supervisor campos: good morning, everyone, and welcome to the december 2, 2010, meeting of the board of supervisors rules committee. my name is david campos. i m joined by a committee member joined by a committee member supervisor joined by committee members supervisor mar, and supervisor alioto-pier will be unable to join us. before we begin, if we could have a motion to excuse supervisor alioto-pier. before we begin the business of the committee, would like to take a brief moment to recognize the amazing work that has been done by the clerk of the committee, linda wong. [applause] on behalf of the entire members of the committee, on behalf of the staff for the tremendous professionalism and excellence with which you approach your job, we just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for an amazing job. [applause] i do not know, supervisor mar, if you wanted to add anything to that. supervisor mar: i just wanted to add that you are like a diamond sparkl