i think a good place to start in how we became the loesser's. we just to work iured it severas after hearing the landlord was unable to submit an offer in late june, we were told the person going to buy theng to an. we did not know it at the time, but later found out the previous buyer was a gay entrepreneurs or by the name of [inaudible] we knew the land board prepared -- prefer to have a tenant from the lgbt community. we were told the labor board needed someone who could close quickly because he had sick relatives depend on income and quality of operators we stepped up to the plate. on july 3 we signed the lease with expectations that the liquor license would transfer shortly thereafter. are erroneously we assume there had been community are reached done up to that point. as we later found out, something was wrong. in hindsight we definitely realized the process could of been better in wish we had reached out earlier so you could all come to learn the story in a more timely manner. better late than never. looking forward, we really want to wo

present before the board, whether it is a commitment to doing the beer bash on sundays, i heard the loesser's -- lessors not willing to commit to that. i think a lot can be done to honor the legacy of the business. there is a lot of explanation that needs to be done in terms of how this will serve the neighborhood and a lot of other questions i havethose sorts of . the last thing i will say is folks that came out in support said if we do not allow this to come forward, the site will be vacant. if it was on the board of supervisors to enter this becomes occupied. from the past year-and-a-half, it has been the lamb board that has been refusing to occupy the site, not the board of supervisors. we've encouraged them to reach out to a number of different parties. the previous set of negotiating parties had come to us back in march and april, hoping to open the venue in two weeks after they met with us. i was the one that caution them to make sure they went to the process of meeting with the neighborhood and three the work, that we cannot just rushed opening. they were very ready to open the space