and thank you, miss nikolopoulos, for the presentation. and also just, will say that, fully concur around the need and whatever we can do to make ourselves more competitive, for these funds. so in that respect, the resolution before us is welcome. and i also want to say, i want to thank you for what i understand, and director adams was some work behind the scenes with the department, city state attorney and others to strike that balance that you referred to of, of, making sure we meet the criteria that's been set up, but also without pre deciding or undermining, further efforts that are, you know, will be before the board and the administration. so i appreciate the care that went into creating the resolution. i do want to comment, a bit on this. some of this is just the nature of this resolution. sort of no one's no one hears fault on this front. but but, but some things i do just want to put on the record while we're talking about this, because i think it's important. and i've spoken to this before. when it came through committee the firs