aaron peskin. >> thank you, rose. madame speaker, mr. and police chiefs to the commissioners from the recreation and parks commission, visitors and residents alike, i'm here to say words of profound thanks. thanks to the state -- he state of lily hitchcock coit who are here today, thanks to the united states of america and the works progress administration and the public art works projects 75 years ago. thank you to our recreation and parks department and a number of agencies, our municipal transportation agency, our department of parking and traffic, department of public works, who actually all came together and in an unprecedented piece of cooperation withly. ed -- with limited funds in monday -- honor of the 75th anniversary, have put new panes of glass in, restriped the parking lot and so we actually have some more things to celebrate today. thank you to all those agencied and thank you, mr. mayor. i think there is no more appropriate time to celebrate the 75th anniversary of this icon because it is also an icon of the in deal -- the

vice president olague: if it is the case that there piece of legislation if the former president peskin acknowledged it is no longer in play, i don't know that for a fact and as far as i know it is still sitting at the board, but i am comfortable with his acknowledgment of that. and then i think that this is something i believe the planning commission should have some input on. and if those conversations started at the h.p.c. level around the more controversial items that were outstanding around demolition and when they do, they should simultaneously hear and as commissioner or president miguel mentioned, i think that ultimately what needs to happen is we need all meet jointly to go and have some public meetings where we can get into some because there might be some areas, maybe more areas of agreement than we suspect and areas we're never going to have agreement on but to have maybe be able to flesh this out before the board takes action on changing these codes. >> if i can clarify, we have not had conversations with the h.p.c. about these issues yet. the memo i sent to both commission

mayor, mark leno, aaron peskin. we are thrilled in the r.e.c. -- rec and park department to be the home of this incredible department. as you heard before, this is an inspirational symbol to the world. the mayor often talks about beacons on a hill. this is really a beacon on the hill that speaks to the world about the values san francisco has. one of those values is really preservation of things, making sure that when they're built, they're built to last, that they're beautiful, that their aesthetics are great. this is 75 years later and it's never looked this good. i really want to thank every single person today, i particularly want to thank rose dennis and her team. i want to thank the park rangers and the police department and the fire department and every single city employee who worked so hard over the last few days to make this work today. yesterday we were at the california academy of sciences unvietnamming an incredible sculpture by the artist maya ling. and to me, san francisco has this her i tange of art.