one of the things that i'm very grateful to jean wallace walsh [speaker not understood]. there is a strong effort to publicize the cac on the website. and my e-mail is on the website so anyone can reach me there. they've done a very nice job helping to give us a little bit more visibility and ways for the community to approach us with ideas and problems and issues. >> all right, thank you very much. consent calendar. is there a -- i think there are some comments on the consend calendar and i don't know -- i understand the item commissioner courtney is going to move. >> shall we begin? >> i'll recognize him to do that. >> yeah, i'd like to make a request that we remove from the agenda item 9h, pending approval of a modification. and there are copies for the public if anyone is interested. >> i don't want to remove any other items. i know dr. jackson wanted to make a comment on item 9a. is that correct? >>> yes. >> why don't we make the comment while we're considering the consent item as a whole rather than removing an item. >> does it need to be read into the record? i'll