emily rorges. this piece of legislation provides -- it's a very complicated piece of legislation. we were before you last month with part of it and we ask for a continuum so we could continue to work with the project sponsor and the legislative sponsor and the representatives. the department has had what we think were very successful meetings to better understand their intent and we've got some modification that we think will improve the legislation before you. stuff like that say that last month you heard requests for more community engage yt on this legislation and this is something that you may want to request from the supervisor as our time and resource for review of legislation restricted unless there are budget changes, the department is pretty limited to what we can do. we do provide a complete policy review. we rely on the elected officials to perform additional outreach to ensure that they have the consensus tpwhaling they need for this policy change. so the supervisors aide is going to be here. maybe i'll just start to walk you through a little bit of the legislation. an