dr. callahan from the department of human resources. >> good afternoon supervisors. nicky callahan, human resources director. thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today and i am pleased to see some sold colleagues and it's nice to see you all. i want to start by introducing my team who is working with me on this project we're involved with seiu and i think has been mischaracterized on attack on comparable worth and i have the chief negotiator and martin grand and mary who is leading this process with seiu right now and steve who is our compensation manager and in charge of our data and collection of information that we use in all of our negotiations. what i would like to do i think reframe the discussion a little bi. i have been asked to speak to comparable worth and how it applies now and what is the status in san francisco? and i think one of the challenges that we have comparable worth is has been replaced in san francisco. it doesn't mean it's open season on -- i think mara described and reimposing discriminatory wages and not target a group of employee