so if we could move through the ayen today as it's ordered or if --. >> well since mr. sider is here, i would like to make a motion that we move items 8 and 9 ahead of 5, 6 and 7 if everybody is in agreement to that. >> second. >> all in favor? >> all right. so i shall call item no. 8. item no. 8 is discussion and possible action to make recommendations to the planning commission on the current small business priority process pilot program to a proposed community business priority program. >> welcome, mr. sider. you've got the beard going too. >> my winter coat. >> sorry, most of us have coughs up here too. >> commissioners, good afternoon. thank you for having me here in afternoon. it's great to be back in front of you all again. so today i'm here to talk about something that i think is very near and dear to this commission, certainly a number of you worked on closely just a couple of years ago. so in 2013 the beginning of 2013, members of this commission, along with members of the planning commission and our respective staffs held a series of conversations that were really

i thought we would take the opportunity, since mr. sider is here, to have him present to the commissioner on this. >> what's going around is not pleasant. thank you again, commissioners. for the record, dan sider with the planning department. i promise to be quick this time, commissioners, i have 5 slides. i'm here just to give you, as your executive director reported, a very brief update on the planning department small project team and like everything else coming out of our shop these days, this, too, has an acronym. so let's talk about the sprot >> you guys are creative. >> commissioners, the sprot is a program that's largely in response to -- tough to see here on the board right now -- but frankly some startling numbers about permit volumes. they are exciting but they are also a little intimidating, frankly. last year, last fiscal year the city issued more than 25,000 building permits. about a third of them, a little over 7,000, needed to be reviewed by our department and of course 1300 were subject to more non-over the counter review.