i'm going to second what tess wellburn, the president-elect of the council said, we are grateful to nicole elliot for meeting with our groups to educate us about what the process will be for this selection of candidate. it appears we have three candidates that were qualified under the equity designation, and they all submitted applications within two hours of one another. so 1685 hiatt street submitted applications between 10:08 and 11:57 a.m. and this is one of those things that we as a neighborhood have not taken a stance on which of these three applicants we think will be the best for our neighborhood, and, in fact, it may make the most sense for us to have more than one, but what we are really concerned about is the arbitrariness of the existing process by which one of these three candidates is moving forward in the process because of the difference of less than two hours of submitting an application. i think in the spirit of what the equity program was designed to do, which is to give people that potentially did not have a permitted business to have the resources to go forward and put