so now, i wanted to turn the mic over to my colleague, simone hudson and john scapulla who's going to present all the information that's been presented to our low income customers. i'll set the table for a second. you'll remember that the measure of affordability that's utilized by the epa and the industry is really a level of service in our sewer system improvement program is a comparison of the water and wastewater bill as a percentage of median household income. we have some programs directed at low income customers. you had requested us to get much more information on this, and this is that existing affordability metric. and what you can see, the water bill is graphed in blue, the sewer bill is graphed in green, the combined bill is graphed in gray, and you can see how those compare to the median household income over time. and we looked at this when we looked at the ten year capital and financial plan, but this is the launch point for the rest of our inquiry. and so now i'll turn the mic over to simone hudson who is a city hall fellow in the finance department and is now working

and then the second half of the presentation, it's going to be provided by simone hudson and john scarpula and really it's addressing all of the work we've been doing over the last 18 months with respect to affordability and the impacts of our rates and charges on low-income customers. and i understand four years ago when you were considering rates and charges, the commission emphasized that it really wanted to understand a little bit more than this over all percentage of medicinmedian household affordabilities. when we went through the budget process two years ago, i remember commissioner vietor, you encouraged us to do a lot of work. i know this is a long presentation but the work that the staff has done to address this question, i think is tremendous. and a lot of resources were dedicated to get a better picture of the situation. so, i'm going to start with rates and charges. so just providing a little bit of background with respect to this study, the city charter requires that every five years we engage a third-party expert to conduct a cost of service study. and what is important is t

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joining us is bill simon, former president and ceo of walmart u.s. and jerry storage, former of toys "r" us, hudsonfounded target.com and in '01 made a deal with jeff bezos and amazon anything else we should mention? >> and ceo of stoich advisers. >> jerry, we'll start with you first of all, how real the tret is to amazon and how jeff should handle it? >> i don't think it's a threat anymore. jeff did a fantastic job building that business he did take advantage of the tax policy in place at the time. one issue good for jeff. the other issue, is it good for the country, proper public policy it's based on a supreme court decision that came down three years before jeff shipped his first book it's an antiquated decision, it shouldn't matter where something is sold or how it's sold state taxes should be paid unless you want to beg or main street and put retailers out of business. >> the curious thing about this is amazon, for it isthe most pa collect taxes but the businesses - >> it's not a big issue for first-party sales on amazon. half their sales are through the marketplace, not collecting tax, and th