we endorse chris foley. you heard the story, reverend brown reached out, found out who redeveloped and restored that st. joseph's church. we've been in communication with him for the last year. we can say that he's very honorable, more than qualified and we fully, fully endorse him. we can also say that just before the bagging of mayor ed lee, one of the main things that he did was made third baptist a historical landmark. we appreciate that. and because of that, chris is planning on helping to restore third baptist to its luster, as it should be. and we thank him for that. also as i'm here today, i would also say that reverend brown would also like to endorse lydia sow as well. thank you so much. >> hello, my name is sarah white. i'm associate director of housing development, with t.n.d.c. i'm here to support lydia sow's nomination. tndc's mission -- we provide tenant and community services, community organizing and property management. we currently own and operate about 43 buildings across san francisco. a

chris foley. your interest and experience and qualifications for this seat. >> thank you, supervisor walton, supervisor mar, supervisor ronen. i was nominated for this because i did the renovation of st. joseph's at 10th and howard. that was a very interesting project. it was actually vacant for 31 years. the building was actually failing. the whole north side of the building had been leaking for over 25 years. and it was collapsing. and in that transaction, what happened was we actually got denied from the national parks service for initial renovation. and we had -- the national parks service, we had to go back to washington, d.c. to re-apply for our rep. and what we had to do, we had to take the bridge, that is connecting the two mezzanines, and make it from 8 feet to 6 feet. and once we did, that the national park service approved our tax credit application for that project. the project itself is a new market tax credit, historic tax credit, transaction in the united states, only six done in th

>> item 17 is a motion to approve the mayor to do nomination for appointment of chris foley to the historic preservation commission, term ending december 1st -- 301st , 2020, in item 18 is a motion to approve the mayor to do nomination for appointment of lydia so to the historic preservation commission for a term ending december 31st, 2022. >> supervisor peskin? >> thank you. colleagues, i rise to tell a couple of stories from years ago these are in the days of 2004, i believe it was when there was no historic preservation commission in san francisco. unlike many cities around the united states of america, we didn't have a historic preservation commission, we had an antiquated body from the late 1960s at the dawn of the preservation movement called the landmarks preservation advisory board. in those days, this body, the elected board of supervisors, could not vote to designate a landmark unless the preservation advisory board had recommended it to the planning commission and the planning commission had recommended it to the board of supervisors. supervisor maxwell was interested inland mark

item 4 is mayoral nomination to the historic preservation commission for the consideration of chris foleyfor term ending december 31, 2020. >> president yee: before we do that, supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you, president yee, thank you for the one-week continuance. nothing that changed -- nothing has changed. there has been no movement from the administration or the supervisor, but i do hope the fuss that i have put up will inform us going forward. and particularly inform the administration as to what i think is the appropriate way to reach out to board members, particularly in this case, the board member who authored section 4.135 of the charter, for the historic preservation commission. and moreover, to actually reach out to the community. as i said last week, not only is san francisco architectural heritage not the beneficiary of that advance outreach and collaboration, but a host of other organizations that work in the historic preservation field, including the chinese historical society and others were not outreached to at all. and so i think that this is not the ri

>> the names that were nominated by the mayor are chris foley and lydia so. >> there is nothing further, commissioners. item 3. president's report and announcements. >> president hyland: i have no report. >> jonas: item 4, consideration of adoption of draft minutes. >> president hyland: open public comment. would any member of the public wish to comment on the meeting minutes from august 21, 2019? seeing none, close public comment. commissioners? >> jonas: on that motion to adopt the minutes, commission black? johns? pearlman? matsuda? hyland. so moved. that passes unanimously, 5-0. item 5, commission comments and questions. >> commissioner pearlman: me. i have, as in my practice as an architect, i've been approached by someone who has a property that has a legacy business in it. it's a one story building and they want to take advantage of the home sf program to build 20-30 units of housing, which would require that building to be demolished. it's something for future discussion. i'm in the early stages of this. i guess the question is, if the owner is willing to retain that business ba

and replacing it with approving of candidates for the mayor's nomination of the appointment of chris foley and the appointment of lydia sow to the historic preservation commission. >> supervisor ronen: so i -- to make things easy, we'll withdraw my motion. i am going to vote "no" on your motion -- well, on your motion, supervisor walton, not because i necessarily don't support the candidates. but because i would have preferred to have more time. but i will do my best in the weeks to come to meet with you, both directly and to meet with heritage and to catch up on what i think about this. so i'll be in touch with all three of but. and just want you to know that when i'm voting "no," it's not on the candidates. it's on i wish my colleagues had given me more time, because it's very busy at the moment. but i will do my best to meet with you all before tuesday. so with that can we take a roll call. >> yes. >> clerk: on the motion po attend to approve, to recommend. vice chair walton? >> yes. >> walton aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> clerk: chair ronen? >> no. >> the motion passes. >> supervisor