before we go into closed session, supervisor m irkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: i want to refresh people's memories as to why this item is before us. it was approximately two years ago where public access, the public portion, in particular among the grouping of peg funding was slated to become an endangered species. that was quite frankly because our ability to negotiate the franchise agreement in san francisco was completely hijacked by state law, known as divca, and the federal law as well. the digital and video content act inhibited our ability to broker the kind of generation of revenue we have been used to for so many years before. when that happened, we scrambled fast to make sure that programmatic funding would still be in fused so that we would not see any loss of public access here in san francisco. in that endeavor, we learned quite a bit about the current operation, as we had come to know in its and pieces on the studio. what a costly endeavor that happened to be based on old budgets. we also heard that department of technology wa