. >> sarah hoffman, i'm an attorney who appears every now and then i would love to echo the thoughtsm julie and scott that gary is very much going to be missed. what i was starting in this area he was a wealth of knowledge to me and for any of my colleagues. we do wish him all the best. we thank him for his years of service. >> thank you. >> paul britain. i worked with gary for over a decade and we're going to miss him. every step of every appeal before the board. he has been a tremendous a help in-person and over the phone and with documents of my staff all a dooadore him. we wish him well and appreciate all he has done to help the city and help the process move forward over the last decade plus. thank you. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment? any commissioner comments? >> sure. i'd like to lead off, you know i have something from the mayor. i'll upstage the mayor. we get weekly basis, this is only half of it, all the people work though comes in from the public. we as commissioners, we serve the public and the city. we serve the appellants and we serve the permit hold