[applause] >> i remember then that chair jake mcgoldrick saying to the mayor in an early speech that he jogged every morning under those drives. he said, "do not job under the structure. you never know what could happen." [laughter] we get now to the point here where people are too cold and we need to wrap up quickly, but we still have a couple more speakers. let me very quickly acknowledge, as the mayor said, and echoing his words, the incredible work of the people that are actually delivering this project on the ground. most of them do not freeze because they are actually moving around when they are at the construction site. others are moving around and beating the bushes in other places, particularly finding local and minority-owned, small and disadvantaged businesses. they need to be part of the reality of both the stimulus and the rehabilitation of the entire infrastructure in this country. they are the future. they are the reality today in this project as well. i want to take a quick second to a knowledge paul prendergast and his team, the tremendous job they have done in findi

former supervisors peskinin and mcgoldrick were on it, but that would still be ok under this. >> he is not longer on it. >> there are others who may become members of the board. supervisor alioto-pier: that is true. and as a member of the board of supervisors, when we run for office, it's interesting. what i think has happened is that we have seen a lot of candidates running for supervisor run for dccc, too. they're recall for it and set up their account. they'll set up their website. in some cases their websites will have links to their supervise sites. as a member of the board of supervisors, when you're running for supervisor, you have a $500 limit. you have limits on who you can take money from when you are running for that office you have certain limits. when you're running for the dccc, the limits are much different and much greater because they are unlimited. so there certainly is the possibility that a candidate running for the dccc could take a $25,000 or $50,000 contribution running for the dccc to send out mailers and pamphlets on support of themselves while at the same time