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Wheel and lose track. Services wide, there is a lot we can do but more we can do to make it easier. Thank you. Tactful honesty. Thank you. Council member at that time kostanian has a question. Thank you, we were facing issues not only from people Offering Services but the community. They were totally floored that there was no place to go to and nobody to really hear our stories. I think instead of just floundering around, we really have to sit down and ask the community to step forward and be participants and not to be controlling. Thats the same thing that patients feel, that they are control...

Never be clean again. Since then shes had one of the best programs that exist in the city. I know for a fact having worked for the city and county, if it had been a county agency which crossed so many areas, wed still be talking about it. My belief, my hope is that in this community we have a grand desire to do better particularly with the homeless situation with people who are mentally ill, with all of this. What would support Law Enforcement would be if they had more recourse. If there was in every community in the city, a place during the day where someone can walk in and sit down and witho...

Started many years ago in park slope to help the underserved in park slope 40 years ago chips really was in a neighborhood that needed help, and a lot of residents that lived there were looking for some advocacy programs for them. So theres a group of people that came together, and they thought, well we can at least offer these services. They started in one store front within the to another, another, and then eventually landed on Fourth Avenue and sac et so they have a little building and it was just an old warehouse i think of some kind and they took that first floor and they started making s...

But if we look north of market consistently we have very problematic intersections that are still yet to be resoderv. We have oak and octavia and market and ok thaiv why which are consistently the most dangerous intersections in the city. In addition to that, every morning in my neighborhood we have traffic backing up on page, haight street, laguna street, and other streets in the neighborhood with road rage drivers. I was assaulted two years ago at the corner of laguna and page and sent to the hospital with a concussion. By a road rage driver there. The point is there are many transportation ...

[cheering] thats a good start. Thank you very much. Good evening. Im Bradley Graham the coowner of politics and prose along with my wife, Lisa Muscatine and on behalf of the entire staff, welcome, thank you so much for coming. [applause] hat a marvelous crowd. And what a great space for a book event. Thanks to the werner theater for making this spacious place available. As much as we do enjoy hosting our authors at our store on connecticut avenue northwest, we had a feeling [laughter] we had a feeling a somewhat larger venue would be needed for this one. [cheering] in fact, this is the largest...