chair, honorable members of the committee, judy berkowitz, president, san francisco neighborhoods. i know rose mostly through the coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. she has been vice president for 3 years. that position entails making public the policies that we have adopted at our general assembly meetings. at this point in public comment is feels more appropriate to just say ditto because so many people have sung rose's praises. it is truly amazing that she does not have an agenda in her work and what she does when she advocates for all sorts of different causes. she does it for the love of the city and she does it because she understands how proposals will play out in the long run. she has the ability to look down the road and see what one proposal and another proposal, if they are adopted by let's say the board of supervisors, if they come up through the committee to the board, if the two proposed pieces of legislation are both adopted, what this means and how it will play out in the long run. in closing, i'd just like to say that she has actually gotten praise from one