyes as you today. this is the first time i have...

suspicious than yours, which i think is a restaurant offering live entertainment. actually we need more of this. thats one of the problems. there arent enough places where you can go get something to eat, something to drink and hear music. we need to encourage that. im going to vote for the motion because it sounds like its doable. its a little more work to have to keep track of your food. i understand its every year, commissioner sugaya, not every month. so you run the totals on an an...