i would also like to speak to the appointment of karl hasz. karl is a developer of contractor and comes to the position with the unique understanding of what it takes to get a project through the process. as a developer he understands the rational reasonable approach to preservation. i want to emphasize the fact a comment he made. he was instrumental in helping us with our pilot program and providing training to realtors and how to market historic properties. this was a highly successful program we launched in san francisco. we expanded it to the bay area and now state wide. our conference will be held in san diego and we will opening it now to san diego realtors and this successful program wouldn't have happened unless karl had the leadership to get this off the ground. we worked with him over a year to do this. on behalf of the members of the board and the foundation i am proud to endorse these nominations. >> thank you. >> and i support the city wide survey as an extremely important tool for developers and advocates of city planning and the

>> these are motions approving or rejecting the nominations of andrew wolfram, richard johns and karl hasz to the historic preservation commission for those seats. >> great. we will take these items in order. i believe all of the reappointment folks are here and start with wolfram and go on to public comment after each presented. welcome. >> thank you supervisors. my name is andrew wolfram and i am up for seat two historic architect position and we preserve historic buildings in san francisco because they really help create places that have aws then tissity and character and i have spent my entire professional career working on projects that have help knit the city together. i had a leadership as an architect on a very large complex project as the renovation of the ferry building and the old telephone building that yelp has as its headquarters and worked with the historic preservation preservation and an association a raising the importance of preservation and its role to help create community. i have also through my professional career realized that it's a very -- planning and preservatio