so thank you. >> again, steve stalone, treasure island wines. i want to emphasize how important the issues for businesses are, that to keep viable requires that we bring vendors and customers from off the island. i want to point out that a number of our businesses are restaurants and not just treasure island wines, but places like arcelli and merci have become gathering points for the community and are important parts of the community that's there now. and we need to deal with their issues. that's all for now. >> thank you and thank you for this outreach. i think we obviously have a ways to go in terms of developing the policy and working with businesses and addressing some of the concerns. i agree that we want people to go out to treasure island. we want them to go to the businesses. it's something we should be incentivizing more and encouraging more and promoting and i am also concerned about the way that a toll could create barriers for that and create charles for them. you know, i'm generally -- and i don't want to speak for anybody else, bu

you will see that -- i'm sorry, i'm steve stalone with treasure island wines and a member of the treasure island organizing committee. one of the reasons you will see that our contingent here today is smaller than usual is that we didn't even know about this hearing until we got an email friday night on a three-day weekend. so that left us very little time to be able to plan and get here. wabad optics, one would hope trying to encourage democratic support and input that people would have gotten an opportunity to be here. we have a couple of things we would like to say about the issue here. well, we understand that the business issues are not going to be addressed until another couple months or few months, whatever that is. and there is talk of an employee exemption and we think that's a good idea but there's two other points we've been raising for nearly a year now that have not been addressed or even mentioned that they'll be addressed, really and those are what happens to the vendors and our customers and bringing business to the island? i guess i'm going to leave it at that for right n