Supervisor stefani. Thank you, president yee. Vallie, i first met you, what, in 2007 when we both started as legislative aids, and im not going to name names but theres something about working for elected officials that makes one a stronger person, i believe. Im probably going to say that to my staff as well. It was clear then as it is clear now that you came to this work with a deep understanding, love and appreciation for your community. And you came as a neighborhood activist Getting Started in your neighborhoods, founding the Lower Haight Neighborhood Association and lower haight merchants association, knowing the value of neighborhood activism. And we all heard the stories of you out there picking up trash in the neighborhood. And that stuff matters. That matters to people. For decades, you have worked behind the scenes to bring real results for the neighborhoods and for the city. And youve done it without ever seeking the spotlight, and i think thats something thats absolutely tremendous. I was recently at an event, and i thought of you, with oakland mayor, where the mayor spoke about how there are so many women in every profession, really, but really behind the scenes politics, who are so focused on getting the job done that they really never raise their hands to take credit. And you had to be asked to serve in this capacity as did i. And i understand what thats all about, and you have done it with such incredible grace, class, and honor. Like i said, youve never sought credit for the work you have done. But we all should recognize your successes today, farmers market, Affordable Housing, aapproving the transportation infrastructure, focus on public safety. You are always there for your community. You have worked tirelessly to make sure that your communitys voice is heard here in this room. You have been an incredible colleague, a source of great support to me and a dear friend. You have always had my back. And even when we wisconsin dysagreed on things, you have when we disagreed on things, you have never talked down to me. You realize we come at issues differently, and i respect that more than you will ever know. I have so many stories just in the short time we have been colleagues, but one stands out, and i said it one saturday before we were knocking on doors, but i was the subject in this room of hateful comments by someone who was speaking at Public Comment, and you alongside supervisor fewer, got up from your chairs, i dont even know if you were conscious about doing this but you got up from your chairs and stood behind mine as this one person continued to say hateful things to me. And in that moment, just knowing that you had my back, that supervisor fewer had my back, that i had these two incredibly strong women standing behind me, is something that means a lot and something i will never forget, and its how i think of you, always having my back, standing up for whats right, standing up for people. Im going to miss you so much. I think im very sad that you are not continuing on, no one has right now, for now, no one has the experience that you have, no one has the sincerity, the authenticity, the integrity that you have that you have come to this job with. No one has the heart for the community that you have. You have not, like i said, done this work for recognition or for a title behind your name. That has never been your driving factor, your driving factor has been showing up for your community. Just please know, vallie, that i respect you immensely. Im going to miss you so much. I cannot wait to see what happens next. I know everything happens for a reason, which i know theres something bigger and better. And or maybe youll be back, but i will always be here for you. I will always have your back. And thank you for having the back of all of us here at the board for being an amazing colleague, an amazing Public Servant and most importantly, thanks for being one of my best friends here on the board. I love you so much. Im going to miss you. So vallie, would you like to Say Something . Just a couple words. I know its late. And i hate goodbyes. Im with supervisor walton. I hate goodbyes. I usually do the irish goodbye where you just leave and its like what happened to vallie. I think a lot of it, especially if im in a place that i love and i care about, i hate goodbyes. And i think its because, when i grew up, i was always meeting new people and saying goodbye. So i just quit saying goodbye. And i just started saying hello. But i just have to say thank you to mayor breed who actually had the confidence for me to step in this role. Its not an easy role. Its nothing i ever thought, oh, i want that role, i want to be supervisor. And i had to think about it really long and hard to do it. But i just thought like it was a calling, and it was a calling for me to come. And after ten years of being a legislative aid and two years working in oewd, i felt like it was something i had to do. I feel like i almost didnt have a choice. So i definitely want to thank mayor breed. And i know it was hard for her, because that is the place she grew up, and its her home where she lived so she wanted to make sure she had someone in there that could really take care of constituents. And i really want to thank the clerks office, angela and every one of her staff. I mean, when i came on as supervisor, you made me feel like i came home. I just want to say thank you to all of you. Youve just been amazing. You are actually the glue that keeps us all together. I want to tell you that. You really are. Sometimes we do come unglued. And you keep us together. So thank you for being there for us. And the attorneys office, john, i mean, its almost like, you know, you are like the person that i know so well. You come back to the board of supervisors and theres john. And its just so wonderful to have john to come back to. And first thingishes say to you is im sorry first thing i should say to you is im sorry because we give you legislation and you are like how do we do this. But i want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart, because you have taken legislation that we were told we would get sued and it would never happen, and youve made it legislation that we could actually pass, and it will hold up in court. And i want to say thank you. And to your staff, you have amazing staff. And so thank you very much for everything youve done and all the years you have been here, john. You are right here for me. I want to go really fast, president yee, when we were having decisions about board president , i didnt know you that well, but i knew your staff and i knew the legislation that you had passed. And you always were someone that was doing things from the heart. And i just respected your background and the things that you did. And you really deserved presidency of this board. And you had been amazing. I cant tell you why im so happy in the 16 months ive been here that you were board president. So thank you for stepping up to that role, because i know its not easy. And just keeping us moving along in the right direction. Thank you so much. And thank you so much for being that ear when i want to come to you and talk to you about something and just being open. Thank you so much. Supervisor peskin, thank you fos respected you. Ive always respected everything that you have brought up and brought through legislation. Even when you made me bring my business streamlining three times through land use, yes, three times was a charm. But you know what . It was better legislation because of that. So i want to thank you for that. And ive always respected you, and ive always, everything that youve done, youve done it with such integrity, and you are such a policy, it really cracks me up when you catch those things, but no one else catches. So thank you for being so gracious and being there for me. Hillary, we started as legislative aids. Well, you came in a little bit after. And, you know, we bonded as legislative aids, because we both worked in districts that were really tough, violent districts. And we had to i think during the down economy, and we had to really push to make things happen and to address that. So when i came in as a supervisor, and we all worked with safai and you and i worked on the safe parking, and the things that you brought forward, and the things that you really wantedd to make sure were in there made it perfect. It was like the icing on the cake. So thank you so much for that. Thank you for introducing the American Indian cultural district. Im working with them now to make sure that they understand as it goes forward what that means for them. So thank you so much for stepping up to that. Because i know its difficult, especially in communities that are just so ravaged, getting them to work together. So i will definitely be part of that. But thank you for bringing that forward. So i really appreciate it. And its been wonderful to work with you now at this capacity, moving from legislation aid to supervisor. And even though ahsha is not here and is probably having whiskey in his office, im not sure what hes doing. Its his sons birthday. I want to thank him because of the vehicle navigation center. I will be there tomorrow with him. But that was something that when i approached him, he was going for a ban, a straight ban, and for him to back up, and his constituents were not happy, showed me right there that he was willing to work for what i thought was something that we needed to create a solution Creative Solutions. And i just really appreciate that. So ahsha and i hope your son has a happy birthday today. Catherine, you are another one, supervisor stefani, another one that, you know, we came in as legislative aids, and even though i was on the opposite side as far as then i worked for someone we came in to city hall, we were left of the left. It was the green party. And but it was so you were always so gracious as a legislative aid. And you are also as a supervisor. And i just want to say, catherine, thank you for making sure that we are not numb with all the gun violence, because any time something happens, i feel i just want to be numb, because its so painful. And every time you stand up and shock us out of our numbness, i say yes, thank you. Thank you for doing that and being that champion. Someone has to do that. And you are that electricity that comes through and makes us where we are not numb. So thank you, catherine, for everything you do. Supervisor stefani, thank you for everything you do. Your constituents are very lucky they have you representing them. So thank you. Supervisor haney, you know, we share a border. And i share an opinion of you that is really positive, because one of the things i think we both really agree on is that we disagree with the homeless sweeps. And i know a lot of times you get the homeless sweeps in your community, in your district, and then they come to my district and it goes back and forth. And i really appreciate you looking at lets try to have some new solutions. With the mental health, with you and hillary going for the mental health, and realty digging deep for those Creative Solutions. We need that and the homeless solutions. I just want you to know that i stand with you on that. I will always stand with you on that. And im sure we will be working together on making sure that we do things that address the issue instead of sweeping it away. So thank you. Its been an honor to work with you for a year on this board. Supervisor walton, i appreciate all your support. You have been supportive of everything ive done and everything i have tried to do for the Africanamerican Community in district 5. I have come to you and asked you for your support, and you have said absolutely. And it is so refreshing to have someone just step up and say im there. And ive worked with the Africanamerican Community in district 5 for so long, and the thing that they need is that support. And they need that person thats going to fight for them of my and when you took Juvenile Hall and said im going to fight for this, i said thank god. So thank you so much. And thank you for being there. And i know things will be Going Forward like the heritage center, that will be opening up on friday, again, because that vision of a community thats still there for me, and i funded that, so please be supportive of that, and i know you will be, because it has to have some reparations that way. So thank you so much for everything. I know well still be talking about Different Things and looking for solutions. Supervisor mar, yes, i knew your brother much better than you. And your brother and our office used to get in trouble a lot together. But when i heard his brother was coming on the board, i was excited. And i really appreciate you sitting down and listening to the things that we worked on together, whether it was s. B. 50 or the a. D. U. S. I came to you and said can we increase it to have small property owners, you said absolutely, i really appreciate that, because that was going to cover also my constituents. So thank you for being open, always, and talking through things with me. I really appreciate that openness that you have demonstrated. And we share a border also. So there are a lot of things that we had to really look at together. So thank you so much. Supervisor mandelman, i think we are the pot and the environmental twins. We were always doing the cannabis together or [laughs] we were doing things for cannabis and then also environmental. And i really appreciate that i had someone that we could go back and forth with on different legislation and some things that we thought were really important. I appreciated that you really punished through on that. So thank you so much. And that you really pushed through on that. So thank you so much. Being this person that sits next to me, its always important to have someone that has a smile on their face when i look up when its some issue that i just want to stab myself in the leg with. So thank you so much, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor fewer, i didnt know you when i first came on. And i think we went to coffee and talked a little. And after a few months, i realized i think we were cut from the same cloth. But you have much more of a potty mouth than me. [laughter] but, you know, yeah. But you said things a lot of times i wanted to say and i just smirked in the background. But really jumping in with, like, the office of racial equity, also a lot of the American Indian initiatives that we were looking at, you were always saying why not, hell yes, the family tax credit that we put in the budget, and that when people say it was only some more low income families, but it was a lot for low income families. And i appreciate you saying yes, lets do it and really looking at those equity issues. I cant tell you how much im going to miss you. I was going to say too bad i cant come back and work for the city, i could come work for you as an aid. No. So i just want to say thank you for being that person. And we really need people like you here at the board. So i fullon support with whatever you want to do, im there for you. I also have to thank my aids. I have everybody said i have great staff, and i have amazing staff. Maybe because i was staffed for so long, i knew what want and what i didnt want. So some of them are here. I have a new addition, caleb carwin condition sko. What kind of name is that . Okay, ukrainian. He came into my office like many people that come into your office, as a volunteer, as one of those people that were there and was an amazing volunteer. He came in and said what can i do, how can i do it . And he was always there. And i really appreciate it. And when that fourth aid came up and we actually got it, we were all clicking our heel hells, you were the one i said has to come in and be the fourth aid so thank you for your work. Even though it was short, it was amazing. So thank you, caleb, so much appreciated. My other aid derek remski. Derek is the one that talked tomb making sure that brick and mortar businesses took cash. And i was so impressed, because right there he went into a mode that i would always go into for equity, because when we look at this, people who dont have wash, i mean theres a huge list of people who dont have cash. Its an equity issue. So derek, thank you for bringing those kinds of pieces to me, because you knew thats the kind of stuff i wanted to grab on and run. Also for managing my calendar. Any of us that have a legislative aid that manages the beast of the calendar, thank you for taking that and managing that calendar. Sometimes i would get grumpy and you would just say, okay, so thank you for really stepping up and doing that and you also were so meticulous with the m. T. A. , our t. A. Packets, all those things that just really needed a good reading. And thank you so much, derek, for always being there and sometimes driving picking me up off the couch and driving me home and dropping me off. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. And my aid juan carlos, he was the firstaid i brought in. I knew him from oewd and he was probably the first one i said will you come down with me. And he said hell yeah, and i brought him to the second door. Youre an amazing man. You are very humble. Many people dont know you have a law degree and you were educated at stanford. So many people dont know that because you dont announce that. You are humble. But you are so smart. And you dive into any legislation that we were doing, whether it was building making sure we had a High Percentage of Affordable Housing with those projects coming through, you dove in, and you got exact number that made sure we didnt kill that bill. I cant even believe the kind of thoroughness that you did with that legislation. Thats one of the reasons i you know, and also with business streamlining, i mean, you kept going and kept refining it and refining it. Thats the kind of people we need at city hall. And im so proud that you were my legislative aid, and you were the first one i drug in to take that. And that first week was hell, and im so sorry but you did an amazing job. You still do an amazing job with all the different legislations that you have brought through. And then last but not least, shakira simile. But shes in italy right now. We call her shak. I say to her if i had a daughter, it would be shak. When i brought her in, i knew her from working for buy right community development, also working in the southeast part of the city for p. U. C. , her she is a warrior, a a warrior with a huge heart. When we talked with her about the office of racial equity, she said absolutely, womens rights, reproductive rights, she was there. I am so proud of her. And even though she is not here today, i know she is feeling my love and our love. And i have to say, all my staff are, they all have sec