the first of the arteries is john russo -- of the honorees is john russo.tarting in 1970, it seems like just yesterday, doesn't it? thinking he was coming as a part-time employee working as a tabulation officer. if your call back then, the whole data center for the city was down there as part of the seismic upgrades to the building, we had to take the center out, but it has been there years, so john was working for the controller's office during that time. in 1983, he moved over to the puc where they built the data center and did all the processing. but that was the past, and now we are over at left 55 market street, and his temporary job and a commission after 40 years, so we want to thank john for the chance to serve. we will ask all of you to come up at the end. the next is cynthia clark,i7) oy 32 years. starting in 1978, again, the city's data processing group, which was a division of the controller's office, and then, the department of technology and information services. in 2004,]hó cynthia transferredo the puc and has been active in our licensing sys