ms. gallagher. >> commissioners, good afternoon and happy new year. for your record, mary gallagher. in some prior administrations, there was a general rule that if the commission wanted something done in between the regular budget cycle that wasn't already in the approved work programme, and it was going to take a threshhold of certain amount of dollars, then that item would come back to the commission for discussion. on its work programme. this is because the commission is charged in the charter with responsibility of the budget and a budget is meaningless, unless every dollar is tied to a work programme, goals and timelines. so, you asked for guidelines, design guidelines in the petrero and one other areas. have the staff bring a proposed work programme to the commission and said, well, you know instead of producing fine-tuned design guidelines for any specific neighbourhood, instead we're going to produce broadside of design statements for the entire city. we'll pull some of the properties out of the r.d.g.s, we'll introduce some conflicts like light rails between the r.d.g.s and