we can no longer afford to do that. we used to do the garden. the garden supports a lot of maintenance activities. what they do is actually a net loss for the city. it should not be viewed mysteriously were suspiciously -- or suspiciously. >> it is not. despite the relationship you have had, this particular contract is relatively new which is why we are here. >> that is a very valid point. we accept the budget analyst recommendation that we would come back to this board with an amendment to reflect the details. >> is there anything else that you pay -- that you give money to the botanical society for? other funds? >> no. the one-year grant approve meant, had we not had controversy, the grant agreement included an opportunity for us to support the use programming. if we had exceeded our revenue projections, the botanical gardens were not doing that. the answer is no. >> no other funds are given to the botanical society? >> no. >> when the society reimburses parks and recreation, how did they do so? >> we actually reimbursed the society. we don't r

we can no longer afford to do that. we used to do the garden. the garden supports a lot of maintenance activities. what they do is actually a net loss for the city. it should not be viewed mysteriously were suspiciously -- or suspiciously. >> it is not. despite the relationship you have had, this particular contract is relatively new which is why we are here. >> that is a very valid point. we accept the budget analyst recommendation that we would recommendation that we would come back to this board with an

that is hard for us to do as a country. t talk about what women do and why they are so important of where we are politically, if you're not a normal woman to not take offense but in general, i have a system that is 3-1/2 years older and is amazing. probably the best manager that i know because she cares about everybody that works with her. what they feel and what they're doing and she pulled all of the strengths and figure out how to use those together is an incredible manager and very talented but women have the skill of how the unit together to create a team versus one that always competes against each other? the other thing is because by nature they give birth and are the mother, women are much more for thinking because we always thinking about what is the next generation? we worry about our children, their future, so to think by design we do worry about what is coming up. we care for children also to develop patience. one of the biggest points of having children is i am developing more patience. one of these things i hav

to know that? i think they do so i think this is a bipartisan small d democratic patriotic right thing for us to do. it is an access project to elevate the attention of this matter at the federal communications commission and i hope that my colleagues will follow up and we'll take it really serious and do something about it. >> guest: any insurance they might do something on a? >> guest: no. >> guest: one thing you have talked about his media ownership and it is one thing we know that the fcc is behind on, the ever-present annual review, quadrennial review. you are behind for this year they're supposed to be a futures media report coming out soon. what would you like to see the recommendations be in that report? >> guest: strong and hard hitting. i would like to see come out soon in the future of media report will be the pass of the media report. has been pending for a while. we need to be more active. as you know this has been the thing that drives me up the fcc to make sure that we get our media rights particularly in the stage when there is so much change going on. we have had all of this consol

i think this will be the year for us to do that. there is sort of an alignment of the stars. it is not perfect, but it is sufficient to allow us to move ahead and to make some progress. by the end of this year, i would have liked to see the fcc make a detailed transition plan. that does not mean every last t. has to be crossed or i got it, but company -- dotted, but companies have to know where we're going with these two very important programs, and then i would like to see some other things past. i think that is doable. >> in your view, what is the biggest obstacle? >> just people used to another system for many, many years. a system that is not serving the public interest well, is not responsive to the needs of the broad band era, the digital era, but people are used to doing business that way. you have to change the mindset and get everybody to understand that everybody has to sacrifice a little bit. the rules of the game are not going to be the same because we cannot afford for them to be the same. we are in a different era, a different technological time, and we are going

to get into implementing this in a substantive way. i think we can do a lot year, and i'm afraid if we don't, when is the next chance going to be for us to do this? i think there's sort of an alignment of the stars. it's not perfect, but it's sufficient to allow us to move ahead and to make some progress. so by the end of this year i would like to see the fcc have approved a transition plan, a fairly detailed transition plan on universal service and intercarrier compensation. that doesn't mean every last t has to be crossed or i dotted or number filled in, but pretty explicit because companies have to know, investors have to know, innovators have to know, and it would be nice for consumers to know, too, where we're going with these two, two very important programs. and then i would like to see some reports and orders passed getting us on with the job. and i think that that is doable, and i think there's a commitment there in the commission to get that done, and i certainly hope so. >> host: in your view, what's the biggest obstacle to usf reform? >> guest: just people used to another system for many, many years, a system that is not se

we are responding to the demands of the american people that sent us here to do that. want us to get our fiscal house in order. house republicans from the very beginning have made this about trying to get as much spending cuts as possible. >> but planned parenthood and title 10 and the abortion issue have all risen to a disproportionate share of that, haven't they? >> folks on the other side are trying to distract all of you buy those issues. the bottom line is that it is about cuts. it is about spending reduction. earlier today we met with john boehner. he brought all of the republicans together. he told us they have largely agreed on the policy issues within the continuing resolution. it is about the level of spending. we are committed. we are standing by our speaker and giving him the strength to negotiate as high as no. as possible in spending cuts. >> it seems like the state of play right now appears to be that we are looking at something around $30 billion in cuts with title 10 funded. would you vote for that? >> we are going to see what comes back for it. at this

can you explain why what you're asking us to do does not conflict with federal law? the federal law which was established in 1996, is that what you are referring to? >> correct. >> this does not take into consideration the new technologies and it does not take into consideration the increased radiation emitting antenna. and the federal communications commission as prohibitions on consider rating how this is not comply with the city's obligation. the obligations for environmental review is not pre- empted by the federal telecommunications act of 1996. >> to second be clear, penn to the federal law says that we can deny an application for these types of permits as long as this is not based on the environmental impact of the missions and i feel that this is what this is based on. >> ceqa overrides that in california. the amount of radiation cannot go over the fcc limits. we are interested in knowing what the levels are out there that have possibly exceeded those limitations and the federal government says that you cannot exceed those radiation levels that they have writt

to see this village around us. i want to thank the mayor had his predecessor. and our friends from the department of the environment, you help do this. i also want to thank supervisors as the chair of the land use committee. as was the case at planning, a very friendly reception with a sea of green t-shirts. also all want to thank all the men and women that stand behind me better part of the urban agriculture alliance. you're the ones that came to my office late last fall and confirmed for me what i had wandered for many years. can we bring it green back to the urban jungle? the district that i represent in the northeast part of the city, we have very little green. one thing i had been wondering for years, why can't we use those little plots of land in the middle to growth in the. what is so exciting about today is that we are creating a new urban experience. the things that we can smell when we are out in the city of the food and the greenery that we can touch, they are of course the things that we can eat. the reason that this is so wonderful is that san francisco has always done the cutting edge of being on the forefront of

this is what canadians expect us to do. they expect us to take crime seriously and have punishments that fit the crime. >> i am glad you are supporting the legislation we proposed around david chen and small- business owners in downtown toronto. you have not fulfilled any of your commitments. he promised 2500 more police officers. that promise was not kept. policing is very important if we are to reduce crime levels. we do need prosecution in key areas. we would like to see carjacking and home invasions and the recording of a young person in a gang to be an offense. we have to focus on prevention. you have to prevent the crimes from taking place if you are going to reduce crime levels where we want to. that means strong support for programs for young people. if we give young people positive choice after school so that when a trouble maker tries to tempt them into a life of crime, instead they have something very positive to do. all over the country there are people working hard on these programs. it is fantastic. not all of

[applause] somehow you have found a way to do what all of us are striving to do, to master ourselves just enoughthat we can give of ourseo humanity. it was thurgood marshall the once said that we pay ourselves the highest tribute. tonight, we don't have anything to give you but the honor that is due to your name. you have worked hard for it -- [beep] is that the offering bell? you have earned it. in the words of someone, i have tended and owed. it has turned to a sonnet. as i stared at you, i fell in love with you even more. it is our prayer that we will continue the fight that you started for education for all children so long ago. thank you, and we love you. [applause] >> i am president of the african american democratic club. i want to congratulate you on demonstrating the political will to renaming this building to someone who did so much to help people. political will can be used to address issues. 60% of students who were prescribed ritalin have one problem. they are hungry. education, delivering quality education is all our responsibility. the community are elected you to lead

they have to find a way to stop advertising and do better at appropriate use. >> thank you. our next speaker is hervÉ hoppenot who's president of novartis encology. and maybe you could talk about some specific demonstrations. >> yeah, i can do that. i wanted to make a point on, you know, the subject of the conference which is innovation and reimbursement system. and i think there is one aspect that was not touched. i mean, i agree with some of them, but there is one aspect that was not touched is realizing that the progress we make in medicine on the hiv is a very good example, in fact. the one you were speaking about earlier where there is sort of an asymmetric situation between where you informs and where you save. -- invest and where you save. most of the investment is viable costs, and most of the saving is fixed costs. i will take the example of cancer. my company, what i'm in charge of at novartis is the encology group, and today in the u.s. the american cancer society numbers show that 17% of the cost of cancer is coming from drugs. and 83% is coming from are hospitali

to do the inspection. we are looking for not necessarily live bugs to write the citation. for us to write a notice of violation, all we have to do see evidence of the infestation. it may be blood on the mattresses. it is not necessary to have quantum prove to write a notice of violation. items must be complied with within 30 days. if part of the notice of violation is addressing bed bugs, the protocol within the department of public health directives is that if pesticides are used, they have to treat their rooms involved at least three times with a two week interval in between. if we write a notice of violation and a choose pesticides rather than that in combination with something else, it is a commitment for that long or longer. if we do not get compliance when the violation is issued, we will send the case to an administrative hearing. we're very vigorous with respect to that. the property owner will be assessed for cost. supervisors will probably remember at least once a year we are before you with respect to that. we charge the property owners for not complying, $170 per hour

to do with this? i think it has a lot to do with us. first of all we need to understand that we are a nation about moving forward, we are a nation that wants to reach out to others and include others and we don't want to lean on judgment. we know them and that doesn't get us where we need to go. but i think we also have to understand if we really want to think about where we want our nation to be, my children are older than i do have my two little ones is we have to think about a nation that can be focused on the truth as well as creative solutions. part of saying what is truthful without judgment is the truth is still the truth. doesn't make the truth go away. it just makes us focus on the truth and create a creative solution versus looking at a path. let me tell you what, you can't fix the path. it doesn't change. there is nothing there for us. it is gone. we have to think about how we can create and solve problems for the future. that is what we are about. then we have to figure out how we make it so attractive that we absorb the majo

fortunately in recent years, we have had some ability to do some one-time budgeting tricks that allow uso balance the budget that do not exist this year. in past years, we've received federal stimulus money. we received more monies from the state government. last year our labor unions decided to contribute a quarter of a billion dollars to help balance last year's and this year's budget. those are things we do not have the ability to avail ourselves of us we balance the upcoming budget in a few months. we are faced with far fewer options. i think we are going to have to continue to look at very deep and difficult cuts. our priorities have to be insuring and protecting the most basic city services and helping to ensure that we have services to the most vulnerable during this great recession. >> what about the city's housing needs? what should the board due to address those needs? >> we are a city that is seventh by 7 miles. we have incredible density. we're the densest neighborhoods on the west coast. everyone wants to live here. that drives up housing prices dramatically. the housing cos

[applause] somehow you have found a way to do what all of us are striving to do, to master ourselves just enoughthat we can give of ourseo humanity. it was thurgood marshall the once said

somewhere, we take muni everywhere we go. >> oh, of course. >> but in the event we do need to -- in the event we do need to use our car, we'll end up using s.f. park so we're not con jesting the streets and quickly get to a parking spot. first thing i would like to bring to your attention is the warning whfment you bring up an application, it warnes you not to use a handheld device as you're operating a automobile. that's a very serious item here in terms of this operation. just so you know, once you clear this screen, if you are traveling more than 10 miles per hour with your device, the warning will come back up again to remind you of this law. so let's take a look. we're going to head out to lunch once this event is over and i think we should go to s.f. momentia. let me open the screen up. as you can see the p's are identifying municipal garages that are part of the program and colored areas are the pilot areas. we will go over to third and mission. let's see. there we go. blow it up a little bit larger here. ok. here we go. as you can see with the blue bars that's showing high availability of parking, ligh

understanding of local and watershed products and continue to do model reliable sets garbage in and garbage out projects and it's incumbent on us to do that. the academic is doing a lot of work but we need a local handle on our information. the current models are not as reliable for precipitation as they are for global. if we saw precipitation events it would change the consumption patterns considerably and the need for future supply capacity. until we understand whether or not that's a real possibility it's hard for us to make capitol investment decisions. finally, we need models that address increasing complex models and we have multiple systems and portland we have a hydro facility on both our damages and we're planning and are in the process for providing fish flows. other systems dealing with navigation and the whole, gamut of things that go on we need models to address that level of complexity. that's it for me i look forward to our on going conversation. [applause] >> good morning., jarrod said in his introduction that this panel was going to talk about how we're planing for the worst and how we're planning for disasters

to complete. it makes us go back to the community's many times do that some of these ideas. in the children's amendment, it requires us to do an assessment of the services. we continue to have high-quality programs that will improve the outcomes of our children. it is mandated to meet four goals. these are in the charter and are called the quality of life benchmarks. they are ready to learn, they live in state-supported families and viable communities. and contributing to the development and vitality of san francisco. i have highlighted the second bullet. as well as the allocation process, we found that the resonating comments and requests for the communities of from parents and educators was that we needed to make sure that we focus our energies on helping young people get ready to go to school. even beyond that, going into secondary. we made the decision to prioritize this particular goal in our request for proposal. this is just a graphical representation of all the things i just described. your community needs assessment, the allocation plan, and the implementation of the

to play the blame game and see the fault in others. the cbo's aren't doing they are supposed to. no it's the police's fault. it's city haul's fault. but in the end. that gets us nowhere. we can never truly work together unless we stop assigning blame. the second thing we must do. we must be open to the possibility there's a better way to do things. too often as i sat through discussions ask encountered reluctance to change. i would ask you if we have things figured out. are children safe in schools? would we be here in our streets were safe? as i already said, i am not here to point fingers at anybody. if you are not part of the solution. then you are part of the problem. the other thing we have to be willing to do is check our egoes at the door and listen to each other. there are a lot of folks who love to hear themselves talk. but people who need to listen to what others say. working together means listening to each other and not taking credit. we have to have faith in each other. i know it is difficult. i know there's a lot of history and disappointment much we have to start to believe in one another again. i have seen too many times when we project to oth

that's no not what islam teaches us to do. >> what is the feeling among muslims in the united states about the burning of the koran last month? >> well, we find it unfortunate. but welcome to the first amendment. that's his right to do that. and terry jones, the pastor in florida who did the koran burning, he is a media seeker. that is what he wants. he wants the spotlight. he wants people to pay attention to him. so we did the best thing you can do, which is ignore him. and it's been that way for about a week. nobody's paid attention to what he did here and he will fade back into the trash can where he belongs. >> earlier from washington, d.c. now, as the fighting rages on in libya, there has been of course a human cost, and nowhere is that more visible than in the country's hospitals. our correspondent has been to one hospital in ben gazi. from the beginning of the report you may find some of the images distressing. >> under deep sedation, 19 years old, a student, one of five brothers blown up by a rocket that exploded beside his home. he's lost both legs, is fighting to breathe, an

do mind in planes. but would not be there except for us. libya, saudi arabia, and the others say, "we do not like gaddafi. we would like you to take them out." obama said, ok." we formed a group -- nato is us. nato is largely us. we do not even have control over what the hell we are doing. gaddafi is driving down the street waving at everybody. can you believe this? listen to this one -- do is the leader of the group? france. france wanted to go in first. of course, we have not seen them sense, but they were there the first day and they got all the glamour. [applause] they form a group and they go in and at obama talks about the regime -- we do not want to kill or hurt anybody, we want to change government -- nobody knows what the hell he is talking about. you know the other thing about libya that really bothers me? it always gets back to china. while we are spending billions of dollars being policeman of the world, china is spending $1 billion a day buying the world. i just told an apartment for $33 million. only in new york can this happen. the apartment was just sold in a building i have on central park. it was sold to chi

i think it has a lot to do with us. first of all, we're a nation moving forward and looking forward. that we're a nation that wants to reach out to others and include others and we have to depend on truth. we don't want to lean on judgment. because in the end this doesn't get to us where we need to go. and i think we also have to understand if we really want to dream big and think about where we want our nation to be, at least when my children are older, i do have my little ones, is that we have to think about a nation that can be focused on truth for creative solutions because part of saying what's truthful without judgment -- the truth is still the truth. it doesn't make the truth go away. it just makes us focus on the truth and create a really creative solution versus looking at the past and figuring out how to fix the path because let me tell you what, you can try all you want. you can't fix the past. it doesn't change. there's nothing there for us. it's gone. you think about how can we be creative and solve problems

to the bridge. the big question is what are we doing to mitigate against that and to encourage workers on treasure island to stop using automobiles and to take transit. there are a couple of ways to do that. one is congestion pricing. that would be a fee to come on and off the island during peak hours. that fee has not been set yet. we are pegging it at $5 during peak hours. that would be set by treasure island transportation management. caltrans would control throughout metering lights egress. there is un-bundled 1-1 residential parking on the area. it would be a transportation subsidy to subsidize transit from the island. we require all houses to buy a transit pass, with the equal of a fast past cost. my state law, it was already established that the titma will oversee transportation operations. we are recommending that titma the the city-county transportation authority. that will come before you. the board has to make the determination as to who is the treasure island over severe. there is a robust plan including $500 million toward renovating the existing public pool. there is a new police and fire station. there

of our oceans -- when you have us working together to celebrate things like different uses of our streets, you start building a stronger connection, so that when even do challenge us, we are stronger for that very purpose, that we are already working together, that we are no stranger to breaking down bureaucratic walls, whether it is our libraries, our police departments, our fire departments. we are used to doing all of that, and that makes us a stronger, more connected city, and ultimately, it is about making a city connected all the way. i'm excited that our bicycle coalition has been working with me on opening up even more of our streets as we introduce companies whose workers want to ride to work every single day. that is exciting. i want to announce today that the kickoff for our sunday streets, announcing additional ones, that we are having them every single month. there will be a sunday designated. dates will be set, and we will be adding more, so we will have a total of eight this year. we are not beating 2009. i think they have nine events. in 2008, we had, i think, six events. we are actually building upon all of our experiences, getting mo

there is increasing interest from the public for us to do that. we have to be careful about the legal implications as well. it was interesting to note, talking to my counterpart about the issues facing boston. knowing that boston was in many ways similar to san francisco, it is almost the exact same size geographically. i had somehow thought it was larger. but the city's share a lot in terms of physical characteristics, the graphics, and the population is approximately 650,000. we are denser than than. they pointed out that representatives -- they grew at a faster pace than san francisco in the last census. next year, the conference is in loss angeles. given the fact that it is relatively close, i have asked staff to consider proposing sessions on some of the recent planning efforts. we have done a lot of good turns over the years. we look forward to doing that. i think that is if for me unless you have any questions. >> i am here to give you your weekly report on the board of supervisors. there were a couple of pieces of legislation that the full

use rules and regulations. we have definitely done that. the development agreement gives the city certain freedom. the city does not have to follow traditional nexus requirements to negotiate, which allows us to do many things we could not do with normal zoning. this is an extremely important point. development agreements run with the land. they are not attached to a particular owner, bank, or financing company. this will stay with the 152 acres that make up the project site unless and until this board either terminate the agreement or agrees to modify it. that is incredibly important. i have heard a lot of concern about what happens if this developer goes away or goes bankrupt. this agreement we negotiated will run with whoever owns the land. we have also negotiated pretty extensive transfer agreements and that may clear that even if this master developer is here for the next 30 years,

first, this park is named after his son, who was tragically taken from us to do to violence. he was a star athlete at balboa high school. he was in the process of being hired by recreation and parks. out of that tragedy, this very setting reminds us that we need to look after each other. i would like to thank supervisor avalos, the author of this legislation, supervisor campos, a strong supporter of this legislation. the director of city build, the many department heads that were impacted by this legislation, the head of sfmta, the head of the human rights commission, the head of the office of labor standards, the head of the recreation department, and more. i would like to thank local 261, josh, vince, pam, and all the city build students who are with us today. mayor lee. mayor lee came into office and reaffirmed his commitment to looking after the great people who live in our city. one of his top priorities is to stimulate the local economy with jobs and he has empowered me with implementing the new local higher policy. i promised that i would not focus on the process, but o

to the city. i do not know if that is the case. it is important for us to know that. even if this is the right approach and structure, what is the right amount that should be paid to san francisco? 10.6% of revenue is about $29 million. we have heard from recology that the franchise fees they pay range from low single digits of with up to 15%. what is the right percentage for san francisco? if it is 15% rather than 10%, you are talking about $14 million more that could going to the general fund. what about the type and quality of services being provided? those questions need to be resolved. instead of acting on this report, i ask that we asked our consultant to come back to lafco in three weeks to give us more information. from my perspective, the main focus should be on the franchise agreement, what is paid to other jurisdictions, and how that compares to what is being received by the city and county of san francisco. supervisor avalos also mentioned the issue of the transfer station. i do not know if there's anything else we want to add to that. it is important for

to promote good government. we could not do it without all of you make this possible. any of you who are not members, please join, and you can help us provide the support to have an effective government. thank you for being here. we are working right now on a whole bunch of projects from what to do about sea level rise, getting muni the support it needs, what to do it redevelopment goes away, or maybe it went away today -- i did not know. there is a lot of things happening in the city. thank you for your support of the good government aw call up e stage the chair of the 2011 good government awards, michael walker. [applause] >> good evening. i'm michael walker, president of u.s. bank of northern california, and it is my pleasure to serve as chair of the 31st annual mfac good government awards. u.s. bank is honored to support these terrific city leaders because they are doing work that makes san francisco a wonderful place to work. those of you devote your careers to public service developed -- deserve the gratitude from those who benefit from the work you do but often times do not get the credit you so richly deserve. government wor

director to do the best you can, you know, belling, borrow, steal if you have to and get us what you need to do this. and he knew what the mission was. he knew what our goal was. and, you know, with our i.t. grids and our software vender, they really came together and pulled it together for us. it made it possible for us to be able to serve as many couples as we have been. >> so once you're ready, you and your husband to be or wife need to be need to check in here and check in again, ok. are you also going to get married today? >> yeah. >> let's process you one by one. do your license in, exit and re-enter again check in at that desk. >> our wedding is at 3:00. >> as long as we get you in today. >> we're getting married at 2:30. >> don't worry about the time line. we're greeting people at the doorway and either directing them to the services they need on this side which is licensing or the services on this side which is actually getting the ceremony performed. >> this is an opportunity to choose to be a part of history. many times history happens to us, but in this case, you can choos

economy we have by getting out of the w t o and nafta and promote uniquely american industry like we used to do before reagan sold us out maybe then we can bring home our war contractors and put them to real productive work building the infrastructure of this country and the goods of the future for our country in our country. this is our only choice now we've been hooked on the military industrial complex for way too long it's urgent that we seriously consider kicking that abbott because it is destroying our country our addiction to to go to war our addiction to this giant military machine and the fact that we as i said from the founding of our country today we have nothing to fall back on or very very little because we don't make things here anymore. we stopped that manufacturing process or begin to slow it down starting with reagan it went on steroids we're now through a gap with you know during the clinton ministration and now there's virtually nothing left that we make here anymore this is this is a true disaster that that needs to be fixed by breaking our addiction to the military and brin

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it is difficult for us to do an assessment. we would like to design routes to support parties and we are going to reduce costs. we will be serving 33 elementary schools. we are trying to have an >> process so we know which students are using the bus service. all will attend affiant those which are lined in 2013. we want to minimize the impact on the students for the coming fall, 2011 we wanted to minimize the impact on the families in terms of transportation. we did not want to go and change any school times or morning start times, we wanted to avoid that. this is what we are exploring, which schools will lose service by 2013 that they currently have. we have many that only have a handful of students that are writing. we want to make sure that students in the low test score areas, they are served and have access to a good number of schools. we want to make sure that there are students who are accessing our bus service to get to after- school programs. and there are some areas that have a few riders. we had to look at services to

to do something smarter. maybe it will come back to us in a smart way. with the help of our federal highway administration, thank you very much for doing this, with the help of leader pelosi and her advocacy and her policy, guidance souun port, federal highway administration, department of transportation, all of froirneds there, we got some very serious funding for our m.t.a. we put them to work and through their leadership and through the collaboration with departments like public works and our other departments and environment department and others and our traffic divisions we come up with i think one of the best pilot programs i have ever seen. we will make a few mistakes, i'm sure. but to open up this intelligent way of parking on-time information, dwrate that's going to be supplied to your very phone, your handheld phone, the ability to text information back and forth and find the best space, the best timing for that space, we're going to be able to plan our days a little bit better and be in less -- less in each other's way, let's put it that way, s

to reopen it? -- do we have to reopen it? >> i'm francisco decosta. at land use, and they spoke about the improvements and there are a couple of things i want to point out. the first thing is that when we do the tree planting, somehow, planning should take the initiative to see the maintenance. we have some beautiful parks. we have had it in visitation valley. paces, next to areas where e have millions of vehicles that e fly, we have to have the empirical data. we just can't have an open spaces next to places where millions fly with a dangerous particulates in the air. they are half of the constituents. on the radio waves,, many years ago, we requested that we have a city expert on this issue. maybe we have, maybe we don't. one thing that came out of the hearing was that it was possible for those that provide the service, if they could create a fund or if they could create some money where the