llot. lot. >> are we going to have a permanent director? >> i think you mean by gail's position. >> yeah. >> that would be finance. >> finance, yes. [inaudible]. [laughter] >> did you not get the memo, tom? >> okay. we go through the selection process. we get the final interview and then we make the job offer. hopefully we can go through all those fingerprint and background and then [inaudible] and then by, you know, the time before we formally announce, expect by next month [inaudible] because [inaudible] take a while. >> okay. >> thank you. >> i'm 5b, update on proposed legislation. >> good morning commissioners, i was mentioning a few minutes ago the david shoe legislation on legalization of an illegal unit under a voluntary program did pass, the mayor signed it, it actually took legal effect on the 17th, just a few days ago. we have drafted through our technical services staff, a screening form. we have a group meeting with the supervisor's office and members of planning and the red board and some other interested and involved participa

we disagreed about a the llot o things, perhaps nothing more than iraq where we disagreed bitterly oftentimes, but he was somebody who i valued for his insight, for the strength of his beliefs and for his intellect which was not in question even for those who disagreed with him. so it is perhaps especially f s fitting to talk about iraq today and i think our thinking was starting to converge which is a sense either i'm getting smarter or he was coming around. i think americans are strange in the world in we have sort of two national characteristics in the way we look at foreign policy. one is we're optimizers. we always look for the best option, and i think the sort of deep cultural side of our optimizing tendency is the popularity of consumer reports. we love ratings. we love seeing what's the best. and i think we have approached iraq consistently looking for the best outcomes. we look for the optimal outcomes. the other piece of american sort of psyche that feeds into iraq is a belief that every problem has a solution. right? and a problem is just you work to get a solution and there are lo