i'm joseph bryant. i'm the regional vice president of sciu 10-1. we're here to speak on a particular issue that we're facing and it pertains to some of our employees within the sfmta. i think we've made all of you aware of this issue in regards to the school crossing guards, you know, school crossing guards provide essential services to ensure that kids can get to school safely and on time and so forth. with this position, a number of these folks just faced challenges in terms of the way that their employment is structures, essentially short hours that don't allow them to reach the levels where they can benefit from pension, healthcare and so forth. so we're asking with this budget, the $1.2 billion budget within the sfmta, to consider correcting this problem of our school crossing guards to allow them to live and prosper in the city and county of san francisco. sfmta is a department we've worked mutually with on many issues and been able to resolve many of these. we also feel this is of mutual benefit to resolve the sfmta has referenced challenges