>> thank you, chair ronan. yeah, i just had some additional questions on this. last week i actually -- this legislation was brought to my attention by a party who is a hotel owner, and he was expressing that they haven't really had -- his family and the other family-owned hotel owners really hadn't had adequate time to review and provide input on this legislation, so i just, you know, wanted to get you to respond to that a little more. it seems like there might be a misunderstanding about what the legislation is really doing? >> i think as to the party that you're referring to, mr. patel, when we actually held a hearing on the amortization, i believe at this committee, i expressed what i think some of the affected parties, particularly those who are engaged in litigation against the city, needed to hear, which is, that we can make these changes and the doors open for negotiations, particularly insofar as it is still before the court, but we actually not only held numerous hearings, as chair ronan or member on the original legislation, we subsequently had a heari