>> director rahaim: i think there's a couple of points of misunderstanding. one, the preservation planners have always been in the quadrants. they have for a number of years, and one of the reasons for this restructuring is they were essentially reporting to two bosses, and it was creating a lot of confusion in the department because they were reporting to the community as well as mr. frye. secondly, i think we have triple the numbers of preservation planners that we have on the staff now than we did five years ago, and all of them have the same technical experience that tim frye had. so for the workload function as well as the staff, we think this system worked better and more efficiently and actually brings consistency into the program and more closely ties the work in the quadrants otherwise. having said all that, i think what we've said to the his torque presidenter -- historic preservation commission is we're willing to hear from them about how it's working, and we're willing to rehear this in a few months if they think it's not working. but i just wante

john rahaim is here, and madam clerk, can you please call item number 4. [agenda item read]. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. so before we hear the city budget, i'd like to take care of item 4 first, so mr. ram, would you like to speak on item 4? >> certainly. thank you, board members. this time something like an accept and expend. the state is asking us to put forward this grant a specific piece of legislation to highlight this board. sb-2, the grants are specifically intended to stream line the production of housing. so we have been working with the mayor's office, the housing department, the mayor's office of housing to put together a proposal. the proposal is 625,000, but half of it could go to the city administrator's office for electronic plan review which will help us bring our processes into the 21st century. there are other things that i can get into, other policies and procedures that we are putting forward for proposing this grant, as well. >> chair fewer: okay. any comments or questions from my colleagues? there's no b.l.a. report. let's op