mr. john rahaim. >> thank you for taking the time today. i am interested and excited in this position. the oversight board, there is certainly related to the planning department, to carry out the land use and planning functions that have been developed over many years. i have been within the planning department for four years, and we have been working very closely with the planning of the very large project site that you have approved, and i think it is important that the oversight board include someone with land use or planning expertise. i think it is an important function that the oversight board will continue to have. nine years i spent in the city of seattle that did not have a redevelopment agency. washington is one of three states or four states that does not have redevelopment. that placed a larger burden on the planning department their as it will hear in carrying out these functions. we will now be looking to merge the functions that have previously existed separately between planning and redevelopment, looking at more of a merger of those functions. i started my planning car