secretary pacheco: item 4b, is subject property at 1338 filbert street, a letter from susan brandt-hawley, attorney for jerry demartini, requestor, asking the board to allow the filing of appeals against -- against bpa. >> we request a continuance. this way, we can have all of the board members here. president goh: commissioners? vice president garcia: this is based on the fact that we only have four people? president goh: and then -- >> and then i also heard president gooh say that -- goh say that there might be a time constraint. >> we request that you do not grant a consistent -- continuance. you are going to do what you are going to do, but i hope you at least will hear the arguments. i do not think they will be long, before you decide this. president goh: you understand, too, that if we require the vote of commissioner peterson, we grant the continuance. thoughts, commissioners? commissioner fung: i think we have -- president goh: commissioner hwang? i do not see a motion to continue, so we will hear the case. >> this is not the matter of an untimely appeal. it was timely. there was