organizations that are supporting this legislation, ranging from the chamber, the golden gate restaurant association, the california grocers association, the small business commission, chinese newcomers association, and a whole host of environmental organizations that have been urging san francisco to take action on this legislation for many years. in terms of the out reached that we have done, the technical advisers to supervise the mirkarimi on this legislation, as soon as it was proposed, we hit the ground running in doing individual ought reached to organizations throughout san francisco. the richmond, chinatown, the bayview, and a lot of different communities, to ensure that we started out reached on this new propone it in this extension of the law. some of the organizations we have reached out to include the asian-as the american ocean harmony alliance, at the san francisco chinatown merchants association, saw help for the elderly, sunset merchants association, the small business network, small-business advocates. the list goes on and on. what we have been doing is distributing the information about the legislation,

when we did the legislation, we were well opposed by the chamber of commerce, and by the california grocers associationare now supporters of this legislation. that is interesting how things have allowed to just mature over time and to see, early on, we were accused of being part of a nanny state. really, i think the jury is in. sometimes with added regulation and done in such a way to address the needs of both -- both business and the ultimate goal of helping, you know, in this case, reduce, reuse, recycle, it can work. it can actually work. anti-business taking the lead, really saying that we are fine with this, it is a nice turn of the corner. president o'brien: thank you, commissioner dooley. commissioner dooley: also, i think it's great legislation. the time has come and we need to do this. it's not that big a deal. but i have just a few things i wanted to ask about, which is i know as being a very small business owner, a lot of businesses don't have really fancy cash registers or don't even have cash registers. so i'm wondering if there's some way to tweak some alternative of reporting for those f