>> my name is sam fisher. this is my ninth year at cds. i highly support is being turned into a school. 90% of eighth graders graduating from our school have gone to their first choice high school, and the high schoolers tell us they really like our students. right now our middle school is only made of 88 students. cds will be graduating double the amount of students who will be academically per turn -- prepared to change people's lives for the better. we can change twice as many people's lives. i would like to invite mark jensen up to the podium. >> that is a tough act to follow. my name is mark jensen, the architect. good evening, commissioners. we are here to discuss the conversion of a beautiful church from a private house to a school. it seems self-evident this is a higher and better use for this beautiful building. the question is how we accomplices in the most thoughtful and sensitive way possible. to start with, the exterior facades along dolores and 19th, the sanctuary space, the tower, and the entry. our challenges is withing the