our clerk today is erika change and we'd like to thank sfgtv staff, greg best of and josh alexander for your work today. roll cal. >> avalos present, breed present, campos absent, commissioner chiu present, cohen present, farrell present, kim present, mar present, tang present, wiener present, yee present. we have quorum. >> very good. thank you. we have two main i at tems here today. the approval of the ei r for the van ness bus rapid transit. we have our board meeting at 2 o'clock today and we may go into close to the board meeting and if that looks like the case, i'd like to recess this meeting at 1:30 and then continue on after our board of supervisor's meeting with transportation authority deliberations on these items if we need to. okay? just want to make sure we understood that moving forward. madam clerk, if you could call item two. >> item two, approval minutes from july 23 meeting. this is an action item? >> any comments on the minutes. minutes are open for public comment. seeing no members of the public come forward we will close public comment. can we have a roll call vote o