and a number of homeless services providers such as saint vincent de paul society and other labor and business organizations. lastly i do want to thank jeff from my staff who spent countless hours on this issue and my entire staff, but jeff in particular for his tireless work on this issue. colleagues, i know there will be lots of comments on this issue. i want to thank my colleagues for their support, and supervisor campos to find what i believe will be a great solution in terms of implementing laura's law here in san francisco. >> supervisor campos? >> thank you, mr. president. i know that a lot of my colleagues want to speak on this issue so i'll try to be as brief a possible. i know this is a very difficult issue for many of us and that passions run very high on this issue. facing mental illness is clearly one of the most difficult challenges that any family must face and i completely understand why some members of some families are requesting new tools to help -- help them help their loved ones. i think that i've been very clear for a very long time that i have a number of questi