i'm neale marcason i'm on the board of directors for the -- i heard the rent was going to be doubled and i couldn't stand the thought that san francisco would do that to a place like doll bebooks. we figured out that at certain point we needed to make a certain amount of money to transform the rent and diversify at revenue models. we did a lot of research and found that the landlord was going to triple the rent and wasn't going to consider our proposal and we learned about jack spade. i can't really speak to the legality of it. it's not my specialty. it extremely depressing to me that mission is gradually becoming overrun with these boring generic stores. i think it's very tell that the potential manager of this store expressed here in the court, i noticed the writing on the computer seemed is to stutter at that point when she expressed a real sympathy for the gentrification happening in the mission. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >>> my name is jeff ray, president of the boards for the adobe books cooperative. i heard that last week that jack spade representative said that andr