the presiding member is commissioner hwag, and joining her are commissioner frank fung, hillis, and hurtado. there is a vacancy, and the board may have a meeting, and they can overrule with three members. four votes are not needed to overrule a department to action. to my left is the deputy city attorney. her name is francesca, and scott sanchez is here. he is the zoning administrator, also representing the planning department and planning commission. joseph duffey is here, representing the building inspectors. and two others are here representing the regulatory health matters from the department of public health. at this time, mr. pacheco, if you could please go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process? secretary pacheco: the board requests you turn off all cell phones and pagers and carry on our conversations in a hallway. the rules of presentation are as follows. permit holders and department representatives each has seven minutes to present their cases and three minutes for rebuttals. parties affiliated with visa must include their comments within that time, and m

the commissioners i have served with -- bill sygaya, frank fung, and then no particular order, we got kendall goh, tanya peterson, takie -- katie albright, rich hillis. and i guess i am going to finish with talking about frank. i hope i do not embarrass frank, but my brother in law, my sister married a man, jack, who was a fit generation architect. and he was the only architect of that family left, so he got most of the books in that family, and i used to enjoy a quiet moments, reading through those books, and i ran across something, and i had already known for it, and i thought it was an inscription, so i wrote it down, and if you will forgive me, i'm going to read it. it reads, "while it is a great thing to be an architect of buildings, it is a far greater things to be an architect of affairs. a man of affairs who, with the broadening of his mind, looks to other sources of human endeavor, the telling of a story, and the enjoyment of drinks with friends, the unraveling of political situations. the designing of some method to equalize the burdens on every member of the human family. t