only folks in the room. >> commissioner pollock: sure. i definitely know there are many folks that should be in the room, and i appreciate you sort of herding all of the information together and giving people a framework? i think the only thing that i am concerned about is that, you know, that we get a really amazing report and things just go stagnant. and so i -- that's the really big concern that i have. and i don't know if it needs to be this body or the board of supervisors or someone at the state level needs to take the ball and run. but i just wonder if there's a road map that you'll include that just sort of says, if you want to begin this, someone needs to take it -- take it further. >> yeah, commissioner, i think we're in full agreement. we've seen these reports as molly said, from a number of other yourself jurisdictions come out and really be deflating in a -- jurisdictions come out and really be

deflating. ultimately, it's not up to the treasurer, right? it will be a much bigger policy matter, but we want to make sure that there is a pathway to move forward. >> commissioner pollock: that's awesome. thank you so much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. commissioner ronen? >> supervisor ronen: sure. thank you. one, with the sort of five areas of sort of interest, sort of that are prompting this desire to create a municipal bank, i don't know how to even phrase this question. it -- given the complexity, if we started with, you know, creating a bank around one goal around, is it then easily possible to add additional goals and -- and purposes as we move forward? >> yeah, absolutely, and i think that's something that we talk about a lot is how you can have a phased approach.

for instance, you can sort of start serving a bank, and a banker's bank, and then you can move to originate loans yourself and offer to members of the public. similarly, you can move to mortgages, and small business lending. and we definitely want in the report to show how that phased path could look. >> supervisor ronen: got it. and you know, are you also looking -- of course, i could ask you questions all day because this is so interesting -- yes, we are your perfect nerdy audiences. so complicated and so interesting. but -- so are we looking at this as a revenue generator, as well. the other issue is given our $10 billion budget, there's so much money creating that sits there for a certain amount of time drawing interest, and could we, rather than allowing, you know, a corporate bank to

profit off that interest, you know, capture that value and bring it back to city programs? how -- how's that factor into your analysis? because when i think about -- so, affordable housing would be my number one, you know, rank. i'm agreeing with whoever's on the task force -- >> they're great. >> supervisor ronen: -- with that being the number one goal. but as i said, you could take each goal and go further. but i want revenue sources for whatever, whether it be new sites or adu's, and that's generating revenue, so is that a major focus? >> yeah. it's something we're definitely looking at, and a municipal bank just to sort of stay on business has to be on a path to profitability. a real question is a lot of the lending that we'll want to happen sort of will have to be happening atloer rates than

additional banks will be offering, so we want to be spurring new lending? and the question is how can you cro cross-subsidize it with another form of lending. bank of north dakota makes money every year, and gives money back every year to the general fund, so it clearly it possible, it's just a lot of work, and i think it depends on the services that you're offering. >> another question is based on the research that's been done across the country that the start-up costs are significant. we're certainly hoping to get past that and give you sort of a road map to get beyond that, but i do think the initial start-up costs for a bank with sobering. and so i don't want to sugarcoat that it's easy to get to this state. >> supervisor ronen: got it. and then, the slide that had the spectrum of opportunities,

so we -- you know, you gave the examples and -- in that we already do some of these, so we already do the down payment assistance loan program, we have a revolving loan fund. do we operate it or do we contract with a bank? >> we're contracting with a local cdfi. >> supervisor ronen: oh, same with the dlf? >> that's being managed by the mayor's office of housing and community development. >> supervisor ronen: so in a way, we do have a bank, but in a very small way. so with our dlt program, i guess we didn't have to go through all the regulatory burdens or benefits? i would all say benefits of creating a bank. we were able to do this program without that -- i see. >> yeah. so part of -- really, the main

part of starting a bank is especially deposits. if you're only doing loans, you're a commercial lender, which it's a much less regulatory burden. >> supervisor ronen: so even if we're just accepting deposits from ourselves? >> it's an open question, i'll say, and maybe that can be lafco's number one job. we have some legal opinions that have -- that vary about whether you just accept deposits from yourself, are you a bank or are you not? >> supervisor ronen: interesting. very interesting. so in terms of our work on this body, could you give us some of your thoughts about what would be helpful for us to focus on that would be complimentary and useful? >> yeah, absolutely. so i mean, i think what probably makes the most sense, and we discussed this a little bit are around these questions of governance and structure. for instance, would you want the bank to be an llc, would you want it to be a nonprofit? what would the board look like?

there's a lot of complicated questions around tax status in that an entity that's owned by the city, how would it be treated under tax purposes? how would it be treated under bank law? and is it a bank holding company which comes with all these legal requirements, but it's not clear if a municipal entity owns a bank, do they all under that subject? so i think there's a lot of questions that fits into lafco's jurisdiction given that you function around city entities and governance. >> i think questions that come up with the state legislative questions, and we're aware of which pieces of legislation that would need to change depending on what model we move forward with, and i think the ability to vet those and

discuss those with lafco and have the city come to consensus about what we want to ask the state for would be extremely valuable. >> supervisor ronen: i see. and miss cohen, are you an attorney? >> yes, so i'm not licensed to practice in california. i have to give that caveat. >> supervisor ronen: first of all, i want to say this is very interesting, but i don't know if lafco's attorney has an -- for the governance question, it seems you need an attorney specialized in this area, and i don't believe mr. gobel is an attorney, let alone a banking attorney, and i don't know if the firm or you have the expertise. >> we do not have the expertise or this, but certainly, we could make a referral fore the expertise. the question is that type of professional service is a little more expensive than other types of professional services in terms of lafco

studies in your budget. so oftentimes, a special study may have legal components. they may not be driven entirely by legal questions. and so i think that maybe would be the legal challenge here. so certainly, the limitations of my expertise aren't really much of an issue because we could find you the right people, but i think maybe the budget might be a bigger issue. >> supervisor ronen: that was definitely my thought. i don't know that the 24,000 that we just designated will do it. >> to the extent it's relevant, we have some law firms that are interested or have been provides services to folks pro bono in this area, so i don't know if that's a service we could draw on. >> supervisor fewer: oh, that's great. maybe we can have mr. gobel follow up with those firms that

are actually interested in pro bono work with us. >> supervisor ronen: absolutely. and in terms -- so your suggestion right hand the legislative changes that would need to be made, can you speak more to that? and you know, about -- are all of those state law changes or can you ask them are there anything at the local level or are there federal changes that need to be made, as well. >> federal law on cannabis would be great. if you could put that on your to-do list, it'll be done in no time. i'm trying to think if there's anything local, but i can't think of anything. it's mostly state law around banking and charter and insurance requirements, and deposit requirement. >> supervisor fewer: so i know that the state of california now offers two charters for banks. it's commercial bank or it's a credit union.

is there any talk statewide about the state offering a public bank charter? >> yeah. so it's something that the advocacy community has been working with. i know that there have been some conversations with the folks in the assembly finance -- banking and finance committee about that, but i don't know how -- how far along those talks are, and it's something that we've thought about as part of the task force whether we want to try -- we have some banking attorneys on the task force, and whether we want to try to get them proceed bproceed -- pro bono to get some legislative language. >> supervisor fewer: also ask some state legislators that we know that are our friend if there's interest in sacramento to do this and connect us with ma maybe consumer groups, etcetera. i think there's an appetite. we even heard from some people running for governor about a public bank.

i think it's catching on, so maybe we could do a little bit of investigation on that. >> one of the things that molly has been organizing since she got here is a group of similarly situated jurisdictions. so some are extort, and some are city and county across the country, but predominantly in california. we're all kind of borrowing and sharing. i do think as we get to legislative changes that will be a great group to discuss that with? and then there are i think two bills still pending at the state that would modify the bank charter authority specific to cannabis. and while they are not completely relevant to a municipal bank, i think they'll give us a good bellwether of what's going on at the state level and who's coming out for or against, so we understand if we want to sponsor some

legislation n legislation in the future, how that might go. >> supervisor fewer: fewer okay. thank you. let's open it up for public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number five come on up. >> yes. eric brooks again. sorry to keep commenting, but you're working on a lot of different things. speaking on behalf of green party san francisco and our city sf. i've been a social and justice activist since the mid80's. i don't talk about this at city hall public comment with, i've anchored a deep study of global socioeconomics, and i keep very up to date on what's happening in economics, and i want to say -- i kind of want to add

another layer of importance to what you're doing here with a public bank, and that is that currently, we're facing a situation with global neoliberal capitalism where it has become so bloated with debt and credit based money that it is going to collapse again like it did in 2008, but probably worse. currently the logan will gdp is somewhere near $200 trillion. the amount of credit that has been created by private banks and other banks has become something like 800 trillion to 1 quadrillion. so literally we're -- the problem we're facing is one like in 2008 but bigger. a collapse will happen, and if

we do not have a public bank in place, by the time it does, we will be in trouble. we'll face what we faced in 2008, and analysts are saying this is going to happen in years, not decades. so... [inaudible] >> good afternoon. my name's curtis. i'm with the public bank sef coalition. we're a new coalition. i just want to say we're really excited about this? i just want to first commend molly and the treasurer's staff. i think they've done really an amazing job for what they were given? i just think personally, it may actually be good not to focus on specific issues yet and just basic -- focus on the basics of how to create a public bank 'cause the issues could very well change over time. i mean, i totally agree affordable housing is the issue now, but if we put all hands on that, what if it changes in a few years? i think we need to focus now on

just how to get a bank going, and then it can change over time, renewable energy, affordable housing, infrastructure, etcetera. and i think that the main reason we're doing this is because of divestment because public bank is inevitable and we're doing this because sf has always led the way with banning plastic bag, day marriage, and public bank tz. so i think sf can really lay the way in how to do this? i think when you look at what these current wall street banks invest in, bampg of america poured 14 billion into fossil fuels, and the taxpayer. so when you factor in the externalalities, it's too expensive not to do a bank? so yeah, i'm just really excited. i think we need an all hands on

deck approach, just like the golden state warriors approach, pass to whoever's open, but let's get this done. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, curtis. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is trevor martin and a member of the berniecrats and public bank coalition. i would also want to commend everyone on their work on a public bank. thank you everyone at the treesher treasurer's office. i'd like to say i'm glad they've moved past the feasibility question. everyone says it's feasible, but a question of good policy, i don't think there's a question of whether it's good policy. mr. brooks gave you numbers. i'll tell you what's not good policy, investing in funding industries that are killing and brutalizing our communities.

you know, fossil fuel industry and the gun manufacturing industries, and the prison industries. it is good policy to -- to use our money to benefit ourselves and our communities, and i would also just like to say that the solution -- you know, i just want to ensure that the solution is a public bank, a municipal bank. and i'm -- and i'm -- whether -- you know, i understand that's going to take steps to get there, and i don't want everything at once. i understand that, but i want the end outcome to be a public bank. as commissioner pollock said, i've been with the sfd fund apo as billion, after four years, we got to that meeting at sf'ers, and i felt like something was going to happen,

and we just came out of there with another plan to make a plan, and it just infeweriated me. like you said, this should have happened a decade ago. we need to make this happen. we need a public bank. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, chairman. next speaker, please. >> thank you, chair fewer and commissioners. chad holtsman, senior policy analyst for 350 bay area but speaking for myself as a language time san franciscans. i want to thank the treasurer and the great staff for the great attitude which i don't always see from city departments. i do think that, i guess the comments by curtis and trevor are worth -- this is kind of focusing on the positive aspects of the bank, potential positive aspects, and i think what we're highlighting is the averted negative aspects of not doing this, which is -- which is also i want to bring into the room, have led the campaign to divest your pension fund

from fossil fuels and there is some movement on that, but getting the city itself to stop spending its money where its mouth isn't would be a great start. really love this rank choice distribution of norms or goals, rather? i just want to highlight as so many used to do qualitative and quantitative data mining, that the three in the middle are for all intents and purposes, the same. you can't really say that 33 and 31 are different, like, in any significant factor? so i happen to be an infrastructure fan, so i'm kind of propg up infrastructure. 2, 3, and 4 are kind of the same, so moving forward, i would hope you would consider them such. going forward, i think more constituencies are better?

so i think one thing focusing on what to start the bank around is that thing bank? and nationwide, i think it's going to get framed as such, and then, the folks who don't want the land to be taken by affordable housing will oppose the bank, whereas the bampg is around two or three things, all of those constituencies can support that. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. is there any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: so i don't think we have to make an action item on this item. so i am wondering, madam clerk, could you please call items six and seven together? >> clerk: [agenda item read] [agenda item read] >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. colleagues, my apologies, but i must make a motion to continue these two items due to the time constraints. again, my apologies for being

here late, too. i just have another meeting right after there, so i would like to make a motion to continue these two items until the next meeting of lafco. >> clerk: madam chair, we still need to take public comment, though. >> supervisor fewer: yes, and now i'd like to take public comment on items six and seven. seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, so can we take that motion without objection to continue the item? thank you very much. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, can you please call item eight? [agenda item read] >> supervisor fewer: thank you. is there any public comment today? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, is there any further items? >> clerk: we still have item number nine, future agenda

items. >> supervisor fewer: okay. we need to open that up. is there any further agenda items? >> eric brooks. since you're in a hurry, i'll make this quick. it is vital that on your next agenda, and i've spoken to brian about this, this you take up legislation that is in sacramento so that we can make some decisions about it, particularly sb -- or ab 813, which unfortunately i recently discovered for some unknown crazy reason cal cca is supporting and that does not make sense. and so we need to have a discussion of this, and i can't highlight enough that loretta lynch who's a former kpafl public utilities commission president, i gave brian her -- california public utilities commission president, i gave brian her e-mail to get herrin

put on why ab 813 is so drastically bad and we need to oppose it. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [ gavel ]. >> supervisor fewer: madam clerk, is there any other business today? >> clerk: that concludes the business for today. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. the meeting is now adjourned. >> self-planning works to preserve and enhance the city what kind hispanic the environment in a variety of ways overhead plans to fwied other departments to open space and land use an urban design and a

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so i want to say first of all thank you all for being here today and i would like to start today to take a brief moment of silence in respect of our former police commissioner julius turman who was a great champion of public safety and a true friend to the city. so if you would please first join me in a moment of silence. >> [moment of silence] >> thank you. our thoughts and condolences are with his friends and family during this time. he's absolutely missed here in the city of san francisco. so i want to first do a round of thank yous. there's a number of individuals and organizations who helped lead us to where we are today. first of all i want to thank our

police chief bill scott. i want to thank our police commission, we have police commission president tip pi here. thank you. members of the board of supervisor, jeff seehey and katheri katherine stefani here today. our city departments, our controllers office for tirelessly working to find the right amount of staffing that we need right here in our police department. you know, since taking public office i repeatedly stressed that i believe we have some of the best men and women in our police department here inside of san francisco. proud of all of you do who are here today in front of us. i am not afraid as the mayor of the city and county of san francisco to say how proud i am of the men and women of our police department. every day they are putting their lives on the line for us as san francisco residents, they deserve our respect and our gratitude.

when we are so fortunate to have such dedicated men and women on our police department, we simply don't have enough of them today. san francisco is an ever changing city with ever changing neighborhoods. we cannot be bound by antequated staffing levels that do not reflect today's reality in our streets and in our neighborhoods. that is why today i am very proud to announce that my budget plan this year will include the addition of 250 new officers being deployed on the streets of san francisco. -- san francisco from our business department. in the fiscal year alone we will graduate 80 officers in the current academy classes, add 50 new academy recruits. we will also increase opportunity for promotions and shift highly trained civilians into positions that are

currently being staffed by sworn members to allow them to be out patrolling the neighborhoods of our city. these new officers will act as a catalyst and be the building blocks of our 250 officer plan. when these officers join the department they will be working on existing initiatives that have been undertaken to strengthen our police department. i have been proud to partner with police chief scott on innovative new public safety measures which include increasing our city wide foot patrols, adding investigative teams at district stations and expanding our burglary and serial crime units. as we know last year was a very difficult year for property crimes here in san francisco. over 30,000 alone in our city. an absolutely unacceptable number. since undertaking our initiatives we have seen property crimes decrease by over 17%.

we will not rest on our morals in san francisco, we will not let that be the new standard. we will continue to move forward and press ahead on reforms that make our streets and our neighborhoods safer for the residents of san francisco. it's also important to note that these increased officers will be more more than just a deterrent to property crimes. they will be reassuring presences in our neighborhoods of san francisco ensuring that people feel safe and securing the communities they live in here in san francisco. they will have the tools and the training to work with our communities and within our neighborhoods here in san francisco. these new officers will also be supported by additional investments in our equipment and resources. my budget package will also

include $7.5 million over the next 2 years to purchase over 130 new police cars that are needed in our department. it will include over $3 million to equip our police officers with tasers. in addition my budget will include $1.7 million to help support police reform measures. we will continue to support and fund on going efforts within our police department to make sure all 272 recommendations offered by the obama department of justice are fulfilled. when i've talked about my priorities as mayor of the city and county of san francisco public safety has always come first. today's announcement is a reflection of my commitment and let me repeat, i am so incredibly proud as mayor of this city of the men and women that serve us in our police department. these words are not empty, they

are not a political game, they are the truth. they are what san francisco will follow. it's impacting the public safety commitments reflects the needs of our entire city. we are pushing forward with a bold new vision for public safety in san francisco. i am honored to be here with all of you today to see these efforts through and to make sure that the future of san francisco is a safe and secure one for every single resident in every single neighborhood in our city. so thank you for having me here today. again, i'm honored to be with all of you. with that i would like to introduce the chief of our police department, bill scott. >> good morning. let my start my comments by

thanking mayor ferrell and his team. she is invested in the future of the city. recruits that we have in the team today represent our future. the budget presented today represents a significant commitment by mayor ferrell towards their future and towards the future of their police department and the future of this city. the budget envisions the sfpd as a more responsive, more productive and better equipped police department to face the challenges of modern policing and enables us to build our successes by creating the program tha programs that we know has a powerful and positive impact. the mayor talked about foot patrols and the increasing the foot patrols. we would like to sustain that. increasing the burglary and serial crimes opportunity, seven day staffing, support 4 our healthy street centers which we see tremendous progress and addressing the many issues that

face our city regardless homelessness. the expansion of our psychiatric emergency response team to help these experiencing mental crisis. it also means that we can continue the important work of carrying out our usdoj recommendations for collaborative reform and improving our department to become even better than we've ever been. this plan allows us to bring in an additional 250 police officers and it will provide increased opportunity for promotions including 20 new sergeants and two new lieutenant positions. the budget provided by mayor ferrell allows us to shift highly trained civilians into positions that have been held by sworn members enabling us to redeploy those sworn members to the field and also provides as we stated badly needed resources including 130 new police vehicles to help our

ageing fleet. we've been working really hard in the strategic frame work and it centers around safety with respect for the public and our members. this budget will empower us to increase our collaboration with our city and community partners to address safety challenges, to improve our responsiveness to the public, to find the future that we want for the sfpd and more importantly for the safety of our city. we want to be a modern and inclusive police department that provides safety. i'd like to thank mayor ferrell and the people of san francisco for their support of our officers. with this commitment the hard working men and women of our police department can continue to rise to meet the challenge of the growing needs of our city. thank you very much, mayor

ferrell. now i would like to introduce the president of our police commission. >> [applause] >> thank you chief and thank you mayor ferrell. this is not part of my prepared are -- remarks but if julius was here today he would take a look at this crowd and say he is proud of you. in fact, we ask all of you to live up to his expectations. two weeks ago on wednesday night he stood in front of the police commission, barely was able to stand for the pledge of allegiance. then after when he was being honored he said something very important for you-all to hear. i'm very proud of the men and women of the san francisco police department. so behalf of julius i share that with you tonight. i would like to thank mayor ferrell, the supervisor stefani and sheey for recognizing and addressing the crisis that we are facing with staffing.

i've been on the police commission for a long time as both a state and federal prosecutors here in san francisco so i'm aware of the need for policing. given the current state of our criminal justice and mental health systems, our officers can barely respond to the calls for service. they are busy dealing with repeat offenders and people in mental health crisis. by adding these police officers to our police department it will make the street safer for our citizens and those who visit our city. there's days when i walk from the parking garage to my office and i see the things that we all see, unsightly things of people in crisis, people shooting up. it's not acceptable and the only way we can address that is adding to our women power and men power of the san francisco police department. this is a great move. we as a commission thank the mayor and the board of supervisors for putting this forward. with this it will give our officers more of an opportunity

to be involved in community policing and, yes, proactive policing. so mayor ferrell, thank you on behalf of the citizens of san francisco. this is great and this is long over due. thank you very much. >> [applause] >> thank you. with that i'd like to bring up two supervisors who have been talking about public safety since literally the day they came into office, jeff sheehey and supervisor katherine stefani. >> thank you, mayor ferrell. welcome to district 8. i'm so proud to have the academy in my district. it's a source of joy for me. i want to thank mayor ferrell for his leadership in putting this forward. so last year as i came into office one of the things that i identified almost immediately was a gap in public safety resources.

i raised this with the budget and finance committee and was the voice in the wilderness. so i am so grateful that mayor ferrell has put this initiative forward. i'm also grateful to chief scott. some of the innovations are tied to our need for additional officer. the tactics that have reduced police officer involved situations have calmed down but those tactics require more boots on the ground. the second thing is foot patrols. so in my district we now have foot patrols on the castro. i know those guys, those folks. it's great the see them. people in the community know them. we had an incident at twin peaks. four officers assigned to -- so after the incident at twin peaks before the -- before the incident at twin peaks, the murder, we had ten car break-ins a day. after officers were assigned

there for the following month one. so presence is prevention. in dolores park we had an incident. the chief, other city departments, officers have been assigned to dolores park. every single neighbor surrounding that park talks about how improved that situation is. this is by having forces there, people there. it makes our neighbor safer. every day i talk to people in my district saying when can we get a foot patrol, have officers we can see. this will make that possible, not just in my district but across the city. i want to give a shot out to folks here today. i have been to graduations of academy classes and i have so much respect for the work that you're going to be trained. it's amazing. you put in such hard work. i am so proud, i wanted to shake your hand when you get that badge pinned on you.

i'm even prouder when i see people who had a badge pinned on them, whose hand i shook and see them walking the beet in my neighborhood. thank you for stepping up and protecting the citizens of san francisco. you are outstanding. the more we graduate the prouder i'll be so thank you. i'd like to introduce my colleague, supervisor stefani. >> [applause] >> good morning, everyone. i held my public safety forum in district 2 because the bottom line is people don't feel safe. whether it is because of our past crime epidemic, reports of a 7th grader being mugged on his way home from school or the ramped trueiram

ramped drug use we see on our streets, we must do more to keep the people of san francisco safe. i believe that we have underinvested for years. today's announcement by mayor ferrell is a huge step in the right direction. what i love about mayor ferrell's approach is it is thoughtful and designed to saturdays -- address san francisco's current needs, to help the homeless delivering help to the city's operation center and to equip our police force with the resources they need like working patrol cars to do their job and to help keep us safe. our focus should be on recruiting the best and the brightest by training our officers with all of the reforms that we've all been trying to implement. i have been so incredibly lucky in my 12 years of public service in this city to work with some of sfpd's finest, captain dylan,

commander manox, captain silverman, captain yep, officer matt loray and so many more. these individuals have truly helped shape my view of how incredible our police department is and how much talent we have here. i just want to thank all of you for stepping up and doing your part. i've also been a prosecutors and i've worked with so many police officers that have always shaped my view that police officers are good and we need them and i can't thank you enough for your service. i want to thank the mayor, chief scott and the command staff for their hard work and thoughtful analysis on the invests that we as a city need to make in the department. i just want to tell one quick story in my direct. so many times we hear the negatives. the other day someone said i

have to tell you what happened to me with a police officer. i got a pounding on my door at 7:00 in the morning and i went out there and i saw a police car and i was so nervous. they open it had door and the police officer said -- opened the door and the police officer said, dpd is going to do some care and towed your car. they asked them to move their car and saved them $600. there's so many stories about how important your work is. it's my hope as we increase our force we also do so in a way that bridges any divides with our communities and that we work together to create an environment where everyone feels safe and cared for. that is what san francisco is all about and i absolutely thank you for your service to our city. thank you. >> [applause] >> thank you, vooup --

supervi supervisor. as mayor i want to thank you for your service. we are proud of you. we look forward to years of service ahead. so that's going to conclude our press conference. we'll be in the side room if any media wants to talk to us after wards off camera. thank you all for being here today. >> [applause]