into real olympic capital turning it from an aging city into one of the most vibrant and modern cities in europe he claims now that moscow can and must develop into a state of the our capital of eurasia is a fantasy sensible evaluation we're about to find out. a big city and a beautiful city for many people beast two notions stand separately but spanish architects. know how to make them gel he was chief architect for barcelona designing its loop for the ninety ninety two olympics now cities across the world once your to create a vision of the future for them is frequently in russia consulting with the authorities who are developing the city of. paper it is moscow says it has everything to become a secure future now which this edition of spotlight to get. closer . and thank you very much for coming to our program thank you. first of all i want i have a quote when one of the interviews he gave to. couple of years ago he said the following quote i'm an architect with little interest in brilliant works i'm in favor of finding solutions to street interceptions that don't work well and quote

two cities. and thanks to the concerted efforts after these 30 years. this relationship has achieved remarkable and substantial rulls. there have been 225 projects of cooperation between the two cities. many chinese companies have found a home here. i think what is more significant is that this city is going to stage a san francisco place at the world expo in shanghai. that is an expression of profound friendship and strong special bonds between our two cities, and it will surely give new impetus to the friendship and cooperation between our two cities. this sculpture will stay here for a period of time. i think it will help local people to understand china, understand chinese history, chinese culture and the chinese philosophy of harmony. it will remind us to work hard to promote our mutual understanding and caption. i am confident with our joint efforts, we will surely make the san francisco exhibit a highlight at the world expo in shanghai, but also we will make san francisco the best gateway

win-win for the city and sfmoma. i am going to briefly go over the big picture with you, and john updike from the real-estate department will take you through the key agreement. the big picture is that the sfmoma plans to build a new wing to house the fischer collection. the have already acquired the hill college building and desires to acquire fire station number one, both of which are on howard street, around the corner from the museum. it would demolish both structures and construct a new wing, linking to the back of the existing museum. in a moment, i will have diagrams for you. in return, the museum will build, at no cost to the city whatsoever, a new fire station at 935 folsom st.. as stated in the organs before you and in the agreement, the city has not yet completed environmental review of these projects. the agreement before you is a conditional agreement, setting out terms for the land transfer, contingent upon a number of independent actions to take place in the future, all of which are at the full discret

i feel the city earth move under my city feet. i feel the city earthquake sky tumbling down, tumbling down. time to fix it up all around town. [applause] president chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm with the department of emergency management. as you know, we're the agency that runs the emergency operation center and we coordinate our first responders and other citiwide agencies that would be responding during an earthquake or other major disaster. we urge to you accept the amendments and move this very important legislation forward to the ballot in november. from the perspective of the emergency management department, we see two specific benefits of the legislation. one, the more buildings that are retro fitted, the more folks will be able to stay in their homes following an earthquake which means fewer folks needing shelter, fewer folks being displaced in san francisco. not only does that mean fewer shelters that we need to open but less misery and difficulty for san francisco januaries who need t

on 7.1k, which provides as a condition for the city's closing of this deal, it says, "city's compliance with all applicable laws." , and that should be "museum's compliance with all applicable laws." that same language is replicated in section 7.3h. it says the same thing. in other words, in 7.1k, it should be "museum's" and that will be corrected. that would apply to first source hiring, which is applicable. that is within the definition of applicable laws. supervisor chiu: on this question of whether we need to amend the agreement to specifically first course -- first source hiring, you think that is something we need to do? >> i believe it would be the first was hiring is applicable, which i believe it is, we have already looked at that, that that would be redundant and unnecessary, but we could do that as well as long as we're going to make this one change. we could add those words to the specific provisions that are addressed if it is deemed advisable by the partisan the board. supervisor chiu: 90. i guess i would look to the parties to say is that something that would be agreeable

hurwitz: currently, city tunnel 1 and city tunnel number 2 would be feeding each half of the city. so you'd lose half the city if you didn't have a replacement. narrator: without half of its water supply, the city would shut down. for nearly 40 years, new york has been in the process of constructing a solution. man: this project is water tunnel number 3. we started on this project in 1969. i'm a sandhog. i've been a sandhog for 37 years. narrator: sandhogs are the men of local 147, who work deep below the city. they began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. from the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. ryan: you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows we're here. see the empire state building, right. that's 1,000 feet. so you figure, you go down 1,000. how high that is -- that's how far we go down. narrator: stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. ryan: i don't even want to imagine what my father had to go through. when we fi

a city that has always been a city of dreamers and doers, a city of entrepreneurs, a city that doesn't just identify these larger global problems but begins to address strategies to solve them. indeed, san francisco is very proud of its leadership to begin the process of mitigation so that we don't have it adopt and as some have said suffer the consequences of global climate change. more mitigation, less adaption, less suffering. this city decided a number of years ago after the united states did the obvious and that was decided not to participate in the kyoto accords to go further, as ryan was just mentioning, as kyoto would have required the united states. we want to roll back our co2 emissions 20 percent from 1990 standards. the challenge is how do you do it. we have mayors saying, well, we've done it. what's the methodology where you determine where you were and now where you are and i realize we're not that sophisticated in terms of really aggregating that information, registering that information and really, indeed, knowing how much we have accomplished. we are anecdotally but we

the city charter says that you will not use city land for non recreational purposes. cultural immersion is a wonderful thing. there are some people there, i have been told, that we would like a continuance until august 19th. there are proposals to pay for the city college program to raise money that the department rightfully needs. thank you. >> thank you. >> i actually have the benefit of being a homeowner. i have a 10-week-old. on i am a homeowner in parnassus' heights and there is actually a playground that we go to probably every single day that has this recreational purpose. this is a private preschool. we have been coexisting with them. my to-rule has been going to that park every single day and interacting with those children even though a portion of that program is dedicated for them. they coexist with them. there are students and we are able to play together. we have been using the playground down at the hollow for years. i will not speak to the program, and i will just speak to what it is like as a parent. i don't think we have talked about the fact that our

sullivan, the city attorney. with regard to all of the proponents that are talked about in this material change amendment, the material changed to the infrastructure plan, the open space and the transportation plan, et cetera, currently as these all have come before the board of supervisors and we've approved it currently and broad stroke it in i see general form, if there were any changes to that or amendments to that, what would have to happen anyway? >> charles sullivan, just to be correct again, these various plans that are referenced in that paragraph are attachments to the d.d.a., disposition and development agree many. that is an agreement between an agency and the developer so the city is not really technically approving these documents as an initial matter which is what i think mr. cohen is referring to, that there's things that you've seen them, they're all before you. we're not hiding them. nobody is hiding them. but they are attachments to a disposition and development agreement that the city is not a

all major cities and counties in the nation do their primary crime lab work within the city. we need to work together to come up with a facility that meets the needs so that the laboratory and the full service. we need to pay sufficient attention and give support from whomever is managing the laboratory to move forward with ongoing projects, creating a stable and manageable staffing level with a dedicated and prominent crime lab manager. we need a permanent forensic services director and a comprehensive plan for a facility that includes how it is managed, what the practices of our, and what the best scientific models around the country are. people need to remember that the crime lab is science being used to back up police work and they will figure out the best way to do that in the future and it makes sense for all people involved. supervisor mirkarimi: back to the comptroller's report, the local 21 put out its own analysis a few weeks ago about the prospect of this work being outsourced and privatize and that you had a difference of opinion from the comptroller's report. wou

that work while you were with the city attorney. in terms of gaining a better understanding myself, which is an educational lifetime understanding, the folks around you -- with the great diversity we have in the city, i think it is most important that we attempt to do that. as police commissioner, it behooves me more to make sure my understanding and education continue in that manner, and something we spoke about a couple of days ago and a suggestion we had in terms of, you know, when i pick and choose the activities i want to do to make sure i am being cognizant of opportunities throughout the city and use them for a ricehr under -- richer understanding, it is truly reaching out for leaders in the communities, reaching out to them, listening to them and taking advantage to the gifts they are giving us when they try to work with us and make their voice be heard. >> thank you, and i am appreciative of your willingness and openness as commissioner. i think that makes you more effective as commissioner and i also think you will be some

artists inspired cities and cities inspire artists.ho knows which in print -- which inspiration comes first? it does not really matter, what matters is that happens. right here in our city, generation after generation. we are proud to participate tonight in the recognition of one of music's greatest artists. to continue to fulfill the pledge from one year ago to expand the coverage of the arts and support arts in our community. we want to thank you for allowing us to move out on this rewarding mission, thanking you for the opportunity to serve tonight on this stage and on the stage that is our city, every day of the week. we are honored to share this night with one of the musical greats of all time. we want to congratulate carlos on a wonderful, outstanding career and on his award tonight. thank you, everyone. [applause] >> so, the first time that i saw carlos santana was when i graduated from high school in angels camp, he played some legendary shows there with the grateful dead. a lot of incredible memories followed, filling the audi

and the director and member of liveable cities. thanks for being a great advocate for these improvements. i want to acknowledge the deputy director for public works who oversaw the construction and deputy director for operations who now will be responsible for maintaining this beautiful landscape. if he doesn't do so the mayor will remind him. finally, i want to acknowledge the guy who led the team that designed this whole project, an outstanding project. a lot of effort went in to getting community consensus, to working out the technical details and coming out with a beautiful project. landscape architect john dennis. the designers. then last but most the project manager for valencia street and the great streets program within d.p.w. or project manager, chris. phenomenal job on this project. with that, we want to thank you for coming today to celebrate valencia street and the better streets plan. we would be happy to take questions if anybody has them for the mayor or anybody else. >> or we could do the ribbon cutting. >> on to th

vullnerable in the city.are sincerely committed to that. in terms of working for families in the city, archbishop and myself and the cardinal have worked in partnership with san francisco organizing project for many years to keep affordable housing at the top of the city's agenda because some of the concerns that have been expressed here are our concerns, too. our parishes, the 44 parishes in the schools, our schools, our high schools, all need families to stay here, so we're very invested in keeping families here. we're very invested in child care. we have about a dozen child care facilities. we are opensed to this item because we feel it is a layer of bureaucracy that is not needed and will, in fact, create a disincentive for people to try to build child care facilities. two blocks away from the present one at st. joseph's we are intending to put in a child care center. the archdiocese is intending to put in a mill to $-- a million to $2 million. we think it is needed. however, with this type of legislation

>> maybe city college could answer that. >> let me ask city clean that. city college that. >> we have had e-mail exchanges over the past two years. i have been the department chair for three years. when i started as chair, we were actually in -- in nine park and rec facilities if san francisco providing child observation services. when -- i have had, i dealt with three different park and rec directors and -- so -- and terry schwartz and folks that are not available right now, who i have met with. so communication has been challenging. i feel like i have been to meetings with someone and then -- >> you had nine lobes. what happened to those nine locations? >> there's also been a concurrent movement on -- on -- the -- the behalf of park and rec to provide fee for service programming at different facilities. i would say two of the facilities specifically mission rec center and eureka where we had a multiple day programming, we were actually in conflict with fee for service programming at park and rec. our -- our classes are rhea and again they're not for the

this is the inner city of amsterdam, and the rest of the city are the suburbs. the whole city, there are 2.2 million people, but the real city of amsterdam, there are less than 800,000, which i think is about the same as san francisco. i will also pass around a few sheets. the important thing is that amsterdam is one of the five major economic central's -- economic centers in europe, and we want to stay that way, and we are an attractive city for international business, like the american and asian companies that like to have business in amsterdam. it is a real nice place to stay. experts like to live in amsterdam, and is accessible from all parts of the world. it is also very important case of cycling. what irony said, 2.2 million and happens, but the last line may be the most important, about 120 kilometers per day traffic jams. that is qu7?) a lot. this distance is not more than 25k. we have a real problem. that is not good for business. for us, it is active transport, really important as a solution for being accessible. ok, does it work? yes. this is the city

like you to start paying toward your pension because every other city employee in the city does it.ou're the only union that doesn't do it. and the union said -- eventually said no, we're not going to do that, unless you guarantee us no layoffs for three years. the city said we can't do that because next year's deficit is going to be worse than this year's deficit. >> so bob, i don't understand. why didn't they approve a one-year guarantee? rather than lay off 80 officers who are sorely needed in oakland. does the union take too hard of a line, and are they not willing to give up enough on the pensions? in other words, this money's going to folks who aren't even on the force anymore, and meanwhile, these officers are getting laid off. >> from the union's perspective, they feel like the city's going to keep coming to them year after year for more concessions. last year the police union decided to give up pay raises. they didn't actually take a pay cut like every other city union did, but they gave up pay raises last year. and they saw the writing on the wall for next year. so they we

the city new york city has a 3% combined real estate transfer tax. the city of philadelphia has a 4% real estate transfer tax for commercial property. so we would have a measure that would be less than those places. i do believe this is a measure that is necessary, especially given the uncertainty of revenue and the need for multiple solutions to our budget deficit, including restructuring our government, including the labor concessions that have already been made in labor, but we also have to be looking at revenue. and this one, i believe, could be viable. i'd like to ask that we could move this forward with your support, colleagues. this would also not affect people who are single-family homeowners. the increase would -- their real estate transfer tax would remain the same. so it's really looking at commercial property property on that end. we have a report from mr. ted eagan, from the controller's office, office of economic impact. he can share with us the record. mr. eagan, thank you for your work. >> thank you, supervisor. good afternoon, superv

oh, city money.ou are my city candy budget and you've got me wanting for programs around the city. won't you pour a little sugar on it soon? pour a little sugar on it soon. please money for the city all around. pour a little sugar on it soon. supervisor mirkarimi: well timed. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is jacqueline phillips. i'm with ace and i'm a member of the bay view heights community. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm a member of ace. >> my name is grace martinez and i'm an organizer with ace. >> we wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for moving the e.i.r. forward. we ask you to continue to support the project in the bay view. we will pledge that ace will continue to work to make sure that the residents of bay view take advantage of the many benefits that are attached to this project and again, we just wanted to thank you today. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. peter warfield, library users association. i would

the city is considering a moratorium until the current stat ticks are checked. >> the city as a regulatory agency has a responsibility to the public that if they go to a city licensed facility that it is professional and meets the appropriate standards. >> belmont police say despite the registration and training issue, no massage therapist has been arrested for prostitution. >>> bp announced today that ceo tony hayward will leave that post in october and be replaced by the first american to head up the british oil giant. the company says he's stepping down by mutual agreement. he will receive $1.5 million severance pay and keep his $17 million pension. ee going to siberia to head up the bp division in russia. bob dudley will take over his position. >>> at the same time, bp says the company lost more than $17 billion during the second quarter. that includes the cost of cleaning up the gulf oil spill through the end of last month. the company still faces lawsuits that could top the $20 billion already set aside to pay the victims of this bill. >>> an out-of-control wildfire in kern county ha

that is critical to people in the city. that is based on the work of our collective effort on the committee. i would like to thank my staff and the work of raquel in bringing this to us. i would also like to thank and in turn in my office for the summer. there is an army of in terms that have been helping out as well. thank you so much for all of your great work on this budget. this budget would not be brought to us without the fortuitous and unexpected windfall from the real-estate transfer tax. if there is a real estate transfer tax god that is out there, i want to thank you for helping us close this budget. people buying property has helped us close this budget to make sure that we continue to do this in san francisco. i would like to say no more. i want to thank you for all of your work and consideration on this budget. we would be voting in favor and moving forward. >> thank you. i would very much like to affiliate with the comments of the budget chair avalos. we have moved forward two years in a row. we have navigated

the jet from the city's end -- from the city's and. >> that is absolutely agreeable. we get at a reference to the first source hiring chapter of the administrative code -- we could add a reference to the first source hiring chapter. supervisor chiu: i'm not sure that requires a formal motion because the agreement is not in front of us, but as long as there is a commitment by the parties to do this, i'm comfortable with leaving it as it is and allow the parties to do that. >> that is right, and the committee does not have the jurisdiction to make an amendment to the contract. you have to have the parties agree, and they will submit new a new version. supervisor chiu: great. supervisor maxwell: without objection -- again, supervisor. >> thank you. i'm here for items 5 and 6, but i would like to thank supervisor maxwell for letting me make a comment. as a supervisor who represents district two and the presidio, we have had a number of committee hearings right here in land use on the proposed museum in the presidio that clearly did not work out. but one thing that i do wa

compliance the city was with the americans with disabilities act. my understanding is because we are currently under litigation, that response will occur after the response has been made. the ada requires that we have a grievance procedure in place to address any potential this ability -- disability rights problems. we do have that grievance procedure. we did lose the dedicated position to take those complaints and work with department around the city. this of a grand jury's recommendation is to reinstate staff so there is greater support for that work half. we always appreciate more staffing, but we recognize in these tough times, the choice needs to be made on where the city is putting its resources. currently we have in turn to a are being trained by some permanent staff. we believe we are responding to complaints adequately and efficiently. it does take time away from other activities, and perhaps what the civil grand jury has been most eager to see -- it takes away from the belt region in the community in terms of what we can do the educating f

this is a city that is doing things that no other city in the united states of america could even imagine doing, things that even when we had all the resources in the world and all the capacity, things that cities could not do. this commitment to an acute care, facility, a skilled nursing facility -- what county is having a ribbon cutting on a new nursing facility in this modern age? and what city and county can lay claim to comprehensive universal health care, regardless of pre- existing conditions, regardless of your ability to pay? dr. mitch kastz has been the architect of all of this. thank you for your leadership. there is the old play towline that if there is any hope for the future of those with lanterns will pass them on to others. let me talk about those that carry bright lights, that pass those lanterns on to others. many of them you will hear in just a moment, because they are appropriately on stage and will be recognized for their own work. one is the former mayor, willie gramm, who deserves a tremendous amount of credit for envisioning the bonds that brought us here. i want t

our job is to legislate and work with the city departments and city agencies to run the city better. to be an effective voice for you have basically in city hall. so what i like to say to you is you use us to leverage your goals and objectives as it relates to the city. some of the things that we have done to build the comprehensive view is that working with the neighborhood organizations as they talked about the pta. the supervisors on the pta as well. connecting the dots between the community based organizations that are running the programs that are for the youth, for the adults and taking a look at the goal and the vision of what the neighborhood wants to creates. so instead of being reactive, how do we build what we want to create together and using the tools of connecting the piece. the lower haight and hayes valley and the western addition and the north the panhandle neighborhood, people are working together to do events. working with the cbo. volunteer i volunteering their time in activities that are not just in their block. or just within you know perhaps within their sort o

the city for everyone. most important, we believe these guidelines are consistent with the port's waterfront land use plan. we think it is essential if we continue to refer to the waterfront land use plan as the governing document for decisions about what lands. this planning process was started by citizen initiative and ultimately involved hundreds of citizens in one of the most extensive public participation processes in the city's history. planning is going to matter, rather than the unpredictability of side-by-

at early childhood education in the city, correct? >> that is correct, but my understanding it is actually a narrowing of the focus. supervisor chu: right, and in terms of the population, the population now is early childhood, so we are talking about zero to five, i would imagine? >> i believe that is correct. that would probably be one of the first tasks we would do, define the scope. >> when we talk about the joint founders, and we primarily talk about early childhood, but we also fund child care, which goes up to 12, so many of our programs that serve the 05 population also did after-school time, so some time there are linkages, but i would imagine that the scope of the work, because the program serves children up to that age, that it will cover children older than five -- programs that serve the zero to five population. supervisor chu: one of the issues is that the lines on page two, lines 1214, authorizes the use of the commission to recommend programs and areas of importance to be reviewed. that probably would not be relevant, g

care facilities all around the city sunday when the city is much brighter la la la item 5 ooh, child things are going to be easier ooh, child things are going to be city writer someday there's going to be child care facilities all around one more money is found make it soon ♪ supervisor alioto-pier: thank you, walter. next speaker please. >> that was nice. i like that. in a parent at children's village. my 3-year-old son attends children's village, and i'm here not because i actually have much hope that children's village will be saved, but because i really believe that child care is a critical service for the city, and i do not want other families to have to go through what we have gone through. as we have heard, child care is in scarce supply. my personal ability to work depends on my ability to find child care. as was mentioned, children go through an adjustment and bonding process with their care givers, and creating in a disruption during this critical developmental period is something the city should be helping to avoid whenever possible. creating quality child care centers req

and city. the pedestrian improvements proposed will be consistent with the better streets plans for a livable, walkable neighborhoods and provide important industrial links from third street down to the water. they currently do not exist today. the project proposes significant roadway improvements at the city's front door to the region. it has other key corridor improvements along ennis and gilman. the plan also includes a robust program of transportation to land management measures that will complement these transit and roadway improvements. storage facilities, car sharing, and an ego path --eco path our standard benefits. the scope and scale of the public benefits to the city and bayview are immense. we talked about the 32% affordable housing, including the complete rebuild of alice griffith with no displacement. the artists, the park program, these parks will be maintained through a special belarus property tax. the private property owners will pay for it. that is very different from the sit

i feel like the process was this used for whatever purposes the city needed. in my opinion, the ada is there to help people who really need help. people like me are looking to them for guidance. it seems strange that instead of giving me guidance, they basically short circuit the system and, in my opinion, ending the system. ada compliance need to be seriously considered, especially at the board level. in my opinion, this committee is even weaker than the ethics commission. supervisor mar: thank you. is there anyone else that would like to speak? please come forward. >> hello. i am also a member of the mayor's disability council. i am in that category of having a hit in disability. i also want to start by thanking the civil grand jury and you all for giving this the attention that you are. we appreciate it. i wanted to reiterate something that we mentioned, which is, if finances were not an issue, as the community would want every suggestion that the community suggested, but seeing the situation is not that, we want to make sure architectural access is not pri

this does reflect the goals that we have as a city. know what -- no matter where a young person might live, no matter where they're starting, this person does aspire for them to achieve greatness. there is a tool box in place in every neighborhood in this city. this has guided us and showed us as they were reflecting on the amount of production. i was floored when i saw that they had one of the highest possible level of reductions. i do feel like the controller ' s work reflected it. this will be the last budget that i have an opportunity to participate in as a supervisor. we are coming to a place where i think there is a commonality between the office to achieve mutual goals. >> i want to reflect on the staff that contributes so much. i am not that avid of a baseball scorekeeper. i would say that he had a very good year this year. there were relatively few voices raised in objection. the work comes up from the budget proposals, a lot of the work we have done in the process. our controller is not here. i hope that this will not be in t

we thank you for bringing it to the city.o all of those folks at city hall that actually believed, that wanted to make this a bigger part of our future. to our friends in the design world where we want to celebrate creativity in the context of procuring a different strategies to solve problems, i think you for the progress as well. -- thank you for the progress as well. to all of our tenants for your commitment in long term to make sure that this day is not a day that will be forgotten, but remembered because he will be here day in and day out, making sure that you celebrate the long term efforts. thank you very much. i want to thank our neighbors for indulging us in this new urban art. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much, mr. mayor. i would like to turn it over to charlie sheldon. [applause] >> thank you very much, mr. mayer. thank you to everyone at urban farming for making this possible. we try to do our part. first, my name is charlie sheldon. i represent the industrial designers of america, building products, ever

this is a point of reference for our city. with that, conclude our formal statements and we have questions country will take questions for myself and the mayor. the first six months of the year we were up by one. today, we are down by one. the greater. to be made here is that there are 55% reduction last year. we seem to be gaining on it. the proportion of the homicide rates are levels we have not seen since 1961. i think that that is a story. i think it is a laughable without looking at the resource allocation. this gets you to the things that we to on a daily basis when we try to assess what is the best thing to do it. several weeks ago, a couple of months ago, we saw an increase in crime in a couple of areas of our city. we some primarily chinese victims and yen and around muni and corridors. we have the freedom today to move these as we need to. weeks took 32 people in the city. we can come up with a more sustainable solution. we are working to come will with funding to have communities. escort services that we will be tra

hall but all over the city and county of san francisco. mark comes with a lot of good work behind him and a lot of exciting things in front of him. he was disproportionately responsible for helping us with our sister city's arts exchange program which is one of a kind. is something completely unique and very proud he and matthew and others worked so hard on and i think he will be an outstanding addition. this is an artist in residence program that is an international model. we know jim and ellen and may, their work here in the preservation of san francisco city hall and everything you see around us, the civic center. they appropriately were reappointed by the board and had to be confirmed first and all are outstanding leaders and stewards in their own right. ellen is in my office every day doing tours and jim outside the office every day doing his part to advocate on behalf of city hall and the civic center. and may is everywhere else in the community. ubiquitous and out front and a true later. al perez, i thank you for serving on the ente