i'm fred rodriguez. i was the chair of the committee he that worked on this report ~. a third of our civil grand jury devoted a year to this topic. i was unfortunately not able to be here when this came up six months ago in september, i think. supervisor chiu was there, but supervisor tang what not. and i just would like to just give a little bit of background as to why this report was done. we were aware of earlier reports that dealt with surplus property, that the school district had, as well the budget analyst report to the board of supervisors at the request of supervisor farrell about surplus property and under utilized property owned by the city itself. i think part of the inspiration for the report came from the fact that 170 fell street had been boarded up and since then for 25 years, in the interim city hall has been raised and retrofitted. the de young museum has been rebuilt. the eastern span of the bay bridge has been rebuilt, but 170 fell street is in the heart of the civic area still remains boarded up. and in the course of doing that, we looked at both c