charged with implementing the health care security ordinance, and i just want to mention her -- joannie chang, who is no longer with us. i was just thinking about the conversations i had with her and trying to understand the challenges of being the first city to doing something like this and what it meant for someone in her position to be charged with implementing a piece of legislation that was so critical and so important, and anyway, i was just thinking about her because i know this is something that was important to her, and i think she is the one who, i think more than anyone else in city government, helped to educate me about the importance of these issues. so i just wanted to mention that. why don't we turn it over to public comment? i know there are many people who are here to speak today. because of the size of the crowd, i am going to limit public, to two minutes per individual. as i call your name, please come forward. [reading names] if you could just line up in the center aisle so that we are not obstructing. good morning. >> i am professor of health economics at the university o