commission commissioner yekutiel? >> i want to say thank you so much for coming to a place where you could create a timeline for my community to reopen their businesses indoors. i have not been able to have anyone set foot in my business and to serve them for over six months. and you know, it's emotional. it's -- we have talked about this before, but this is what we're here to do. this is, you know, for many of the people in my community, this is our -- this is the fruition of, you know, a dream at times. so to have our business shudders indoors for so long is really, really difficult. i know you know that. i just want to first say thank you so much for coming to a place where you're giving us the ability to reopen our spaces inside, for trusting us. i just want to say on the outset of this that restaurant owners really want to do this right. they are begging, they are begging for the trust of you, thomas, and your team and the city and the entire public health committee to give us the opportunity to do this properly,

commission commissioner yekutiel? >> i want to say thank you so much for coming to a place where you could create a timeline for my community to reopen their businesses indoors. i have not been able to have anyone set foot in my business and to serve them for over six months. and you know, it's emotional. it's -- we have talked about this before, but this is what we're here to do. this is, you know, for many of the people in my community, this is our -- this is the fruition of, you know, a dream at times. so to have our business shudders indoors for so long is really, really difficult. i know you know that. i just want to first say thank you so much for coming to a place where you're giving us the ability to reopen our spaces inside, for trusting us. i just want to say on the outset of this that restaurant owners really want to do this right. they are begging, they are begging for the trust of you, thomas, and your team and the city and the entire public health committee to give us the opportunity to do this properly,

. >> commissioner yekutiel. >> hi, edward. where did you go? did i lose you. >> i'm still here. >> you see i'm trying to talk. and good to see you. i have two things. the first is on equity lens and thank you for acknowledging in your opening comments. one of the things that i think you acknowledged that i just want to one-on-one with you on is as you know, if you look at seniority, folks who get the most senior roles and the most promotions are not women of color or women or folks of color or folks from equity communities or traditionally passed over communities. often times white men are the folks getting the most senior position and this ordinance basically forcing businesses, small and medium sized businesses or folks with 100 employees to hire back in terms of seniority might have an unintended equity issue. do you think that is actually the case? what's your though thought on t? >> i'm not as concerned about that because the way they've defined seniority is based on the date of employment. it's not based on promotion tracks or things like