let me also call up francisco da costa and danielle landry and if anyone else wants to comment on the close process for the appointment of a successor meier, please come up. >> supervisors, this is an opportunity for all san franciscanss to participate -- for all san franciscans to participate in this process, and we cannot unless you are united. i'm here to tell you as the director of environmental justice advocacy that today, san francisco needs to be united because we are facing many issues that mostly affect those that cannot defend themselves and our poor. you all may wait until our mayor, who is in room 200, leaves, but as one of you who hates the budget and finance has explained to you, the earlier you are united, the early you -- the earlier you take the leadership to show the people of sad and cisco, the better. i have heard you try to come to some resolution and give some guidance with outside counsel, but as you know if you read the charter, if you have for dissipated and read robert's rules, if you know something of the fair political lacked, you could have those of you wh