. >> good afternoon supervisors, peter warfield, executive director of library users association. what the folks don't see when they watch these proceedings on video is the most unfortunate and i'm sorry to see it getting off to a bad start distractions that the supervisors create for themselves in order to avoid apparently having to listen to public comment. right now, supervisor wiener and mr. farrell are having a conversation instead of listening to the public. various of the other supervisors were talking with each other or texting, i think that is very unfortunate. i think i said last week that i hoped supervisors will pay attention to the public which they presumably serve. i hope that particularly the new supervisors don't get off on this bastard. i see that there is no clock going. if you could correct that for the public it would help particularly when you have an illegal two-minute time limit for the public and yank the plug after two minutes. it is good to honor gay folks but when there is an opportunity for fund raising by folks that have an inside track the same folks

. >> good afternoon peter warfield. congratulations. good luck to all of you including the new supervisors. i hope all of you and particularly the new ones listen to the public and pay particular attention to what your public has to say. with respect to the president of the board position i would urge change. with the hope that a new president will have a greater respect for the public and the law. the sunshine ordinance provides for up to 3 minutes of public comment. unfortunately the board for some years provided a maximum of two minutes in what i believe is contradiction of the law. and innovation but the current president of the board provided on that score was to pull the plug on this speaker instead of doing something more humane and diplomatic as done in most of the places. there was also the unfortunate incident of having an library advocate who has been one of the most gentlemanly of gentlemen, removed when -- well, it's an unfortunate story that is in litigation. i wish all of you the best of luck. i hope that all of you will

. >> good afternoon peter warfield. congratulations. good luck to all of you ud