thank you. >> good afternoon, jay leal rate administration controller's office. since this is our first hearing i want to introduce my team working on and also the refuse rate analyst becker and we also have supporting us claire stone who has been helping with the clerking. thank you, clerk. and i also want to note that our office is also contracted with hf and to help with the analytical work moving forward here. before we go through the rest of the presentation, i just want to reiterate the responsibilities of the board under proposition f. so the refuse rate board is responsible for adopting a rate order, they must also adopt performance standard while taking consideration of the city's environmental goals and the responsible for setting residential rates and allowed but not required to set rates. so in our, in the refuse report there are really four items. first is a summary of our process, including our analytical review in our building. we'll also do a quick review and analysis summary of our review and analysis of the department proposals for dpw and depar