martin gramm is here with the city employees of san francisco. >> it took that long to get through the reading of the amendments. it took a lot longer to reach these agreements and i would like to thank my very talented staff who worked diligently. we bring to you a package on behalf of dhr and the mayor's office. together, we bring a conclusion to sometimes that were very difficult to us budget-wise and the city and county of san francisco. the last full round of bargaining for miscellaneous unions was the one where they agree to a two-year contract. before the last rays of that contract went into effect, the bottom fell out of the economy and we were back at the negotiating table in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011 asking for concessions. labor came through in each of those years. in 2009, over 20 unions came to the board with a 2% concession. in 2010, 2011, had 2012, labour stepped up with a concession and in the wake of those concessions, they negotiated with the mayor and board of supervisors with the many sponsors this afternoon, proposition see in which employees began to 0.5 to 3.5%