i'm rick cooper, senior environmental planner with the planning department. joining me today are sarah jones, the environmental review officer and [speaker not understood], the environmental coordinator for the final mitigated negative declaration or smd which is the subjects of your appeal today. don [speaker not understood], director of planning capital management, lisa waynn, open space manager, and stacey bradley, a planner at the recreation and park department are here as well to address any questions you may have about the background, scope, or timeline of the proposed project. we say in the memo dated march 17, 2014, responding in detail to the issues raised in the appeal. the decision before the board is whether to uphold the department's decision to issue an ssmmd [speaker not understood] or return to the department for the preparation of an e-i-r. i'd like now to turn my presentation over to kay sushi who will briefly address the main points of our presentation. thank you. >> thank you, rick. president chiu, members of the board, i'm [speaker not un