and andrea bruce is here. >> hello, supervisors. andrea bruce with the mayor's office. this would allow the city to recognize the years of service worked by certain housing authority employees for purposes of determining their eligibility for city retiree medical benefits. so i know as you are aware, the city is currently working with the housing authority on an overall restructuring in order to come into compliance with various requests from the federal department of housing and urban development? as part of this restructuring, we do anticipate there will be housing authority who transition to city employment? and actually as of october this year, we've had 25 housing authority employees that have transitioned to city employment. and this charter amendment we expect will be a direct impact on them. unlike the city's retirement system which has reciprocity with calpers, without a change to the city charter, the city has no ability to provide that sort of comparable reciprocity for determining medical benefits. as part of this reenvisioning of the housing authority the m