board's president, ann lazarus, and she is joined tonight by commissioner frank fung, commissioner darrell honda and commissioner chris wong. the vice president, arcelia hurtado will be absent this evening. to my left is deputy city attorney robert brian. he will provide the board with any legal advice tonight and at the controls is the board's legal assistant victor pacheco. i'm cynthia goldstein, the board's executive director. i am joined tonight as well by represents of the department that have cases before the board. in the front row is corey teague, existing zoning administrator also representing the planning department and planning commission. jeff was here a moment ago i'm sure he'll be returning. he is the building inspector representing the building inspection. also joined by [speaker not understood] bureau of street use and mapping. mr. pacheco, at this time if you would go over the board's meeting guidelines ask then conduct the swearing in process. >> board requests that you turnoff all phones and pagers so they will not disturb the proceedings. please carry on conversations in the