mr. augustine, and the rest of the treasurer staff that is here, as well as my office for helping to advance this to this particular date. this will probably be one of the most dense piece of loss that you could get excited about -- laws that you could get excited about, for the pro-tax parking aficionado's and for those against it. these are two orders that aggregate 97 pages of law. we arrived at this place of pushing these two pieces of legislation as a reaction to our efforts earlier this year when we were contemplating putting on the june ballot an increase in san francisco's parking tax. if you recall in the deliberations, i was explaining that we have not increased our parking tax since 1980 when then-mayor feinstein had advanced the parking tax. we thought it was time that it could be a helpful response for us to look for potential revenue generation. in lieu of pursuing that particular strategy, i was listening to a number of people, especially the parking lot operators -- a well represented consortium -- talking to experts inside and outside city hall about the possibility of us tr