i know he wanted to say a few words regarding debra reed. so we'll go back to debra reed. debra, could you step back up? i know daniel wants to take a few pictures with you and say a few words. >> good afternoon, mr. murphy. >> good afternoon. my apologies to the board and debra for being late. i have just moved. and it takes a little longer to get a taxi from where i live now. but i just wanted to say thank you to debra for your years of service to the citizens advisory council. she has stayed late at many of our meetings and has on one or two or perhaps hundreds of occasions accepted agendas from me which were coming right up close to the zed line. and she had to really hustle to get them posted. you know so that we would comply with the brown act and the sunshine ordinance and all of that. and she would be running to the library at, you know, 4:59 p.m. we appreciate all that effort. there were any number of times when debra said to us, we really, you know, need to do in a little better. and, you know, we tried. but the fact is i'm just not very good at this. she rolled w