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Coming together in a partnership, in a partnership between mercy housing; now its mercy housing because its the sisters of mercy, but its mercy housing because that is what it is. And that is what it means to the people who benefit from it. And this collaboration with st. Anthonys. The coming together of two forces of such magnitude, of such commitment, of such deep commitment, of such values that you know that the outcome is going to be not only benefit the people who are here, but also be a model for others. This is a collaboration, as has been said between mercy housing and st. Anthonys and...

Them in a very special way. And that was his motivation and i believe the motivation of many of us gathered here today. I know it is of where you are father . Father from u. S. F . Thank you for being here. I see so many of you in the audience who have been so magnificent in this and here we are. Coming together in a partnership, in a partnership between mercy housing; now its mercy housing because its the sisters of mercy, but its mercy housing because that is what it is. And that is what it means to the people who benefit from it. And this collaboration with st. Anthonys. The coming together...

Construction project, you want to make sure you thank your neighbors at the beginning. They may not want to hear your thanks, but the boyd hotel, st. Boniface, hibernia bank, the academy, senior action network, San Francisco action ministries, cc y, and tenderloin district and father harden. [ applause ] since im up here i want to thank the mercy staff. I think there are probably 25 mercy staff distributed throughout the crowd. We do everything together. No one person is responsible for any one project, but some who have played extraordinary roles in this project. I want to thank the mercy sta...

Is so important. And so i would once again and i have a lot of respect for my colleagues and i understand the reasoning that has been reticulated but the reason why i am against, by releasing money that the district is entitled to, we are not doing anything it would be a mistake for San Francisco not to make this choice now. For everyday, every month that we delay making that additional expenditure the achievement gap with some students is going to grow wider and will become more expensive to close it. I hope that we support this item. And again i want to thank supervisor kim and the other cos...

That for certain kids that you are talking about, latino kids, africanamerican kids, english language learner kids, they have a better shot at success in other School Districts in the bay area than they do in the San Francisco School District. We have to change that. This appropriation is about recognizing that while money is not the only answer, money is part of the answer. This is about closing the achievement gap which is one of the single most important challenges that we are facing as a city. That is why this vote is so important. And so i would once again and i have a lot of respect for ...