my name is jeremy miller and i'm co-director of education and incarceration in district 6. i'm here to express deep concern over the payroll expense tax ordinance that is on the table. our organizational position on the matter is that it is a very, very bad idea and would be detrimental to the community. that twitter, if it wants to show its commitment to the community and the betterment of the neighborhood can pay its taxes and that money can be used then to provide necessary services, job development, housing aid, the things that are actually needed in the neighborhood by the residents and small businesses of this area. the idea of we should give a tax break to twitter is also -- that is open to other corporations to follow and rely on them to provide these community betterment aids, shall we say, is ridiculous. -- community betterment aides. we have no evidence this will actually happen. quite the contrary. if we look at the people who are living there that will be impacted by this exemption, by and large, what we predicted as we will see these people will see absolutely