ms. gail johnson. do we have any announcements? >> yes. all persons attending this meeting are requested to turn off all cellphones and pagers. if you wish to submit speaker cards put them in the container by the rail in front of you to your left. if you wish to submit copies of material to members of the committee, please submit an extra copy for the file. items sent out of committee today will be considered by the full board tuesday of next week unless another day is indicated. >> we actually have, supervisor maxwell, with us, so we're a full committee in quorum. madame clerk, if you could please call -- let's call all the items on both calendars. we'll do the regular meeting and also the special meeting, please. actually, i apologize, we'll do the regular meeting, and we'll do the -- item number one on the special. [clerk reading item 1 on the regular meeting agenda] supervisor avalos: thank you, madame clerk. item number one on the regular committee, i'd like to see, colleagues, if we could do it the latter part of our meeting today af