forward there has been substantial changes in the way domestic violence cases are prosecuted and vghtded. you will hear more about that but when i started out there was domestic violence department and it was in the general works department and now there are victim advocates. we have come a long way and one of the things the article says you need to bring families together for financial reasons and other reasons and those are the reasons that hold people in battered relationships and when the police come the first time it's not the first time it happened and people need to be educated about that and the women were behind that when i was in the office. next item. >> next item is san francisco response to domestic violence violence and comprehensive report on domestic violence and we have the chairs here and i want to say how impressive this whole organization is because we have very much a coordinated response to domestic violence and law enforcement, the social workers, caseworkers, -- >> president soo if i might you need to take a vote on the consent calendar. >> i'm sorry. can we have