okay, james bryant. mr. bryant, please come forward. >> good morning, supervisors, i am obviously james bryant. i am coming before you today to apply for the seat no. 5. i currently have in front of me two of the three recommendations i thought i would have the third, but i think it is forthcoming, but i think most of you, i think two of you know my life. i've been around here for over 35, 40 years, almost, in labor. i continue to actively be a part of the afa brand institute on the national board representing west coast states from colorado to california. i am very interested in the energy efficiency coordinating committee because it's one of the areas that i studied as a while being the president of the afa brand institute where we had at one time wanted to partner with richard heath associates. i don't know if you know who they are, but they are the state facilitators of the energy efficiency programs. and so we went through a very tough education process ranging over many years, knowing all of the ins an