interim director of the department of building inspection, and confirmation for transition purposes, persuant to 1.1d with the annual salary ordinance. 12-a, public comment on the closed session. is there public comment? seeing none -- item 12-b, possible action to convene a closed session. is there a motion? go ahead. >> i was wondering if we could discuss this in open session. i get up this morning at 6:30 nd and read about this in the "san francisco chronicle." we are deciding something the mayor and h.r. knows about, but we don't. why do we need a closed session if the "bay-guardian" knows about it. we may as well discuss it in open session. let the discussion happen. >> i tend to agree. i think that finding out from other sources that there is an effort to solicit a resignation from the director that we have not discussed, the entire commission has not had a discussion. this is a slap in the face to the rest of the commission. i think this has been a process over the last few years of continued harrassment from the president chair, not you, commissioner mccarthy, but from the previous di