. >> supervisors, larry bradshaw vice president of seiu. if i came before the committee and roll back a civil rights gain i wouldn't come and say i'm going to turn the clock back to the bald old days. instead of i would muddle the conversation and department has done a good job at doing that. let me talk about whether union agreed to this. we had a modest proposal to lift of women and people of confirm. the city has a proposal to lower these wages. under the charter the arbitrator is forced to chose between the city's proposal and the union's proposal. he has to pick one or the other. and prior to arbitration they put on a mediator hat and i think this is a good compromise. if you don't accept it you have the risk of getting the other proposal and we acquiesce to this to avoid that outcome but we said we would never negotiate with the pay equity gains we have made. regarding the market. i encourage to you look at the survey you got prepared by the union in 1999. it's in your packet and they said we surveyed the surrounding bay area and thes