tie ron jue, director, and charles and joseph piasecki. this item is in two parts. and update on the asia pacific economic corporation, apec summit. >> so i'll keep my comments simple, now that the commission is meeting monthly, we're going to do a verbal update every other month and then a full. >> reporter:. this month will be a verbal update, next month you'll get a two-month report covering last month. just two items. one i did want to acknowledge that we hosted a workshop on the intersection on racial equity. and set the stage tore discussion and we thought it was a fabulous event. there is been some conversations that you may have read at the board of supervisors that they have suspended remote public comment. i bring this up as a point of reference. the main reason that the board chose to do that, they were receiving a number of call ins, and remote callers providing anti-semitic remarks. soy put that out as a discussion, just as you're discussing how to move forward with your commission meetings and our remote comments. but to our main topic, i'm going to ju