if there are any other seniors that would like to come up and speak first i welcome you i think chris boman if you are here come on up. (speaking off the mic) i'm sorry you can wait if you don't want to. >> supervisor avalos i'm chris bowman i was around back in 1994 was when prop eight was put on the ballot we planned to do a similar initiative then barry con roy put together an initiative to get nine votes on the ballot back to what supervisorer avalos asked in 1971 it's a consent decrete the courts did back in 1979 which dealt with the lack of minorities and women in the department. and subsequent to that 15 years later the mayor and the board never came up to that level of staffing if you look at the voters handbook 1994 they had 1695 full time staff positions 128 light duty officers and 148 going through the academy. nothing has changed. now the other point i would like to make since you are using the baseline of 1994 population wise when it was 741,000. when the consent decree was issued the population of san francisco was 678,000 so if you do it on the basis of population increase th