linda avery: thank you. and although i rarely say anything during these kinds of times, i just do want to express my appreciation for working with you, bill, for all these many years. commissioner lee: thank you, bill. and the city attorney? >> i would like to speak for myself and my colleagues, and thank you for your years of service. you have always been very wonderful to work with, and have always posed very interesting questions for our office, so on behalf of all of us, i can say we very much enjoyed working with you and thank you and good luck. commissioner lee: thank you. linda avery: ok. thank you. commissioners, if we can move forward on the calendar, to director's report, announcements and review of past week's events at the board of supervisors, board of appeals and i will announce that the historic preservation did not meet this week. >> thank you and i want to add thanks to commissioner lee, and thank you for your service to the department and the commission and i especially want to say thank yo