we are especially thankful to warren hellman for his guidance and participation. we do have meetings with the mayor, issues we will be discussing. it is a healthy process and we're happy to participate. >> [unintelligible] >> we will be discussing with the mayor. >> analysis negotiation different from previous years? >> negotiation is always a difficult process. both sides come in with their interests and ideas. what was different is we spent a great deal of time at the beginning and got beat up from the press because of the time that we did take because -- so that we fully understood what was going into the discussions. >> there is a particular elected official not ammonia. [unintelligible] mayor lee: i did meet with him yesterday. we explained our proposals. we will leave it to him whether he wants to present those or not. we to believe that our consensus approach is the right thing to do. it signals that if you do want a sacrifice, you have to work directly with people who will offer that sacrifice and will do it in a way which is comprehensive and reflective o

this is supported by billionaire warren hellman. when it comes down to this, you want to attack city workers. this ballot proposition will be an attack on city workers' rights. you are eliminating the need to power of city workers and their representation on the board. you will have an increase in city workers and you will put it on the back of the public workers. this is an anti-labor, anti- working class tax that you are putting on the retiree's of san francisco. and you are doing it secretly. unfortunately, some union leaders and this is the best way to go. we will take the lesser evil from a dodgy. this is the wrong thing for the labor movement. -- from adachi. let's attack the public workers, let's attack their retirees. that is what you are doing. you are fraudulently telling the people the problem in this country and in san francisco is the public workers have too much benefits. the average pension is not that high for the average worker. do you know who it is time for? the bureaucrats that you support in the city. these othe

during those long, long meetings during which we crafted this proposal -- i want to thank warren hellman for helping lead this charge. i want to thank all the sector unions. the public safety, the lawyers. everyone was at the table. i want to give an extra shot out to the chair of our public employees union from local 21. i am surprised his marriage is still together, the amount of hours he has spent on this. i want to