president garcia: mr. kwong, in his papers, the appellant, mr.cooper, raised the issue, or maybe it was a neighbor, but whenever, in had to do with the fact that this neighborhood, as i am sure most neighborhoods would be desirous to have an underground wiring, for the wires in their neighborhood. the fact that this equipment on these polls, is that in any way prejudice the ability? >> absolutely -- actually not. as was stated, they are a utility company. it is subject to all regulations pertaining to undergrounding, then they must remove it and have the undergrounded. president garcia: could it be said that this is a great disadvantage, and even if the neighborhood is willing to raise the money, but we cannot let you because there is a necessity for this equipment, and we would have nowhere else to put it? >> there would be no bearing in determination by the city on what districts should be undergrounded. that is correct. president garcia: thank you. ? president garcia: just two people? three people? speak now or forever hold your peace. tw minu

mr. john kwong from dpw, dr. ojo who i am going to miss terribly from dph, i in trying to remember. others from taxi. these individuals have been ghly professional. and then we have people from dbi. we have laurence kornfield. now we are lucky to have to duffy. i think when i first came from planning, we had jonas, sometimes larry banner -- badiner, and we have mr. sanchez now. we have victor pacheco, or vincent, as he prefers to be known. he is the rock of this board. there are only two people who have been here longer than me, and that would be viktor and frank fung. as for other people who have been here, we had bob. if anyone would ever ask me, what did you think you accomplished when you were on board of appeals, it is an easy answer. i was president when we hired cynthia olstein. i take a lot of credit for that. -- cynthia olstein -- goldstein. we now have francesca. the commissioners i have served with -- bill sygaya, frank fung, and then no particular order, we got kendall goh, tanya peterson, takie -- katie albright, rich hillis. and i guess i am going to finish with talkin