dr. allison stangly and the executive director of the california chapter of league of voters dr. chaplain and everyone that is speaking in support of the legislation and my cosponsors again supervisor wiener and supervisor yee and before i turn it over to the department i wanted to give supervisor wiener an opportunity to say a few words as well. >> thank you mr. chairman and supervisor tang. i want to thank you for your leadership on this legislation and supervisor tang and i have partnered on various pieces of animal welfare legislation and budget support for animal care and control and it's a real pleasure to be able to work with you supervisor tang. and this is a long over due legislation and this is actually one of those areas where sometimes you propose something like this and people immediately say it's some sort of san francisco thing. well, we're not pioneers on this. we are doing the right thing, but other cities have already been doing this because this is really common sense, and here in san francisco we are a city that -- the city of st. francis and we deeply believe