chan: sure.i will make the motion to approve this item an move forward to the full board as a committee report and with recommendation. >> chair peskin: clerk young, roll call please. >> clerk: to move as a committee report. (roll call). the motion passes without objection. >> chair peskin: and we are >> it was an outdoor stadium for track and field, motorcycle and auto and rugby and cricket located in golden gate park, home to professional football, lacross and soccer. adjacent to the indoor arena. built in the 1920s. the san francisco park commission accepted a $100,000 gift from the estate to build a memorial in honor of pioneers in the area. the city and county of san francisco contributed an additional $200,000 and the stadium was built in a year. in the 1930s it was home to several colleges such as usf, santa clara and st. mary's for competition and sporting. in 1946 it became home to the san francisco 49ers where they played nearly 25 years. the stayed de yam sat 60,000 fans. many caught g

i am connie chan, the chair of the commission. i am joined by -- i believe that we do have our vice-chair cynthia crews-pollock and we're also joined by commissioner gord an mar, and alternate commissioner singh. commissioner dean preston is not present. but is an alternate commissioner. our clerk, so glad to be alisa somera and i would like to thank the staff at sfgov-tv for staffing this meeting. madam clerk, do you have announcements. >> clerk: the meeting is held through video conference and the members will participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. public comment is available on each item on this agenda, depending on your provider and sfgov-tv.org and they are streaming the public comment number across the screen. public comment opportunities to speak during the comment be period are available via phone by calling 415-655-0001, and, again, 1-(415)-655-0001. and meeting i.d. is 146 814 3531. again, 146 814 3531. and then pound and then pound again. when connected you will hear the meetin

chan: sure.i will make the motion to approve this item an move forward to the full board as a committee report and with recommendation. >> chair peskin: clerk young, roll call please. >> clerk: to move as a committee report. (roll call). the motion passes without objection. >> chair peskin: and we are adjourned. >> candlestick park known also as the stick was an outdoor stadium for sports and entertainment. built between 1958 to 1960, it was located in the bayview hunters point where it was home to the san francisco giants and 49ers. the last event held was a concert in late 2014. it was demolished in 2015. mlb team the san francisco giants played at candlestick from 1960-1999. fans came to see players such a willie mays and barry bonds, over 38 seasons in the open ballpark. an upper deck expansion was added in the 1970s. there are two world series played at the stick in 1962 and in 198 9. during the 1989 world series against the oakland as they were shook by an earthquake. candlestick's enclosur

chan: sure.i will make the motion to approve this item an move forward to the full board as a committee report and with recommendation. >> chair peskin: clerk young, roll call please. >> clerk: to move as a committee report. (roll call). the motion passes without objection. >> chair peskin: and we are adjourned. >> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a cafÉ we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sand

so commissioner chan? >> supervisor chan: i think that we -- i'm happy to withdraw my motion and instead use to amend the resolution before us so, you know -- and then, my proposed amendments on -- it will be on page two -- sorry. it doesn't actually have the line, so i can't tell you what lane it is, but it's page two, second clause to the last, which is, based on the [inaudible] and safety, staff moves a two-way roadway on one side except to be infeasible. so i would like to -- concept to be infeasible. so i would like to strike out that clause entirely, and then, the next clause would be to insert, whereas sfmta and r.t.e. will be considering all contact and findings in this report, and i think that technically, some of the -- some of the things that we wanted to insert, commissioner peskin, perhaps that is a moot point that we don't need to include, but i think it is valid for what commissioner walton talked about when it comes to usage. and then, i think there were some concerns that it wasn't conclud

supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: i'm sorry. i just want to quickly go back to sort of the timeline of what's happening here and i want to point to the report, the update that you submitted on the page 34. you had a 30-day period that was in march to april for public review and comments. and you're supposed to have a resolution introduced and along with this update and that is supposed to go through budget and finance for full board approval. the department didn't introduce a resolution until june 8th. so i just kind of wanted to understand what is the almost two month's gap in between from the time that you have a 30-day public review comment? i just want to say is that you sort of put the board in a bind right now for approving a 200-pages update, you know, yesterday, but that's, you know, it's rather challenging to ask us as a committee to digest 200 something pages of update and to be able to say, this is something that we can put our approval on and move this forward. so i just want to understand what happened to the almost

sorry, supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you chair peskin. just a comment. i want to thank supervisor safai for bringing this forward and it's really good to hear from director art to letting us know that it is an extension to access. i think that is critical. vote-by-mail, i do see that as just automatically sent to voters. it's bringing the convenience and encouragement for voters to vote and actively engage. i do actually agree that polling places the day of or even leading to like the weekend before is critical. it's true, someone like me -- i end upholding on to my ballot. because i'm thinking about it. i end up always miss the last day of mailing in and it's always make me feel better to dropping it off and seeing it in there if i'm not voting in in-person and dropping off my ballot at the polling place. i appreciate that. this is an extension of access and not in a place of. i do have one quick question just from my clarification and education, when is going to be the next municipal only election? >> supervisor safai: the next scheduled election is in

supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: i'm sorry. i just want to quickly go back to sort of the timeline of what's happening here and i want to point to the report, the update that you submitted on the page 34. you had a 30-day period that was in march to april for public review and comments. and you're supposed to have a resolution introduced and along with this update and that is supposed to go through budget and finance for full board approval. the department didn't introduce a resolution until june 8th. so i just kind of wanted to understand what is the almost two month's gap in between from the time that you have a 30-day public review comment? i just want to say is that you sort of put the board in a bind right now for approving a 200-pages update, you know, yesterday, but that's, you know, it's rather challenging to ask us as a committee to digest 200 something pages of update and to be able to say, this is something that we can put our approval on and move this forward. so i just want to understand what happened to the almost

supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you. the ordinance would have allowed the recreation and park general management to approve from time to time temporary increase in admission and flex pricing. my predecessor, former supervisor sandra lee fewer amended the language as budget chair included amendments. and then, supervisor fewer made amendments to clarify these would expire unless solidified by an ordinance. so now, this ordinance has since expired, and i understand from briefing with rec and parks department and with my staff the agency is working on updated -- updating their memorandum of understanding between the department and nonprofit organizations, and look, you know, right now, as conservetor of flowers, i think the recreation and park department is probably here and can confirm if need be, part of the emission that goes to the conservetory and parks alliance. the agreement of rec and park was in 2013, and i don't think they've been updated since then. at the same time, there's an m.o.u. between rec and park and bot

supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you. the ordinance would have allowed the recreation and park general management to approve from time to time temporary increase in admission and flex pricing. my predecessor, former supervisor sandra lee fewer amended the language as budget chair included amendments. and then, supervisor fewer made amendments to clarify these would expire unless solidified by an ordinance. so now, this ordinance has since expired, and i understand from briefing with rec and parks department and with my staff the agency is working on updated -- updating their memorandum of understanding between the department and nonprofit organizations, and look, you know, right now, as conservetor of flowers, i think the recreation and park department is probably here and can confirm if need be, part of the emission that goes to the conservetory and parks alliance. the agreement of rec and park was in 2013, and i don't think they've been updated since then. at the same time, there's an m.o.u. between rec and park and bot

i note that supervisor chan has rejoined us. welcome back, supervisor chan. seeing no further questions or comments on this item, let's go to public comment. >> thank you, mr. chair. we are checking for callers in the queue for the item. for those watching on channel 26 or through sfgovtv or he wills where, if you wish to speak call in by following instructions on your screen. 415-655-0001. id14262004570. following that press pound twice and star followed by 3 to enter the queue to speak. could you let us know if we have any caller in the queue for this item 8. >> there are no callers at this time. >> thank you. public comment on this item is now closed. any other questions or comments from colleagues? seeing none. motion to recommend this item to the full board as committee report. >> on the motion offered by chair preston this be recommended as committee report to july 20, 2021 board of supervisors meeting. vice chair chan. >> aye. >> mandelman. >> aye. >> chair preston. >> aye. >> there are three ayes. >> thank you. that motion passes. let's call next item

chan, i know he took 15 but i will take another 15 seconds before you go. our viewer paul has a question. he said with upcoming flu shots is there a way to come pine the flu shot and covid shot to make both shots easier and maybe more people will accept the shot if combined. i have a feeling you're going to tell us it's too late to wait until fall but tell us what you think. >> i think vaccine manufacturers are thinking about that but right now we want to protect people. there are some communities that are only 50% vaccinated. because there's so much misinformation about the vaccine that's perpetuated out there, we want people to read about the vaccine, go to the cdc website. go talk to your doctor. it's safe. it's very effective. it's generally very safe and, you know, we want you to protect yourself and your families >> well, dr. curtis chan, i can't tell you how much we appreciate you spending time with us. good luck. >> thank you. >> we'll take a short break on the >>> and we are back. we have dr. patel on this big day. there's a recommendation but we n

thank you. >> supervisor chan: great. and i think that a lot of folks also think about that any other type of renovation, i think even without this and could you please confirm for us on the record just so that folks actually understand how it works. >> yes, so i mean right now, the department has a pretty robust review of projects that need to go through soilster event at lincoln park. so we have clear procedures in place. i'm happy to go into more details about what we currently undertake. any major projects there such as redesign of the golf course would need to go through that kind of environmental review as well and would need to go through a series of identification, of locations, of potential locations, of human remains and then very careful removal of those remains outreach with dissonant communities, reburial, public interpretation, all of that would be already required and so we're not anticipating that those would change. major changes or those smaller irrigation projects going through different levels of those

supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you, chair preston. i think i'm actually on a different spectrum of the situation where i'm also going to play into director kirchbaum's analogy that we're walking into the kitchen, that the meal is halfway prepared. is it really going to lean into that analogy, then we should at least know what's on the menu, in that -- i'm comparing it to a restaurant, where we see an efficient sort of lay out and what's on the menu. right now, it's not clear what's on the menu of what's going to be restored and how it's going to be prepared. it's not clear to me a clear decision making process of who's involved and how it's being determined, including your role in this whole situation. i think that's what i'm seeing as we're going through this e-mail hearing, unless you're going to be saying anything specifically to this. but that's my take away. it's not exactly clear how we're going to make these decisions because the data -- we have some baseline of data, but now we have a consultant trying to frame these questions

supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: i'm going to be brief on this legislation landmarking lincoln park. i just want to express my honor and my privilege as an elected leader and a chinese immigrant to be able to introduce this piece of legislation honoring generation of chinese immigrants and immigrants from all over the world before my own arrival as a first generation immigrant in san francisco. so it is my hope that this landmark designation will help us remember the blood and tears of our ancestors shed as part of the power that has built san francisco into the great city it is today. again, i would like to take this opportunity to thank all the community members and organizations who have sent in letters of support for this landmarking, including chinese consolidated benevolent association, a.p.i. historic preservation and i missed a couple of ones, including angel island foundation and community development center. i want to thank my cosponsors, supervisor peskin, mar and preston and land use c

supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton, and thank you for your remarks. and i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge, you know, and just hearing the chinese american community and their remarks and concerns and i'm thankful for participating in this process. i also want to acknowledge that we need to continue to dedicate our resources to really more research and education and outreach, especially for communities of color and in this case the aapi community around the use of cannabis. if i may, though, and i'm really also glad to hear, president walton, your commitment, you know, for the community about, you know, not allowing the saturation and protecting the community and making sure that, especially in the case, that there could be a less ideal location by the library. if you'd allow, i'd like to state this opinion in chinese as well as what you said. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor chan. [speaking cantonese language] >> president walton: thank you so much,

supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: i'm sorry. i just want to quickly go back to sort of the timeline of what's happening here and i want to point to the report, the update that you submitted on the page 34. you had a 30-day period that was in march to april for public review and comments. and you're supposed to have a resolution introduced and along with this update and that is supposed to go through budget and finance for full board approval. the department didn't introduce a resolution until june 8th. so i just kind of wanted to understand what is the almost two month's gap in between from the time that you have a 30-day public review comment? i just want to say is that you sort of put the board in a bind right now for approving a 200-pages update, you know, yesterday, but that's, you know, it's rather challenging to ask us as a committee to digest 200 something pages of update and to be able to say, this is something that we can put our approval on and move this forward. so i just want to understand what happened to the almost

supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton, and thank you for your remarks. and i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge, you know, and just hearing the chinese american community and their remarks and concerns and i'm thankful for participating in this process. i also want to acknowledge that we need to continue to dedicate our resources to really more research and education and outreach, especially for communities of color and in this case the aapi community around the use of cannabis. if i may, though, and i'm really also glad to hear, president walton, your commitment, you know, for the community about, you know, not allowing the saturation and protecting the community and making sure that, especially in the case, that there could be a less ideal location by the library. if you'd allow, i'd like to state this opinion in chinese as well as what you said. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor chan. [speaking cantonese language] >> president walton: thank you so much,

good morning supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you so much for having this hearing today. i really appreciate it. thank you colleagues for hearing this item today about family, friendly workplaces. today, this presentation is critical as we are reopening our economy. as we come out of the pandemic, where everyone has been forced work from home and balancing their caregiving responsibilities, this is the perfect opportunity to take another look at how san francisco providing for our working families to see if we can improve upon the policies that we have on our books and make sure they are providing the benefits and support that we intended when we passed legislation. which is the family friendly workplace ordinance. that was championed by then supervisor chu. in 2014, then supervisor chu gave parents and caregivers working in the private sector more flexible and dependable work schedule. recognizing workplaces and caregiving responsibilities. those were the times that we start to recognize importance of work life balance. i have asked office of labor standard enforcement t

i agree with supervisor chan. she's injecting a note of reality into this fantasy that people have that this is a good decision to completely close this highway. i have no trust in the three agencies who have been working nonstop the last 14 months to shove this down our throat. i think the most important thing to remember is the usage numbers were adopted in the third wave of the worst pandemic in 100 years. they are not applicable to the situation now. >> thank you, caller. hello, caller. your minute begins now. caller? >> my name is jonathan roman -- >> hello, caller? hello? >> my name is jonathan roman, and i've lived in the outer sunset since before the loma prieta earthquake. make note, i do not support the full closure of the great highway, and for that matter, slow streets as a cyclist. the great highway is a major artery inside and outside the city. again, i do not support the full closure of the great highway, and the pandemic is essentially over. open the great highway. it punishes the people in the ric

thank you. >> supervisor chan: great.ink that a lot of folks also think about that any other type of renovation, i think even without this and could you please confirm for us on the record just so that folks actually understand how it works. >> yes, so i mean right now, the department has a pretty robust review of projects that need to go through soilster event at lincoln park. so we have clear procedures in place. i'm happy to go into more details about what we currently undertake. any major projects there such as redesign of the golf course would need to go through that kind of environmental review as well and would need to go through a series of identification, of locations, of potential locations, of human remains and then very careful removal of those remains outreach with dissonant communities, reburial, public interpretation, all of that would be already required and so we're not anticipating that those would change. major changes or those smaller irrigation projects going through different levels of those treatmen

supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: i do agree it is probably in the best interest of this body that we have a closed session to listen to, in greater details, about this case, from our city attorney. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor melgar? >> supervisor melgar: thank you very much, president walton. i would also support having a closed session on this item? i have the questions that were articulated by supervisor peskin, as well and additional questions because, you know, the activities of mr. wong over many, many years also requires the coordination and cooperation of folks within the city and in the field, and i'm wondering, you know, sort of accountability and repercussion for those folks, as well, and how it relates to the settlement. i also specifically have questions about the legislation that was introduced by my colleague, supervisor ronen, about, you know, a list of bad actors, and how that relates to this five years or a lifetime or whatever it is that's imposed. so i would hold

supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton. there is a reason why the g.a.o. committee, governmental audit and oversights -- oversights and audit committee voted without recommendation, simply because it's just a way that the contract was put together, too, just the timeline and process. we first kind of this matter came to us was in february, and we approved it through the -- the bond issuance for sfmta. we negotiated down from 287 million then to 129 million collectively if you recall, and out of which that, about $22 million was destined for the citywide meters upgrade. however, it wasn't forthcoming by sfmta at that time that it also included with the $22 million of, like, physical upgrade and capital improvement, but it wasn't included with them that an r.f.p. went out in december 2020 for this specific contract, which showed the operation expense of $44 million over a decade. now this would also be mindful of approval of this contract, it's still going to take them three years to implement and upgrade the meter upgrade within this three-year contract ter

supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, madam clerk. so, colleagues, in april, governor gavin newsome announcement point in times that the state will stop issuing fracturing by 2024, and, this week, the california, the news is that california has already denied 21 fracturing permits. so here i am introducing an ordinance that sets san francisco out -- gets san francisco out of the fossil fuel business permanently by striking the planning code article 12 from our planning -- by striking the planning code article 12. article 12 of the planning code set zoning controls and permitting frame work for land use activities associated with oil and gas exploration, development and processing. it also create over districts to regulate heavy industrial oil and gas support in processing facilities. so in san francisco, we pride ourselves as an environmental leader and while most of us may not have realized this section existed in the planning code and this section of our code may have set collecting dust for decades. it is important that in the face

supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: i do agree it is probably in the best interest of this body that we have a closed session to listen to, in greater details, about this case, from our city attorney. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor melgar? >> supervisor melgar: thank you very much, president walton. i would also support having a closed session on this item? i have the questions that were articulated by supervisor peskin, as well and additional questions because, you know, the activities of mr. wong over many, many years also requires the coordination and cooperation of folks within the city and in the field, and i'm wondering, you know, sort of accountability and repercussion for those folks, as well, and how it relates to the settlement. i also specifically have questions about the legislation that was introduced by my colleague, supervisor ronen, about, you know, a list of bad actors, and how that relates to this five years or a lifetime or whatever it is that's imposed. so i would hold

supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, madam clerk. so, colleagues, in april, governor gavin newsome announcement point in times that the state will stop issuing fracturing by 2024, and, this week, the california, the news is that california has already denied 21 fracturing permits. so here i am introducing an ordinance that sets san francisco out -- gets san francisco out of the fossil fuel business permanently by striking the planning code article 12 from our planning -- by striking the planning code article 12. article 12 of the planning code set zoning controls and permitting frame work for land use activities associated with oil and gas exploration, development and processing. it also create over districts to regulate heavy industrial oil and gas support in processing facilities. so in san francisco, we pride ourselves as an environmental leader and while most of us may not have realized this section existed in the planning code and this section of our code may have set collecting dust for decades. it is important that in the face

you will find chan at the workshop. china town is unique.ywhere else in the united states. >> chan has been put on alert along with 100 small businesses in china town all hit with lawsuits. the federal law prohibits discrimination based on a person's disability and protect their access to public spaces. >> we have been in business for so long, i never heard complaints about ada. >> reporter: hahn's wonton's house was also hit on the lawsuit. >> it is very low. >> reporter: amanda works six days a week and at least 1 hours a day to keep other business going. >> i am a single woman with the business. it is very difficult for me. >> reporter: the lawsuit made things even more difficult, fighting or settling it could cost her thousands of dollars. i want everyone to come into the restaurant >> san francisco's district attorney announced an investigation into the wave of lawsuits hitting china town, calling them possible extortion. >> if the lawsuit alleges and they never entered it all, that's fraud on the court. >> we don't target the chinese o

supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton. colleagues, i think i have the pleasure as the supervisor for representing the richmond that also has one of the very first public park lit in our city back in 2014 which is simple pleasure. if some of you have been to simple pleasure, that's really a great public park lit. it's outside. it's been around for us since 2014 and some of the arguments that we're having on the floor today frankly was really very similar to the argument that we had then and as some of you may recall, it was actually initially known as "pavement parks" initiative that started out with the department. it became a public works program for the public park lit. the reason why being is that if you really think about it. public works really is the agency that's responsible for our sidewalk repairs, tree maintenance, graffiti removal, beautifications in our neighborhoods. when we talk about multiple agencies, frankly, the department of public works is also the agency for department permits involving the department

supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton. colleagues, i think i have the pleasure as the supervisor for representing the richmond that also has one of the very first public park lit in our city back in 2014 which is simple pleasure. if some of you have been to simple pleasure, that's really a great public park lit. it's outside. it's been around for us since 2014 and some of the arguments that we're having on the floor today frankly was really very similar to the argument that we had then and as some of you may recall, it was actually initially known as "pavement parks" initiative that started out with the department. it became a public works program for the public park lit. the reason why being is that if you really think about it. public works really is the agency that's responsible for our sidewalk repairs, tree maintenance, graffiti removal, beautifications in our neighborhoods. when we talk about multiple agencies, frankly, the department of public works is also the agency for department permits involving the department

. >> supervisor chan: thank you. colleagues, we're reporting our outside assignment. great to be here in-person with you in the chamber. i will first report back on lafco. we are at the may and june lafco meetings, we received an update from sfpuc clean power s.f., sfpuc extended debt relief program through march 2022. great news. based on updates received from p.u.c., we all passed a resolution urging forgiveness of utility debt. governor newsom announced $2 billion of thinks budget that will go forwards utility debt relief. we still have one vacancy, if you want to join us, we got supervisor dean preston as the alternate for supervisor mar. we'll be posting a job listing for the position by next meeting, in july. second assignment that i have is the house services board. over the past couple of months, the house services board has been holding hearings as we go through the annual benefits and rate setting process. we have been reviewing and approving health plan rates and benefit for current city employees and reti

supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: i don't know i think i'm kind of i'm glad that we're diving deeper in this conversation. you know, i think kind of given the fact that just some of the around public kitchen and food delivery and some of the questions around it in and around this donation always is good to be more transparent. but i too on the side of more transparency is better. i'm trying to connect the dots. i'm also trying to be careful of not to associate this great legislation into any other possible commercial use or other purposes by possible potential donors, and how this would fund but i understand. i think that i do understand the concern around this. >> chairman: why don't we leave that as an open issue. and supervisor mandelman, any comments? why don't we move item two through four up for public comment. are there any who would like to speak to any of these sets of ordinances. >> clerk: yes, members of the public should call (415) 655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 146 014 4426 then press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so, please press star 3 to line up to

. >> supervisor chan: thank you. colleagues, we're reporting our outside assignment. great to be here in-person with you in the chamber. i will first report back on lafco. we are at the may and june lafco meetings, we received an update from sfpuc clean power s.f., sfpuc extended debt relief program through march 2022. great news. based on updates received from p.u.c., we all passed a resolution urging forgiveness of utility debt. governor newsom announced $2 billion of thinks budget that will go forwards utility debt relief. we still have one vacancy, if you want to join us, we got supervisor dean preston as the alternate for supervisor mar. we'll be posting a job listing for the position by next meeting, in july. second assignment that i have is the house services board. over the past couple of months, the house services board has been holding hearings as we go through the annual benefits and rate setting process. we have been reviewing and approving health plan rates and benefit for current city employees and reti

i believe we have supervisor chan to present this item. >> supervisor chan: yes. [inaudible] as the board supervisor representative to the health services board. the ordinance before you, colleagues, today, is to approve the san francisco health service system health, vision, and dental rates for active and retired employees for the calendar year 21-22. the b.l.a. has issued a report to approve this item, but the heavy lifting goes to the health services director, abbie yen, and she and her team are here today to answer any questions that you may have, so i will let her take it from here. director yen? >> good morning, supervisors. i am pleased to present to you the total package for the health system. we do have workers from our team here. we do, in summary, have a 1.28 aggregate increase in benefit costs for calendar year 2022, which is really excellent. the medical plans themselves were about 2.12%, which is well below industry benchmarks, and we have no significant plan design changes to report for this year. the ordinance before you does two things. one, it a