. >> my name is cathy jamieson, and i and the regional human resources manager of -- and i am the regional human-resources manager of recology. among many reasons i have enjoyed my job, and as an hr representative and as an employee 0 owner of recology -- as an employee owner of recology -- we provide health benefits for opposite and same- sex domestic partners of our employee owners. three years later, in 1997, the city made domestic partner benefits a requirement for doing business with the city of san francisco, necessarily others. also, in early 2000's, -- in early 2000, recology spearheaded some programs. 95% of them are employed in the community. each new employee is hired from the community. all together in the san francisco region, 300 of the employee owners live in san francisco. also, we have a 67% ethnically diverse work force. san francisco- based recology in san francisco is good for san francisco. chair chu: thank you. next speaker. >> i have the president of local 10, longshoremen, in san francisco. i am here to urge you to not shut the door on the maritime alternative for t