i am sean buford. [inaudible] i am standing here to remind you that the police, sheriff, tend to have members who serve a full service career of 25 plus years that fall under early retirees. considering the impact, if you were to make drastic changes to our membership. certain changes i am hearing that may take place. i want you to remember our members serve 25 plus years, as we get older in age, the job is difficult to continue past a certain age, but they will not make the mental age of 55 until later. when you're are doing these bids, please keep us in mind and consider the impact that it could have on us. thank you. >> thank you. >> my name is carrie, i'm a retired employee and i worked for the city for 25 years. my health benefits are vital to me. i would just ask one thing, i would love to have, more choices for our hmos. if you consider that it would be greatly appreciated. thank you for your time. >> thank you. any other public comment? public comment is closed. item number four. >> opportunity

i met with sean buford again, not just labor management, and we're keeping up regular meetings, besides those regular management meetings, which is super helpful. i met with the aides from senator kamala harris' office, and they offered assistance in terms of any grants that we need assistance with, and they were also really interested in our disaster planning and response. so we gave them all of the information on that. myself and chief woresh met with daily city fire, and we opened up the lines of communication there. so the first time we're seeing each other is not at a big innocent incident, and that was helpful. we had a meeting with the ambassador to peru, and we brought in our employ group, who were great. and the peruvian fire department are all volunteer, and they don't get much funding. and so los vonberos is going to work with them. we had the topping off ceremony, and i'm really pleased to see that is really moving along. we're looking forward to moving in at the end of next year. recent upgrades to our fire department operations center. so the ops center that we have on the