mr. yorck, dr. agarwal and mr. young as well. and so if there are comments or questions at this time? >> no. i would like to thank everyone for coming and for the applicants and for those people serving on the board now, including miss brooks, who is i know is not reapplying. i would be very comfortable reappointing the current members that are serving mr. gerrie, miss hemphill and miss stephens and open to your comments, colleagues. but very impressed with dr. agarwal and mr. young, between those two i would be happy to have a discussion around them. supervisor kim: i think there's no objection reappointing the three -- three current appointees, mr. gerrie, to seat three. miss hemphill, for seat four and miss stephens for seat five went have six seat open. i appreciate the advocacy and engagement dr. agarwal have undertaken around these issues. i know curptsly there are no people of color serving on these issues so for that reason i have a slight leaning towards dr. agarwal. but i know she's been extensively volunteering for the

mr. james yorck. for the record, i forgot to mention, miss brooks, who is not here, has also withdrawn her application. >> my name is james yorck. i want to thank you for considering me for the animal control commission. for more than 35 years i have lived and worked in san francisco. from 1978 to the end of 2000, i owned a small business on fool moore street -- fillmore street that i think uniquely qualifies me for the expertise and per -- perspective that few others have regarding pets. i was a proprietor of handful of pet scores in san francisco that sold exclusively exotic birds. as a pet store owner, i experienced many different aspects of our great city. san francisco could call and complain to the health department about having birds in cages but simultaneously, in his column, herb king considered me and my store one of the ten best things in san francisco. last year when the issue of a pet ban surfaced, i was called into the fray by all of the customers, fellow shop owners and like-minded citi