commissioners my name is john singleton and i am a retired building inspector and i worked for the department for 20 years and i have known tom and worked with him for a long time. and there is no better man for the job than tom. >> i also met dan when he was working at the park ball and he was very inquisitive asking me all kinds of questions. he said any chance that i can be a building inspector and sure this is what you do and he is there now and i fully support him now too. >> thank you. >> next speaker? is there any more speakers after this >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners my name is homer jim and i work for a company that requires me to do a lot of interacting with the building departments in the bay area. and i am just speaking from my own personal professional experience with tom and dan. and when you go to a big building department like san francisco, you can get lost in the stuffle. and my experience with tom, and it has always been that they have always had a hope door poll policy and they are responsive and promote the training and enrichment with theirs and so i sup

there's a movie called boys in the hood, and the director is john singleton.e talks about two families. one is the family of ice cube, no father in the house, and you saw how the family turned around. the other family was across the street, and that was cube baa gooding jr., and lawrence fish burn was his father. and he turned out very differently. and john singleton did a second movie called baby boy which he talked about the sexual predatory behavior of young black men, and john singleton is from the same area that i'm from. he's talking about the centrality of fathers and the lack of fathers being the central problem in south central and, in my opinion, the central social problem in america. >> host: next call for mr. elder, we have about seven minutes left in our program. dennis in sharon, massachusetts. hi, dennis. dennis? >> caller: yes. can you hear me? yes -- >> host: please go ahead. >> caller: okay, great. i'm a great fan of c-span. i watch booktv every weekend. my father was born in 1892, i was his first son. when i was born, he was in 60 years old.