dr. colfax. >> thank you. that's the only public comment on this item. >> i think the standing ovation is probably the most important public comment that we've heard. i know commissioners want to make some comments and we'll start with commissioner christian. okay. i'm following in mr. mort's footsteps so as a new commissioner i'm not currently the newest commissioner on the board but a couple of years ago i was and it was just before covid really hit and things shut down and so completely new to the department of public health. i'd been a commissioner on the human rights commission and chair of that commission. but public health is something something that is that touches my day job as a an assistant district attorney, a managing attorney of our treatment courts, our collaborative courts and our mental health unit. so it's very it always has been important to me and in my work during the day with the city i'm able to do it and i was thrilled absolutely thrilled to be appointed to the commission . >> you know,