thank you, commissioner john bitoff. i know you played a role in making sure the pieces of the fountain were parked up and preserved. but certainly, the fact that this was a focus on the pacific was certainly at that time when everybody was looking to europe and the atlantic, certainly a way of marking our difference being on the coast of the pacific looking towards that part of the world. so i think that that was a wonderful thing to have done. and the fact that these were artists, sotomayor and covarrubias showed the diversity of artists that were working on the island, as well, and that whole theme of peace which was working with the fair, and was the start of the united nations. thank you for that part of history in which san francisco played a role. i think it's something that we need to look at. as we build a new island, there always has to be a look back, a tie back to the past. i think we can't forget the past. and i appreciate the work you do as a museum to keep that history alive. really appreciate. i think the

. >> i'm retired general john bitoff, b-i-t-o-f-f. >> thank you. any other speakers? >> good morning. my name is dan heilbeck. my company was retained by the museum to perform a feasibility study on reconstructing the fountain, so i'm here to talk about that. the fountain contained roughly 610 pieces of terra cotta, and of that, 60% of them -- no, 70% of them remain. and most importantly, the remaining pieces are the most important pieces that makeup the topography of the pacific basin. the pieces that are missing are the pieces that you will see around the perimeter of the fountain, which are relatively plain pieces that are easily refabricated. so we authorized a study to talk about that. as a result, that, we started to develop some repair strategies for it because as was mentioned before, when the fountain was reconstructed, the pieces were remortared together again, which led to some damage when they were disassembled in 1984. the repair of terra cotta is a fairly straightforward process. it's been done several times in the city throughout the years, and over the