mr. nutter, a report was commissioned by lafco. it took some time to have that initial report finalized. we had to go through a competitive bid process. once that happens, the vendor had two or three weeks to do a very quick survey on where we are all relative to other jurisdictions. we believe and i certainly believe it is important for us as we're making these decisions that we have a context for what is happening in the region and what we're doing in san francisco and how that compares to other cities. as was noted, there are some things, a number of things that came out in the report. one of them, which i think is an accurate statement is that indeed it verifies that there is a survey provided by recology. in terms of the extensive list of the service, and the results for the ratepayers of san francisco. that something that three comforting. -- that is something that's very comforting. recology and department of environment have been very helpful in working with lafco to make sure we have the information needed for this assessm

mr. cleveland from the building owners' association. he based we supports this contract. yet the study from ms. nutter shows that you have comparability with other cities. page 170, you can see comparisons of commercial rates. the city and county of seven cisco, 17391 -- the city of san francisco, 173, 91. oakland, $114. fremont, 74. heywood, 105. san jose, about $91. [tone] supervisor chu: thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, in the director of the [unintelligible] marine division of the iow and share of the maritime adviser committee. i am speaking to you on behalf of captainship way, who is unable to be here. we support the existing workers and their union and garbage collection for the city of san francisco. the recology facilitation plan will result in a loss of jobs in altamont. we are excited that the opportunity presented here to allow our report to finance infrastructure. barging can be very compelling. we have a tremendous opportunity to create maritime jobs, raise revenues, and we can take the bay area leadership's in for using container garbage as a baseline for business moving away fr