with that, kaolin, i ask for your support and hope we can move this forward. ~ fiber >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank president chiu for his leadership on this incredibly important piece of legislation. and i will [speaker not understood] committee. this actually should not take legislation. ideally, our city departments, our executive branch, our department of technology, dpw, so forth, should make this happen. the fact is for years and years and years we've been periodically digging up streets. it's been accelerating recently in terms of sewer work and water work and gas line work and road resurfacing. it should be standard practice without any legislation to put the conduit in so that we can lay fiber and expand our municipal fiber networks. and it's been disappointing to me when, for example, the street that i live on was i think in a state of being torn up for about 15 months. they could have put fiber there now it's all covered up. but better late than never. since its hasn't been happening we're requiring it be considered. this is an important step