>> commissioners, rosanna russell, real estate director. we have over 700 licenses and leases in my division. all of them go through at least three city attorney reviews. one, a real estate attorney, and then one to two typically review before we go to the commission. this is a discretionary action, but it's been vetted about 1,000 times over, and while we appreciate the public's comments, we rely on irena's group. she's just top notch, and if she tells us we can rely on these findings, and we can rely on the city attorney's findings, who am i to disagree? >> so i still don't understand. so we approve the license once the ceqa review has been done by a sister agency. correct? >> just so i understand what the process is and what we're actually running on today. >> okay. so every discretionary action requires ceqa, as you know. and the first discretionary action will produce a document or a statement that it's not a project under ceqa, many of which we have, as well at the puc. so the first -- this was south san francisco. the first discretio

we have ko 1k3wrd i, the associate architect, rosanna, the electric and low voltage consultant. and with that, we're happy to take your questions and comments. >> commissioner mondejar: great. before we go to commissioner comments and questions, we have one speaker card. it's ace washington. >> commissioner mondejar: is mr. washington in the home. >> he's gone home. >> commissioner mondejar: all right. so is there anybody else wishing to speak on this item? seeing none, i will close public comment and turn to my fellow commissioners for any questions or comments. commissioner singh? >> commissioner singh: yeah, okay. i see that early 2019. >> yes. >> commissioner singh: a request for gap loan. how much the gap loan? >> we don't know yet. i would imagine we're going to be a little bit higher on this project than we have in past ones because of the scale of the project? >> so it just depends if we're successful on securing other funding projects? so we'll still be here in the spring early 2019 with a real number for you. >> commissioner singh: do you have any idea how much loans w

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