brook solomon with rdj enterprises. as a firm, working in and for the southeast, we have had the distinct pleasure of working with and witnessing commissioner johnson's engagement with elected officials, department heads, community leaders, community members, families in an effort to address land use issues in the bayview. and the successful result of those efforts in tandem with her finance background, we're wildly excited to endorse this recommendation to the seat for commissioner johnson and strongly urge that you do the same. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, commissioner. again, dwayne jones. i just want to echo many of the comments of the folks before me have said. i want to add to that that i have heard some concern about commissioner johnson's ability to kind of engage communities. the southeast sector is not always the easiest district and/or community to work in and it's one place that we find that one who is serious about doing community work can actually get some real stripes and i can attest that comm