we have to be able to do that. summer school is really only one option in what should be a huge portfolio of credit-churning options. supervisor campos: commissioner? commissioner fewer: thank you. i also wanted to add it is much easier to have students attend a seven-period day than summer school. this is why we could probably serve more studit is just diffid them up again. they have to come. many students may expect the school is out. if they are in school already, it is so much easier to get into this last class. i think on our part, we should ensure that all our classes that we offer meet the requirements. we are working hard to do that, so that every class a student text during the school day counts toward graduation. if it is not accredited, it does not count toward graduation, unless it is a state-mandated class, such as physical education. i think that a seven-period day is something we have looked at seriously. it is very expensive. would it help our students in graduation? absolutely. you are seeing ninth

they want to be able to help others. the biggest part of recovery from-from any disease is being able to give it away and share it with someone else. and-and give back. barbara, you wanted to add a few thoughts on medication-assisted therapies? yes, dr. clark makes a very good point that medications therapy is covered by e ada. on the other hand, i think there's a big need out there for education. because if you're in a drug-tested environment, you're going to come back with a weird drug test, something they're not used to; it's not going to look like a clean drug test. so there may be a need for some education on to employers to explain to them that this person is not using drugs, they're taking medication to assist with their therapy and that this is okay. the other thing i think is important is that it's not just illicit drugs but the illegal use of drugs. so if you're using somebody else's prescriptions, that's not legal and that's not protected by the ada. very good point-it's prescription misuse. okay, john, i want

it's my right to be able to have it. but it's also everybody's responsibility to learn the safeties and learn everything about those weapons. there are certain people that don't deserve the weapons. the people who are going to go out and actually act stupid. now, as far as the trayvon martin thing, i haven't kept up with that, so i can't tell you everything that's going on in there. i haven't heard all the facts, and for the most part, i've heard one of side of the story, so i can't comment on that one. all these school shootings, yeah, especially out in california i know it's difficult to be able to carry a gun, only a few people are legally going to be able to do that. so i don't know why this guy was doing that, but apparently, gun control though itself, the only thing it's going to do is take the guns out of the law-abiding citizens. the criminals are still going to have 'em. >> host: carl from murray, kentucky, e-mails in to you, mr. kyle: what inspires you to write the autobiography? >> guest: actually, i was dead

were you able to do that? >> i was not able to do that, but i do want to state with respect to this ordinance provision that the lbe requirements of city code, local hire requirements will apply to all of this work, and i can speak to what we have seen, but -- supervisor avalos: if we could follow-up on that would be great. supervisor chu: thank you. we do not have questions, why don't we open up for public comment? are there members of the public who wish to speak on this item? >> good morning, supervisors. i would like to speak in favor of this ordinance. it is obvious this is a world- class event, and i would like to stress two items that relate to the improvements being planned here. one is that, according to my reading, the event will be televised probably around the world, so whatever improvements we make, you have to factor in that there will be a very innovative use of cameras and ankles to cover this event, so we should keep in mind that whoever is going to broadcast this will be needing certain up to

, that they are not able to provide that service to me. i am sorry, i just had a brain blank. this problem is not only unique to me. it is unique to other seniors, modeling will as well as other latino seniors. without their help, where would all the other seniors go? i realize that there are these problems outside of the city, and it is particular to san francisco. i am in shock of all of the issues i have heard today as well. i thank you for your attention, and i have great pride in being able to speak in front of you. [applause] >> thank you. the last two speakers, if you could please line up. [reading names] >> i will go first. mayor lee, this is the first time i have seen you in person. i am a volunteer in the mission district. we have been passing liars to inform people about possible new legislation later in the year for improvements in the community jobs program. participants in this community jobs program are people of color, in particular, single mothers, so we feel like there needs to be a genuine, new work training program for

supervisor avalos: in order to be able to see something like this locally, what has to happen? >> there are a couple of things. in san francisco housing development, but we will be given the presentation for the mayor's office of housing sometime next week. we can begin to talk about this in an effort -- if you take a look at this narrative piece on the right side, what is needed from the city in order to be able to accomplish this. there are several things. what we're looking for is a general partnership with the city that says to the financial institutions that these are our partners on the ground dealing with the day-to-day activities around foreclosures and helping us to put something like this into place. for example, in boston, boston community capital has a relationship with bank of america. bank of america is sending their clients to them to be screened for this type of outcome. in order for this model to work in san francisco, there are a couple of things that can happen. one of which is that we leased to own the property back to the client. the other is that we create

"an sba lender will be able to make the loan with a guarantee that sba will be able to provide. we probably will about 225 sba loans this year. at any point in time, we have about 1500 loans in san francisco that are sba loans. a lot of them are restaurants because that is one of the areas that is very typical because it is a riskier business. but a lot of people in san francisco see that as an opportunity for them as well. we also partner with the golden gate restaurant association to help people understand how to do financing for restaurants. a lot of what we do is helping small businesses get access to credit. the sba loan program covers a range of small loans down to $25,000 and large loans up to $5 million, so it is a very wide range. can be used for a variety of uses -- debt refinancing, building acquisition, working capital, so it can be used for a wide range of things from a small business point of view. as you heard, we do guarantees for about 90 or 100 banks in the country -- or in the bay area. about 3000 nationwide. there is a lot of lenders that do some sba lending.

with the older one, we were able to convert the existing dbs that we had over to the new system. for the fundamental patient records, their registration, their diagnostic information, the billing histories, et cetera, we were able to bring a majority of that data forward. however, the whole idea now doing an electron medical record online is fairly new in the industry. so our old system -- there was no need to do that, so there was no capacity for a detailed patient care plan, electronic prescription administration, et cetera. so those are the pieces that are sort of new. they're building on the data that we were able to bring forward from the legacy system into the new system and have that as a baseline. supervisor kim: just for clarification, did part of the incentive for clinics to do this transition this work over to electron was the legislation and the incentives that they provided to clinics to do this work? >> uh-huh. supervisor kim: my last question is what are the anticipated or hoped outcomes for the transition work? i can guess, but from d.p.h. perspective, what are th

does everyone, thomasina, that wants to get treatment, are they able to find it? is there enough treatment around the country if all these millions of people wanted to be treated for their condition? i mean, there certainly is a lot of self-help groups that are open, and they're almost cost free. i think the question also is of all the millions of people though many of them are not ready for treatment. so it's just because they need treatment doesn't mean that they're ready and willing to go to treatment. i think that's a really big issue for both mental illness and substance use. i think an important part of that, thomasina, is that sometimes the quality of the services hasn't been there. so sometimes people would like to seek help, but, for example, the treatment program is only open when they're at work or there's no parking, there's no childcare and so part of what our responsibility is, is to make those services more attractive and more accessible to the population because, as you know, only about one in 10 people with an addiction will get treatment each yea

i want to be able to thank the supervisors for being able to take a position and being able to speak for the community. i think compromises are difficult, but sometimes they are necessary in order for both sides to be able to achieve the united goal. in speaking on behalf of our members, i want to be able to thank you being able to maintain your position, and i respect the mayor for having made sure that he was able to bring both sides to the table. we strongly support this legislation, and i hope that in the year, after we have been able to see this under station -- all the different sides would

hopefully next year we will be able to share some of fat. -- some of that. this is national awareness day for the importance of summer learning. it is in the middle of learning theory. it is similar to what we do after school. we will provide upwards of 3000 meals per day. we are using a wonderful vendor, and they are happy with results we have provided, and we are have been -- happy this year. i know supervisor campos asked about bringing in city college. through the foundation ground in partnership with the school district as well as city college, we have and initiatives we want to double post secondary graduation rates, and city college has been joined to try to develop better policies and better programming. >> we have a question. >> this does not include all the summer programming? >> that is correct. good >> it looks like we have a lot of options. i have two more slides, and i am done. approximately three years ago we created a program where we partner with 15 local attractions throughout the city and ask some to donate, and they can use those passes t

we weren't able to bring in new people during that time, there was a time where we weren't able to keep the number of people and the program due to funds. this year, we started a preliminary program. we have 15 that are in there. we're hoping that if we build more partnerships, we can increase the number of glasses. we're looking forward to the bond program, and it will hopefully be able to start another apprentice program. and oakley will be able to bring some more apprentices over there. and the tree-watering program is funded by the transportation authority fund. we are still trying to keep the apprentice programs going. we do see a huge opportunity with a lot of contracts that are coming on line. in a lot of the contract that the city gives, there are opportunities for contractors to hire apprentices, and we want to make sure that the tool is available to them. the total operating budget, as you can see, pretty steady over the last few years. for 12-13 and 13-14, the difference is the cream bar -- green bar. that is the road fund. otherwise, we really have been pretty steady, and ho

and i'm able to sit here on this panel. and i don't know if you -- we just had a celebration not too long ago for his birthday. you probably saw it. but we were backstage joking. there's this one little thing that i really hated that i actually performed in front of the president. with it all hanging out. my pants split actually on stage. not many people can say that they did that, but we've been able to share -- >> it was not an "x"-rated split, and he never missed a beat. he did the whole thing all the way through. >> happy that we have been able to share those experiences and that you've been able to be that motivator to me. thank you very much. >> thank you. the reason -- there's a specific reason i wanted you all to hear his story, because this is something you can all do where you go to school and with people. when i was a governor, more than 20 years ago, and my primary responsibilities were public education, colleges, helping people go to college. and generating economic opportunity. i read a study the name of which

were you able to address that issue? >> overtime use to make it a 12 hour day and patrol was only 10 hours days. the school is a five day week. we need it twice as many. it was what ever. the reason that they start before is a lot of the problems is before school. you wanted the sro's to be amongst the corridors before school. then at the day was to the point where by the time they got out of school, the officer had run the 10-hour day or eight-hour day. we tried to do it with cut and paste of swing shift officers. it was hard to get one officer to be in both places. it there was only one officer, then they had no one outside. it seemed to be better to come up with sectional officers augmented by regular officers on patrol to try to cover everything in school and out of school. supervisor kim: so we were able to address the issue? >> yes. it would be great to have the schools say how they would like to approach it. >> thank you. supervisor chu: i want to thank the cheap and the department for presenting the information t

and so we immediately were able to start addressing that. in addition, we also were able to provide a program for 42 eighth and ninth grade transition students that were in danger already the warning indicators were already going off with them walking out of middle school that potentially they would not successfully transition to ninth grade. we were able to do a summer program of those students in e.l.a., english language arts and mathematics. let me go over a summer of each of the city-funded courses that we were able to offer last summer. ninth grade english one and two, so just so you know, there are two semesters of english in ninth grade. 371 of the 412 students that took those courses received a passing grade of a d or above. that was 90% of the students. of that number of students, 324 of those, and this is where commissioner fewer was bringing about the d, because i wanted to bring it out here, of those 324 received an a, b or c grade, 47 received a d, and 32 an f. in biology one and two, which was another critical area, just on a s

we were not able to watch it. as far as all the support that was behind the troops, but it was everybody protesting us so we felt like america was against us. we thought this is going to be vietnam. when we come home, are people going to sit on us? towards the end of the deployment, you know, we were able to get a few more channels and see a lot more of the coverage going on and all the support so it definitely helped us out, and then when i came home, it was difficult because you leave from a war zone one day, and you're home the next day. they just fly you straight home, and it takes you a bit. you know, i'd always -- you have a month off to where you just react to yourself, spend a week at home, spend time with the family, get to know them again, and hope my kids remembered that i was daddy, but else the first time, i was upset coming home, and i saw everybody doing their day-to-day normal lives and thinking, i don't there's a war going on, there's people dying, but as i continued doing this, it came to the rea

and our tools are what we're able to compensate, what we're able to recognize good people doing outstanding work and retaining through bonuses, the high quality ones, so our tools are limited. but we owe you the best efforts we can to go after that talent and the biggest challenges are in the rural communities and we have to circle our wagons here. >> i appreciate your sentence that you owe us that, we also owe our veterans that, but let me tell you i owe you every -- i'm not being asked to do something to solve the problem. what i'm asking for is tell us what we can do to provide the assistance so that when we have a hearing six months from now or we're back here next year talking about the budget, the answer to whether or not there's a doctor at a seboc, or that we're meeting the mental health needs in every community, it's not every provider, every rural county in the state is having that we are, help us solve this problem. >> do you want to respond really quickly? >> thank you, senator moran. the md issue first. you're absolutely right, that we all have this difficulty in certain rural

people want to be able to work and to understand what they are doing and give back. and i think the most exciting thing about everything that you're doing and all these it young people are doing is understanding that giving back is the way to make the world work better. >> go ahead. >> i just want to add something. sometimes, well, most of the times, students when we're in student mode, so we have this plan so, okay, i'm done with my college. now the next thing is, yes, grad school. yes, i will do my phd, as well. then i have great plans to change the world. i think that would be too late if we're thinking of getting education ourselves up to ph.d. and then going out to the world and saying i'm here and i want to make a change. actually, when i graduated from mt. holyoke college, i was offered a scholarship by georgetown university. and i dared to ignore and i dared to say no. i really wanted to go back to home because i had done fundraising. i knew my plan. and i wanted to implement. i wanted to deliver before i take more. and i did it in two years of time it worked

were able to meet carpenters, meet with housing and we were able to basically find people who wanted to volunteer and found people who wanted the services. recover begins with disaster response so city and county involvement with small businesses, nonprofits are essential and it was talked a lot about that and talked about are the fact that we were all on our own. i saw one county person about five days after the disaster. and yet we were still providing services for over -- ended up basically continuing to provide medical services. and then as people -- food banks came back up, we were able to stop our food service. as the salvation army began doing some more of the services, we were able to drop some of the services we were doing but that was after coordinated efforts wall of the community-based organizations. and any of the time i have been talking in san francisco about disaster preparedness and what we saw in watsonville was that the first night of the -- after the earthquake we found over 3,000 people in parks and open space and we ended up with thousands of people continuing t

this is the first and last time most of you will be able to come here. if you did not have a hard hat, most of you could not come here, and they are going to rebuild the roadway, and once that is there, and you will not be able to go on top of it. today is one of those days you can see what is going on. you will notice there is construction work still going on. that is part of the improvement program, and that is going to allow us to have a more robust way of bringing it up, and then it can go to a filtration glancplant nearby. if you would like to come with me, we can go over here. >> i think a lot of times we look a community and we say, there is this one and this one, and we all have our own agenda, when our agenda is to create great work. if you're interested in that, you are part of our community. >> it is a pleasure to have you here tonight. >> we are trying to figure out a way to create a space where theater and presentation of live work is something that you think of, the same way that you think of going to the movies. of course, it has been comp

and so we are able to attract these firearms. there are lawful purchases from the pawnshop in other states have transferred across state lines. those are tracked as well. >> anything further? >> i had questions. >> i have to pick up a family member so i'll be moving in two or three minutes. dr. marshall will take over. >> thank you for your presentation, you are very good at pacing the power point. it is clear that there is a team, a spirit to the work that you do end there is a humble air there. a couple of questions in response to the public, and i have heard, the asian resident population, and bilingual officers, i wanted to ask you how it has been for you. in terms of outreach, dramatically increasing the asian population, what are the ideas you have to get them involved in the community? >> she has made a very good point, we need more cantonese and mandarin speaking officers at the station. the officer might be off duty. we have them come to the bayview, the ones that are certified to use them. he has been my major resource

we were able to do that and hold the line, although we were not able to increase that. at the time we were moving these dedicated redevelopment dollars, this is the time we see those cuts at the federal level. this is how we want to maximize these resources. we're happy to work with you all. >> i imagine that we will be able to get this resolution passed, i am not certain if it will be unanimous but by a majority of supervisors, maybe the vast majority. and having the signature of the mayor on it and being able to talk about this after worlward l make certain that we do not have just voices on paper, we have the whole city government working together. >> we will work together to pass on that message. supervisor cohen: before you leave, mr. chu, the mayor's office of housing has few tools available. i wonder if your department has done any research to see what other municipalities are doing on the accounting level side. >> we're just trying to do that now. the focus group has been primarily the home ownership counseling groups, some lenders, some third-party intermediari

they're not all going to be able to march down. it's clearly evident grant will have to provide shipping to get buel's forces here, and that's what happens. nelson reaches a point opposite pittsburgh landing and begins to cross about 5:00, 5:30. he'll get roughly 12 companies on the field engaged against the confederate's last assault against what is grant's last line, and that's the sum total of buel's involvement on the first day. there will be a constant convoy of shipping between pittsburgh landing and savannah throughout the night. you can imagine boats taking wounded up to savannah, offloading wounded and then bringing fresh troops into play. so about 8:00 in the morning buel has brought in about 14,000 troops, they have arrived at pittsburgh landing and been deployed on what is the left side of the union front. and that's basically what grant and buel will do. they'll decide to divide it up. grant will occupy the right. grant will use a sizeable amount of his force to reinforce buel throughout the day and to support buel's e

i want to be able to thank the supervisors for being able to take a position and being able to speak for the community. i think compromises are difficult, but sometimes they are necessary in order for both sides to be able to achieve the united goal. in speaking on behalf of our members, i want to be able to thank you being able to maintain your position, and i respect the mayor for having made sure that he was able to bring both sides to the table. we strongly support this legislation, and i hope that in the year, after we have been able to see this under station -- all the different sides would reconsider it being a little bit more restrictive on what the authorities as the fbi and the police. i saw first hand, i grew up in a police department and really took it upon themselves to go above and beyond violating enforcing the rules on the community's and how lot of kids were killed. police would pick them up and take them to another neighborhood, and it is horrible to be, unfortunately, in one time, driving black or driving a brown. i want to thank the supervisors, we strongly suppor

they're able to have portfolios. a lot of them come back and say thank you. some of them have been looking for four years, others for six years. other people, i am very happy that you have summer jobs program for youth. thinking about the experience that they have and what they would get, because i worked a summer job, without something concrete like a portfolio, i hope that you really like to think about the model, empirical models and things like that. thank you. >> good morning. in the associate director of jcyc. first, if this initiative remains a jobs only request, it will once again the behind the disconnected use. it has been reiterated before, but i wanted to make sure it was clear. it needs to be supplemented with funding for support services to support you for placement. the second point is to emphasize that japanese community youth council has a history of being able to scale up their operations rapidly in quickly. but would it mean to get the funding? even the history from last summer, during the school year we normally serve about 500 youth. last

do you think that would be able to eat it -- do you think you'd be able to e-mail that to us? that would be really helpful. thank you. mr. walton. >> [inaudible] ok, thank you. in order to look at services the other shelter systems might be offering, we focus on the other eight bay area counties, and also we look at half a dozen cities across the country of a similar size or larger, including chicago, los angeles, seattle, new york city, san diego, and columbus, ohio. we focused on three main areas. one was case management and referral-type services. the second area was transportation. the third was access to shelter or how reservations are made. we did not find examples of peer to peer network models, so that is research we still need to do. in the relationship to case management, the programs that provided case management services seemed to be either focused on very specific shelters that had companion treatment programs, such as clean and sober programs, programs that were for domestic violence and so forth. shelters in general that offered case management, it was often rel

and there are many more colman members who were not able to make it today. there is something that is very much needed in san francisco, but is not actually happening. that is the reality that all students have the right and desire to learn in quality schools. right? depending on how you define a quality school, is the schools on our side of the committee -- our side of the city lack resources to be considered high- quality. i participate on the task force as the co-chair. the reality is the agency is not rolling things out as smoothly as we all hope for. there are students that are not on track, even as freshmen and sophomores, because of a lack of access, or because they need to make up for classes there were not able to pass. the reality is that while we hope we continue to pay attention to this issue, it is not just a district issue. it is a city and county of san francisco in show. it is a collective responsibility to ensure that all students have the opportunity to be successful in these programs. what the implementation lacks is the additional resourc

so that equity says, if you want people to be able to go to any school they want to to be able to doell and to move forward, we have to make sure that we are really investing in the educational system. we're not just asking whether all the schools are open the same amount of time during the year, whether they have the same books, they're using the same curriculum. we want to know, what do poor children need in this country so that they can reach their full potential? they need to start school ready to learn and have access to early childhood program. we need to have a rigorous curriculum that goes on year round, not just nine months during the year. they need to make sure that their communities are providing the support that middle-class families provide for their children, enrichment programs, safe places to play. equity asks, what do you need to reach your full potential, and how do we make sure that that is fairly available? >> and you run right into what you call the most uncomfortable subject in america, race. >> that's right. america does not want to talk about race. they don't

i would hate to see buildings not being able to go up. it would be public and community benefits that would be able to benefit from this, especially the low-income housing, which is greatly needed. there are too many things and too many opportunities for us not to be able to recognize that this is a win-win situation for everybody. i applaud the opportunity to be able to stand here before you and plead the case that a hospital of this magnitude and in this many different districts, representing this many different job opportunities. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am a local contractor in san francisco over 25 years. i am here to speak in front of you and ask your support to build this hospital. it will not only create jobs and health care for san francisco, and i think the building looks pretty good. thank you. >> good afternoon, planning commission. ♪ come on, come on and touch the building and make it better than before what was that promise that you made i am going to make the hospital better than it has ever been before i am going to

to gain these skills in order for them to be able to work. there are private sector places where they may not have the opportunity otherwise. i would like to remind you that the mayor's public education program provides the training for youth, with ages 14 to 15, providing the soft skills needed for the government and job market. i hope that this kind of opportunity lasts not only for the summer, but it is something that is long lasting and throughout the year. i am in full support of the summer initiative. >> good morning, supervisors. i wanted to thank you this morning before having this meeting. in a coordinator with the san francisco youth works program and a passive participant of programs. i would like to applaud the efforts of the board and the response to continue to put efforts forward for more summer jobs. at use works we have received over 600 applications. we had to turn away over 400 youth. i am sure the you are aware. this summer we planned to place an additional 50 youth by unpaid internships. we hope that the city can continue

you need a lot of people in order to be able to do that. and being able to track people through their cell phones erases those sort of practical limits on the ability of law enforcement to track people which raises the possibility that tracking become much more common. and this distinction both with the ease of tracking and i think, also, the prolonged nature of tracking is one the law potentially recognizes. actually, just earlier this year in january, the supreme court decided a case called united states v. jones in which it held that when the police attach a gps device to a car and obtain information from that device, that's a search under the fourth amendment, and the law enforcement agencies have to meet some constitutional standard in order to track people. the government had argued that it could track anyone at any time for any reason or no reason at all without any judge a approval, and the constitution simply had nothing to say about it, and the court rejected that argument. and i think that because cell phone tracking is often dir

agencies, we been able to do great work from the funding. the point of tonight is to make sure that we can keep that in focus as a priority within the budget. we received funding for the after-school program. we also receive funding for violence prevention. that is our case management working with the mission station and other communities. also, the other piece -- youth workforce development for our teens. i want to have the youth, up and have them share what that means. thank you. >> i >> i am is senior leadership high-school, participant in college prep programs. through this program, have been able to get support on paying my college applications and go to college. recently, i came from visiting st. mary's college, sacramento state, and university of reno, nevada. i plan on enrolling at uc santa cruz, majoring in criminal justice and sociology, and i am here representing all high- school students who have found support at boys and girls clubs. i am youth of the year% and cisco and will be competing in sacramento later this month for the s

at the same time, we were only able to put out 15% more service hours, and we were only able to attract 7% more passengers. each step of the bar we lose ground, and going forward we have to reverse this trend. this leads to one of the first draft recommendations that we have in the transit sustainability project. to establish a performance from work. one thing that we have discussed is the performance framework in the area of improving financial performance, that would look at a 5% reduction in the costs per hour, and it would allow some flexibility to the operators, whether or not they want to look at costs per hour, and the cost for each passenger, acknowledging that this is different with the type of service there that they are running. we feel that this performance metric is achievable, based on a lot of work that we did that is based on the opportunities for cost saving, with the area of work rules, and administrative costs. we also looked at how the operators were performing within some of these metrics. we see that some of these operators have sort of turned the tide, and are mak

i was not able to reach anyone. ultimately, we were able to stop that sale date. yet there has not been a solution that has been presented. this was a huge stress on my family. my spouse was scheduled to have surgery on march 30. this has been very trying. >> [speaking spanish] >> i have been so stressed by this experience. i had another terrible asthma attack recently as a result of this process. i am looking for a resolution. i want to work with wells fargo, and that has not been the case. >> [speaking spanish] >> the day before the sale date, i have been calling to ask what paper work they need. please provideme with this information. my husband was about to go into surgery. wells fargo was not cooperative. yes, this is a terrible process. it has yet to have any sort of double dip -- resolution. supervisor avalos: thank you. next speaker, please. we have cathy galvez. >> wells fargo is that to me on march 28. -- evicted me on march 28. my sister, myself, and are dog were made homeless on march 28. thanks to videovian, she took us in. she took in three or fence

you want to be able to plan and invite your family and friends. know what time you are able to get your marriage license, know what time you're going to have your ceremony. >> thanks for volunteering. >> we got city volunteers, we got members of the public volunteering. we had our regular volunteers volunteering. we had such an overwhelming response from city employees, from the members of the general public that we had way more volunteers than we could ever have hoped for. we had to come up with a training program. i mean, there are different functions of this whole operation. you were either, you know a check-in person. you were a greeter. you were part of the license issuing unit. you were deputy marriage commissioner, or you were on the recording side. each one of those functions required a different set of skills, a different oath of office if they needed to be sworn in as a deputy county clerk to issue marriage licenses or as a deputy county recorder if they were going to register the marriage licenses or the deputy marriage commissioner if