debbie, the commission, putting this in front of you all and victor makras with whom we'd be nowhere. when the board of supervisors passed this fossil free sf was born. and it was born as me going alone to the retirement board and getting glared at. luckily things changed shortly thereafter and it's only continued to grow and grow and grow. as you've heard the retirement board has been recalcitrant to say the least. so i want to thank you supervisor avalos and peskin and the staff of the offices for getting us to this point. i don't really have anything to say besides this is an exceptionally common sense measure. we need to put the city's money where its mouth is and i guess to lee hepner's point in terms of specifying the motion i want to provide an example of the retirement board and the commitments they make and the follow through. so one of the milestones was to divest from coal as a good first step. they have been forced to do that by the legislature. so they took a vote, i believe december 2015 to divest from coal. staff would come back with an implementation plan and at the ti

commissioner makras? present. we'll be starting off today by going right into staff presentation, and what we'll do is after they've had a chance to present we'll open up to public comment. we'll only be calling public comment once today. we have approximately 75 to 90 speaker cards here and if we were to call everyone and give everyone two minutes, it would be three hours, so what we're going to do is limit it to one minute per person so everyone has a chance to hear what everyone else has to say. what i do ask, you please be respectful. not everyone in the room is going to have the same opinion, but core values is being respectful of everyone's opinion and have an intelligent discussion today. staff, go ahead and start off. >> before we get started, i wanted to acknowledge, thank you for being here, thank you for being engaged and active participants in democracy. i want to let you know in the interest of full disclosure i'm leaving this evening earlier than anticipated, i have a sick relative in the hospital th