my name is carrie weintraub. i'm the president of the presidio terrace homeowners association. when i received the letter from miss lamb and mr. cheng's representative on may 30th of this year, i was shocked to learn that unbeknownst to me and all of our neighbors, the city had sold our streets on-line two years prior. i have spent six months determining how this could have happened and tried to resolve this directly with the tax collector and new owners. more than 20 years ago, a simple but critical over sight during an accountant transition was perp waited because nobody was aware of the tax obligation. we accept responsibility of this delinquency and we are making institutional changes to ensure that it never happens again, but we're here today to ask you to rescind the sale of the property which was unconstitutional because the tax collector proceeded with the auction, knowing he had not notified the interested party of the sale, in this case, 31 homeowners. we reached out on a number of occasions to miss lamb and mr. chang. i want to be clear that we do not have a personal