it's now my pleasure to introduce my boss, our director, ed risken, who during these hard times has worked very closely with us to make sure that at least the graffiti budget is protected and has encouraged us to form more coalitions to continue to fight these vandals. ed, director. >> thanks, mohammed. i want to acknowledge two panelists who have joined us. bevan dufty who is supervisor for district eight. [applause] and paul henderson who is the chief of administration for the san francisco district attorney's office. i want to thank both of them for joining. [applause] i do want to -- at the risk of redundancy, i want to echo a couple of things that the president said. one is, this is a phenomenal turnout. and i can't express how happy i am, how blown away i am that so many of you have taken time away from whatever you're supposed to be doing right now to come here, to help us figure out how to get ahead of this issue that you'll hear from others and you know better than anyone, it's so vexing to our chunety. so i'm so incredibly apreshtive that you're taking this time. we really need c