my name is dan weaver. i'm here to make a few basic points about the cbd proposal you have before you. although merchant and neighborhood promotion is certainly an important part of it, in the process of putting this together, we decided the most important thing is to get our sidewalks sweat, get our sidewalks clean with steam cleaning, and to get the graffiti off buildings without costing the merchants or property owners $1,000 or more for a simple problem that could be handled by organizing an effort like this. september 30 of this year, a five-year experiment on ocean avenue and many other districts in the city ended with the ambassadors program and the end of the federal stimulus program which funded it. we have had five years of clean sidewalks, and we liked what we saw. we would like more. without sidewalks weeping, the litter and trash just keeps blowing -- without sidewalk sweeping. before 2005, it was blowing since the beginning. we have five years of clean sidewalks, and it was a great thing. we f