we ll hoping that through our, one of our personal laptops here, that audio can be heard along with being able to take public comment virtually as well. so, again, welcome to tonight s board meeting. it s going to be a packed agenda. we will be having public comment but i wanted to just encourage both my colleagues as well as the public for keeping our remarks short and ensuring we can get through our order of business and our topics for this evening, so again, thank you for your patience. apologies for starting nearly a half an hour late. at this time, do we have the zoom are the zoom participants able to hear us? so, colleagues, please log on to the zoom link to you can see the presentations in case we re not able to project it on the main screen here. and please be sure to mute your mic so there s not feedback. great, thank you. i just want to recognize that that (indiscernible) is joining by zoom. thank you. for general information, i also wanted to note that fo
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