my name is ben becker, cochair of the san francisco berniecrats. you can assume i'm here to request we have an interim mayor who's not running for office. i don't really question the fact that all of you are working really hard, and i can appreciate that happen it is very difficult to be a city supervisor, especially today. i can appreciate that it's very difficult to be a mayor in the city, considering what our late mayor lee went through. i don't think that it is fair to anybody to ask them to be both board president and mayor at the same time and to have them running for mayor at the same time. so as a request to the people of san francisco and to yourselves, please appoint an interim mayor who is not running for office who can just dedicate themselves to the job for six months. we can clean things up a little bit and move on from there. thank you. >> supervisor: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name's art persico, and i'm a san francisco resident in district two, and i am so pleased to have the opportunity to address the