the presiding officers this evening is board president chris fong who is joined by arcelia hurtado who was sworn in for a second term and also commissioner ann lazarus, president chris hwang will be absent, we have one vacancy on the board and pursuant to the charter, the board may hold a meeting when there was a vacancy, the board may overrule the action of a department by a vote of three members, four votes are not required to overrule a departmental action. to my left is deputy city attorney robert bryan, he will be providing the board with any legal advice this evening, we also joined by our legal assistant, he's at the controls and i'm cynthia, we have representatives throughout the departments who have cases before the board, joseph duf fi, senior building inspector is here representing the building inspection department, we're also joined by carla short, urban forester representing the department of public works. if you would at this time go over the board's meeting guidelines and conduct the swring-in process. >> the board requests that you turn off all phones and pagers so the

motion approving the president of the board of supervisors, supervisor david chiu's nomination of arcelia hurtado for the board of appeals ending july 1, 2016. >> president chiu: same house, same call? without objection, this motion is approved. and why don't we now go to roll call. >> angela calvillo: supervisor farrell, you are first. >> supervisor farrell: i have one item, an in memory, i'd like to adjourn in the memory of chuck hug begins. he passed away at his home and was 87 years old. he was the former president and ceo of seas canneddies a beloved san francisco institution. he worked there as a manager in the packing department and in 1972 selling the company to warren buster amon buffett. as a philanthropist he was a generous person in town. he loved jazz. he served on numerous boards of san francisco nonprofits including grace cathedral, san francisco traditional jazz foundation and the children's health council. more importantly, in district 2 he and his wife brought together a number of people to raise money to restore the palace of fine arts to the jewel that it is today raising over