Motion to appoint krute singa to seat one. Joshua marker to seat two. Raymond gary mccoy to seat three. Kenneth wingard to seat four. Paul olsen seat five and Jason Henderson for seat six with positive recommendation to the full board. Any objection . Seeing none the motion passes. Congratulations. Thank you for coming. Item 6. Item 6 is appointments for the Shelter Monitoring Committee and there are four seats and four applicants. Great. I will call them in order of the agenda. Nicholas kimura. Hi. Good afternoon. I am Nicholas Kimura. I am seeking reappointment. I am currently chair of the Shelter Monitoring Committee. I work as a shelter client advocate for the collaborative and volunteer for the coalition on homelessness. I am well aware of the situation, the Homeless Community faces, and have i have good rapport with the Shelter Management as well and seeking reappointment. Okay. Any questions . Seeing none. Kendra amick. Hello and good afternoon. I am currently serving on the She
Good afternoon. I sat on the task force and thank you supervisor campos for that appointment so this is a simple message that the San Francisco voting task force its recommendation is for an open source gpl Voting System so the resolution that were asking to pass is the next logical step and hoping that you support it and thank you as well supervisor wiener and i want to say im a resident in your district. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next is brent turner. Hello supervisors. My name is brent turner. Kim unfortunately because of the weather couldnt make it today so i have a statement after my statement. Again i will brent turner and chair the Election Committee for the San Mateo Democratic Party and chair the state of california Democratic Party Disabilities Committee on elections, and i im the secretary for the California Association of voting officials. Cabo is dedicated to providing the Election Administration community with election options and advocate transparency via publicly
Oversight and helping prioritize the implementation of transportation and other public improvements and some of the projects include the balboa park station area and plaza improvements, muni forward which is the transit line changes, the ocean avenue corridor design and the i280 off ramp realignment so if you have any further questions i am available. Thank you. Thank you. Did you want to say anything . [inaudible] okay. Any questions . Well thank you for bringing this forward. Even though the balboa station isnt in my district its just close enough to the district where it has a lot of impact and i am certainly supportive of the extension. Any Public Comments on this item . Seeing none public is now closed. [gavel] supervisor campos. Thank you. I would like to move this item forward with a positive recommendation. And by the way what an incredible voice. Thank you for the presentation. Deputy City Attorney john gibner. Just one suggestion to the committee. On page three of the resolut
To improving our elections, and also to offer some kind of personal observations ive had about the need for improving Public Confidence in San Franciscos elections. I have been an author of Free Open Source Software learkz related that was used to help verify the results of San Francisco elections and occasion offer places where votes could be corrected and thats been very helpful for people, not only here in california but in other states as well. San francisco elections and director john aroundst do a commendable job overall how they conduct elections and they continuously work to make improvements and there are areas where they can still make improvements and as i talked to people i found there is a significant amount of the public that has low confidence in the elections in San Francisco and how theyre conducted and i think open Source Software and open vofting systems is certainly one of the steps we can take to improve that. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Is there any
Costs go down capital is freed up to allocate to other areas of elect administration. In addition open Source Systems will increase the transparency another key recommendation of the task force and numerous independent investigation have discovered serious security weaknesses and design errors in widely used equipment. By designing software in an open environment there is increased chance that defects will be identified and addressed. On december, 2013 the California Association of voting officials was launched for the purpose of providing a mechanism for counties to pull resources to invest in the development and use of open Voting Systems per public elections as well as to provide training, education and Management Practices to Election Officials for the effective use of open source technologies. Cabo is a california nonprofit non stock Mutual Benefit corporation and owned by the public for the Mutual Benefit of its members when include individuals, voting jurisdictions, academic and