number 5, hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending april 27, 2015, to the soma community stabilization fundty advisory committee. there is one seat and two applicants. >> we will be hearing from the candidates in the order that they appear on the agenda. if carmelita perez, yeah, perez is here, please approach the microphone. are you here? not here? alicia duke, are you here? >>> thank you, supervisors. i am a senior citizen and i have been disabled since i was 53 years old. so, i sort of know both sides of the coin when it comes to the kinds of things that need to be done in soma, all over the city also. and i believe that i could add something because of my ridiculous background in both politics and business and other things. it goes on and on and on, that i have a perspective, which i still remember, regarding what can be done to get everything in the city better as far as everything that -- every area is doing, should be doing, could be doing. and trying to put together coalitions of all the peoples on the various advisory committees so that there is an issue that is in one area, it rea