steve patten, vice president. jim wall, treasurer. john deramus, director. we're here today, representing the nob hill association. as we can all expect, we at the nob hill association as every other citizen of this city loves this city. we all want to do what we can to help improve this city. we're not here today to ask for anything from the city. we're here to say that in our neighborhood we have a wealth of talent that we would like to make available to help the city make some of its difficult decisions. our objectives are, a, to reduce the cost of operations for the city. and b, where we can to increase the revenue the to the city through what we might do in our neighborhood. we suggest that every neighborhood association in san francisco has a much better understanding of their own neighborhood than this board of supervisors have bus we are right next to it, and we are prepared to offer and help and bring along things that will help the budget by reducing costs and increasing revenue. >> thank you very much. >> that's my message for today. thank you. >>