my name is elina beckerman. i am the sierra bees zero waste coordinator and i'm here representing the residential team to discuss the san francisco beverage container recycling program and our contract extension for our program operator i. our planet recycling has been the program operator for the last three years coming on three years and since the initiation of the program the city which had experienced a desert of redemption sites in san francisco has turned around crv redemption around the state has slowly been decreasing over the last decade and since january of 2022 the bottle buying program an innovative mobile and cashless crv redemption solution has been operating in the city in almost all districts and has returned over $500,000 to residents to date thousands of residents are using the program and it has received initial funding from the state and is currently also going to have funding through the annual city county payment program an annual allocation from the state. so the contract amendment that we