. >>> good morning, my name is javier flores. i'm with the labor local [speaker not understood] vice president local 261. and thank you for supporting thea programs. i just want to make sure my coworker earlier spoke about, that we do certainly support community groups and we do commit to work with [speaker not understood]. thanks for your support, supporting this project and working together. that's a good feeling. and thank you for that. ~ these >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who wish to speak at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> president chiu? >> so, first of all i want to take a moment and thank all the members of the public that came out for this. and, colleagues, i appreciate your patience with this hearing. as you probably know, i don't call for as many hearings as other colleagues, but i thought this was important because -- i'm not referring to anyone here on this committee. i thought this was important because either we talk about this now and start this conversation