chair, i will now turn my presentation over to teatro's representative to make a few remarks, norman langill -- -- and a person from your development partner. >> thank you. welcome. >> good afternoon, chair cohen and supervisors kim and wiener. i am norm langill, the president and artistic director

chair, i will now turn my presentation over to teatro's representative to make a few remarks, norman langill -- -- and a person from your development partner. >> thank you. welcome. >> good afternoon, chair cohen and supervisors kim and wiener. i am norm langill, the president and artistic director of zinzanni and brought to san francisco in the year 2000. i'm here to speak on behalf of the sole-source resolution so teatro zinzanni can return to san francisco. our team includes our supporting partners, daris anderson and jay wallace, the architect will be in charge of the project and teatro ally jamison and also in the room are many supporters, neighbors and past employees and local artiests who make teatro zinzanni a unique part of san francisco's curtal life. i'm going to reduce my speech, because the gentleman before we covered a lot of points. >> we appreciate that, to get it to the vote. [laughter ] >> right. that is true. when we started to pursue the project we soon found our plans to rebuild the site as was five times more expensive than we originally planed and not only that, it was