francisco county transportation authority has been well-represented for the last few years by chester fong. the composition of the task force itself has been diverse, and they have devoted themselves to hours upon hours of work in the service of their community.. i can show you, if i can have the orford briefly here, a representation of more than 50 community members who served on the task force since it was first established. at the height of the task force's activity, we were holding more than five meetings per month. meetings of the full task force, as well as subcommittees, which addressed business and land use. which was chaired by paul lord. complete neighborhood fabric. and the arts and entertainment focus group, which was chaired by terrance allen. this was an exercise in both representative and participatory democracy, representative in that the 26-member task force represented a broad range of community stakeholders, and participatory, that we brought the meetings and the business of the task force down into the communities often as we could. in particular with three town hall me