shruty has been appointed to, and which we are considering today. despite the fact -- and i say that acknowledging that the retirement board and its staff visit a fid fiduciary duty, and appropriately so. having said that, there have been a number of moral imperatives relative to investment over time. going back to the days of apartheid in south africa, where the retirement board, along with retirement systems across the country, chose to divest with companies doing business with south africa. the same was true around the city's historic investments in the firearms industries, which the retirement system divested from. the same is true with tobacco, but has yet to be true for fossil fuels, despite the push from really remarkable coalitions of environmental activists. and in recent years, many retirement systems, academic retirement systems, like harvard, other cities and states, like new york, have been much more aggressive. san francisco's retirement system has been late to that system. with that in mind, the board of supervisions passed on februar