we've made a lot of progress in the meetings chaired by peter novack and liz miles. i thank them for that. but we still have the stumbling block of a parking survey that was made for usf by an individual vendor who has already spoken a little bit tonight, that really didn't address certain issues and there was no way of calculating which cars were driven by students, which cars were owned by students, et cetera. mta did their own study and was quite a bit different from the study that was in place before. we couldn't go on criticizing just the parking and traffic issues, so, last about 10 days ago we decided why don't we go and do an informal study ourselves. so, for sick of the eight -- seven days last week and two days again this week, we did a study of parking availability ~ in our neighborhood, rrp stickers, vacant spaces and overall parking. ~ six we wanted to do that between 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. because the vendor who did the study says those were were the high usage in the neighborhood. we found there were only 243 rrp stickers on the streets with over 110