meeting of the san francisco board of appeals, the presiding officer this evening is board president ann lazarus and she joined by hurtado, frank fun and brian will provide us with legal advice and joined with the city departments who have cases before the board, scott sanchez is here and the city administrator. and joseph is here representing the department of building inspection, and short is here foactual measure, possibly even from that too create is surveys from that workgroup to send out to students with special education classes, teachers and so forth and of course we would love to be able to provide our own recommendations which is i'm sure the mayor's disability office is looking forward to. councilmember roland wong? yes. thank you for the information. i grew up in an era with special education that we were educated from the mainstream of the school district. of course it's always good for improvement and they have come a long ways of stream lining kids with disabilities into regular school setting and with the accommodation. it's been very successful and now i'm glad to see that it ha

>> a motion approving or rejecting the mayor's approval of ann blumlein lazarus. >> would you like to make a brief statement? >> i would like to think that i'm a little wiser and a little more seasoned than i was when i came before this committee two years ago, but i promise not to be any less in my role. i can continue to do my homework to read the material thoroughly, to listen to the sides during presentations and try to make an informed and objective a decision as i can in each individual case. with that, i'm happy to answer any questions. >> any questions? supervisor -- >> sure, i know that i spoke with you a little bit prior to this, but wanted to get your thoughts on what are some of the issues you may want to work on if reappointed to this body and some of the challenges you've experienced given your previous time on it already. >> i think some of the challenges are ones that we really can't address, but they're when they involve decisions around the livelihood of individuals when you are taking away something that allows them to earn a living, but in order to up hold the law,

meeting of the san francisco board of appeals, the presiding officer this evening is board president ann lazarus and she joined by hurtado, frank fun and brian will provide us with legal advice and joined with the city departments who have cases before the board, scott sanchez is here and the city administrator. and joseph is here representing the department of building inspection, and short is here

meeting of the san francisco board of appeals, the presiding officer this evening is board president ann lazarus and she joined by hurtado, frank fun and brian will provide us with legal advice and joined with the city departments who have cases before the board, scott sanchez is here and the city administrator. and joseph is here representing the department of building inspection, and short is here for the public use of street use and mapping and young from the envier menal section of the department of public help, if you would please go over the board meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. the board requests that you turn off all phones and pagers so that they will not disturb the proceedings. appellants and permit holders and department representatives each have 7 minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. the people affiliated with these parties must include their xhepts within the 7 or 3-minute periods, members of the public who are not affiliated with the parties have up to three minutes to address the board but no rebuttal and to assist the board in t