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[applause] , everyone. I love coming to cleveland for the annual event i enjoy every minute standing grows and grows. Thank you for your loyalty loyalty, the support and for your enthusiasm. Give that up to yourselves. [applause] every time i think of this prize a poet in the 1930s a white to woman now one of the first if not the first prize is in celebration of what to do recall excellence and diversity. An extraordinary person anisfieldwolf and she would have been it used to be named to the black Pulitzer Prize at least up down on the cover of the saturday review in 1941, Martin Luther king ...

Residents. We are committed to hope sf and to move it forward and the mayor announcement is another part of that moving that initiative forward. Mayor lee i also have the director of hud here and he is going to lead us and then we will have mayor lee up in a moment. Thank you very much and it really is a privilege to be here with you today and to build on henrys comments and its extraordinary that the grants across the country that were awarded to hud two of them are in the same state and its more extraordinary that both of them are in the same city, San Francisco so congratulations. [cheers a...

In your institutions, why that is so important. He was a great mentor, and i couldnt have imagined or thought of anyone better to sit next to in my first years in public office. He taught me how to be a Public Servant and human being and most importantly how to be a good father and always there for his kids, always, and thats the milton marks i will remember. Thank you. [applause] thank you steve. Now really a pleasure and honor to welcome abbey marks. Abbey levinson marks and i can say that my mom for those that dont know introduced abbey and million dollarson to each other. She didnt do that...

Through innovation. Whether it is the Space Program or tax credits for renewable energy. All that is important. We have to keep that going. That will get hard because we will face is demographics. That is my 74th birthday on april 7. I am aware of the and aging population which i have become and we are an aging population relative to what we were. Luckily, we have millions of fresh arrivals that are younger and are energetic and they come from all over the world. We have to make sure our Education System lifts them to their highest aspirations. When the society ages, it tends to it declines. T...

Applause . applause . Thank you guys so much for that beautiful performance can we give them another round of applause . applause . All the this time if i can ask mr. Joaquin torrez to join us again on stage, joaquin will be introducing the mayor and if i can ask my fellow Committee Members to also join us on stage. Joaquin. Thank you very much i have to say as director the mayors oches of Neighborhood Services its refreshing to have a mayor so dedicated to couldnt and it makes my job easier when our people in the Community Want to feel our elected efficients make our needs and its in physical...