ms. aiello. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you so much for having this conversation, supervisor wiener. i think it's going to take a long time but it's way overdue. i'd like to say my name is andrea aiello [speaker not understood] and we've been working with dpw for over a year now in trying to consolidate those newspaper racks. there are so many empty newspaper racks in the castro/upper market district and we've been working very closely with the city. we did get one removed and i can't tell you how many likes on our facebook page when we got when it was taken out and personal thank yous. so, i think people in the neighborhood really understand that these -- this kind of furniture is not being used in the way that it was intended. it's mostly advertisements. i'd also like to say na we worked very closely with j.c. de coe with the -- i forget what they're called -- the kiosks and the bathrooms. they taken credible care of the bathrooms. they're really, really great. they're wonderful in helping us to -- we utilize those k

ms. rodgers. colleagues, do you have any questions? okay, we'll now open it up for public comment. i have one card. andrea aiello. >>> good afternoon again. andrea [speaker not understood]. and while the board has not taken a position on this, it it kind of came up quickly, i just wanted to comment that the cbd and other planning organizationses were involved with supervisor wiener in talking specifically about this property on noe street and there was a strong consensus that the new retail be broken up into small spaces, small spaces that would accommodate small privately owned businesses, retail businesses, and not, you know, have the space be another financial institution. i just wanted to say there was a lot of community discussion about that and kw in the end that this space was to be divided up into small spaces for business use. thank you. ~ agreement >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on item number 2? hearing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] >> colleagues, i have a motion to forward this with recommendation. sorry about that. supervisor kim. >> i wanted to make a motion to pass