chris geiger and the explanatory documents are the staff memo. resolution 2019-07e, the reduce pesticide list and public comment and response. this is for discussion and action. >> this item was discussed in a policy committee and the committee recommended that we off adopt a 2019 reduced risk pesticide list for city properties. director rafael. >> so what is before you today, this is an action item and we're asking you to approve the latest revision to the pesticide list. this is an item that comes before you on an annual basis. what you will be seeing is a lot of detail. that detail as the president said, was discussed in quite a long policy committee hearing on august 12th. it was longer than usual because we wanted to hear from the departments in particular on how they were implementing the recommendations and the changes from past year that the commission has put in place. put we were also very interested in focusing particularly on workers' safety and we wanted to focus this year on workers' safety because of the recent lawsuits against mon