, johanna vonne chen, john kote, marry spaulding, cridi singh, mora merjam, jetta welsh, and cindy vonne neal. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. okay. you have nine speakers, and you have five minutes. so come on up, and we'll start the timer. yeah. i think you guys were organizing how you're going to do this, because as soon as the timer starts, we're going to get you guys rocking and rolling, but let's get started. >> just a quick clarification. you referenced nine speakers for five minutes? >> correct. >> and five minutes total. >> correct. >> for nine speakers on a variety of perspectives. >> correct. >> is there a possibility of some further clarification on how to allocate, given multiple perspectives? >> well, we actually -- this is the typical time that we provide for closed session comments. >> okay. >> so we're allowing this to happen in an open session so that it's heard by more people than to do it in a closed session where no one would hear what your comments are, so it will be five minutes open or five minutes closed. we've also received comments from many of