i am the director of marketing for greg bronstein. >> you are an employee of the restaurant and? >> i am an employee. >> your time to speak would have been under the three-minute allotment. maybe you were not informed of that, but that is the board's rules but employees have to speak. >> may i say something for just a minute? >> you are not allowed to speak. if there is anyone who is not an employee, you can step forward. seeing no other public comment, the matter is submitted. >> i guess i will go first, and i want to remind people who are here that what is before us tonight is not whether or not to reduce the penalty, not whether or not to grant jurisdiction. what is before us tonight is simply the fact that he came before us in his papers and is here to night stating that when he went to the board of appeals office in order to file for a jurisdiction request in error instead of writing in may 11 as the date he was supposed to appeal, he wrote today's date because he had another case that was being heard tonight, so the board has to decide whether or not to set aside earlier de