president chiu, fellow board members, madam clerk, my name is lawrence flores, the americas cup came and went, obviously we had a lot of labor issues, a lot of challenges but with that, what we need to do is move forward. we need to move forward and make the next event a positive one. and i'm speaking to the one of the super bowl, of sponsoring the super bowl here in the bay area. that's what's important, moving forward on a positive note, learning from our mistakes of what happened. and with that, i'm happy to report that last friday, the america's cup event authority issued a check to the office of labor standard enforcement of 404 thousand dollars to be paid to the workers that performed the work at phase 1 of the america's cup. that is a significant amount, that is like an early merry christmas to the workers because time and time again, it's all about the workers and even the workers behind me. that was a huge success and it finally happened. and i do want to thank the office of labor standard enforcement, donna le v*it, mary berzoto, that was information provided by carp there'