private land holders is developed in order to preserve the city's biodiversity and natural areas more holistickly. so, to do a comprehensive inventory of all natural areas including those owned by private land owners, that has caused quit a bit of anxiety in terms of people not understanding what that means. ~ quite a bit frankly, it's very vague and broad so i'm not sure i fully, even know what that means. and then a few paragraphs down, it talks about the city, for properties that are not in the jurisdiction of the rec and park department, so including private property, the consideration should be given to a joint management -- to joint management through a conservation district or a governmental entity that controls the management of these areas. so, i guess for -- i don't know if this is for planning or for rec and park, assuming it's for planning, what do these -- what are these policy goals? can you just explain them? there are people who are concerned, you know, is my backyard somehow going to be classified as a natural area and then i'm not going to be able to do what i want with my backy

homeless, regardless of the amazing network that we have, what we're doing when you look at it holistickly, it is not working. we see it in our streets every day. we hear from family members. we're just -- we don't have all of the tools that we need to try to address this very difficult and very vexing problem. and it is something that we see every day and it's something that our constituents report to us every day, and we need to take steps to address it. and what we're doing, while important, is not enough. and i think laura's law by no means is a silver bullet and i know that there are some people who think this is just going to solve everything, it's very rare that you find one measure that's going to solve a problem as difficult as mental illness. but laura's law will provide the city with one additional tool to address the issue of mental illness in our city, including mental illness that we see on our streets. so, i am looking forward to the implementation of this measure once it's passed at the board. clearly we need to monitor it, make sure that it's being used as intended, that i