and director rahaim was there and might want to elaborate. >> that summarizes it very well. thanks very much. clerk: ok, with that, we can go to item 3 under director's report. this would be the environmental -- the ero's response, environmental review officer's response, raised to the final environmental impact certification hearing. it's an informational item. >> big riker, department planning staff. the memo i prepared was distributed last week. there's also copies on the table. as you can see in the memo, what i tried to focus on was the questions, not of the substance of what we would do, but of the procedural appropriateness or scope of the inquiry. and as i understood the questions, or at least as i tried to phrase it in responding, i heard three basic types of questions. one was what kind of further investigations are appropriate, especially in relation to project sponsor's objectives. the answer to that, i think, is pretty straight forward. if the questions are asking for further investigation in relation to a potential ceqa impact, either for more information to be

and so i have, actually, been working with director rahaim and with the mayor's office, the economic work force development to determine which items would be heard there, which ones would normally be heard here, any actual votes would be done here. i know it's an unusual situation. not that totally difficult to accomplish and we will get more details, as we go along. president miguel: commissioner moore? commissioner moore: , i support what you said. it's a very large community and we need to be out there doing what we do. i was extremely proud to hear national television label us as the most beautiful city in the country which we obviously all know. we all try to contribute to keeping it that way, but it was wonderful to hear. i want to commend the city on how well they organized the thing, that not a speck of anything, orange, black, or whatever, when you walk across the big plaza down the streets. it's remarkable with so many present that they organized it as well as they d. it was fabulous to watch and i am happy the city was able to pull it off that well. on another note, i atte