the good news is that we have alicia beck with us. the last time she was here was as acting c.f.o. after being budget director for some period of time and an analyst before that. so she continues to work over at the planning department. that's the good news. the bad news is i have huge concerns about this proposed program and fee. i think the important thing that i want to start with is about fee-based mitigation. my understanding is that the overall purpose of ceqa is to both analyze environmental impacts of a project and mitigate them, and to the extent that they cannot be or are not mitigated to adopt a statement of overriding consideration, as you did in the last item with respect to the people plan. but in this case, i think it's important that fee-based mitigation tie very closely to the project and the impact created and the fee and the mitigation program to address those impacts. the farther you get from a specific project and its impacts created, the more you get to an area program. and this really is kind of building on the m.o. and eastern neighborhoods concept that is w