. >> my name is michelle allersma. i am the city's revenue manager. i want to give you some summary highlights of proposition 26, which passed on the november 3, 2010 ballot. i will try to keep it brief and let you have some material in your packet you can refer to later. it kind of gets into the weeds of legalistic language. let me know at any time if you have questions or clarifications. essentially, what proposition 26 does is it expands the scope of what a tax is and what a tax increase is. anywhere in the presentation i have language in italics, that is what is now in the state constitution. essentially what this means to san francisco and any other local government is that some of the fees we could have charged before the only required a majority approval by the board of supervisors we would now need to get two-thirds voter approval to impose. i would say in the short term there is not a large effect on the city's finances. every fee or charge we had in place before the election we can keep, and there are a lot of exemptions. i included some sli