today we are going to be joined by jorge rivas from oewd, who will talk about the role of oewd in this program and susannah lavery, from department of public health, who has done the work on the ground and she will talk about what is already happening in the bayview and in the tenderloin and we're also going to be joined by larry brucia who can talk about how it happens and how feasible this sort of change is and finally, i wanted to bring up camell, former president of the american grocers association who has been tremendously helpful in helping us to make it better legislation and he is going to talk about how the merchants' community views this legislation. so thank you very much again for this opportunity. i am looking forward to any questions that you may have and hopefully for your support. thank you very much and i would like to turn it over to jorge rivas from oewd. >> commissioners, thank you, nick. my name is jorge rivas with the office of economic and workforce development and we're just here to show our support for the legislation and illustrate some details of how it will