i'm looking forward to working with all of you, as well as richard mcgeary, the administrator and all-aroundimportant merchants. daniel, thank you for your leadership. >> thank you. >> i invite you to say a few words. >> thank you, and thank you so much for those kind words, r rafael. eight and a half years ago, we were up to our ears in sawdust doing tenant improvements and mayor ed lee came to take a look around and scott weiner looked around and look me looked me ins and realized i'm one of the few people scott can look in the eyes. [ laughter ] >> he looked around for a couple more minutes and looked at me, really, really? and as rafael will tell you, i'm a follower of rules. i couldn't think there would be another way i could go about doing those tenant improvements and this was my baptism in the san francisco local government. it's been an honour and privilege to serve all of the businesses in the castro upper market neighborhood but especially the small independent ones. i've had the pleasure of working with supervisor weiner, supervisor shihe mendleman. small businesses face challeng