friend to some of news this room, one of the most competent and capable managers in the region, henry gardner, the former executive director of abag is heading that transition. mr. gardner is already having transition meetings, meetings of his committee. they're doing work in oakland, california, to get ready for mayor kwan's administration. now, i've heard on a number of occasions here in san francisco that maybe the board shouldn't act because there's not a vacancy in office yet. but the fact that there's not a vacancy in the office of oakland mayor, as the mayor there still occupies that seat, is not deterring jean kwan, henry gardner and many others from doing the work to prepare to run the city of oakland. now, here in san francisco, with our process for electing mayors, typically a mayor would have had, you know, about a month to put together a transition team, a chair to transition that team, if that's the structure that they would want to use to start talking to, you know, existing city staff, potential recruits or new hires to deal with budget issues. i know that our governor elect i