seeing none we will go to item number four, report from the sound technician, vaj? >> thank you, sir. >> commissioners, really briefly, you will see the reports just the lists that obviously the commission has not met for a while but it is longer than normal. and i know that officer methaison is here and so he will give the highlights that happened in central for the last few weeks and i will spend the time talking about new year's eve. so new year's eve this year was interesting in that we did have large crowds on the streets and in parts of the city. yet a lot of the large events and special events at hotels were at half capacity or slightly above half capacity. so which is unique, this is or has not happened in quite a long time to be quite honest. one, particular hotel, generally pulled in around 16 to 1800 people and only pulls in about 800 people. other hotels pulls in, you know, 1,000 only pulled in 400. whether it was the weather, or the economy or what have you, we definitely saw the decrease in payed venues and their crowds. the crowd out on the street was