my name is lorraine garcia, former san francisco arts commission and federal commission for the national museum of the american latino and current advisor to the latino historical society. i am here probably going to focus in on some of the issues around conditional questions. i used to give out funds for the whole state of california, oversaw huge projects here for public art in san francisco. and also gave out funds in the bay area. one of the most important things that you do is actually establish guidelines and criteria for the basis of challenging decisions that have to be made. so if i based all of my decisions and recommendations on conditional thread, it would be very difficult to be able to make informed decisions. so where i completely honor and respect your question, to be able to make even decent conditional decisions, you have to have informed and well-grounded criteria and guidelines. for that to happen, you have to gather the data, and you have to have all of that be informed in advance. so i really thank all of you for considering this piece that actually gives us time, a