i have basically dedicated my life, since i got clean, to helping people, and i continue to do that, what i did this position are not. you have a lot of people out there who have done good. so that is it. any other questions? supervisor kim: thank you for being here. i saw that you taught at thurmont. do you speak spanish as well? i did not. supervisor kim: it is a dual language immersion program. i left there before they went tool immersion. as a great school, the. supervisor kim: it is a good school. thank you for being here. at this time, we will open up for public comment, if there are any. and we will give two minutes. my name is melissa, and i m here to speak on behalf of jamie brewster. i have a letter in support of his nomination from out my employer, the ceo. she asked me to read this because i was not able to make it. it has been an honor to work with jamie brewster. he understands the employees of re-entering the workforce for the first time. he is a passion
and we re looking here today with so many applicants for so few seats. the three i have circled the we did not mention yet, mr. brewster, mr. miller, who is the incumbent, one of the incumbents and mr. mauniz. i was impressed with their applications. they are people would be happy to support. i spent some time looking at the applications and it is great to your people speak in person. there are three mayoral appointees. i am hoping he will appoint some of the applicants that are here today. i am supportive of reappointing miller and mike ngo and jamie. i do not know of there is a consensus, we have consensus on mike ngo. iand gerald miller for seat one. i have the sense of openness because we have so many amazing appointees candidates. muniz is qualified for kimberli and ronnie are qualified for seats to end four. we need a woman so kimberli would be qualified. i would support her moving forward as well. i have gerald miller for c one, seat one and jamie brewster for
available for the clients that want that. i take requests for free entry services all day, every day. i work with a charter school, so i am that cj-5 and cj-2. some of my clients are the students in the school, and we have hundreds. it is reentry services, not just substance abuse, how to get them registered for school, help them get into a shelter of that is what they want, if they are in a violent situation, planning a safety plan with them. currently, most recently have been working at the women s reentry center with the women who have been released from custody who still have to do some swaps services or maybe electronic monitoring while they re on probation. helping them find jobs, look for jobs, learn how to look for a job, and multiple services. there is nothing we won t do. we will transport them to treatment. i feel fortunate to be able to do this work after living my life a different way for a very long time. i have been to school. i have learned many things aabot a
for three folks, i did not know that jamie was one of the appointees. we hired for that program. he is early every day and stays late and works harder than anyone else to serve the inmates. he runs the program and has been trained in the prison project in san quentin. he is the sort of person that the city needs on this council. the other is kim courtney. kim i can say has placed more people in residential treatment than any other program in the county jails and i would say all those other programs combined. she dead does that with brad s support and help. jamie, i i have worked with jimmy. we partner with his program. it is one of the best partnerships we have. the passion he brings to his work is incredible. we have a lot of great candidates. thank you. supervisor kim: they give for being here. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i want to reiterate it was an honor to read your applications and to read about the incredi
applications in. we have had two openings, one for one and a half years, the other four two years. in the history of the commission, there have only been for asian americans on the commission. this candidate will be the fifth asian placed on the commission. she will be the third filipino- american on the commission, and she will be the first filipino- american on the commission. i did not come here today because of that information. i came here today to support this highly qualified american veteran who will be a tremendous asset and great addition to the commission. thank you. supervisor kim: thank you, commissioner, for being here. is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public, it is now closed. any questions from colleagues? supervisor elsbernd: thank you for coming forward and applying. we have had a lack of women applicants, and thank you for your service in the military and coming forward and i look forward to working together for years to come. i