supervisor mirkarimi: i concur with supervisor at a los -- av alos' comments. it is probable there will be great movement between now and 2012, some attempts at significant reform. i know that is being well probed by a number of our colleagues here and by the mayor's office and by others. and that is a good thing. but right now san francisco has a problem. the problem is we have of growing industry of pre-ipo companies. what the midmarket debate was able to shed light on was it was not about one company, company,a -- but a discrete population. the questions were prompted about companies who, in our minds, the also legitimized in wanting to keep their business. ed but this is without the adverse boomerang effect. the best approach, the only approach, is to look at what is unique in san francisco and that is we're the only ones with a payroll/stock option tax. by peeling off the stock option tax on the payroll, being able to help those specific companies right now -- and there are not many. there are maybe 10. but those may be right now will allow us to really be