i see merchants associations david heller and [speaker not understood], and others that are here representing our small businesses as well. and ray holland and nick baloney from the planning association for the richmond. and i see the director of the richmond area multi-services, which really provides significant and culturally sensitive and multi-cultural mental health services not just for the richmond but throughout the city. also i really appreciate all the senior and youth and family service agencies and child care and organizations that have spoken today. lastly, i wanted to thank the city department heads and reps from all of our departments for spending their beautiful saturday morning in this dark but great auditorium of the washington eagles. and i wanted to say that i hope you have a great weekend and a beautiful saturday and sunday and earth day as well on monday. and thanks so much to victor lim, [speaker not understood] and peter from my staff and supervisor tang's staff as well. but also our mayor's office of neighborhood service staff and our office of civic engaged immigrant

. >> thank you my name is david heller, the president of the geary boulevard business improvement district and i had the opportunity to work with barbara for over 20 years, when she was the permit officer in our station. i think she has got a lot to bring to the table. i have never seen her in 20 years so nervous as she was here today. [ laughter ] i guess, supervisor breed, your questions would have made me nervous too, you know? but honestly, if you look at her record, not only was she permit officer, but domestic violence and all sorts of issue that relate to this field and i really feel she will do an incredible job and i hope you guys will put her in, because we would use somebody like barbara on the commissioner. thank you so much and thank you for the opportunity. >> >> good afternoon. my name is janet leto, friend of barbara and i also in supervisor cohen's district and supervisor breed's district. >> what about my district? >> you can't live everywhere although i probably did at one point. barbara is a good, honest woman and really cares about the people of this town, as you can t