i want to offer an apology on the behalf of attorney gaskon and our office for anyone that was not treated with dignity in our office. we are committed as we have been before this and we will double down that we make sure we do our best work for everybody that we come in exact with especially for a crime as difficult as this. a couple of things we have underway and things that we think that we can do moving forward. -- a couple of the things i think that have gotten better that are worth talking about and then the space for continued improvement as we all heard. in 2015 it came to our attention that there was a significant backlog of rape kits within the san francisco police department and it was a huge concern is. we applied for a grant that the manhattan district office was funding. we were conditionally accepted for the grant on a solicitation from our office. we did not at that point have the support of the chief of police to pursue that grant, so we were denied, but good did come of that. it did result in the commission taking up the issue and general fund dollars being allocated to t