as a kid while growing up in palo alto and i'm grateful to have been able to meet people like ellen fletcher who has a bike avenue named after her in palo alto. when i worked on bike access a few years ago i was able to work with ellen and it was great to meet up with her because she was a great mentor when i was a kid. i hope i can continue on. thank you very much. >> thank you for your presentation. just cure yis how the advisory committee might weigh in on future policy or any programming related to the cycling in the city is that something that has been --. >> we do work on the bike plan. this is the 2008 bike plan and we were involved in it. there's acknowledgement of committee members in here on the front. so the city comes and tells us what the intentions are and we make comments so we have been able to move the needle a little bit and that's rewarding. >> just to talk about things we're doing in district 11, there's mcclaren park and we also have a new program called bc del pueblo which is a bike build program for people of color in district 11 and that has a lot of focus on dwirls a