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appreciate his support in pulling this off. it took a lot of change and collaboration of the police department. they moved their space, they work on their time off. they worked with me and the command staff to get this done. i think when you go inside, their hearts are in the right place. this is the deputy chief. >> good morning. fiona mah appreciates the invitation and appreciates the effort to better serve victims of crime in san francisco. as the chair of the select committee on do...

these years, she continued to say, you need food. lets get you that. you need health care, lets get you that. so today im going to have one of our other volunteers for the garden we have. how many of you know about ph.d. garden? a few of those. this is one of my favorite things. another thing barbara believes in is sustainable food, having a safe place people can come to every single day and being in a space, be comfortable. we have home grown foods. we eat together on mondays. one of ...

[cheers and applause] >> hi, i am 86. i am -- i came to the united states in 1993 from ukraine. [unintelligible] i have been attending the jewish center for more than five years. a significant health problem. now i want to address, dear mr. mayor, dear board of supervisors, look at tasks, look tasks218 sick, elderly people, and see your parents and your grandparents. were sick. we are isolated. do not commit this crime. do not leave us without the center. and if you ask me what it mean...

committees that begins with people sacrificing as individuals. im not to let you know that not only with hydra and marily, with so many leaders, we have a chance to promote people. we have a chance to support you. it is exciting to see business changing, the glass ceiling breaking, and youre going to help us break the bias. i learned about the bias at the asian law caucus. we wanted equity and family reunification in our immigration policy. we finally got back here with the california ...

>> connect is so important. every quarter we have a chance to come together to get so many volunteers and so many providers to provide some hope for people who are homeless and you guys are the most precious people that we have ever assembled. all right! [applause] so i understand this is the 40th event. i was 40 19 years ago. but i feel younger every day. but the city has so much to offer, and when we concede to this idea -- and i know were going to honor a great leader, robert garcia...

>> connect is so important. every quarter we have a chance to come together to get so many volunteers and so many providers to provide some hope for people who are homeless and you guys are the most precious people that we have ever assembled. all right! [applause] so i understand this is the 40th event. i was 40 19 years ago. but i feel younger every day. but the city has so much to offer, and when we concede to this idea -- and i know were going to honor a great leader, robert garcia...

economy is in trouble. we need jobs. we could be taking this $200,000 and hiring a crew of workers to install permeable pavement right now. that would put a few people to work. that is the kind of thing we need to be doing with $200,000 in the middle of the great recession, which many are climbing is over, but obviously is not. we need to pick people to work, -- put people to work, not do a study when scores of proposed desalinization projects in this country -- only one is going forwa...

25 minutes. only hustlers can get away with that. hes not a hustler? ben turned and looked at me. you think i bought us a hustler? how pathettic tic do you think we are? >> i sort of felt like he targeted us. i didnt get that sense. may be im wrong. ben smiled. you are disappointed. no , i said, no just annoyed. he pulled down the waist band. i dont need a mercy suck. he looked up. mercy suck. whatever. undeterred ben got down to business. mercy i said, there was when mr. johnson knock...