i am from supervisor garmin chu's office. -- carmen chu's office. we would like to provide permit fee waivers for businesses that would like to replace their awnings or provide it pedestrian lighting. we are pursuing legislation because our city does have a tradition of celebrating small businesses during the month of may and what we have noticed is that one of the focus is that supervisors chu has is working with the commercial corridors. it is difficult to make them get a lot of improvements because cost is a huge impediment for them. we have done some projects where the city has provided some funding for them to improve their storefronts. we have changed at the awnings and in exchange they are supposed to maintain it. it has made a huge difference in the appearance. obviously, we don't have the resources to continue to give out money to merchants for this. we are providing an incentive for them and considering them a pilot for the month of may. the premise behind that is that we want to improve the appearance of store fronts that are lacking in n