i have known melvin simmons and helen simmons forgoing on 20 years now -- 22 years, in fact. i want to speak to their personal character. these are exactly the type of applicants that you want running a business of this sort. highly ethical, they run their business above board. i only have great things to say about them. melvin simmons is the epitome of what this ordinance is set up to do. he has pulled himself up by his boot straps and is trying to do everything in the manner in which it is set forth. i hope the commission finds in his favor. and thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i introduced myself already, but i'm a local operator and i've been going to a lot of the local meetings, and working my own company through this process. i was at their presentation before the citizens advisory committee in the bay view, and they sound like they're doing it right, too. i've been meeting a lot of operators, and there are people trying to take advantage of the situation and moving in, and there are people who have been around here a long time and doing this