aaron lavigne is here to make a few remarks. thank you. >> thank you. my name is aaron lavigne. i work at french-american. i'm primarily responsible for our facilities project. the school has been around 56 years. 21 years at our location in hayes valley. believe me, this is the last place we wanted to end up. we're a school. there are kids, we're by no means perfect. we've tried to be reasonable and good neighbors. we've had a history of being reasonable on this project and on our other projects. most recently on our early childhood center in the lower hayes. i had forwarded over about 100 letters of support for our project to the board. i didn't ask folks to come to this meeting, although we actually had some letters of support that came from some other neighbors directly across the street. jim already mentioned the appeal was heard at the board of supervisors so you are aware of that. in addition, mr. collins made some reference to the hac unit. it was a project heard at this board twice and so that was something different. for 84 page street, as jim mentioned, we followed al