patrick regan. steve craviel. >> supervisors, jeff pillar. i am here on behalf of employees employed in the waste hauling, parking industry, theatrical industry, janitorial industry. as supervisor wiener said, attempting to address some significant holes that are in the existing ordinances that have been around since at least 1999. as you have heard, one of the primary changes is the change to make what has now been a prevailing wage ordinance which the city has attempted, city departments have struggled to apply to situations involving non-employees, independent contractors, to require anyone bidding on any of these contracts to have a employer- employee relationship. the reason for that, one cannot apply a prevailing wage ordinance to people who do not earn wages. it is not an apples to apples comparison, by any means. what was noted to earlier by mr. levin was the sludge contract came up last year, the before. frankly, that is a good example -- not the only example, but an example of the problems that exist in this field, where you have a