>> jim lazarus, san francisco chamber of commerce. i want to thank everyone involved for the process that has been under way for months now regarding the redrafting of a business tax structure for san francisco. we have consistently supported an outcome we tax revenues and not job creation. i think we are close to reaching a broad-based agreement on reforms. i had a chance to speak a couple of days ago with a colleague of yours from many years ago who was the author of the gross receipts tax in the late 1960's, and that was to replace some lost revenue because of a lawsuit on the city's property- tax formulas for business versus residential property. $35 million was what was needed in the gross receipts tax in the late 1960's. i do want to say that any outcome of this process, which is dealing now with a payroll tax that brings in over $400 million a year, the number two source of revenue behind property-tax for the city, has to be fair and equitable to the broad business community, small business, mid-size, or large business. we have